Toodle, Aaron Conklin
- Identifier
- DBB-PER-01147
- Given Name
- Aaron Conklin
- Family Name
- Toodle
- Gender
- Male
- Birth Year
- 1894
- Death Year
- 1959
- Description
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Dr. Aaron Conklin Toodle was a Howard University-educated pharmacist and a successful businessman. He was originally from Plymouth, North Carolina. He graduated from Howard in 1917 and migrated to Detroit in 1919.
He was the owner of the Dunbar Pharmacy (later Toodle's Drug Store). He served as the Vice President of the National Medical Association, President of the Detroit Memorial Park Cemetery, and general manager of the Tribune-Independent newspaper. - Migration Origin
- Plymouth, North Carolina
- Related Person
- Toodle, Hattie
- Affiliation
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This person was affiliated with the following organization(s):
Dunbar Pharmacy
Role: Owner and/or OperatorToodle's Drug Store
Role: Owner and/or OperatorDetroit Memorial Park Cemetery (Detroit Memorial Park Association)
Role: Officer (President)Detroit Tribune (Tribune Independent of Michigan)
Role: Manager (General manager of the Tribune Independent)Bethel AME Church (Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church)
Role: TrusteeMichigan People's Finance Corporation (MPFC)
Role: Officer (Treasurer)YMCA - St. Antoine Branch
Role: Other Leadership Role (building committee member 1925)Detroit Negro Business League
Role: Officer (Local member of National Executive Committee)Booker T. Washington Trade Association (BTWTA)
Role: Officer (Chairman of Ways and Means Committee in 1930) - Book Pages
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This person, their family, or their business appears in the book Freedom Enterprise on page(s): xvi, xvii, 121, 122, 123, 222.
- References
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Aaron Toodle and members of Howard University Medical Department (photograph), Resource ID bh007579, Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A142930.
- Documentation
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1927 National Medical Association Program, 22 (Toodle, Aaron Conklin)
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1934 Aaron Toodle campaign literature (Toodle, Aaron Conklin)
- Freedom Enterprise, xvi, xvii (Toodle’s Drug Store)
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1925-04-04 Chicago Defender, 1 (St. Antoine St. branch of the Metropolitan Y.M.C.A.)
- 1927 Detroit Negro Business League Directory, 14 (Dunbar Pharmacy)
- 1927 Detroit Negro Business League Directory, 1-4 (Detroit Negro Business League)
- 1927 Detroit Negro Business League Directory, back cover (Detroit Negro Business League Membership List)
- 1935 BTWTA Directory, 13, 22 (Detroit Memorial Park Cemetery)
- Title
- Toodle, Aaron Conklin