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DR. LEMUEL FULLER was a son of Dr. Lemuel and Mary (Shepherd) Fuller, and born at Marlborough, on April 2, ISII. Soon after his birth the family removed to Attlebor- ough, where the father practised medicine for many years. The son obtained his degree of M.D., on June 9, 1841, from
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the Vermont Medical College at Woodstock. He was mar- ried, on June 6, 1844, to Catharine Palliseur, daughter of Francis and Maria Foster ( Palliseur) Barrett, of Concord. Dr. Fuller practised his profession at Groton during three years, coming here from Harvard in 1847. Subsequently he lived at Milton, and also for ten years at North Weymouth, where, on January 9, 1853, he received a " call" to settle from a committee of the citizens of that village. He died at Har- vard, during a temporary absence from home, on February II, 1864, leaving a widow, but no children.
DR. MILES SPAULDING is a son of Captain Isaac and Lucy (Emery) Spaulding, and was born at Townsend, on April 4, 1819. He attended school at the Ashby and the Pepperell Academies, and also at the school in Plymouth, New Ilamp- shire, then known as the Teachers' Seminary. He began the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. Ebenezer Parsons Hills (M.D., Bowdoin, 1825) and Dr. John Bertram (M.D., Dartmouth, 1825), both of Townsend, and with Dr. Alfred Hitchcock (M.D., Dartmouth, 1837), of Ashby, but later of Fitchburg. He attended lectures at the Berkshire Medical Institution, Pittsfield, where he graduated in the Class of 1842. After graduation he was for a time in the office of Dr. Gilman Kimball (M.D., Dartmouth, 1827), of Lowell, and later he continued his studies also at the Tre- mont Street Medical School in Boston. Dr. Spaulding began to practise his profession in the year 1843 at Dun- stable, where he remained until 1851, when he removed to Groton. In 1844 he became a member of the Massachu- setts Medical Society, and in 1860 and again in 1872 he was chosen a Councillor ; he is also a member of the Ameri- can Medical Association. He has been twice married, first, on January 12, 1848, to Sophia Louisa, daughter of Aaron and Lucinda (Munson) . Miller, of New Haven, Con- necticut, who died at Groton, on September 4, 1852, aged 25 years ; and, secondly, on August 27, 1863, to Mary Me- hetable, only child of Stephen and Mary ( Kilburn | French) Stickney. By the first marriage a son was born, who died in
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infancy. Dr. Spaulding lives in the first house, south of the Academy grounds, on Main Street.
DR. PETER PINEO is a son of Peter and Sarah (Steadman) Pinco, and was born at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, on March 6, IS25. He graduated at the Bowdoin Medical School in the Class of 1847 ; and was married in Boston, on May 8, 1850, to Elizabeth, daughter of Kendall and Betsey (Hill) Crosby. In the spring of 1853 he came to Groton, and took the house and practice of Dr. Amos B. Bancroft, who had then just removed to Charlestown. Dr. Pinco remained here two years, and in the spring of 1855 went to Quechee, a village in the town of Hartford, Vermont. On June 11, 1861, he was commissioned Surgeon of the Ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and soon afterward was promoted to a Brigade Surgeoncy, which office was the next year abolished by an Act of Con- gress, on July 2, 1862, when officers of that rank became Surgeons of United States Volunteers. On February 9, 1863, he was made Medical Inspector, United States Army, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and he served with distinction until the end of the war. Since that period he has been a resident either of Boston or Hyannis, a village in Barnstable, though of late he has been somewhat of an invalid. Ile be- came a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in the year 1850, and as their Anniversary Chairman, on June 12, IS78, he presided with acceptance at the annual dinner.
DR. KENDALL DAVIS was a son of Joseph and Hannah Davis, and born at New Ipswich, New Hampshire, Decem- ber 4, 1802. According to the State Register for the years 1847-1850, he was then living at Groton, where he practised for a short time. He was a brother of Deacon Isaiah Cragin's wife ; and from this town he went to Athol, and died at Tem- pleton, on September 20, 1875.
DR. AARON ANDREW was a son of Eleazer and Olive Ayers, and a native of Dedham. Ilis surname was changed by an Act of the Legislature, on June 18, 1825, to Andrew. His
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first wife was Susan Bryant, of Dedham ; and by this mar- riage there were two children, both now dead. At a later period he studied medicine, and came to Groton, where in the year 1820 he was married, secondly, to Mary, daughter of William and Susanna (Chauncy) Parker, who was one of six- teen children. Her father's family lived in the Rocky Hill District, at the east part of the town. In 1824 Dr. Andrew removed to Boston, and had an office in North Square ; and in that neighborhood he practised for more than thirty years. About 1857, his health failing, he returned to Groton, where he died on December 12, 1860, aged 68 years, and was buried in the Parker tomb. Dr. Stephen Andrew Wood, of Bedford, is a grandson.
