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(VI) Thomas Hill, born Nov. 16, 1770, died Dec. 10, 1827. On Nov. 16, 1794, he married Rox- anna Benton, who was born Sept. 10, 1776. Chil- dren: (1) William, born April 4, 1796, married Laura Blakeslee and died Jan. 26, 1878; (2) George, born May 18, 1798, married Rebecca Nor- ton and died in November, 1877; (3) Thomas, born Nov. 16, 1800, married Mary Morse and died in 1835; (4) Clarinda, born May 1, 1803, married William Drugin ; (5) Ralph, born Aug. 25, 1805,
married Dency Ives and died Aug. 6, 1881: (6) Reuben, born Feb. 23, 1808, died April 8, 1887 ; (7) Almira, born Oct. 7, 1810, married Alfred Allen ; (8) Edward, born in August, 1813, married Laura Ann Hill; (9) Maria, born July 27, 1816, married William Potter; (10) Catharine, born Sept. 11, 1819, married Moses Culver.
(VII) Reuben Hill, known as "Captain," father
of Mrs. Julius E. Norton, was born at Guilford Feb. 23, 1808, and was engaged in the fishing busi- ness in his native town, being owner and master of fishing smacks. He had the misfortune to lose his eyesight at sea, and was totally blind for sev- enteen years before his death, which occurred April 8, 1887, at his home in Guilford. He was a lifelong Democrat, active in school and church work, and, altogether, a good citizen. On Oct. II, 1832, he married Laura Ann Stone, born Oct. 7, 1813, a daughter of Gideon and Nancy (Tyler) Stone, and granddaughter of Eter and Temperance ( Hodge) Stone. Children: (1) Eliza Jane, born May 19, 1833, married Horace Fowler and died May 6, 1887; (2) William E., born June 26, 1835, died April 21, 1837; (3) William Philetus, born Oct. 25, 1837, married Sarah A. Potter; (4) Henry Green, born April 15, 1840, died May 14, 1872; (5) Maria Griffing, born Sept. 18, 1843, married Julius E. Norton ; (6) Nancy Roxanna, born March 29, 1847, died March 9, 1855: (7) Ralph Benjamin, born Oct. 25, 1849, married Mary Hitchcock; (S) Ella Elizabeth, born May 23, 1852, died Dec. 10, 1860; (9) Reuben Edward, born Aug. 29, 1858, married Jennie Spencer.
HENRY HALLER, one of the older and bet- ter known citizens of Yalesville, in the town of Wallingford, and long an employe of the auger works at Tracy, was born in Bavaria, Aug. 12, 1836, a son of John Haller, who was also of Bavar- ian birth.
Jolin Haller was a weaver, and spent his entire life in Germany, where he married Catherine Burn- hart. They were both members of the Lutheran Church. To their union were born three children : Margaretia, who married George Vollmiller, and was the mother of the late Mrs. Thomas Fenn, of Yalesville: Barbara married Christian Beck, of Cornwall, Conn .; and Henry, whose name appears at the opening of this article. Both John Haller and his wife are now deceased.
Henry Haller had a good German education, and when his parents died and left him alone in his early youth he worked at farm labor until he was eighteen years old. Wishing to better his condi- tion, and knowing the opportunities that waited on honest industry in the new world, he came to the United States in his eighteenth year, and after an ocean voyage of thirty-six days landed in New York. He walked the streets of that strange city, poor in everything save strength of body and mind and an indomitable spirit. Coming to South Brit- ain, Conn., he worked at the shops until 1859, when he came to Cornwall, where he spent two years working in the shops. On the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in Company C, 5th Conn. V. I., Capt. Collis and Col. O. S. Ferry. Three years were devoted by him to the service of his adopted country, and his true German courage was proved in the battles of Cedar Mountain, Gettys-
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burg, Peach Tree Creek and others, and also in the terrible struggle around Atlanta. In 1864 he re- ceived an honorable discharge, and returning to Cornwall, resumed his work in the shops. Some years after he secured a position with the Chees- man Co., at Ansonia, as fireman and engineer. Mr. Haller remained in Ansonia until 1876, when he removed to Yalesville, and was employed by the C. Parker Co. for some five years, and since that time he has worked at the auger shop of the Jen- nings & Griffing Co., at Tracy.
