Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 11

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886


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(XIV) Joseph Randolph, eldest son of Jo- seph (4) Coolidge, was born in Boston, De- cember 29, 1828, and was taken abroad in his early youth and educated in schools in Swit- zerland and Germany, among others the Royal Saxon Military Institute. After preparing in Paris for admission to the Ecole Polytech- nique, he returned to this country and entered the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard, where he studied for two years, being one of its first pupils. He began active work as a civil engineer, and was employed in the laying out of railroads in the south, among others the Baltimore & Ohio and Richmond & Danville roads. After three years of engineering he re- turned to Boston and entered the Harvard Law School, graduating therefrom in 1854. He practiced law in Boston for a number of years, at first in partnership with the late George O. Shattuck, then with the late Judge Scudder, and afterwards independently, retiring from active professional work in 1884.


On the death of his father, Mr. Coolidge and his brothers presented to the United States government the desk upon which their great- grand father wrote the Declaration of Inde- pendence. The presentation was made by Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, and the desk is now in the safekeeping of the State Depart- ment at Washington. The desk bears the fol- lowing inscription, which Jefferson himself wrote: "Thomas Jefferson gives this writing desk to Joseph Coolidge Jr. as a memorial of effection. It was made from a drawing of his own by Benjamin Randall, cabinetmaker of Philadelphia, with whom he lodged on his ar- rival in that city in May, 1776, and is the iden- tical one on which he wrote the Declaration of Independence. Politics as well as religion has


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its superstitions. These gaining strength with time, may one day give imaginary value to this relic for its association with the birth of the Great Charter of our Independence."


J. Randolph Coolidge married, December 18, 1880, Julia Gardner, daughter of John Lowell Gardner, a leading East India mer- chant of Boston, and Catherine Elizabeth Pea- body, daughter of Joseph Peabody, of Salem, who was also very prominent in the East In- dia trade. Their children are: I. Joseph Randolph Coolidge Jr., born May 17, 1862; graduated from Harvard College, 1883 ; he is a practicing architect in Boston. He married, in 1886, Mary Hamilton, of Boston. 2. John Gardner Coolidge, born July 4, 1863; gradu- ated from Harvard College, 1884. He served as vice consul of the United States in Pre- toria during the Boer war; first secretary to United States Legation in Pekin, 1902-1907 ; first secretary to U. S. Embassy in Mexico, 1907-1908; United States Minister to Nica- ragua in 1908. 3. Archibald Cary Coolidge, born March 6, 1886; graduated from Har- vard College, 1887; received Ph.D. 'from Freiburg University in Baden. Appointed professor of history in Harvard University, 1906, and gave the course of Harvard lectures at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1907. Published in 1908. "The United States as a World Power." 4. Harold Jefferson Coolidge, born January 22, 1870, graduated from Harvard College, 1892, and from Harvard Law School, 1896. He is practicing law in Boston. He married, 1903, Edith Lawrence, daughter of Amory A. Lawrence, a Boston merchant. 5. Julian Lowell Coolidge, born September 28, 1873; graduated from Harvard College, 1895; received degree of B. S. from Oxford, 1897, and Ph.D. from Bonn, 1904. Appointed as- sistant professor of mathematics at Harvard University; 1907. Married, 1901, Theresa Reynolds, daughter of Dr. John P. Reynolds, of Boston.


(XIV) Algernon Sidney, second son of Jo- seph Coolidge, was born in Boston, August 22, 1830. He was educated abroad, and received the degrec of M. D. from Harvard Medical School in 1853. He afterwards studied medi- cine in Vienna, and served as a surgeon in the earlier days of the civil war. Subsequently he practiced medicine for many years in Bos- ton. He married, July 15, 1856, Mary Lowell, daughter of Francis Cabot Lowell. of Boston. His children are: 1. Algernon Coolidge Jr., born January 24, 1860; graduated from Har- vard College, 1881 ; Harvard Medical School,


