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in 1866. Lir. Kuhns owned a part in the old flour mill here (now the Ohio Builders and L.illin~ Co.) and lie give me a job as a miller. ~ I worked there

until the end of last year, 70 years, and I ~i sure this is a record in Canton.
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No,~.I never worked any other place.

	‘~I was niarried Tuly 4, 1871 to ~Tennie Scott in Massillon. We had four children but they are all dead except one boy. Our first baby — a gilL named Mary fane, born February 21, 1872, was the first colored child born in Canton. My wife died in 19 26 • No ‚ I do not know when she was born ‚ but I do know she was not a slave.

	“I started to vote after I carre north but did not ever vote in the south. I do not like the way the young people of today live; they are too fast and drink too much. Yes, I think this is true of the ivhite children the saine as the colored. ~

	n]: saved my money when I workedand when I quit 1 had three properties. I sold one of these, gave one to my son, and I am living in the other. No, I have never had to ask for charity. I a‘so ~et a pension check fran the mill where I ii~orked so long.

	“I joined church simply because I thought it would make .me a better man and I think every. one should belong. Ï have been a ineniber of St. Paul‘s• A.LE. church here in Canton for 54 years. Yèsterday (Sunday, August 15, 1937) our church celebrated by burning the mortgage. As I was the oldest member I was one o f the three who lit it ‚ the other two are the only living charter members. IV~y church friends made me a present yesterday of ~1OO.OO which was a birthday gift. I was 90 years old the 2bth of last month.“

	Hail resides at. 1225 liigh Ave., S.W., Canton, Ohio.