Mr. Haller is sincerely respected by all who know him, and his residence in Yalesville, which .covers more than a quarter of a century, has been marked by an integrity of heart and spirit that has made him many friends. Mr. Haller was united in marriage in 1859 with Miss Dorothea Tiefen- bach, a daughter of John Tiefenbach, and a native of Prussia. To them were born three children : (1) Henry, who resides at home and is employed in the auger factory at Tracy. (2) Charles P., who graduated from the district school and at a busi- ness college at New Haven, was assistant secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Meriden, secretary for two years at Thompsonville, and was general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Stamford ; he is now a student at Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia. (3) George, who is in the tea business, married Nettie Woodstock, and has three children, Charles Henry, Edwin Francis and Lawrence Wallace. Mr. Haller belongs to the Meriden Post, No. 8, G. A. R .: Hancock Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; and to the K. of P., at Ansonia. With his wife he belongs to the Methodist Church, and in politics is a stanch Republican. The entire family sustain the respect and confidence of their fellow townsmen.
HOMER TWITCHELL. Early records show the first American ancestor of the Twitchell family to have come to New England in 1633. His bap- tismal name was Joseph, and his surname was spelled at times Tuchel. He is believed to have emigrated from Dorset, an English shire adjoin- ing Devonshire. He settled in Dorset, and land was assigned him in 1635. He was the father of two sons, Joseph and Benjamin, from the younger of whom Mr. Homer Twitchell is descended. Benja- min removed from Dorset in 1663, and is presumed to have bought one hundred acres of Ranes grant. Be that as it may, he built his house about eighty rods southwest of Deathbridge, where the ancient exca- vation for the cellar is still plainly discernable. Three sons and three daughters were born to him: Joseph, Mary, Hannah, Benjamin, Bertha and Abiell. The last named is next in line of descent toward Homer. He is presumed to have been the father of Benson, who was early left an orphan and was reared by his father's sister Mary. the wife of Joseph Rochet. On reaching manhood he and Mr. Rochet, with a cousin, became proprietors of what is now the site of the town of Oxford .. Benson was
distinguished for energy, enterprise and courage, no less than for intelligence and probity, and was held in high esteem. He dealt extensively in real estate, and his name appears upon the town records of Oxford for January, 1722, as an "innholder." He was the father of six children, Seth, Jeremiah, Han- nah, Abigail, John and Joseph. Joseph, who was born at Oxford in 1717, married Elizabeth Thomp- son, of Derby ; his children were Isaac, David, Enoch and Worcester. Enoch passed his life in Oxford and became the father of Polly, Samuel and Isaac.
Isaac Twitchell, the father of Homer Twitchell, was born in Oxford Feb. 2, 1777, and died Sept. 1, 1849. On Sept. 2, 1798, he married Frances Smith, who bore him thirteen children, all of whom, ex- cept Hope ( who lived but twelve hours), attained mature years : Miles J., Clara, Bennet, Curtis, Isaac S., Robert, Thomas, Laura E., Charles, Clark, Fanny and Homer. His widow survived him until April 2, 1865, when she, too, entered into rest, at the.ripe old age of eighty-three.
Homer Twitchell, the youngest child, and now the distinguished citizen of Naugatuck, whose life forms the subject of this sketch, was born in Ox- ford, Aug. 19, 1826, and he and a sister are the only members of his father's family who remained in the county in which they were born. He was brought up on his father's farm and received a common school education. At the age of eighteen he began his apprenticeship to the cutler's trade, at Water- bury, and after becoming a journeyman was em- ployed for several years in the shops of the Union Knife Co. and other concerns. He was a skillful
workman and endowed by nature with rare execu- tive capacity, and in time was made superintendent of the Connecticut Cutlery Co., which position he continued to fill until 1870. In that year he began the manufacture of umbrella trimmings at Union City, and two years later added the making of safety pins to his business, and these specialties he still continues to manufacture. In 1879 his son was admitted into partnership, the style of the firm be- coming Homer Twitchell & Son. Besides being at the head of this industrial establishment. Mr. Twitchell is interested in various other enterprises of a semi-public character. He took an active part in founding the Naugatuck Water Co., and was the corporation's first president. He was also one of the organizers of both the Savings and National banks in that town, serving as president of the for- mer until 1889, and acting as one of the trustees since that date. Of the National Bank he is a di- rector.
