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Pope Family 763
Owen, John A. 287
Mo 11 Family 531
Mdonald Family 3II
Mcdonald, John E .. 310
MDonald, John W. 674
Mougall, John
838
Micol, Archie
948
Morgan, Christopher 374
Morgan, Elias F 826
Morgan, Elijah A. IIO
Morgan Families. .. 42, 110, 186,
277, 284, 290, 357, 374, 471,
480, 545, 644, 696, 826, 897, 904
Morgan, Francis W. . 279
Morgan, Frederick P. 6.44
Morgan, James A. 480
Morgan, Capt. John A 827
Morgan, John A 284
Morgan, John C. 286
Morgan, John S. 29I
Morgan, John W. 897
Morgan, Luther A.
696
Morgan, Nathan M., M. D. 544
Morgan, Nelson 278
Morgan, Robert A. 29I
288
Morgan, Deacon Roswell A 279
N nwaring, Robert 208
M 1waring, Wolcott B 213
Park Family
Park, William
Parker Families Parker, Gerard L.
523
523
son, Mrs. Frederick T 149
Noyes, Charles R. 720
423
iller, John P 5.32 913
Parish Family
M Donald Family
x
INDEX.
PAGE
Powers, George H. 728
Pratt Family 578
Pratt, George H. 578
Shaw, Alexander F. 382
Shay, Clarence M. 812
Sutton, James B.
2(
Swan, Coddington W 9
Swan Families
731,
9:
Swan, Lucius 7.
Swan, Mrs. Susan
9.
Sweet, Dr. Charles
Sweet Family
327,
3.
Sweet, Dr. J. Byron 3.
Swift, Caroline L. 71
Swift Family
71
Swift, Solomon E., M. D. 71
Taylor, Charles H. 45
Taylor, Charles M. 45
Taylor Family 45
Taylor, John C., M. D. 51
Taylor, Nelson
51
Taylor, William
54
Terry, William H. 71
Thomas, Elisha S
6
Thomas Families. . 472, 64
Thomas, George H 47
Thomas, Deacon James Y.
47
Thomas, William G.
47
Thomas, William S 65
Thompson Family 77
Thompson, Isaac W. 77
Thompson, Mary F
77
Thompson, Dr. George. 45
Thompson, George D.
67
Throop Family
59
Tift Families .157,
58
Tift, Henry H. 58
Tift, William H. 85
Tompkins, Deacon Benjamin W 5
Tompkins Family
5
Tompkins, Odell D. 18
Tracy Families.
39,
78
Tracy, Henry B., Esq. 24
Tracy, John H. 78 Trumbull Families. .22,
69.
Trumbull, Frank 692
Trumbull, Horace N 69.
Trumbull, Jonathan
2
Tucker, Thurston
7'
Turner, Edward L. 917
Turner Family
917
Tyler Family
I35
Ulmer, Mrs. Eleonore.
490
Ulmer, Frank
480
Walden Family
604
Walden, William B
604
Walton, William 772
Ward, Capt. William D.
5IC
Warner, Edgar M.
27
Way Family 349
Webb, Charles 693
Webb Families .251, 693
Webb, J. Theodore
252
Wells, Hon. David A.
49
Wells Family
49
Wheeler, Arthur G.
68I
Wheeler, Charles E.
202
Wheeler, Charles H.
27I
Story, William T 552
Strong, Charles B.
181
Strong, Edward F.
455
PA
Strong, Edward L. 4
Strong Family 4
Sullivan, James P
4
Prentice, Hon. Amos W 7
Prentice, Andrew T 641
Prentice, Charles W. 621
Prentice, Ephraim
621
Prentice Families .7, 621, 640
Prentice, Deacon Samuel 640
Purdy, Alexander M., M. D. 255
Randall, Benjamin F 585
Randall, Erastus R. 531
Randall Families. .
585,
861
Randall, Capt. Jason L. .
861
Ransom, Mrs. Emeline T
400
Ransom, Rev. George R. 400
Rathbun Family 238
Rathbun, Judge Herbert W. 240
Rathbun, J. Alden
239
Rathbun, Capt. Latham
2.40
Rathbun, Walter P.
