The history of Adams County Illinois : containing a history of the county - its cities, towns, etc. a biographical directory of its citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion; general and local statistics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, Part 63

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Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Chicago : Murray, Williamson & Phelps
Number of Pages: 1254


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The cultivation of flowers and the adornment of homes was somewhat retarded here by the poverty of the first settlers, nearly all of whom came here to better their circumstances, and many of whom were driven here by their very poverty, which forbade them to maintain in older communities the place to which their intellectual, social and moral qualities entitled them. The first effort of the pioneer was to provide a shelter for himself and his family ; his next was to subdue and bring into cultivation a sufficient area of land to yield them a support. Afterward came stables for his animals, then an orchard to supply the family with fruit, then, as his means increased, he built a more comfortable and convenient house. Not till then did he feel able to gratify his tastes and preferences. Not till after this second house


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HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY.


was built did one farmer in a hundred make any attempt to beautify his home. Woman's taste and skill perhaps had planted a few annuals in the garden every spring, and had kept a few plants in boxes on the sill of the cabin window long after the frost had killed those in the garden, but there was no attempt on the part of proprietors to improve to any great extent the appearance of their home surroundings, nor had they the means and the time to have done so if they had desired. Nature, however, bestowed most liberally what the poverty of man denied. Originally, in this county, the forests covered the low lands along the streams and the narrow ridges on either side. The broader ridges, and the rich, gently undulating table lands which compose the larger part of the surface were mostly open prairie. Occasionally a neck of woods intruded upon the high lands, or an isolated grove stood out in the prairie, like an island in the sea; and occasionally there would be found a strip of prairie on the narrow ridges or on the low bottom lands along the streanis, but these were exceptions to the general rule. These prairies, lying as they did upon higher land than the wooded districts, appeared to the eye to be larger than they really were.


There were some points where the beholder could only see glimpses of the " timber line," as it was called, on either side. From the time the first star-flowers and violets opened out in the spring, till the petals fell from the last frost-flowers late in autumn, these vast prairies presented a scene of surpassing beauty. During the whole summer there was an uninterrupted succession of flowers; but June was the time of Nature's grandest display. Standing upon some elevation and looking over the prairie at that season, the scene presented before you was that of a vast undulating ocean of green, bespangled all over with constellations of color representing all the varied hues of the rainbow.


The winter scenery was in striking and painful contrast with this. Covered with a few inches of snow the landscape suggested only the dreary icefields of some northern sea. Nothing could be more bleak and for- bidding. No wonder the first settlers built their houses in the skirts of the forests where they could be sheltered by the trees. As the country filled up the choice building places were all taken and new comers were obliged to go further out. It was soon learned, also, that the prairie lands were the richest and this was an additional reason for settling on them. In a few years the summer scenery began to lose its beauty. Zigzag fences and vast tracts of black upturned sod began to take the place of nature's robe of beauty. Here and there a wood-colored house or straw-roofed stable on the margin of the plowed land revealed to the philosopher a pic- ture of enterprise and fruitful industry, but to the esthetic eye it only appeared as if the great emerald sea had rolled away and left its black, muddy bottom exposed, with here and there a few gray rocks standing out, which had been called in mockery human habitations.


If the hand of industry marred the summer scenery, it did not add to the attractiveness of the winter landscape. The gray walls of the dwellings rising above the wilderness of snow only gave to the beholder the painful feeling of pity for those who were doomed to live amid such bleak desola- tion. A winter scene upon one of our large prairies thirty-five years ago was chilling and repellant in the extreme. It had no redeeming features. There was no shelter for man or beast, except the lone shanty which man called home, a cold, comfortless shed for the horses, and the fences, which in summer protected the fields from the cattle, and in winter the cattle


446


HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY.