1886 ; afterwards studied medicine in Vienna. He is a practicing physician in Boston. He married, 1896, Amy Lothrop, daughter of Thornton K. Lothrop, of Boston. 2. Francis Lowell Coolidge, born November 20, 1861; graduated from Princeton, 1884. Is a cotton broker in Boston. Married, 1901, Alice Brackett White, daughter of Charles T. White, of Boston. 3. Sidney Coolidge, born March 6, 1864; attended Harvard College. Is engaged in manufacturing business in Boston. Married, 1890, Mary L. Colt, of St. Joseph, Missouri. 4. Ellen Wales Coolidge, born Jan- uary 24, 1866. 5. Mary Lowell Coolidge, born August 14, 1868 ; married, June 14, 1898, Frederick O. Barton, of Worcester.


(XIV) Philip Sidney, twin brother of Al- gernon S. Coolidge above mentioned, was born August 22, 1830, and was educated in Europe. Was an assistant in the Harvard Astronomical Observatory, and received an honorary degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1857. Served as major in the Sixteenth United States Infan- try. Killed at battle of Chickamauga, Sep- tember 19, 1863.


(XIV) Thomas Jefferson, son of Joseph (4) Coolidge, was born in Boston, August 26, 1831. The early education of Mr. Coolidge was obtained in the schools of France and Germany. Returning to this country when about fifteen years old, he entered Harvard College, and was graduated in the class of 1850. Soon afterward he entered partnership with Joseph Gardner under the firm name of Gardner & Coolidge in the East India trade, and the business returned large profits. In 1858 he was chosen president of the Booth Manufacturing Company of Lowell, Massa- chusetts, then in financial straits, and within three years had rebuilt its cotton mills and placed the business upon a paying basis.


After spending three years in France, he returned to this country, and from 1868 to 1880 managed the Lawrence Manufacturing Company as its treasurer. For many years also he was treasurer of the Amoskeag Com- pany of Manchester, New Hampshire, the largest manufacturing corporation in the country, having a capital of $4,000,000, own- ing a plant worth $8,000,000, operating sixteen mills manufacturing cotton and flannel goods and employing eight thousand men and women, controlling the water power of the Merrimac river at Manchester. In 1880 Mr. Coolidge became interested in railroad invest- ments and demonstrated extraordinary ability in the management of great railroads. He was


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made president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company at a time when that corporation was in desperate straits. He saved the property, and when prosperity seem- ed at hand resigned his task to other hands and took the presidency of the Oregon Rail- way & Navigation Company, after spending a vear abroad. After this company had also been put into satisfactory condition, Mr. Cool- idge resumed the presidency of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. He acquired large interests from time to time in other cotton mills, including the Emery Company, the Lawrence Manufacturing Company, and the Dwight Manufacturing Company, of Chico- pee, Massachusetts, being president of the lat- ter. He was president of the Boston & Lowell railroad before it was absorbed by the Boston & Maine railroad ; was also a director of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad and the Kansas. Fort Scott & Memphis and allied railroads. He invested also in various other railroads and industrial corporations of New . England. He was for many years a director of the Merchants' National Bank and of the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston. He belonged to the University and Harvard Clubs of New York City.


Mr. Coolidge has always taken an active in- terest in the civil affairs of the country. He became a Republican in 1882. His public ser- vices include service in the Pan-American Congress, at which he brought in a minority report against the free coinage of silver, which was accepted. He was one of the original Park Commissioners of Boston when those officials served without salary. When White- law Reid resigned as minister of the United States to France. in 1892. President Harrison appointed MIr. Coolidge as his successor. The wisdom of the choice was at once recognized, and various favorable comments appeared in the press. not only of Massachusetts, but of the country at large. The Boston Journal voiced the popular sentiment when it said : "President Harrison has made an excellent selection in nominating Mr. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge to succeed Mr. Whitelaw Reid as minister to France. It is an appointment which reflects great honor upon the state which claims. Mr. Coolidge as one of its dis- tinguished citizens. He possesses in a marked degree the intellectual and social qualities which are essential in an American minister in the most brilliant capital in Europe, and he has besides ample wealth for the discharge of those important social functions which the


United States appears to have overlooked when it fixed the remuneration of its foreign representatives. There is a rare historic fit- ness in the appointment also, for it sends the great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson to the post which he himself occupied from 1784 to 1789 with conspicuous credit to his native country."


