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Stuart C. Wade, compiler of the Wade Gen- ealogy, of which only parts one and two, re- lating to English Wades, were published in 1900, states in the preface to part one that "as early as 1630 came Nathaniel, Nicholas, and Jonathan Wade, solid yeomen of the English County of Norfolk, and settled around Boston." Nicholas' Wade, it is elsewhere said, came from Denver, County Norfolk, England, in the ship " Falcon " in 1635. Settling at Scituate, he took the oath of fidelity in 1638, and married, probably. about 1657 or 1658, Elizabeth Ensign, daughter of Thomas Ensign, of Scituate, and his wife, Eliza- beth Wilder, of Hingham, who were married in 1638-9. Nicholas2 came into possession of the Scituate homestead in 1683, on the death of his father. He married, and left a family.
Nicholas,3 b. in 1696, m. in 1715 Anne Latham, daughter of James2 and Deliverance Latham, and settled at East Bridgewater. James Latham, father of Anne, was a son of Robert and Susanna (Winslow) Latham, his mother, Susanna, being a daughter of John and
Mary (Chilton) Winslow. John Winslow came over in the "Fortune," the second forefather ship, in 1621. He was a brother of Governor Edward Winslow. His wife came in the " May- flower " in 1620 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Chilton, who died in December of the same year. Amasa4 Wade, b. in 1723, son of Nicholas3 Wade, m. July 24, 1755, Sarah, daugh- ter of Francis, Jr., and Onner (Prince) Loud. Sarah Loud was b. January 19, 1729, and d. in 1790. Her father, Francis Loud, Jr., b. at Ipswich in 1700, d. at Weymouth in 1774. He m. in 1722 Onner (more correctly Honor), daughter of Isaac and Mary (Turner) Prince. Isaac Prince, b. in 1654, was a son of John1 Prince, who was at Watertown in 1633, there m. Mrs. Alice Honor, and in 1644 settled at Hull, where he d. in 1676. He was known as Elder John Prince, being for many years Ruling Elder of the church at Hull. Mary Turner, wife of Isaac Prince and mother of Onner (or Honor), was the daughter of John, Sr., and Mary (Brewster) Turner, of Scituate, grand-daughter of Jonathan2 and Lucretia (Oldham) Brewster, and great- grand-daughter of Elder William Brewster, one of the signers of the compact on board the " Mayflower " and one of the leaders of the Plym- outh Colony. Amasa4 Wade d. at his home in Weymouth, May 15, 1804. His son, Lot,5 was m. March 4, 1791, at Braintree, to Naomi Thayer.
Abraham6 Wade, b. in Braintree, June 5, 1800, son of Lot and Naomi, was m. October 24, 1824, by the Rev. Thomas Baldwin, of Boston, to Johanna (or Joan) Robbins, of Plym- outh. They had eight children; namely, Mary Atwood, Frances F., Rufus R., Edwin F., Susie A., Ella L., Thomas H., and Sophronia E. Abraham Wade removed to Boston in 1830. He d. in Chicago, September 5, 1860. Mrs. Joan Robbins Wade, his wife, d. July 14, 1864. She was a daughter of Lemuel and Mary (At- wood) Robbins, of Plymouth, who were m. in 1779. Lemuel Robbins, her father, was b. at Plymouth in 1758, being a son of Rufus Rob- bins, b. in 1729, who m. Bathsheba Joy (Davis's Plymouth, revised edition, appendix), and a de- scendant in the sixth generation of Nicholas Robbins, the founder of this branch of the fam- ily in Massachusetts. The line was : Nicholas,'
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John,2 Jeduthan, 3-4 Rufus,5 Lemuel.6 Nicholas1 Robbins, coming from England in 1635, settled first at Cambridge. In 1638, having sold his Cambridge property, he removed to Duxbury, and bought the home of Thomas Burgess. Two years later he bought land at North Hill and at Namasakeeset, now Pembroke. His son John,2 by his wife, Ann, m. in 1665 Jehosabeth Jour- daine (or Jordan); and their son Jeduthan3 m. January II, 1693-4, Hannah Pratt, and resided at Plymouth. Jeduthan,4 b. in 1694, had by wife, Rebecca, nine children, the sixth being Rufus, above named, b. in 1729.