from the storm. It is doubtful whether this country, since the day when God first clothed it with verdure, was ever so bereft of beauty as when it had been robbed by man of all the richest of nature's pencilings and had received as yet no touches from the hand of art; when the people in their struggle for bread or for wealth had destroyed the glory of the prairie and the forest and lacked as yet the means, the time, or the will to make even the meager compensation of adorning each the little spot he called his home. It is not surprising that with such surroundings men and women who had been reared amid scenes of rural beauty in the older States should become dissatisfied and restless, should begin to contrast the present with the past, and should embrace the first opportunity after their more pressing wants were supplied to satisfy the finer feelings of their nature by rendering their homes more attractive. There were many such among us. They began the work, and their example was most happily con- tageous. There came a time when even the most rigid utilitarian was willing to plant a tree and thus secure under the name of shelter what was demanded by his love of beauty. The black locust, catalpa, lombardy pop- lar, and other deciduous trees were planted along the fence in front of the house, the door-yard was leveled, the corn-crib and pig-pen were moved into the background, and the yard was enclosed by a neat fence and sowed with grass. Then a few snow-balls, lilacs, and hardy roses were planted here and there, black walnuts and butternuts were gathered by the boys in autumn, and after being exposed to the action of frost during the winter were planted the next spring in the fence-corners. Young seedling maples were pulled up in the forest and transferred to the outside fence-corners around the barn-yard, where they soon furnished fine shade for the farm animals. Cottonwoods, willows, wild cherries and elms, which sprung from seeds which the winds or birds had dropped along the ravine that ran through the field, or in the corners of the pasture-fence, and many another neglected place, were suffered to grow unmolested in the rich virgin soil.


Meantime the orchard was growing, and in a few years a wonderful transformation had been wrought in the summer landscape, and home be- gan to look cozy and attractive. In winter, however, the leafless branches of a few trees only partially checked the piercing winds. They still whis- tled spitefully through the keyhole of the door and challenged the thrifty farmer to a further combat. The challenge was accepted. The farmer planted evergreens and gained the victory. The general opinion had been that evergreens would not thrive upon the prairie soil. Why this opinion prevailed it is hard to tell unless it was because there were none indige- nous here, except a dwarfish variety of the red cedar, and that was confined to a few steep, rocky places along the creeks, and the people took it for granted that the reason they grew there was that only there they found the soil that suited them. The true explanation of the absence of evergreens here seems not to have occurred to any one at that time, that is that they could not withstand the fires which annually consumed the heavy carpet of dried leaves and grass on the richer lands, both of prairie and forest, and only on the steep, rocky and barren hillsides, where they found no fuel, gave the evergreens any chance to grow. When cedars first were planted on the prairies, sand and gravel were put underneath and around each tree. They were transferred from the bluffs of Mill Creek to many door-yards and were very much admired. It was soon discovered that they would thrive just as well without the sand as with it, and would do well on almost any


447


HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY.


dry soil. Gov. Wood was the first to introduce the spruce, fir and other northern evergreens. In 1831 he made a second journey to the Eastern States, and procured at Prince's nursery, on Long Island, some balsam fir, white pine, and other evergreens, and also a collection of flowers and shrubbery. With these he ornamented the lawn around his house, which stood on the present site of Chaddock College, exciting the admiration of all the neighbors. The late F. W. Jansen, passing by one day, asked him where he got those beautiful trees. "On Long Island," was the reply. " I will start to-morrow morning and get some, too," said Mr. Jansen, thinking he meant Long Island on the river near Quincy, but when Mr. Wood explained that it was Long Island, New York, he concluded it was too far away to undertake the journey just then. Mr. Wood soon after- ward obtained some evergreens from the northern pineries and added them to his collection. Two or three balsam fir-trees, which belonged to the original lot obtained from Prince's nurseries, were blown down a few years ago by a severe wind-storm, but most of the trees, both evergreen and deciduous, are still standing on the lawn where they were planted. The large deciduous cypress tree, which is a marked feature of these grounds, was obtained, Mr. Wood thinks, at Prince's nursery in 1831, with the evergreens. Some fine specimens of the American larch, obtained with his first evergreens from the north, are not now standing. The plant- ing of these trees direct from the forest was attended with so much un- certainty, on account of their liability to die the first year, that but few people made the attempt.