240
Rathbun, William O
239
Raymond Families.
276,
404
Raymond, J. Lawrence
277
Raymond, Richard
404
Raymond, Richard H.
406
Reade, Mrs. Faith B. P
I22
Reade. Hezekiah L. I2I
Reed, James L.
272
Richmond, Albert E.
255
Richmond Family
253
Richmond, George J.
254
254
Richmond, John M. 253
Riley, William J. 947
Ripley Family II2
Ripley, George B
II2
Ripley, Hannah L
II4
Rix, Orrin S .. 591
Roath, Edwin A 199
Roath Family .
197
200
Roath, Louis P.
199
Robinson, Mrs. Anna K. 186
Robinson, Capt. Charles. 625
Robinson Families
. 371, 424, 616, 625, 732
Robinson, Francis 732 Stanton, Howard L 632
Robinson, Frank E.
Robinson, John 486
Robinson, Deacon Lavius A.
424
Rogers, Albert W.
Rogers, Elisha
048
Rogers, Mrs. Elizabeth 8.45
Rogers Families.40, 223, 654, 844, 948
Rogers, Deacon George W. 223
Rogers, John B ...
844
Rogers, President M. 655
Rose, Reuben P 538
Ruggles Family 312
Ruggles, Hon. Henry. 312
Savage Family 408
Sawyer Family 879 Stoddard, Henry 576
Sawyer, Roswell P. 880 Stoll, Charles F 580
Scholfield, Benjamin F 303
Scholfield, Charles F. 302
Scholfield Family 300,
Scholfield, John F. 302
Scott Family 304
Scott, John A. 305
Scott, Capt. Thomas A. 304
Scott, Thomas A., Jr .. 444
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Scranton, Mrs. Mary F. 95
Seymour, Maxcy 953
Sheffield Family
435
Sheffield, Mrs. Harriet P. 430
Sheffield, Dr. Washington W. 435
Sheldon, Mrs. Mary L. 283
Sherman, Mrs. Caroline M. N. . 776
Sherman, Frederick M.
776
Sherman, John F.
8.18
Sherman, Lucy A.
737
Sherman, Oliver
Sholes Family 675
Sholes, Jeremiah F.
675
Sholes, Ransom S. 720
Sisson Family 853
Sisson, Henry B 853
Sistare Family 782
Sistare, Capt. James H. 782
Smith, Charles H. 9II
Smith, Capt. Charles H. 175
Smith, Emma A. 177
Smith Families. . . . 175, 378, 908, 936
Smith, Capt. Henry A. 908
Smith, Rev. James J. 515
Smith, John C. . 936
Smith, Joseph F. 634
Smith, Owen S. 380
Soule, Mary 165
Soule, William, M. D
161
Spalding, Archibald S.
606
Spalding, D. Burrows
539
Spalding Families
539, 606
Spalding, Mrs. Henry A.
I37
Spencer Families. .
516, 596
Spencer, Wilbur L. L. 596
Spicer, Edward E .. 691
Spicer, Elihu 3
Spicer, Capt. Elihu P.
33
Spicer, James C.
Spicer, John S.
527
Stafford, Albert 796
Standish Family 754
Stanton, Amos G .. 889
Stanton, Benjamin F. 172
Stanton Families . 29, 172, 257, 632, 768
615 Stanton, John D. I73
Stanton, Oscar F 29
Stanton, Robert A. 768
Starbuck, Mrs. Richard H. 369
Stark, Everett N. 265
Stark Families.
.218,
265
Steiner, John 687
Stevens Family
770
Stevens, William R. 770
Steward, Herbert
776
Ward Family
5IC
Stewart Charles E. 918
Stewart Family
918
Stiles, Edward A. 875 Warner Family 27
Stiles Family 875
Stoddard, Mrs. Dorcas R. 577
Stoll, Mrs. Louisa
58I
Storer, Egbert 474
Storer Family
475
Storer, John H. .
476
Story, Mrs. Mary T. F. 55I
Wheeler, Dudley R.
418
Wheeler Families. . 269, 418, 620, 681 Wheeler, Fernando
682
Raymond, James L.
277
Richmond, Henry A.