Lemuel6 Robbins was a soldier of the Revolu- tion. In the records at the State House, Lem- uel Robbins appears with rank of private on muster-roll of Captain Mayhew's company, Colonel Cotton's regiment, dated August I, 1775, enlisted May I, 1775, town of Plymouth, time of service three months, eight days ; also on return of same company, dated October 7, 1775, coat rolls, eight months' service ; also on roll of Captain Benjamin Rider's company, Colonel Lothrop's regiment, for service in Rhode Island, December, 1776, service ten days, marched from Plymouth ; also roll of Captain Jesse Sturtevant's company, Colonel Titcomb's regiment, marched to Rhode Island, April, 1777, service at Rhode Island two months, five days ; with rank of Corporal, Captain Will- iam Cotton's company, Colonel Josiah Whit- ney's regiment, 1778, enlisted July 29, dis- charged September 1 3.
Rufus Robbins Wade was educated in the Boston public schools, completing his course of study at the Eliot Grammar School. On attain- ing his majority, he began business life as a manufacturer of blank books, being thus en- gaged for a number of years. At a subsequent period in his early manhood for eleven years he served as officer in various penal institutions, among them being the Middlesex County House of Correction and the State Prison at Charles- town. After that, for a while, he was special agent of the United States Post-office Depart- ment at Washington, D.C., and later on he was chief of the Secret Service Department for New England. From 1872 to 1879 he was post- master of Cambridge. He was first appointed chief of the Massachusetts District Police by
Governor Talbot in 1879. Reappointed by Governor Long on the reorganization of the State police, he has continued to hold the office of chief and discharges efficiently the duties thereof, well exemplifying the paternal spirit of the government of the Commonwealth. One of these duties is the enforcement of laws relating to labor, another the inspection of boilers and the examination of engineers for stationary engines. Among the good results of this work may be noted the fact that, whereas in former times children of eight years worked in factories, now none are employed under the age of four- teen years. The examination in the last five years by the district police of four thousand boilers may be noted in connection with the infrequency of boiler explosions in these later times as standing in the relation of cause to effect. The district police have the oversight of public buildings in cities, towns, and villages, even of country school-houses, in regard to heat, ventilation, fire escapes, and of factories as to sanitary arrangements and means for preventing accidents to employees from machinery. For the manufacture of clothing in dwellings as a business, the anti-sweating law renders necessary a license from the district police. Another de- partment of their work is the detective. Eight rooms in the basement of the State House con- stitute the chief's headquarters. In one room are filed plans of all the public buildings and factories in the State. Needless to say, Chief Wade is a man of broad sympathies and a strong sense of justice, and takes a hearty interest in his work. His influence has been effectively exerted in behalf of the labor laws. At the Paris Exposition of 1899 his plans for a factory took the grand prize, and his plan for the heat- ing and ventilation of public buildings was awarded the bronze medal, the highest prize offered. For eight years Mr. Wade was presi- dent of the National Association of Factory Inspectors of North America. This position he resigned five or six years ago. For ten years he was secretary and treasurer of the Middlesex County Republican Committee, and he was one of the founders of the Middlesex Club and its first secretary. Mr. Wade resides in Somer- ville. He was married October 10, 1849, in Charlestown, to Mary Ann Marsh, daughter of
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Jacob and Mary A. Marsh, of Hingham. She died March 23, 1895.
OSHUA GOODALE GOOCH, who has been a resident of Cambridge since 1867, and is now (1901) serving his nineteenth year as principal Assessor of that city, is a descendant in the eighth genera- tion of John Gooch, the immigrant progenitor of the family in New England, the line being : John,' James, 2-3-4-5 John,6 Samuel,7 Joshua G. 8.