Wm. Stewart, Sr., of Payson, was the first nurseryman in the county to keep evergreens for sale. He obtained his supply by making annual trips to the Northern pineries, where he had the young seedlings dug from the forests, carefully packed under his personal supervision, and shipped home by steamboat. They were planted in the nursery rows and grown for two or three years before they were sold to customers. A large per- centage of them died from the effects of the first transplanting, but after growing a year or two in the nursery they could be transplanted with per- fect safety. The people, however, were at first afraid to risk their growing, and Mr. Stewart used to set them out on the grounds of his customers and warrant them to grow. He made landscape gardening a study, and used to lay out the walks and arrange the grounds of his neighbors, and in this way a number of places assumed such an attractive appearance that the demand for evergreens and ornamental shrubbery became general. To meet this demand he enlarged his stock. Failing in one of his trips to the upper Mississippi to find all the varieties he desired, he sent one of his sons, who was with him, across the country to the lakes, part of the way by stage and part of the way on foot, through the forest, with instructions to return with his trees by way of the lake to Chicago and thence home by way of the canal and the Illinois river to Naples, whence his own wagons would haul them forty miles to the nursery. The next season another son was sent South to ransack the Southern forests for everything beautiful which might give promise of becoming acclimated here. A large assort- ment was brought, most of which proved to be too tender for our winters, and among these, to his deep regret, were the grand evergreens magnolia and the holly. The pitch pine of the South proved to be nearly hardy but not ornamental. Specimens of it are still standing on "Fawley Place," near Quincy, and on the old Stewart homestead at Payson. The deciduous 29


448


HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY.


or swamp-cypress was the only truly valuable acquisition from this source. It grows vigorously on our soil, is perfectly hardy, and makes a unique and beautiful tree. A number of specimens still standing on the site of the old Payson nursery are assuming stately proportions, and already show, rising from the ground around them, the famous "cypress knees " of the Southern swamps. One or two very fine specimens are also standing in the grounds of " Fawley Place."


The era of home adornment was now fairly inaugurated, and nursery- men all over the county kept from that time forth a liberal supply of ever- greens and other ornamental trees and shrubbery, which found a ready sale at remunerative prices. When the supply ran short on the upper Missis- sippi there were found men in the East who made a business of procuring very small seedling evergreens from the forests of northern New York, and supplying western dealers, and finally the nurserymen of the northwest learned the art of growing them from the seed, and have produced them by the million ever since at prices which put them within the reach of all.


The introduction of evergreens has had a two-fold effect. In the first place, it has greatly stimulated the tastes of our people in the direction of home adornment, and in the second place it has entirely transformed the aspect of our landscapes, especially in winter. A large proportion now of the homes of our people are embowered in trees, which not only check and lull to peace the winter winds, but rising in their perennial green amid the darkest storms, point upward to the skies, reminding us of a brighter world than this. The old settler, as he looks over these hills, finds it hard to rec- ognize the scenery he witnessed in his youth. The old distinction between forest and prairie has been almost entirely obliterated by clearings in the one and plantings in the other. Dotting the landscape here and there are groups of farm buildings, nestling among evergreen trees, and surrounded by ample and well-kept lawns. The old "worm fence" has very generally given place to the well-clipped hedge, the log cabin to the ample farm- house, and the straw-roofed stable to the ornamental cornices of the first- class barn. Those homes are exceptional where there are not found in the vard a supply of flowering and ornamental plants, and in the rooms a collection of flowers to show their beauty and shed their fragrance in the gloomy winter days.


If our summer landscapes are less gorgeous and imposing than at first, they are more varied and attractive, and our winter scenery, robbed of all its bleak repulsiveness, presents an appearance of cozy comfort, which rather attracts than chills the beholder.


Our older villages, such as Payson and Clayton, are almost lost to the view amid the profusion of trees and shrubbery, and the city of Quincy, by its multitude of neatly constructed dwellings set in the midst of well- kept yards or more ample lawns, and surrounded by a profusion of sylvan beauty, has justly earned its sobriquet, " The Gem City " of the west.


ADAMS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.


