Early Life
John Charles Black was born in Lexington, Mississippi on January 27, 1839 and moved to Danville, Illinois in 1847. His father was a minister of the Presbyterian Church. Black attended Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, and became a lawyer.
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