John' Gooch, originally from Slymbridge, Gloucestershire, England, coming to New England at an early date in the Colonial pe- riod, took up his abode at Newbury, and after- ward removed to Maine. In 1652, when living on his farm at York, he gave up his allegiance to the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts. From 1653 till his death in 1667 he was an inhabitant of Wells, where he was one of the first Selectmen, and in 1662 was chosen, Constable. James2 Gooch, son of John,' held the office of Selectman of Wells for a number of years. On a Sunday in 1667, as he was returning from church on horseback, his wife riding behind him on a pillion, he was attacked and killed by Indians. His son, James, 3 a merchant and sea captain, came to Boston early in 1692 on board a sloop commanded by Sam- uel Stover. He was m. three times. His first wife, Hannah, d. March 15, 1694. He m. his second wife, Elizabeth Peck, August 15, 1695. She d. April 1, 1702; and he m., third, Sarah Tuttle, November 12, 1702.
James, 4 eldest child of James3 and his first wife, Hannah, b. at Wells in 1693, m. in 1715 Elizabeth Hobby, eldest child of Sir Charles Hobby, of Boston ; and after her death he m., about 1729, a widow, Hester Plaisted. In 1761, when in his sixty-eighth year, he m. his third wife, Elizabeth Craister. He had nine children. James, 5 b. in 1719, his eldest son, m. in 1739 Mary Sherburne, daughter of Joseph Sherburne, of Portsmouth, N. H., a member of an old Colonial family. They had four children, two sons and two daughters. John,6 son of James5 and Mary, b. in 1749, was a prominent merchant at Portsmouth. He m. November 28, 1782, Mary, daughter of
Michael and Mary Whidden, of Portsmouth, N. H. She bore him four children. He d. March 20, 1824, and his wife d. March 24, 1830, in the seventy-seventh year of her age.
Samuel7 Gooch, younger son of John and Mary, was b. July 22, 1791. In the War of 1812 he was drafted to serve in the navy, and for nineteen months was purser's steward on the United States brig "Enterprise." After the close of the war he settled in Boston, and up to 1822 carried on business at the head of the Middlesex Canal as a cooper, having learned the trade in his youth, and engaging also in pork and fish packing. From 1822 to 1829 he resided at Jonesport, Me. Returning then to Boston, he was connected with city missionary work up to the time of his death, January 28, 1837. He m. November 10, 1818, Hannah Goodale. She was b. September 13, 1790, at Salem, Mass., being the daughter of Joshua and Mary (Henfield) Goodale. She d. De- cember 26, 1856, in Brighton. Seven chil- dren were b. to Samuel and Hannah (Goodale) Gooch. The eldest, Samuel Henfield, d. Jan- uary, 1896. The three now living are : Joshua G., who is further mentioned below; Maria Millard, wife of George H. Stone, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; and Nathan Goodale, of Cambridge, whose personal history is outlined in an accom- panying sketch.
Joshua Goodale Gooch is a native of Maine, having been born August 19, 1822, during the temporary residence of his parents at Jones- port, Washington County, that State. They returned to Boston when he was about six years old, and he was educated in the public schools of this city. In 1834, on completing the course of study at the Franklin Grammar School, he was one of the pupils who received the Franklin medal. He afterward attended the English High School. His initiation into business life dates from 1836, when he entered upon a six years' clerkship in a store in Bos- ton, 6 Central Wharf, in the employ of Samuel Goodridge & Co. and Tenney & Rice, ship- chandlers. Evidently his time was well spent in obtaining a knowledge of business methods and acquiring habits of application. Energetic and self-reliant, in 1843, at twenty-one years of age, he established himself in the lumber
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business at Brighton, which he carried on suc- cessfully for forty years, dealing largely in lumber and other building material. In 1883 he was elected principal Assessor of Cam- bridge; and, selling out his lumber business, he has since devoted his attention to the duties of that office. His residence, 2 Mount Auburn Street, was built by him in 1867. While living at Watertown previous to that date, he was Selectman for seven years and for five years of that time chairman of the board. Since his removal to Cambridge Mr. Gooch has served in the Common Council for two years and also in the Board of Aldermen for a like term.