The declared purposes of this society are: "The promotion of medi- cal science. the cultivation of a just sense of professional obligations, and the organization of the profession in connection with the American Medi- cal Association." The society was organized March 28, 1850, at a meet- ing of the physicians of Adams county, held in Quincy, on call of a com- mittee appointed at a previous meeting, by the election of the following


M. J. Pocoahlauly, Da QUINCY


449


HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY.


officers: Dr. Joseph N. Ralston, president; Drs. S. W. Rogers and M. Shepherd, vice-presidents; Dr. J. R. Hollowbush, recording secretary; Dr. Louis Watson, corresponding secretary; Dr. F. B. Leach, treasurer; Drs. Isaac T. Wilson, M. J. Roeschlaub and Louis Watson, censors. Besides the above, Drs. Warren Chapman and James Elliott were original mem- bers. The society was incorporated by special act of the Illinois Legisla- ture, in the Winter of 1859. From May, 1861, until May, 1863, no meet- ing was held, so many of the members being absent in the army that a quorum could not be obtained. Of those who were members during the war of the rebellion, the following were in the military service: M. M. Bane (Colonel 50th Ill. Inf.), who lost an arm at Shiloh; G. H. Bane, Frederick K. Bailey, Henry J. Churchman, Bartrow Darrach, who died in the service; S. W. Everett, killed at Shiloh; A. M. D. Hughes (Adjutant 50th Ill. Inf. ), killed at Shiloh; Henry W. Kendall, R. R. Kendall, S. C. Moss, C. H. Morton (Lieut. Colonel 84th Ill. Inf.); Daniel Stahl, Louis Watson, Isaac T. Wilson. Dr. M. F. Bassett, a member, was surgeon of the board of enrollment of this district.


The society has given much attention to sanitary matters, and by its persistent efforts secured the creation of a board of health by the city of Quincy, and the adoption of a system of mortuary registration, several years previous to the passage of the present State laws relating to these matters.


Since its organization it has had the following presidents, some of them for several terms: J. N. Ralston, S. W. Rogers, A. Nichols, F. B. Leach, M. Shepherd, E. G. Castle, M. M. Bane, Daniel Stahl, L. Watson, Isaac T. Wilson, Joseph Robbins, W. A. Byrd, and Richard Williams. The society now has forty-six resident members.


OFFICIAL VOTE OF ADAMS COUNTY, NOVEMBER 7, 1876.


PRESIDENT.


GOVERNOR.


LIEUT. GOVERNOR.


Glenn .*


Shuman.t


Pickrell.|


Thornton .*


Harlow.t


Hooten.#


Lemont.|


Hise .*


Needles.t


Hoofsettler #


Gundlachı .*


Rutz.t


Aspern.#


Lynch .*


Edsall.t


Coy.t .


Copp, Jr.[


First Ward.


393


395


388


397


894


393


392


396


390


398


892


396


391


396


Second Ward ..


374


314


366


320


366


312


372


315


371


316


378


313


367


314


Third Ward ...


556


338


2


5551


340


555


338


1


556


338


555


339


555


339


1


556


338


Fourth Ward ..


400


500


1


396|


505


400


500


401


499


402


499


399


501


395


504


Fifth Ward. . . .


620


241


1


617


242


622


239


624


241


623


241


622


242


621


241


Sixth Ward ....


580


342


1


527


345


529


342


1


526


344


1


527


343


528


342


1


526


344


1


North East. .


113


165


113


165


114


.64


113


165


113


165


113


165


113


165


Houston


120


81


20


141


82


121


82


19


121


82


19


140


82


121


82


19


121


19


Keene .


148


148


150


147


149


147


1


149


147


1


151


147


149


147


149


147


1


Lima . .


196


112


195


112


195


112


195


112


195


112


195


112


195


112


Ursa


203


102


1


204


102


1


206


100


1


203


103


1


203


103


1 203


103


1


203


103


1


Mendon.


213


206


212


207


217


202


213


206


213


206


213


206


213


206


Honey Creek ..


146


151


1


145


152


1


146


150


146


151


1


146


151


1


146


151


1


145


152


1


Camp Point ...


175


257


1


180


257


2


176


256


5


2


175


256


6


2


181


256


2


175


256


6


2


175


256


6


2


Clayton


160


207


1


1


161


207


1


162


205


1


1


160


207


1


1


161


907


1


160


207


1


1


161


207


1


1


Concord .


132


90


132


90


132


90


132


90


132


90


139


90


132


90


Columbus .


107


62


2


108


63


108


2


108


63


2


108


63


2


108


63


2


108


63


2


Ellington ..


