Barthwell, Sidney
- Identifier
- DBB-PER-01396
- Given Name
- Sidney
- Family Name
- Barthwell
- Gender
- Male
- Birth Year
- 1906
- Death Year
- 2005
- Description
- Sydney Barthwell was born in Cordele, Georgia, in 1906 and migrated to Detroit in 1920 to join his father, who worked for Ford Motor Company. After graduating with a pharmacy degree from Wayne State University, Barthwell established Barthwell's Drug Stores in 1933. He eventually expanded into manufacturing ice cream to sell at his chain of stores. By 1957 the chain had ten drugstores in the Detroit area.
- Migration Origin
- Cordele, Georgia
- Related Person
- Barthwell, Gladys
- Affiliation
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This person was affiliated with the following organization(s):
Barthwell's Drug Stores (Barthwell Drug and Ice Cream Co.)
Role: Owner and/or Operator - Book Pages
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This person, their family, or their business appears in the book Freedom Enterprise on page(s): xi, 93, 161, 164, 165, 166, 251.
- References
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"Sidney Barthwell Sr. '29: A legend of Black pharmacy entrepreneurship," Wayne State University Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, February 1, 2022, https://applebaum.wayne.edu/news/sidney-barthwell-sr-29-a-legend-of-black-pharmacy-entrepreneurship-55207.
See Sydney Barthwell's oral history on p. 85–88 in Elaine Latzman Moon, ed., Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit’s African American Community, 1918-1967 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994).
- Documentation
- Freedom Enterprise, xi (Barthwell's Drug Stores)
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1943 Barthwell's Drugs Tenth Anniversary Bulletin (Barthwell's Drug Stores)
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1944-09-16 Detroit Tribune, 1 (Barthwell Drug Stores)
- Title
- Barthwell, Sidney