Mr. Gooch was married April 9, 1850, to Sarah Gates Coolidge, daughter of Josiah and Mary (Hastings) Coolidge, of Cambridge. Mr. and Mrs. Gooch have two children - Frank Austin and Annie Goodale, both born at Water- town. Frank A. Gooch, Harvard graduate class of 1872, Doctor of Philosophy 1877, has been for the past fifteen years professor of chemistry at Yale College. He married Sarah E. Wyman, daughter of John Palmer Wyman, of Arlington, Mass., and has one daughter, Meredyth. Annie G. is the widow of the late Samuel Edwin Wyman, M. D., son of. John P. Wyman, above named. At the time of his death, May 8, 1896, Dr. Wyman was fast becoming eminent in his profession. Mr. and Mrs. Gooch have been members of the Baptist Church of Old Cambridge from the date of its organization in 1844. In politics he is a Republican, having been before the formation of that party an enthusiastic Whig.
ATHAN GOODALE GOOCH, coal merchant, with business office in Bos- ton and residence at Watertown, was born in Boston, April 23, 1835, being the youngest son of Samuel and Hannah (Good- ale) Gooch. (For paternal ancestry see sketch of Joshua G. Gooch, of Cambridge, on another page.) Left a widow by the death of her hus- band early in 1837, Mrs. Hannah Goodale Gooch continued to live with her family in Bos- ton till 1843, when she removed to Brighton,
going thence a year or two later to Watertown, and finally from there to Cambridge. After at- tending the public schools of Brighton and Water- town and a private school in Cambridge, Nathan G. Gooch completed his educational course at the Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge. From 1857 to 1882 he was in partnership with his brother, Joshua G., under the name of J. G. & N. G. Gooch, in the lumber business at Brighton. In March, 1865, he established himself in his present business, as wholesale dealer in coal, his office being on Doane Street and later at 70 Kilby Street.
As one who commands the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens, Mr. Gooch has been called to fill various public offices of trust and responsibility. For four years he was a member of the Common Council of Cambridge, and for three years one of the Board of Aldermen. Politically, he is a Republican. For many years he was a trustee of the Cambridge Savings Bank. He was long connected by membership with the Masonic fraternity and with the Cam- bridge Club. He is a member and a Deacon of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, and for fif- teen years was superintendent of the Sunday- school. From 1858 to October, 1900, Mr. Gooch resided at 3 Fayerweather Street, Cambridge. He then removed with his family to Watertown. Mr. Gooch was married June 14, 1860, to Ellen Coolidge Dana, daughter of John B. and Ann (Coolidge) Dana, of Cam- bridge. Her father was for thirty years cashier of Charles River National Bank. Mr. and Mrs. Gooch have two children, William Dana and Ellen M. William Dana Gooch has been en- gaged in the banking business in Boston. He married Mary A. P. Pease, of Quincy, Ill., and has two children - Margaret and Dana Apple- ton. Ellen M. Gooch married Rev. George F. Rouillard, of Cambridge, and has one child, a son, Robert.
HARLES APPLETON HUBBARD, of Newton Centre, Mass., treasurer of the United Fruit Company of Bos- ton, was born in the town of Troy, N. H., June 7, 1857, son of Appleton Burn- ham and Betsey Louisa (Clark) Hubbard. He
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comes of old Colonial stock of English origin. The genealogical volume entitled "One Thou- sand Years of Hubbard History " shows him to be lineally descended from John2 Hubbard ("supposed to be eldest son of George' and Mary ") through Jonathan, 3 Thomas, 4 Nathan, 5 Hezekiah, 6 Harry,7 and Appleton Burnham8.
George' Hubbard emigrated to this country with his wife, Mary Bishop, and became one of the early settlers of Wethersfield, Conn. After living there about three years and serv- ing as Representative to the Colonial General Court, he went to Milford, whence before 1650 he removed to Guilford, Conn., where he was admitted to the church on October 6, 1650. In 1666-67 he was a member of the Assembly. He had eight or nine children.
