Henry McKee Minton

Henry McKee Minton was an AfricanAmerican doctor who was one of the founders of Sigma Pi Phi and was Superintendent of the Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia for twenty four years.

Henry McKee Minton was born onDecember 1870 in Columbia, South Carolina, son of Sawyer Theophilus Minton and Jennie McKee Minton, both from Philadelphia. His father was a lawyer. Henry was an only child. He took the name of his uncle Henry Minton, a founder of the caterers trade guild in Philadelphia who had become a prosperous businessman. His grandfather on his mothers side was Colonel John McKee. McKee had come to Philadelphia from Virginia in the 1840s, become a waiter and then the owner of restaurants before moving into real estate and reputedly becoming a very wealthy man.

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