165


226


1


2


161


225


2


167


22:3


1


3


165


225


1


2


166


165


224


1


2


165


225


2


Gilmer ...


125


114


1


125


114


9


125


113


1


9


125


114


1


8


126


114


8


125


114


1


8


125


114


1


8


Melrose ..


266


153


264


153


267


152


266


153


266


153


266


153


266


153


Burton .. .


167


129


167


129


1


168


129


168


129


168


129


168


129


168


129


Liberty


204


99


1


205


99


205


99


1


205


99


1


206


99


205


98


1


205


99


1


McKee


132


86


132


86


132


86


132


86


132


86


132


86


132


86


Beverly


111


126


111


126


112


125


111


126


112


126


112


126


112


126


Richfield ..


194


101


194


101


194


101


194


101


194


101


194


101


194


101


Payson


233


1571


6


1


241


156


1


157


5


1


236


156


5


1


241


156


1


236


156


07


1


236


156


5


1


Fall Creek ....


125


51


125


51


125


50


125


50


125


50


125


51


125


50


Total .


6308


4953


41


17


6318


4973


19


1


6322 4930


35


22


6313 4954


36


18


6347 4957


18


6312 4953


36


19


6999 4959


36


18


Majorities .. . 1355


1345


1392


1459


1390


1359


1340


* Democrat. + Republican.


# Greenbacker. |Temperance.


450


TOWNS.


Tilden .*


Hayes.t


Cooper.#


Smith.|


Steward .*


Cullom.t


Simpson.|


Browning.


McCormickt


SEC'Y OF STATE.


AUDITOR.


STATE TREASURER


ATT'Y GENERAL.


.


HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY.


1


·


·


..


.


1


Van Doren.


.


OFFICIAL VOTE OF ADAMS COUNTY, NOVEMBER 7, 1876-CONTINUED.


CONGRESSM'N


MEMBER.


REPRESENTATIVE.


STATES ATT'Y.


CIR. CLERK.


SHERIFF.


CORONER.


Bonds


Bonds


Knapp .*


Robbins.t


Edie.#


Whitesides .*


Grammer.+


Hendrick.#


Davis .*


Hendrick-


son .*


Black.+


McNeall.#


Govert .*


Jones.t


Brophy .*


Nichols.t


Dort.#


Pollock .*


Gille.+


Ogle.#


Seehorn .*


Marks.t


Smith.#


For County


Against County


First Ward.


364


423


390


397


588


587


1181


390


386


393


392


369


417


371


416


1


Second Ward.


348


335


372


313


56212


554


931


374


306


336


369


317


325


362


Third Ward ..


530


364


556


337


1


834


834


1014


557


324


517


379


427


469


1


533


341


1


2


Fourth Ward ..


379


522


398


502


700


697


1502


434


468


380


521


259


638


383


516


875


26


Fifth Ward ..


590


275


620


246


95212


936


711


624


237


598


277


549


307


529


271


857


8


Sixth Ward.


510


359


525


345


79215


7901%


106115


529


335


511


357


508


363


501


366


853


20


North East.


112|


166


113


165


16912


16912


495


115


163


114


164


96


179


113


165


259


12


Houston


121


83


121


82


18913 72


174


246


1


121


79


122


83


121


86


116


82


148


35


Keene


151


140


1 149


145


226


216


438


1


151


147


151


145


1


155


141


151


147


201


75


Lima .


192


112


195


112


290


290


336


195


111


195


112


195


111


196


111


223


69


Ursa


200


105


1


197


108


1


30416


30112


309


1


203


101


203


103


1


185


112


1 200


103


92


194


Mendon.


205


214


213


206


2


18516


45316


1


147


146


147


147


1


158


137


1


146


150


1


149


122


Camp Point.


180


257


180]


257


2


26516


2621%


774


5


181


257


177


255


2


174


243


2


179


258


2


3581


- 33


Clayton ..


159


210


2


158


209


3


241'


233


623


12


161


207


160


207


4


155


210


1


159


206


6


279


72


Concord .


132


90


132


90


198


198


270


132


90


132


90


129


90


131


S9


63


156


Columbus .