He is sincerely attached to Naugatuck, and no measure looking toward the advancement of its best interests ever appeals in vain for his support. His natural generosity, quick sympathy, broad intellect and public spirit have all combined to render him one of the town's most popular and valued citizens. While never seeking office, nominations have been spontaneously tendered him. He has filled various
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minor local offices, and has served as first select- man for several terms. In 1864 he was sent to the Legislature, and in 1888 was elected State senator from the Fifth district, and re-elected in 1890. He is a Democrat in politics, and that he stands high in the local councils of his party is shown by the fact that he was chosen a delegate to the National con- vention that nominated Grover Cleveland for the presidency. His religious affiliations are with the Congregational Church. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1845, and has been re- peatedly chosen master of his lodge.
On May 21, 1855, Mr. Twitchell was married to Miss Lavinia Mason, whose father, Abner, was a prominent citizen of South Coventry, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Twitchell have but one son, Frank M., who was born in Union City April 7, 1856; he was educated at the academy in Wilbraham, Mass .. and on finishing his course there entered his father's employ. . In 1879, as has been said, he became a member of the firm. He is a man of prominence and influence in the community; and besides serving on school committees was chosen to represent his town in the Legislature in 1894. Like his father. he is a Democrat in politics, and in religious belief a Congregationalist. He belongs to various fra- ternal orders, being a thirty-second degree Mason. a Knight of Pythias, an Odd Fellow and a men- ber of the A. O. U. W. Mr. Frank M. Twitchell was married Dec. 5, 1883, to Emma, a daughter of A. J. Spencer, of Middletown ; she died, childless, Feb. 13, 1896, and on April 7, 1897, he married her sister, May.
CLIFT. The name of Clift has had a place in the annals of New England from the earliest Colonial days. William Clift, of Marshfield, Mass., married, 1691, Lydia, born 1676, daughter of Samuel and granddaughter of William Wills. or Willis, who was made a freeman in Scituate, Mass., in 1639. It has been stated in print that William Clift was put ashore in the harbor of Scituate, Mass., when but seven years of age. Tradition has it, through one Pero, an old negro servant, who died in 1807, at eighty-one, and knew the first generation of the family, that "Mr. Clift was sent from England by interested parties be- cause he was heir to a large estate which they would inherit in case of his death." William Clift died Oct. 17, 1722. From this ancestor descended in the fifth generation the late Capt. William Clift, of Groton, Conn., the parents of the latter being Capt. Nathaniel and Eunice. ( Denison) Clift, who were married Aug. 5, 1801. Nathaniel Clift passed the earlier portion of his life in trading voy- ages along the Atlantic and Gulf States, and rose to the rank of commander. He finally settled in Mystic Bridge (Stonington ), engaged to a certain extent in trade, and became the popular proprietor of a public house which was located in the vicinity of the "Hoxie House."