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DR. RICHARD UPTON PIPER is a son of Samuel and Mary (Folsom) Piper, and was born at Stratham, New Hampshire, on April 3, 1818. Ile graduated at the Dartmouth Medical Col- lege in the Class of 1840, and during the next year began the ยท practice of his profession at Portland, Maine, where he was married on November 8, 1841, to Elizabeth Francis Folsom, a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Subsequently he lived at Woburn, Massachusetts, from which place, in the year 1864, he came to Groton, and remained five years, though without engaging in the active practice of medicine. He lived on a farm near the village of West Groton, in a house situated opposite to Oliver Page's place, as shown on Mr. Butler's Map of Groton. He afterward lived in Chicago, Illinois, but is now a resident of Washington, D. C. In the year 1843, at which time he was living in Boston, he became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and in 1851 was one of the Censors ; and later he was a member of the Illinois Medical Society.
Dr. Piper is an author of some note ; and, while living at Woburn, he wrote a book entitled "Operative Surgery Illus- trated," which was published by Ticknor, Reed and Fields, at Boston, in the year 1852. It was a work of considerable merit, and contained more than nineteen hundred engrav- ings, of which many were from original drawings, made by
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his own hand. He also wrote "The Trees of America," a work profusely illustrated by himself, of which four numbers appeared at different times, the first number in the year 1855. "The North American Review " for July, 1857, says of the author, that " he has the eye of an artist, the hand of a draughtsman, and the spirit of an enthusiast " (page 179).
DR. JOSEPH FRANKLIN COOLIDGE was a son of Charles and Nancy (Spaulding) Coolidge, and born at Westminster, on September 11, 1837. He was educated at Westminster Academy, and in the year 1857 went to the State of Illinois. He attended the Medical College at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1858 and 1859; and for two years he practised medicine in Calhoun County, Illinois. He graduated at the Harvard Medical School in the Class of 1862, and came to Groton in 1864, where he practised his profession, living in Jonas Eaton's house on Main Street. Ile died of consumption on June 1, 1865, and was buried in his native town. His father was born at Westminster, on February 4, 1807, and . died there on May 23, 1866; and his mother was born at Francestown, New Hampshire, on February 5, 1811, and died at Grand Haven, Michigan, on May 20, 1886. Dr. Coolidge was one of a family of ten children, and never married.
DR. WILLIAM AMBROSE WEBSTER was the only son of William Gordon and Susan (Ambrose) Webster, and born at Rochester, New Hampshire, on June 13, 1830. In the spring of 1862 he graduated at the Medical School of the Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. Soon after graduation, on July 1, 1862, he was commissioned Surgeon of the Ninth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, which left for the seat of war on August 25, 1862 ; and he continued in that capacity until January 5, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He then returned to Manchester, New Ilamp- shire, and became connected with the United States General Hospital, which had been established on the old Fair grounds. In September, 1865, at the conclusion of his hospital service,
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he came to Groton, where he resided for three years. While here, Dr. Webster lived in the chambers over the Brick Store, and by his kind heart and fine presence made many friends. In the year 1868 he removed to Westford, where he remained ten years, when he went back to Manchester. In that city he served several years as a member of the School Board, and was connected with a lodge of Free Masons. His death took place in Manchester, on February 8, 1887, and resulted from the effects of malaria contracted while in the military service, and from which he had never been wholly free since his con- nection with the army. Dr. Webster was twice married, first, in August, 1851, to Mary Anne Kaime, of Pittsfield, New Hampshire ; and, secondly, on August 9, 1858, to Marion M. Ladd, of Middlesex, Vermont. By the first marriage two daughters were born, who both are now living; and by the second marriage one daughter, Susan Marion Webster, was born at Groton, on June 25, 1866, but she died before her father.
In " The Groton Landmark," February 19, 1887, is a long notice of Dr. Webster taken from " The Manchester Union," February 8.
DR. DAVID ROSCOE STEERE is a son of Scott and Mary (Mathewson) Steere, and was born at Lisbon, Connecticut, on April 27, 1847. He was married on June 18, 1873, to Adelia, daughter of Jephthah and Betsey (Boynton) Hartwell, of Groton, who was born on January 17, 1838. Dr. Steere graduated at the Dartmouth Medical School, in the Class of 1871, and after graduation practised for a few months at Savoy, Massachusetts. In July, 1872, he came to Groton, where he has since remained ; and in the year 1878 he built the house at the corner of Main and Church streets, which he now occupies. It is situated on the site of a store that was burned on November 17, 1874. (See the first volume of this Historical Series, No. VII. page 7, for an account of the old building.) Dr. Steere became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in the year ISSI.
