Pharmacist Frank Barbour Coffin owned and operated the first drug store in Little Rock, Arkansas which served the black community. Coffin was also a poet during the nineteeth and twentieth century.
Coffin was born January 12, 1870, in Holly Springs, Mississippi. His mother died while he was still a young boy, leaving his father to raise him and his other siblings.
After completing his primary education, Coffin attended Rust College in Mississippi from 1886 to 1887. He earned a Ph.D from Fisk and later a pharmaceutical degree from Meharry Medical College.
After college, Coffin moved to Arkansas where he passed the necessary test to be a pharmacist in the state. In 1898, he opened his own drug store which became known as the Children's Drug