Capt. William Clift, son of Capt. Nathaniel, was born April 20, 1805, in Mystic Bridge ( Ston- ington ), Conn. He was educated in the common schools of the town and in the private schools of Sheffield and Kirby, at the borough of Stonington, attending the latter school two terms. He com- menced his active life by teaching school two years in his native town, then for three years he held a position as clerk in the store of Gilbert Denison, at the head of Mystic river. His health, owing to his sedentary life, was not good, and when twenty- three years of age he went to sea in a fishing smack to improve it. In three years' time he regained his original strength, and then, in company with eleven others, formed a joint stock company, bought the sloop "Montgomery," altered her to a schooner, and went on a sealing voyage to the west coast of Patagonia. The vessel sailed from Mystic Aug. 18, 1831, and was the first vessel in that business that sailed from Mystic. Mr. Clift went out of port as a common sailor, yet he appears to have had the whole management of affairs. This enter- prise and voyage was successful, and Mr. Clift im- mediately started on a second voyage, this time as master in the schooner "Mary Jane." This voy- age, too, was a successful one, paying the owners a dividend of one hundred and twenty-five per cent. net profit in twenty months. These two voyages were very laborious, replete with hardships and vicissitudes, and Capt. Clift endured great physical discomfort and dangers. At one time they were on one rock seventy-three days and nights. On his 'first voyage on the "Mary Jane," Capt. Clift was selected by the Foreign Missionary Society to con- vey two missionaries. Revs. Armes and Cowan, to Terra del Fuego. Knowing their lives not to be worth anything in the hands of the people of that land. as they were cannibals, Capt. Clift prevailed cn them to change their destination, and conveyed them to Patagonia. The unprecedented success of these voyages gave Capt. Clift great reputation as an able navigator, and he was invited to take com- mand of exploring expeditions untrammeled by or- ders, and could have accepted very high marine po- sitions. But his sagacity and carefulness caused him to decline all these brilliant offers, and, know- ing that his was a commercial mind, he bought the schooner "Hudson" and larger vessels and contin- ued as master during the remainder of his nineteen years of seafaring life, the first five years of which were spent "before the mast." He never sailed for wages, but always for a share. His business ca- pacity, shrewdness and ability were rewarded by very handsome financial results. When he retired from the sea he owned a part of a number of vessels, and became their New York agent, spend- ing most of his time in that city for fifteen years, taking care of and managing their business. At the same time he was extensively engaged with Nathan G. Fish and others in ship building at Mys- tic, and he purchased all the necessary material in
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New York. In 1865 he retired from active busi- ness. Every vessel with which he had ever had anything to do was successful, never failing to de- clare a dividend. He was a man of careful system, and for many years no policy of insurance was car- ried on his vessels, and not a dollar was lost. One of his peremptory rules on shipboard was that 'no one, sailor, officer or passenger, should swcar, play cards or drink liquor.
On Aug. 1, 1854, Capt. Cliit was chosen direc- tor in the Mystic River Bank, and remained in the directory for many years (still in 1882). He was president of the bank from Aug. 24, 1870, until June 7, 1881, when, owing to failing health, he re- signed the position. On the organization of the Groton Savings Bank, July 3, 1854, Capt. Clift was chosen its vice-president, was elected its president Sept. 6, 1870, holding such office until July 27, 1875, when he declined a re-election, but accepted the office of vice-president, which he continued to hold for years afterward ( was such officer in 1882). He was president of the Elni Grove Cemetery As- sociation from April 16, 1866, to April 11, 1881.
Capt. Clift never held any political office, al- though he did much as a private citizen to aid his party,-Whig and Republican,-espousing the principles of the latter on its formation in 1856. For the last ten and more years of his life he was very active in religious matters, using his money very liberally and freely in building up not only the Union Baptist Church, of which for many years he was an esteemed member, but for all worthy ob- jects. He always gave liberally to charitable so- cieties, educational projects and to every good ob- ject, being especially generous to the poor.
On June 18, 1833, Capt. Clift was married to the youngest daughter of Sands Fish, of Groton. Two children were born to them: Mary H., who was married to Edward Y. Foote : and Hannah F. Clift. Mrs. Clift died Sept. 17, 1845, and on Sept. 16, 1846, Capt. Clift married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Daniel Burrows, of Middletown. She died Jan. 10, 1865. Capt. Clift passed away in October, 1882.
EDWARD Y. FOOTE was born in New Marlboro, Mass., a son of Salmon and Margaret Foote. Salmon Foote was born in Colchester in 1797, and followed the trade of cabinet and coffin maker in New Marlboro, Mass., and Colchester, Conn. The latter part of his life was spent in Colchester, and he died in Utica, N. Y., May 31, 1882, at the age of eighty-four years. He was a capable and en- thusiastic musician, and a fine singer, and during the years of his residence in New Marlboro played the bass viol in church and led the first choir there for thirty years. His family consisted of nine chil- dren.
Edward Y. Foote removed from Marlboro and Springfield to Colchester, and finally to New York, where he was in business, and spent the greater part of his active life. The real estate field looked
attractive to him, and he engaged in the real estate business. In 1870 he came to New Haven, and was successfully engaged in that line until his death, in 1881. He was highly respected for his many noble personal qualities, and at his death was sin- cerely mourned.