Spencer, Charles E. 516
Spicer Families. .32, 137, 687 139
Roath, Frank A
657
736
xi
INDEX.
PAGE
PAGE
eeler, George
682
eeler, Grace D. 505
eeler, Henry D.
419
Wilcox Family 468
Williams, William A.
912
Williams, William C. (ancestry of) 566
Williams, Winslow T 40
Winchester Family 554
Winchester, Isaac O. 551
Winship, Theophilus Y 2.11
Winters, Charles J 478
Witter Family I34
Wood, Howard L., M. D. 957
lite, Charles D.
So2
mite. Edwin F
672
lite Family
672
lite. James R.
615
iton, David E 337
miton Family
.3.36
miton, Lucius E
3,38
hittlesey Family
252
hittlesey, George D.
252
hittlesey, Mrs. George D. .. 94. 253
iggin, Charles D., M. D 733
iggin Family
733
ilbur Families 389,
903
ilbur, James So8
ilbur. Capt. Robert P 903
try of) 567
Young, William P 673
P
eeler, Judge Richard A
.eeler, William E.
270
ipple Families.
634.
810
tipple, Timothy T
810
tipple, W. F
634
Williams, Charles M .. 724
Williams, Mrs. E. A. W 505
Williams, Elias 609
Williams, E. Winslow
38
Williams Families .38,
88. 264, 479. 527, 564,
608, 654, 724 735, 912, 920, 942 Williams, Hon. George 143
York, Benjamin F. 886
Young, Adelbert R. 3II
Young, Alfred A.
Williams, Horace O. 912
Young, Alfred A. (1864)
Young, Charles 393
Young Families . 181, 673, 809
Young, Mrs. Phillipina 393
Young. William B. ISI
Williams, Mrs. Nancy B. (ances-
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Wilbur, Prof. William A. 389 Williams, Nathaniel B. 574
Wilcox, Capt. Elias F. 168
Williams, Simeon B.
564
eeler, Horace N.
271
Wilcox, Leander 468
eeler, Joshua B.
400
Wilcox, Orrin A. . 469
eeler, Nelson H.
681
Wilcox. Capt. Rowland H. 469
Willard Family
789
Willard, Rev. Samuel G. 789
Willard, Samuel P. 790
Williams. Benjamin F 264
Williams, Charles C .. 179
Woodward, Ashbel. M. D. 74
Woodward Family 229
Woodward, Henry R. 230
Woodward, Russell G. 229
Williams, George C. 144
Williams, Giles 736
Williams, Capt. Jerome W. 368
Williams, Joseph S. 609
Williams. Leonard N 920
eeler, Richard
620
504
Buckingham
BIOGRAPHICAL
ON. WILLIAM A. BUCK- INGHAM, LL.D., former governor of Connecticut and United States Senator, a resident of Norwich. (The sketch as follows was pre- pared by the late Noah Por- ter, D.D., LL.D., at the time president of Yale, and ap- peared as a Memoir of Sen- tor Buckingham in the New England Historical nd Genealogical Register of January, 1876, and without question it is the most complete character ketch of Mr. Buckingham in print, and one most ppropriate for the Commemorative Record of his ative county. "The writer of this sketch knew Senator Buckingham from before the beginning of is public career to the end of his life, and had fre- uent opportunities to judge of him in almost every ne of the relations which have been named. After bating all that might be required from the partic- ilars of personal friendship, he can honestly give is testimony that a conscientious sincerity and a graceful symmetry gave the strength and beauty to character which other generations may reasonably hold in the highest honor.")
William Alfred Buckingham was born in Leba- ion, Conn., May 28, 1804. His father, Samuel, was porn in Saybrook, and was a descendant in the direct ine from the Rev. Thomas Buckingham, the minis- er of Saybrook ( 1665-1709), one of the ten found- ers of Yale College, and one of the moderators of he Synod which framed the Saybrook Platform. Thomas was the son of Thomas, one of the original members of the New Haven Colony, but soon re- noved to Milford, where he was one of the "seven pillars" of the Church at its organization. His mother, Joanna Matson, was born in Lyme, Conn., Jan. 25, 1777, died Dec. 9, 1846. The parents began their married life at Saybrook, but soon removed to Lebanon, where they died and were buried. Will- iam was the second of six children, the others being Abigail, born March 26, 1801, died June 27, 1861 ; Lucy Ann, born Oct. 25, 1806, died Sept. 2, 1853; Samuel Matson, born July 12, 1809, died Nov. 26,
1810; Samuel Giles, born Nov. 18, 1812; Israel Matson, born Aug. 5, 1816.