108


63


2


108


63


1631.


15716


6


108


64


69


100


1


98


65


1 108


64


12|


158


Ellington.


662


230


2


157/


231


25615


24712


675


3


173


216


176


213


1 158


230


2


164


228


132|


110


Gilmer ..


122


117


8


124


115


189


186


339


22


127


112


121


121


135


102


8


124


115


8


15


229


Melrose ..


266


153


266


153


402


399


461


268


149


'265


153


253


165


267


151


413


5


154


142


163


129


252


249


387


172


124


166


131


134


160


168


129


264


9


Liberty .


203


99


201


101


319


303


297


211


93


208


96


194


105


206


98


81


117


McKee


129


89


.30


86


19515


1941%


258


132


85


144


79


128


80


132


86


77


112


Beverly


105


131


110


126


16515


168


37616


112


125


119


118


99


133


111


126


221


12


Richfield


194


101


194


101


294


288


306


194


101


194


101


166


127


194


101


101


181


Payson .


239


157


1


242


154


1


367


351


465


1


242


150


242


153


1


232


154


1


236


153


297


98


Fall Creek.


125


50


125


50


186


186


150


125


48


124


18


77


99


130


46


169


1


Total .


6126 5137


20


6290 4974


21


968872


9482


14818


53


6391


4830


6191


5088


19


5736 5446


21


6149


5086


22


8904 1864


Majorities.


989


11316


1561


1103


290


1063


7040


.


* Democrat. # Republican. # Greenbacker.


| Temperance.


451


HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY.


7


Honey Creek.


146


150


1


146


151


36517


319


567


213


206


211


207


213


206


213


206


400


2191


2


CC 2020 8 2


18912


1


1


1


786 685


352


1


894


..


TOWNS.


Burton ...


1


452


HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY.


A TABULAR STATEMENT


SHOWING THE TOTALS OF PERSONAL AND REAL PROPERTY OF ADAMS COUNTY, FOR THE YEAR 1878,


Compiled from the Tax Duplicate of the County Clerk.


PERSONAL PROPERTY.


Number.


Average Value.


Assessed Value.


Horses of all ages


13.462


$ 31.26


$420,845


Cattle of all ages


25,371


11.33


287,683


Mules and Asses of all ages.


2,898


34.52


100,065


Sheep of all ages.


10.768


1.19


12,914


Hogs of all ages


62,953


1.45


91,422


Steam Engines, including Boilers


110


222.18


24,440


Fire or Burglar Proof Safes.


145


40.72


5,905


Billiard, Pigeon-hole, Bagatelle, or other similar Tables


35


43 70


1,530


Carriages and Wagons, of whatever kind.


6,712


21.43


143,903


Watches and Clocks.


4,764


4.04


19,252


Sewing and Knitting Machines.


3,700


11.65


43.118


Piano Fortes


479


72.50


34.630


Melodeons and Organs ..


525


30.30


15,909


Steamboats, Sailing Vessels, Wharf Boats, Barges, etc ..


16


4,065


Total Assessed Value of Enumerated Property


.. $1. 20586


AMOUNT OF UNENUMERATED PROPERTY.


Merchandise


609.960


Material and Manufactured Articles


97,216


Manufactured Tools, Implements and Machinery


61,830


Agricultural Tools, Implements and Machinery.


82,310


Gold and Silver Plate and Plated Ware.


1,473


Diamonds and Jewelry.


395


Money of Banks, Bankers, Brokers, etc


39,050


Credits of Banks, Bankers, Brokers, etc


17,600


Bonds and Stocks ..


4,100


Shares of Capi.al Stock of Companies not of this State.


8 500


Property of Corporations not before ennmerated.


4,000


Property of Saloons and Eating Houses


11,745


Household and Office Property ..


346,435


Investments in R. E. and improvements thereon


190


Shares of Stock, State, and National Banks.


100,000


Credit of other than Bankers


458,813


All other Personal Property


67,810


Total Assessed Value of Personal Property


$3,538,176


RAILROAD PROPERTY ASSESSED IN COUNTY.


Asseesed Value.


Class C .- Personal Property.


$ 6,049


Class D. - Lands. Number of acres, 127 61-10ths




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