Mr. Foote was twice married. His first wife, Lucy Mason, died leaving one son, Emerson, who was graduated from thic Slicffield Scientific School, class of 1879, and from Yale Law School, class of 1881, and who later went to Chicago, where he attained a prominent position in real estate circles. He died there. In 1863 Mr. Foote wedded Miss Mary H. Clift. To this union was born one son, William C.,.who attended Gen. Russell's school in New Haven, and later the Business College in Bos- ton, and finally one year at Yale Law School. He is a member of the Fire Department. Mrs. Foote is only five generations removed from John Alden and Priscilla Mullen, and is an enthusiastic mem- ber of Mary Clapp Wooster Chapter, D. A. R.
JOSEPH NOYES NICHOLS (deceased) was one of the leading citizens and successful agri- culturists of Waterbury, Conn., where he was born Dec. 17, 1824.
The Nichols family is one of the oldest in Con- necticut. Sergeant Francis Nichols, the first of the name in New England, was a native of England, and one of the first settlers of Stratford, Fairfield Co., Conn., where he located in 1639. He is sup- posed to have been closely related to Sir Richard Nichols, the first English governor of New York. Before coming to this country he was a member of the Horse Guards of London. He owned property in Stratford, Conn., and Southland, L. I., and spent his last days in the former place, where he died and was buried. For his second wife he married Barn- abas Wines, who after his death wedded John Elton, of Southland, L. I. By his first marriage Sergeant Nichols had four children: Isaac, Caleb and John, who were all born in England, and Mrs. Richard Mills. The only child of the second union was Ann, wife of Christopher Young.
Isaac Nichols, son of Francis, came with his parents to the New World and spent the remain- der of his life in Stratford, Conn., where he owned and operated a farm. He died in 1695, and was buried there. His wife, Margaret, bore him the following children: Mary, who was born Feb. 2, 1648, and married Rev. Israel Channey; Sarah, who was born Nov. 1, 1649, married Stephen Bur- rett ; Josiah, born Jan. 29, 1652; Isaac, March 12, 1654; Jonathan, Dec. 10, 1655; Ephraim, Dec. 15, 1657: Patience, Feb. 2, 1660; Temperance, May 17, 1662; Margery, Nov. 30, 1663 ; Benjamin, Feb. 2, 1666; and Elizabeth, who was born April 2, 1668, and was married, July 9, 1691, to Rev. Jo- seph Webb.
Isaac Nichols, Jr., a son of Isaac, was also a lifelong resident of Stratford, a farmer and land-
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owner. There he died in 1690. He and his wife, Mary, had three children: Francis, born June 3, 1676; Richard, Nov. 26, 1678; and Joseph, Nov. 1, 1680.
Joseph Nichols, son of Isaac, Jr., was born and reared in Stratford, whence he removed to Long Island, and in 1728 came to Waterbury, New Ha- ven county, where he owned property. Here he died March 10, 1733, and was buried in Waterbury cemetery. He married Elizabeth Wood, of Strat- ford, and they had a family of eight children : James, born on Long Island, June 27, 1712 ; George, born at the same place, July 14, 1714; Elizabeth, who was married, in 1740, to Ebenezer Wakelee; Richard; Joseph, born in 1724; Maria; Isaac, who was born May 4, 1729, and died in the British army in 1776; and Benjamin, born May 14, 1731.
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Joseph Nichols, Jr., son of Joseph, was born on Long Island, and came with his parents to Water- bury, where he subsequently owned and operated a farm until called from this life Jan. 24, 1773, at the age of forty-nine years. On Sept. 6, 1750, in Waterbury, he married Tamar Bronson, daughter of Lieut. John Bronson, and to them were born two children : Simeon, mentioned below; and Eunice, who was born Sept. 6, 1753, and married to Michael Bronson. The mother of these children died Nov. 14, 1755, and on Dec. 15, 1757, the fa- ther married Annie Webster, by whom he had one child, Lucy, who was born Dec. 5, 1758, and who married Luke Adams.