Lebanon is a quiet, pleasant country town, scarcely a village, eleven miles from Norwich, on the high road to Hartford. Its broad and grassy street is bordered by a few farmhouses, comfortable and neat rather than elegant, which are distributed at convenient distances for the uses of the more than usually comfortable farmers who own them. Near the meeting-house are a few dwellings a little more distinguished, as the former residences of the Gov- ernors Trumbull, with the "store," which, during and ever since the war of the Revolution, has been dignified by the name of the "Old War Office." Lebanon had been for nearly fifty-four years-from December, 1772, to February, 1826-trained and honored by the ministry of Solomon Williams, D. D., brother of Elisha Williams, Rector of Yale College, and himself a leader among the Connecticut divines. Here was born, in 1710, the first Jonathan Trumbull, who graduated at Harvard College in 1727, and was chosen Governor of Connecticut annually from 1769 to 1783-which office he resigned after fifty years of public service. His son Jonathan, born at Leb- anon, graduated at Harvard College, 1759, was pay- master to the army, 1776-1778 ; secretary and aide to Washington, 1780-1783 ; in 1789, member of Con- gress; in 1791, Speaker of the Lower House; in 1794, senator ; and from 1798 to 1809, Governor of Connecticut. An academy also graced this village green, and had been sustained for many years with more or less regularity.
Here were all the conditions for the training of a character like that of Senator Buckingham. A small population all known to one another ; nearly enough upon a level to be animated by a common sympathy, and yet sufficiently varied in position and culture to be able to give without condescension, and to re- ceive without servility ; all devout in their habits, and worshiping with simple rites in the one church which their fathers had planted ; all laboring for a livelihood, and therefore industrious in habits and simple in manners ; all believing in intelligence and courtesy as only inferior to godliness. No thought- ful youth could live in such a community without
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special incitements to public spirit and the love of country. The traditions of the old war office would stir the heart of any aspiring boy who saw with his own eyes the marks of the spurs left by orderlies and aides-de-camp as they sat waiting for dispatches, and listened with bated breath to the stories of the Revolution, which fell from the lips of all the elders of the town, and heard them describe, as they had seen, the persons of Washington, LaFayette, Knox and Rochambeau. Nor could such a boy stand be- fore the Trumbull tomb in the old burying ground, where were garnered the sacred dust of the two gov- ernors, of Joseph, the first commissary-general in the war of the Revolution, and of William Williams, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independ- ence, without imbibing some of that patriotism.
Living from his earliest years under such influ- ences, the dignity of a life of public duty, and of sacrifice for God and country, could not but be impressed upon a nature so sensitive and high- minded as was that of young Buckingham. Most influential of all was the atmosphere of his own home, over which the grave but gentle father pre- sided with unpretending dignity, and which was pervaded by the cheerful sunlight of an active and loving mother, whose ministries of love and blessing filled the whole community. Besides the education of his home, with its lessons of industry and duty, of self-sacrifice and courtesy, and the education of the community, with its patriotic memories and pride, Mr. Buckingham had the best advantages of the public schools and academy of Lebanon, and of the Bacon Academy at Colchester, which at that time was much resorted to. One of his schoolmates at Colchester, from a distant part of the State, had described him as being in his youth what he was in manhood, singularly manly, earnest, noble and at- tractive. He labored upon the farm with a willing heart and strong hands. He taught a district school at Lyme a single winter, when eighteen years old, with great success. When twenty years of age he entered a dry goods house in Norwich as clerk. After a year's experience there and a few months in a wholesale house in New York, he opened a dry goods store in Norwich. In 1830 he engaged in the manufacture of ingrain carpets, which he con- tinued for eighteen years. In 1848 he relinquished both these occupations and embarked in the manu- facture of India-rubber goods, and was made the treasurer and an active director in the Hayward Rubber Company. Subsequently he became inter- ested in several important manufacturing enter- prises. As a man of business he was distinguished for industry, integrity and promptness. He uni- formly fulfilled his engagements, and his credit was unquestioned for any sum which he required for himself, or for his country.
