Milton Coates (Warren County)

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Milton Coates

State House: 1882-1885

Born: c. 1851 in Vicksburg, MS
Died: May 1892 in Vicksburg, MS

Attended and was an assistant instructor at Alcorn University, where he won the gold medal for deportment and scholarship in 1873. Became cotton-weigher for the city of Vicksburg in 1872. Had an account in the Freedman’s Bank in 1873. I have been unable to locate Coates on the 1870 or 1880 census.

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Signature of Milton Coates from an 1876 letter to Governor Ames

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Pupils in Vicksburg Schools, 1865

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Vicksburg Daily Times, 3 Mar 1872

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Vicksburg Herald, 19 Oct 1872

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Freedman's Bank record, 21 Jul 1873

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New National Era, 24 Jul 1873

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Daily Mississippi Pilot, 19 Oct 1875

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Letter to Governor Ames, 20 Jan 1876

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Vicksburg Evening Post, 3 Oct 1883

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Daily New Mississippian, 4 Feb 1884

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Vicksburg Evening Post, 30 May 1892

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Vicksburg Evening Post, 29 Sep 1892

Milton Coates