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Lucas County - Di8t, 9
	Toledo, Ohio



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	Mrs. Julia King resides at 731 Oakwood Avenue, Toledo, Ohio. Although the records of the family births were destroyed by a fire ďears ago, Mrs • Kixtg places her age at about eighty years. Her husband, Albert King, who died two years ago, was the first Negro polic~uan employed on the Toledo police force. Mrs. ICiiig, whose hair is whitening With age, is a kind and motherly woman, small in stature, pleasing and quiet in coversatiozi. She lives with her adopted dau— ghter, Mrs. Elizabeth sing Kimbrew, ~who works as an elevator operator at the La.. salie & Koch Co. Mrs. King walks with a limp and moves about with some diffioult1. She ~was the first colored juvenile officer in Toledo, and worked for twenty years under Judges O‘Donnell and Austin, the first three years as a volunteer without pay.

	Before her n~rriage, Mrs. King was ~Julia Ward. She was born in Louisville, kentucky. Her pa rents Samuel and Matilda Ward, were slaves • She had one sister, Mary Ward, a year and a half older than herself.

	She related her story in her own way. ~ ~ keeping house. Papa paid the w~iite people who owned them, for her time. 11e left before Mamma did. He ri~n away to Canada on the Underground Railroad.

	“My mxtherts mistress - I dontt remember her name - used to caine and take Mary with her to ~rket every day. The morning i~y ~mother ran away, her mistres a decided she wouldn‘t take Mary with her to market. Manmia was glad, because she ba4 a]anost made up her mind to go, even without Mary.