Mr. Coolidge filled this responsible position acceptably until relieved by a change in the ad- ministration at Washington. As he had travelled extensively and spoke French fluent- ly, he represented the United States with all the polish of a gentleman of the old school. In the spring of 1897 his name was pressed upon President McKinley's attention by promi- nent members of the Republican party, as well fitted for a position in the cabinet. The exe- gencies of the situation, however, demanded the nomination for a citizen of another state. He was appointed in 1899 on the Joint High Commission for arbitration with Canada.


Mr. Coolidge was one of the overseers of Harvard College, to which he gave the Jeffer- son Physical Laboratory at a cost of $115,000. He also gave a stone library building to the town of Manchester, Massachusetts. Always noted for his philanthropy, he was one of the largest contributors to the various charitable societies of Boston.


He married, November, 1852, Hetty S. Appleton, daughter of William Appleton, one of the greatest merchants of Boston in his day. Children: I. Thomas Jeffer- son Jr., mentioned below. 2. Maria A., mar- ried Lucius Sargent. 3. Eleonora R., married Fred Sears Jr. 4. Sarah L., married Thomas Newbold.


(XVI) Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, son of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, was educated at Harvard College, where he was graduated in the class of 1884. He is now chairman of the board of directors of the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston.


(For early generations see preceding sketches).


(X) Obadiah (2), second


COOLIDGE son of Obadiah (I) and Elizabeth (Rouse) Coolidge, was born August 27, 1694, at Watertown, Massachusetts, and by occupation was a cord- wainer ; he removed in 1728 to Framingham, thence in 1732 to Marlboro, and in 1740 to Westborough. He married, July 24, 1717, Rachel, daughter of Josiah and Rachel (Davis) Goddard, niece of Hon. Edward Goddard, born in Watertown, April 13, 1699. Children: Jo-


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siah; Hannah, born June 2, 1720, Lydia, born 1725, married Jacob Bartlett, of Rutland; Obadiah ; Rachel, born June 16, 1731, in 1760 married Seth Rice, and died in Northborough, January 5, 1766.


(XI) Josiah, eldest son of Obadiah (2) and Rachel (Goddard) Coolidge, was born July 17, 1718, in Watertown, and died Decem- ber 25, 1780, in Lancaster, Massachusetts ; May 12, 1747, he was living in Bolton, with his wife Mary and several children. His name is given in the list of revolutionary soldiers from Lancaster, Massachusetts. Children : Mary, married, March 25, 1762, in Bolton, Massachusetts, Amos Fuller ; Josiah Jr., mar- ried May 22, 1772, in Bolton, Molly Hough- ton ; John, and Obadiah.


(XII) Captain John (4), from records and family papers appearing to be second son of Josiah and Mary Coolidge, was born 1756, probably in Bolton, Massachusetts, and died March 23, 1822, at Plymouth, Vermont. From the records it appears he served in the revolu- tion, in Captain Artemus Howe's. company, on Lexington alarm, in 1775, in Captain Robert Longley's company, in the siege of Boston, and at Bunker Hill in 1775; in Captain An- drew Haskell's company, June 8 to December I, 1776; in Captain David Nourse's company in New Jersey, 1777; and in Captain David Moore's company in the Rhode Island expe- dition, 1780. His intentions of marriage are entered upon the Lancaster town records Au- gust 14, 1779, where, September 8, 1779. he married Hannah, daughter of James and Han- nah (Lawrence) Priest (see Lawrence). In 1781 he removed to Saltash, now Plymouth, Vermont, where he cleared land and took up a permanent residence. His children were Calvin, Luther, Oliver, Polly, who became Mrs. Sprague; Katy, became Mrs. Sawyer.