John2 Hubbard, b. in England about 1630, removed from Wethersfield to Hadley, Mass. He d. in Hatfield, Mass., in 1702. His wife, Mary, is thought to have been Mary Merriam, of Concord, Mass. Jonathan3 Hubbard, b. in Wethersfield, Conn., January 3, 1658-9, re- moved to Concord, Mass., as early as 1680, and settled on a farm bequeathed him by his uncle, Deacon Robert Merriam. He d. there July 17, 1728. The maiden name of his wife was Hannah Rice. Thomas4 Hubbard, b. in 1696, m. Mary Fletcher. Nathan5 Hubbard m. at Groton, April 21, 1745, Mary Patterson. In 1772, with his wife and two sons, Nathan and Hezekiah, he settled in Rindge, N. H. Hezekiah6 Hubbard, b. in Groton, Mass., Jan- uary 19, 1755, d. very suddenly April 22, 1822. About the year 1783, after his marriage with Rebecca Hutchinson, of Billerica, Mass., he settled on Hubbard's Hill in Rindge. He was a highly respected citizen, and for many years served as Deacon of the Congregational church. Harry7 Hubbard, b. July 8, 1795, d. in Shrewsbury, Mass., in 1872. On June 8, 1823, he m. Clarissa Fay, who d. a few years later, leaving two children - Henry B. and Appleton Burnham Hubbard. He m. second, December 6, 1832, Dorcas Whitney, of Rindge, N. H.
Appleton Burnham8 Hubbard, b. May 29, 1829, d. September 29, 1862. He m. Sep- tember 19, 1854, Betsey Louisa Clark, who was b. in Swanzey, N. H., September 19, 1830,
a daughter of Howard and Dolly (Bemis) Clark. She was a great-grand-daughter of Thomas Clark, Sr., who removed in 1779 from Wrentham, Mass., to that part of Fitzwilliam, N. H., now included within the limits of the town of Troy. He d. in 1818. Thomas Clark, Jr., son of Thomas, grandfather of Bet- sey L. Clark, d. October 14, 1856. During the Revolutionary War he is said to have served as a private in the company of Captain Lemuel Kollock, which marched to Warwick, R. I., December 8, 1776. In 1801 he m. Rowena Phillips, who d. June 7, 1857. How- ard Clark, b. January 14, 1803, d. in Troy, N. H., April 16, 1874. In early manhood he settled at Bethlehem, N. H., going from there in 1830 to Swanzey, N.H., where he lived until . 1841, when he removed to Troy, N. H. On December 23, 1827, he m. Dolly Bemis, daughter of Jonathan and Delilah (Rhodes) Bemis, b. June 13, 1805.
Jonathan Bemis was a descendant in the sixth generation of Joseph Bemis, the emi- grant ancestor, the line being : Joseph, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, + Timothy, 5 Jonathan6. Joseph1 Bemis was b. in England in August, 1619. Coming to America when a young man, he settled in Watertown, Mass., as early as 1640, and lived there until his death, August 7, 1684. He was Selectman in 1648, 1672, and 1675. John2 Bemis, b. in August, 1659, d. October 24, 1732. John3 Bemis, b. October 6, 1686, son of John2 and his first wife, Mary Harrington, m. Hannah, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Whitney) Warren. John4 Bemis, b. February 11, 1711-2, m. Feb- ruary 16, 1731-2, Hannah Warren, daugh- ter of Captain Daniel and Hannah (Bige- low) Warren. Timothy5 Bemis, the second child of his parents, was b. in Weston, Mass., March 6, 1734-5. About the year 1776 he removed to Marlboro, N.H. : He was killed in 1806 by falling from a load of corn stalks. On January 10, 1756, he m. Martha Wesson. Jonathan6 Bemis, b. in Weston in 1769, settled on a farm in Marl- boro, N.H. He d. January 31, 1835. His wife, Delilah, daughter of Ebenezer Rhodes, d. October 23, 1856.
Charles A. Hubbard, the direct subject of
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this sketch, was educated in the public schools of Troy, N. H., including the high school, and at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, located at Hanover, where he was graduated in the class of 1877. The next few years he was employed in the country store of E. P. Kimball & Sons, of Troy. In 1882 he came to Boston and entered the accounting department of the Union Pa- cific Railroad, remaining there till the reor- ganization of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, when he was appointed comptroller. In this capacity he served till June, 1899. Upon the organization at that date of the United Fruit Company he was appointed to his present position of treasurer. He married October 15, 1884, Maryanna Stearns, who was born in Rindge, N.H., daughter of Julius Augustus and Mary Ann (Wood) Stearns. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard have two children, namely : Harry Appleton, born May 5, 1895; and Marion, born February 20, 1900.