On Sept. 27, 1830, he was married to Miss Eliza Ripley, daughter of Dwight Ripley, of Norwich, she being eminently fitted to make his life cheerful and public-spirited, and whose hospitality was as cordial
and liberal as his own. Mrs. Buckingham die April 19, 1868, leaving his home and heart desolat His only son, William Ripley, died in early chilc hood, and his surviving daughter, Eliza Coit, bor Dec. 7, 1838, was married Aug. 28, 1861, to William A. Aiken, who served upon his staff, as quarter master general, during the war, and since his mai riage has made his home in Norwich.
In 1830 he became a communicant in the Secon Congregational Church, and was prominent in th organization of a new church in 1842, of which h was a deacon, and a conspicuous and most zealou ! friend and benefactor. He was a Sunday-schoc teacher for thirty-seven years of his life, excepting four years during the war. He was principal chair man of the National Congregational Council in Bos ton in 1865. He was always in public and privat pronounced in the avowal of the Christian faith and always fervent and decided in the expression o Christian feeling. The prayers which hallowed hi home and edified many Christian assemblies will no soon be forgotten by those who heard them. Hi Christian liberality was from the first to the last uni! formly generous, cheerful and systematic. He wa in principle and in practice a decided friend of tem perance, and from the beginning to the end of hi public life, which was distinguished for lavish and refined hospitality, he never deviated, in public o in private, from the letter or the spirit of his avowed pledges and principles. His interest in education was intelligent, constant and most liberal. He wa: foremost in all the movements of his fellow citizen: for the improvement of the public schools, was active and generous from the first in the endowment and management of the Norwich Free Academy, and was a princely benefactor of Yale College, especially of the Theological Department. Some of his libera. contributions were the spontaneous offerings of his conscientious and willing generosity. He was no content with giving himself, but was active ir prompting others to contribute, and always with refined courtesy. His benefactions were by no means confined to public societies and institutions To the poor and unfortunate he was a sympathizing and tender-hearted friend, giving with a cheerfu heart, with wise discretion, with a delicate regard to the feelings of those whom he helped, and with unfeigned modesty. Before he entered political life he was known as a quiet and modest citizen, unob- trusive in manners, though firm in principle, rarely if ever participating in public discussion, conspicu- ously intelligent, courteous and refined, and as con- spicuously unobtrusive in the public manifestations of his opinions.
Though decided in his political sympathies and opinions, and though not infrequently solicited to be a candidate for a seat in the Legislature of the State he consented but once, and was defeated. In 1849 1850, 1856 and 1857 he was mayor of Norwich. Ir 1858 he was elected Governor of Connecticut, not sc much on the ground of his eminent political services
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o ny special gifts of statesmanship, as on account ofie universal confidence which was reposed in his g 11 1 sense, his integrity, his courtesy, and his emi- moral worth. He had not been known to the P le of the State as a public leader. He had been : of all prominent as manager or leader in any P Z P y relations, although he had been decided and ous at home in the councils of the Republican y from its first organization, as he had previously bei in the Whig party before it. He had never hthe opportunity of being known to the leading n 1 of the State as a speaker in legislative assem- or in any other than small assemblies of men, a in them only as they were gathered for some anthropic or religious object. But he was well wn and thoroughly respected in Norwich, and Il eastern parts of the State, as an honest, single- ded, firm-hearted, public-spirited Christian gen- t man, who united in himself a rare combination of € lities which are fitted to command the respect and towin the confidence and love of his fellow men. was first elected by a small majority, later el tions giving him very large majorities, and for E it years was continued in the office, until he re- shed its duties and honors.