(XIII) Calvin, son of John (4) and Han- nah (Priest) Coolidge, was born March 27, 1780, and died April 30, 1853 ; he married, De- cember 21, 1814, Sarah Thompson, born April 3, 1789, in Plymouth, Vermont, died Novem- ber 19, 1856, and they had a number of chil- dren, only two of whom lived to maturity, Calvin Galusha, and Sally Maria, born Janu- ary 19, 1822, died June 24, 1849.


(XIV) Calvin Galusha, son of Calvin and Sarah (Thompson) Coolidge, was born Sep- tember 22, 1815, at Plymouth, Vermont, and died December 15, 1878; he was a farmer by occupation ; in 1859-60 served in the Vermont legislature ; married Sarah A. Brewer, March 3, 1845 ; she was born December 17, 1823, in


Ludlow, Vermont, and died January 2, 1906. Their children: Colonel John C .; and Julius C., born January 2, 1851, died March 14, 1870. (See Brewer ).


(XV) Colonel John C., son of Calvin G. and Sarah A. (Brewer) Coolidge, was born March 31, 1845, at Plymouth, Vermont, and received his education in the public schools and at Black River Academy. He has held most of the offices of the gift of his native town, and has made himself a prominent place in its affairs. For a number of years he was engaged in mercantile business in Plymouth. In 1866 he was captain of Company K, Tenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, raised for guard duty. In 1872 he was honored by be- ing elected to represent his town in the Ver- mont legislature, and was re-elected twice. William W. Stickney, governor of Vermont, appointed him on his staff for two years in I900. He married, May 6, 1868, Victoria Josephine Moor, daughter of Hiram D., born March 14, 1846, died March 14, 1885. They had two children: Calvin; and Abbie Grace, born April 15, 1875, died March 6, 1890. Col- onel Coolidge married (second) September 9, 1891, Carrie A. Brown, born January 22, 1857.


(XVI) Calvin (2), son of Colonel John C. and Victoria J. (Moor) Coolidge, was born July 4, 1872, at Plymouth, Vermont. He re- ceived his early education in the public schools, in 1890 was graduated from Black River Academy, entered St. Johnsbury Academy, and then afterward attended Amherst Col- lege, Amherst, Massachusetts, from which he was graduated in 1895 with the degree of A. B .: out of a class of eighty-five members he was one of three speakers chosen as orators for commencement, and also won distinction in historical studies. He represented Amherst in the intercollegiate contest open to Ameri- can colleges for the best essay on the subject, "Principles Fought for in the American Rev- olution," and at Christmas time, 1895, he re- ceived the gold medal, valued at one hundred and fifty dollars, with the inscription, "Octo- ber, 1875. April, 1889,' showing that Amherst had won over all other colleges. Mr. Coolidge is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity. After his graduation he went to Northampton, and read law in the offices of Hammand & Field, and was admitted to the bar in July, 1897. He then opened an office, and by his diligence and strict attention to the interests of his clients has built up a large and lucrative practice. On the death, in 1903, of


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William H. Clapp, clerk of courts of Hamp- shire county, Mr. Coolidge was appointed to that position by the supreme court of the state, but declined to fill this office permanently, preferring to practice law at the bar. He was elected to the city council of Northampton in 1899, the next two years was city solicitor, and in 1904 was chairman of the Republican city committee. He was elected to the legis- lature in 1906, and has been on the following committees : mercantile affairs, constitutional amendments, banks and banking, and ju- diciary. In 1907 he was re-elected. His ex- perience and training made him a valuable member and gave Northampton a prominent place in the general court. He was recognized in the house as a sound lawyer and an able de- bater. Mr. Coolidge has a very retentive memory, which he has taken care to retain, and has found this a valuable asset in his pro- fession and public life. He owns considerable real estate in the city of Northampton, and takes great interest in everything that tends to its improvement ; he is one of the vice-presi- dents of the Nonotuck Savings Bank, of which he is also counsel. December 9, 1909, he was elected mayor of Northampton, to take office January 3, 1910. He is a member of the Vermont Association of Boston, and the Mid- dlesex Club. Mr. Coolidge married, October 4, 1905, Grace A., daughter of Andrew I. and Lemira (Barrett) Goodhue, born at Burling- ton, Vermont, and a graduate in 1902 of the University of Vermont, and they have two children : John, born September 7, 1906, and Calvin Jr., April 13, 1908.