Mrs. Hubbard is of early Colonial ancestry, being a direct descendant in the eighth genera- tion from Charles Stearns, the immigrant pro- genitor of one branch of the family. The line is: Charles,' John,2 Captain John, 3 Jotham, 4 Bartholomew, 5 Captain Freeborn,6 Julius Au- gustus,7 Maryanna8. In Bond's Watertown, in connection with the Stearns genealogy, is a cut representing the Stearns coat of arms.
Charles' Stearns was admitted a freeman in Watertown, May 6, 1646. His first wife, Hannah, d. in 1651; and he m. June 22, 1654, Rebecca Gibson, daughter of John Gib- son, of Cambridge. Isaac' Stearns, of Water- town, in his will, dated June 14, 1671, men- tions Charles Sternes as his kinsman. John2 Stearns, b. January 24, 1656-7, d. at Lexing- ton, February 22, 1722. His first wife, the mother of his thirteen children, was Judith Lawrence. Captain John3 Stearns, his sixth child, m. in 1715 Deliverance Bigelow, of Watertown, and as early as 1722 removed to Worcester, Mass. In 1748 he was Captain of a company of Rangers that was sent out against the Indians. Jotham4 Stearns, bap- tized June 22, 1718, m. Mary Flagg, and re- sided in Worcester. Bartholomew5 Stearns, named for his maternal grandfather, was a
member of the company of James Davis in Colonel Doolittle's regiment, which marched to Lexington on the morning of April 19, 1775; and on August 19, 1777, under Cap- tain James Davis in the regiment of Colonel Benjamin Flagg, he was again in active ser- vice as a Revolutionary soldier. He m. Mary Raymond, and settled in Winchendon, Mass. Captain Freeborn6 Stearns, b. in Winchendon, Mass., November 24, 1784, settled at Rindge, and d. November 22, 1869. He was com- mander of a militia company in Rindge. On February 14, 1809, he m. Clarissa Demary, daughter of Ezekiel Demary. Julius Augus- tus7 Stearns (father of Mrs. Hubbard) was b. in Rindge, N. H., August 27, 1832. He m. July 29, 1857, Mary Ann Wood, daugh- ter of Elbridge Wood. For many years he was chorister of the Rindge Congregational Church.
ENRY WINCHESTER CUNNING- HAM, the only son of James Henry and Lucinda Stearns (Winchester) Cunningham, was born on March 26, 1860, in the town of Winchester, Middlesex County, Mass. Here he lived till 1869, when his parents moved to Boston. He attended the Rice Grammar School on Dartmouth Street from 1869 to 1873, when he was graduated, and entered the Boston Latin School; but after a few months he left that school, and went to the Roxbury Latin School. He here fitted for col- lege, and in 1878 entered Harvard with honors in classics. In Harvard he was a member of the Institute of 1770, the Hasty Pudding Club, and the Natural History Society, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts upon his gradua- tion in 1882. On the death of the first class secretary, in 1890, he was elected to this posi- tion, which he still holds.
The summer and fall of 1882 he spent in travelling through Europe, and on his return to Boston became a clerk in the office of the Con- tinental Sugar Refinery, where he continued till 1888, when the business was absorbed and extinguished by the American Sugar Refining Company. Since then he has given a part of his time to the care of several small private
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trusts, and devoted much of the remainder to the study of genealogy and New England his- tory. He has been librarian, member of the council, and corresponding secretary of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, besides serving on many committees.
He is the author and compiler of a " Genealogy of the Descendants of Andrew Cunningham of Boston," which was published in volume fifty-five (1901) of the New England Historic Genealog- ical Register. He was one of the founders, in 1892, of "The Colonial Society of Massachu- setts," and has been its recording secretary since the beginning. He is the treasurer of "The Prince Society," and was for a few years a member of the Board of Governors of the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the Rev- olution.
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