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At the time of his election to the office of Gov- € or, neither he nor his friends anticipated what 3 before him. Had he either known, or even dimly deboded, that the office, from being little more than place of easy routine and formal administration, uld be suddenly transformed into a post of the st serious responsibility, involving perplexity, ill and anxiety, both he and his friends would have itated in thinking that he was the fittest man to the place and to fill it so long. No one would ve dared to predict that he would meet all its ponsibilities with such distinguished success.
t in review it may be confidently affirmed, that om the time when the first mutterings of war were ard, to the moment when they died into silence, no izen of the State was ever thought of as in any spect superior to, or comparable with, the noble ar Governor" who represented the State of Con- cticut. Whether his relations are considered to Executive of the United States, to the Governors the other States, to the party of Connecticut op- sed to the war, to the soldiers and officers from onnecticut, to the men who were recruited or afted, who were sick or in prison, to the banks and en of business all over the country, or to the merican people as far as they knew of him, his ness for his place was unquestioned. Whether on rseback at an election parade or in a public recep- on, whether reading his own messages or speaking a sudden call, often under very trying circum- ances, whether writing stirring letters to Presi- ent Lincoln, or addressing regiment after regiment each was hurried away to the field, whether con- rring with his staff or trusted friends in sudden cigencies, he was always heroic, patient, self-con-
trolled and courteous. He met the demand of every public occasion with dignity and self-possession. At the time when he was elected he had been little ac- customed to public speaking, or to writing anything more than letters of business. Though familiar with political topics, he had not been trained to write or speak on them in public, because the necessity of defending and enforcing his political opinions had never been imposed upon him.
His friends could never doubt that he would suc- cessfully meet all the practical demands of his office, while they might reasonably question whether he would meet its intellectual requisitions with any special eclat. It was interesting to see how quickly he came up to the requirements of the position in these respects ; how well from the first he wrote and spoke on the many occasions on which he was called upon. It was still more interesting to notice, when the country was first aroused to defend its life, how clearly his mind was enlarged and his heart glowed with patriotic feeling, and how nobly he spoke and wrote. His messages and correspondence were not only important documents in the history of the war, but they reflect the highest honor on the mind and head of their author. His own clear and practical intellect discerned earlier than many practiced states- men what the issues were, and how stern and lasting the struggle would be. His decisive and ringing words bespoke serious and painful forebodings on the one hand, but they breathed only courage and triumph on the other. He wrote and spoke as a prophet, because he wrote and spoke from those firm convictions which were inspired by his faith in the right, and in God who had defended the right in the past and could not desert it in the present. The people of Connecticut believed in him, because they recognized in his measured yet fervent words, and read in his consistent character and acts, their own strong convictions and their unshaken purposes. Whatever might have been thought of single acts of his, no Connecticut man who believed in the war failed to believe in Governor Buckingham. He re- flected so perfectly the wishes and resolves of his fellow citizens, and they did not hesitate to accept him as their leader. In multitudes of households his portrait was conspicuously displayed, and his name is still pronounced with love and honor. The services rendered by him to Connecticut and to the Union were also self-sacrificing and laborious. His private business was to a great extent transferred to others. His days and nights were spent in un- remitted labor. His mind was oppressed by public care and his heart was tried by ready sympathy. While it was also true that he had grown in intellect and character under the noble opportunities to which he so nobly responded, it was also true that he had given to others the best strength and the best days of his life. It was not surprising that after he re- signed his office, in 1866, he was elected in May, 1868, to fill the first vacancy which occurred in the
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Senate of the United States. In that office he con- tinued until his death, which occurred one month before his term expired. As a senator he was digni- fied, courteous and conscientious, and won the re- spect and affection of men of all parties. In debate he was always clear, pointed and brief.
He comprehended with great clearness the politi- cal and financial difficulties incident to the process of reconstruction, and he endeavored to meet these difficulties with entire fidelity to his convictions. No man ever doubted his honesty or his uprightness during the years of experiment and doubt in which he filled his high position. If it is premature to pronounce upon the wisdom of every measure which he supported, or of every individual action which he performed while a Senator, it is not premature to assert that he retained his personal and his political integrity from the beginning to the end. His home in Washington was elegant and hospitable, and it was hallowed by domestic worship ; and in his public duties he never overlooked or lightly esteemed his duties to God, or to his own Christian profession. In the summer preceding his death he showed symp- toms of debility. These increased as the winter came on. In the anticipation that his life might soon be terminated, he was entirely serene, and on the night of Feb. 4, 1875, he died.
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