(The Lawrence Line).


(II) Deacon Nathaniel, third son of John (q. v.) and Elizabeth Lawrence, was born October 15, 1639, at Watertown, Massachusetts, in later years lived in Groton, and at an advanced age removed to Charles- town Farms, where he died April 14, 1724. He was early chosen deacon, was representa- tive of Groton, and was often found on the records of that town, where he became a prom- inent citizen. He married, in Sudbury, March 13, 1660-1, Sarah, daughter of John and Han- nah (Phillips) Morse, of Dedham, born Sep- tember 16, 1643, died at Groton, in 1684, and he married (second) Hannah or Anna


who died after 1701, as in that year she and her husband signed a deed. By his first wife he had nine children and by his second wife three, as follows: Nathaniel, born April 4, 1661, at Sudbury; Sarah, 1662-3, died soon ; Hannah, July 3, 1664, died young ; John, July


29, 1667; Mary, March 3, 1669-70, died young ; Sarah, May 16, 1672; Elizabeth, July 6, 1674, died October 20, 1675 ; Elizabeth, married Ab- ner Harris; Deborah, March 24, 1683; Han- nah, April 26, 1687 ; Mary, October 16, 1690; Jonathan, June 14, 1696.


(III) Nathaniel (2), eldest son of Na- thaniel (I )and Sarah (Morse) Lawrence, was born April 4, 1661, at Sudbury, Massa- chusetts, lived at Woburn; married Hannah Rutter ; children : Nathaniel; Hannah, born April 26, 1687; Mary, October 16, 1690; Su- sanna, 1691; Jonathan, and Sarah.


(IV) Jonathan, second son of Nathaniel (2) and Hannah (Rutter) Lawrence, was born June 14, 1696, lived in Charlestown, where in 1729 he was taxed, afterwards re- moved to Stoneham, and died about 1774. By his wife Joanna he had children: I. Hannah. 2. Jonathan, born December 27, 1724. 3. Ju- dith, married (first) Jacob Richardson, (2) James Wyman and (3) Jonathan Smith. 4. Ebenezer, married Widow Sarah Bason.


(V) Hannah, eldest daughter of Jonathan and Joanna Lawrence, was born February 25, 1721-2, at Charlestown, and died March 29, 1825, at Plymouth, Vermont. In 1750 she married James Priest, their marriage being published at Woburn, Massachusetts. Among their children was Hannah.


(VI) Hannah, daughter of James and Han- nah (Lawrence) Priest, married September 8, 1779, John Coolidge. (See Coolidge VI).


(The Brewer Line).


This name has been quite common in Mas- sachusetts since its first settlement, and those who bore it have done their share towards clearing the wilderness and bearing the hard- ships of pioneer life; many of them removed to New Hampshire when the revolution was over, and there helped to settle new towns, thence some became citizens of Vermont and other states. Many of this name fought in the revolution, where they bore themselves credit- ably. In the old records this name is found spelled Breuer, Bruer, and in several other ways.


(I) It is not known when John Brewer, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, emigrated, but he was living in that town in 1642, where in that year his son John was born; he removed to Sudbury before 1647, where his last three chil- dren were born. His first wife Ann bore him two children : John, born September 10, 1642, and Hannah, January 18, 1644-45. He mar- ried (second) October 23, 1647, Mary, daugh-


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ter of John Whitmore, of Lynn; children: Mary, born September 23, 1648; William, October 6, 1653; Sarah, March 27, 1658.


(II) John (2), son of John (I) and Ann Brewer, was born September 10, 1642, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and died January I, 1690-91, at Sudbury. He married Eliza- beth, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Moore) Rice, of Sudbury, born August 4, 1648; children: John, born 1669, lived at Weston; Elizabeth, 1671; Hannah; James, 1675, married (first) Elizabeth Grout, ( sec- ond) Abigail Smith, (third) widow Joanna Singletary ; Sarah, January 14, 1678, married November 26, 1700, Caleb Bridges; Mary, 1680, married March 29, 1704, Benjamin Ball ; Abigail, April 5, 1682, married David Par- menter ; Martha, March 5, 1685; and Jona- than.