Simeon Nichols, son of Joseph, Jr., was born April 20, 1751, in Waterbury, where he spent his entire life as a farmer, land owner and highly re- spected citizen. On June 15, 1775, he married Martha Hotchkiss, and to them were born ten chil- dren, whose names and dates of birth were as fol- lows: Joseph, April 21, 1776, died Oct. 27, 1825, aged forty-nine; Tamar (wife of James Chatfield), Dec. 25, 1778; Humphrey, Nov. 23, 1781, died Jan. 5, 1853, aged seventy-one; Abigail, March 2, 1784; Chloe, July 30, 1786; Amy, Nov. 25, 1788; Will- iam, August, 1791, died March 5, 1817 ; Chauncey, February, 1794, died April 6, 1795, aged fourteen months; Simon, 1796; and Philo, June, 1798, died Dec. 14, 1849, aged fifty-one years.
Humphrey Nichols, son of Simeon and father of our subject, made his home throughout life in Waterbury, where he owned a farm, and like his ancestors engaged in agricultural pursuits. He died Jan. 5, 1853, and his remains were interred in the old cemetery where the Bronson Library now stands. He had two wives, Esther and Phebe
Hotchkiss. Esther Hotchkiss was a native of Waterbury, a daughter of Stephen Hotchkiss, and died Oct. 29, 1837, aged fifty years. Humphrey Nichols was the father of the following children : Harriet, born Feb. 3, 1810, married G. A. Hall : Emeline, born May 20, 1811, married David Ter- rell, and died Nov. 4, 1834, aged twenty-three; Stephen H. was born April 25, 1813; Isaac, born
Sept. 27, 1814, married Lydia Frisbee; William, born Jan. 27, 1817, married Elizabeth Atwater; Ann, born Feb. 8, 1819, died May 12, 1835 ; Nancy, born June 15, 1821, married Marvin Mills; Eli, born Sept. 15, 1822, married Jane Mann; Esther married Fred Holmes; David died Sept. 27, 1865, aged thirty-seven; and Joseph N. is our subject. Franklin, a son by his union with Phebe Hotchkiss, died Sept. 23, 1848, aged six years.
Joseph N. Nichols grew to manhood in Water- bury, and became a prosperous farmer and land owner of that town. He owned the homestead farın at Hopeville and also the large Hull farm on Town Plot, Waterbury, upon which he made many improvements. It was the Benjamin Moore tract of eighty acres, and has since been divided into lots for building purposes. He was united in mar- riage with Miss Lucena Clark, of New Milford, a daughter of Daniel and Lucy (Hawes) Clark, and by this union were born seven children: (I) Dan- iel Humphrey, who died March 18, 1890, aged thirty-three years, first married Mary C. Gladding (who died Feb. 28, 1887, aged twenty-nine years), by whom he had two sons, Frank Bacon and Ar- thur W. ; Arthur was a member of St. John's Church choir. For his second wife he married Albertie Lobdell, by whom he had one child, Harry Hum- phrey. (2) Clark Holmes is a resident of Water- bury. (3) Joseph Hayden, who resides on the old homestead, first married Nellie Jackson, by whom he had two children, Louis Hayden and Carl Humphrey, deceased, and for his second wife mar- ried Alice Farmer, by whom he had one child, Nellie Alice. (4) Lucy Esther was educated in the high school of Waterbury and resides on the town plot near the old homestead. (5) Emily C. died April 1, 1885, aged twenty years. (6) Anna L. died March 26, 1886, aged eighteen years, six months. (7) William Francis, who is connected with the United States mail service and resides in Waterbury, married Annie O'Rourke, and they have had four children, Gertrude E., Charles (de- ceased), William and Elizabeth. Our subject died April 21, 1878, aged fifty-three years, his wife Sept. 14, 1887, aged fifty-nine years, and both were laid : to rest in Riverside cemetery. They were faithful members of St. John's Episcopal Church, and were highly respected and esteemed by all who knew them. In his political affiliations Mr. Nichols was a Democrat, and ever took a commendable interest : in those enterprises calculated to advance the moral, social or material welfare of his town and county. He was a kind father, a loving husband and true friend. .
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