(III) Jonathan, third and youngest son of John (2) and Elizabeth (Rice) Brewer, was born June 21, 1689, and died in 1752. In 1717 he purchased sixty-two acres of common land in Framingham, Massachusetts, and there built a house. By his wife Arabella, whom he mar- ried April 17. 1717, he had children : Samuel; Abner, born July 10, 1718; Peter, April 17, 1720, died 1794; married December 22, 1748, Elizabeth Pratt : Elizabeth, June 2, 1722, mar- ried May 20, 1745, David Pratt Jr. ; Abigail, baptized March 29, 1724, married January 16, 1755. Edmund Towne; Jonathan, born Feb- ruary 3, 1725-26, married Frances Buckmin- ster ; Moses, born March 26, 1728, married Elizabeth Davis; David, December 24, 1731 ; Martha, June 16, 1734; and Eliab, May 14, 1737


(IV) Samuel, eldest son of Jonathan and Arabella Brewer, was born November 4, 1716, and settled in Framingham, Massachusetts, from which place he removed in 1744 to Rut- land, where his children are recorded. He was adjutant general under General Thomas in 1775, was wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, that year; was commissioned colonel of Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment, January 1, 1777, in General John Nixon's bri- gade : was at Stillwater in the fall of 1777; at Albany, October 31, of that year ; and his name is found in General Patterson's brigade in July, 1778. He was cashiered September 29, 1778. He married, March 10, 1740, Martha, daughter of John and Hannah (Rice) Bent, born March 7. 1720: children : I. Jason, born September 24, 1741. 2. Martha, August 9, 1743, married January 24, 1760, Thomas Temple Jr. 3. Lucy, born 1745. 4. Nathan, 1747. 5. John.


6. Abigail, 1752. 7. Samuel, 1758. 8. Eliab, 1760 (Paul in baptism).


(V) Eliab, fifth son of Samuel and Mar- tha ( Bent) Brewer, was born in 1760, at Rut- land, Massachusetts; married Sally Rice, and among their children was Israel Putnam Brewer.


(VI) Israel Putnam, son of Eliab Brewer, married Sarah Brown (see Brown VII). They lived in Ludlow and Plymouth, Ver- mont. They had eleven children, of whom the oldest was Sarah Almeda Brewer. About 1855 they moved to Wisconsin with all their family except Sarah.


(VII) Sarah Almeda, daughter of Israel Putnam and Sarah (Brown) Brewer, was born at Ludlow, Vermont, December 17, 1823, and married Calvin G. Coolidge, March 3, 1845. (See Coolidge XIV).


(The Brown Line).


There were many of this name who came to New England in the earliest colonial times, many of this name took part in colonial wars, also in the revolution, and the name of John Brown is found many times in the lists of passengers to come from England prior to 1650. John Brown, who led the famous raid on Harper's Ferry in the civil war, was a de- scendant of the family here described.


(I) John Brown, who lived in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1641, is supposed to be the John Brown from Badstow, in Essex, Eng- land, who came to America in the ship "De- fence," from London, in 1635, aged twenty- seven. That he died prior to 1679 is shown by a deed which was dated January 6 that year, in which John Brown, deceased, is de- scribed as having purchased, with his son John, a tract of land, of one Richard Hub- bard, which land is by this deed made over to Nathaniel, son of John Brown, deceased ; this deed was acknowledged by Richard Hubbard and Sarah his wife, January 3, 1680. By his wife Sarah he had children : Nathaniel ; Sarah ; John : Simon; Adam; James; Thomas, born July 14, 1657, at Hampton ; Benjamin ; Jacob, born 1653: Stephen, born at Hampton, 1659, killed by Indians, July 29, 1677, at Scarbor- ough ; Elizabeth ; and Mary.




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