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DR. EDWARD HUBBARD WINSLOW was a son of the Rever- end Hubbard and Susan Ward (Cutler) Winslow, and born in Boston on December 26, 1836. He was married on Sep- tember 1, 1859, at Montville, Maine, to Helen Ayer. He came to Groton in the early spring of 1875, taking the home- stead and practice of the late Dr. Smith, who at that time had removed to Nashua, New Hampshire. Dr. Winslow remained here about two years ; and while a resident of the town a son, Reginald Kenelm Winslow, born at Bridgeport, Connecticut, on June 23, 1868, died on May 6, 1876. Dr. Winslow's death took place in the city of New York, on October 16, 1878.
DR. GEORGE WASHINGTON STEARNS is a son of Paul and Lucy (Kneeland) Stearns, and was born at Reading, Windsor County, Vermont, on December 25, 1814. His mother was a sister of Abner Kneeland, the preacher and author. Dr. Stearns took his medical degree first in March, 1857, at Penn Medical University, Philadelphia, and secondly, in 1858, at the Hahnemann Medical College of the same city. Ile was married, first, on May 8, 1838, at South Yarmouth, to Sylvia Crowell ; and, secondly, on July 19, 1877, at New Bedford, to Julia Amanda, daughter of Cyrus and Eliza Eastman (Cot- trell) Ware. In the spring of 1878 he came to Groton from Marblehead, and in November, 1882, removed to Holliston, where he remained a few years, when he went to Holyoke, of which city he is now a resident. Dr. Stearns belonged to the homeopathic school of medicine, and while in Groton lived on the Dr. Smith place, which he had bought of Dr. Winslow, and which he subsequently sold to Dr. Warren, the present occupant.
DR. WILLIAM BARNARD WARREN is a son of Noailles I.a- fayette and Mary (Barnard) Warren, and was born at Leomin- ster, on November 16, 1853. He studied medicine with Dr. Benjamin H. Hartwell, of Ayer, and graduated at the Univer- sity of the City of New York, in the Class of 1881, having pre- viously attended a course of lectures in 1879 at the Dartmouth Medical School. In December, 1882, he came to Groton and
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began practice. He was married in this town on October 31, 1883, to Ardelia Temple, daughter of Thomas Haines and Relief (Cummings) Smith, of Boston. In 1885 Dr. Warren bought the house then owned by Dr. George W. Stearns, and previously owned in succession by Dr. Winslow and by Dr. Smith, which he now occupies. It is situated on Main Street, near the old site of Liberty Hall, which was burned on March 31, 1878. Dr. Warren became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in the year 1887.
DR. MARION ZACHARIAH PUTNAM is a son of John and Sophia (Weaver) Putnam, and was born at Mount Sterling, Illinois, on August 14, 1844. In the year 1870 he graduated from the Medical Department of the Northwestern University, Chicago, and began practice in his native town. On Septem- ber 9, 1880, he was married to Harriet Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Spencer and Harriet Heyward (Lawton) Farnsworth, of Groton. About the year 1883 he came to this town from Lowell, where he had resided for a short period. lle now lives on Pleasant Street, but has retired from the active practice of his profession.
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THE Fitchburg Railroad was first opened to public travel, through the southerly part of Groton, on December 30, 1844; and the Peterborough and Shirley Railroad, under the management of the Fitchburg Company, was opened during the year 1847. The Worcester and Nashua Railroad was operated for regular business, through its entire length, on December 18, 1848, though the section from Groton Junc- tion to Clinton had been previously opened on July 3, 1848, and from Clinton to Worcester on November 22 ; and the Stony Brook Railroad began its operations on July 1, 1848. Soon after these interconnections were made, a village sprang up in the neighborhood, which became popularly known as the " Junction," though by the Post Office Department at Wash- ington officially called South Groton. On March 1, 1861, the
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name of the post-office was changed by the Department from South Groton to Groton Junction. This settlement, growing in numbers, in due time was set off from the parent town, and by an Act of the Legislature on February 14, 1871, in- corporated as a distinct township, under the name of Ayer: After this date, therefore, the list of physicians, so far as they belong to the Junction, and their biographical sketches will cease.
DR. EBENEZER WILLIS is a son of John and Nancy (Sprig- gens) Willis, and was born at Newmarket, New Hampshire, on January 26, 1815. He was married at Exeter, on July 23, 1836, to Mary Frances, daughter of Benjamin Patridge and Mary Seavey (Neal) Batchelder, who was born on March 31, 1821. Dr. Willis came to Groton Junction in March, 1849, and was the pioneer physician of the place. He continues to be a resident of Ayer, and for a man of more than seventy-five years of age is still hale and hearty.
DR. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS MCCOLLESTER is a son of Silas and Achsah (Holman) McCollester, and was born at Marlborough, New Hampshire, on May 3, 1831. He gradu- ated at Norwich University in the Class of 1853, and from the same institution received the degree of A. M. in the year 1856. Immediately after graduation he began the study of medicine in his native town, under the tuition of Dr. James Batcheller. In the autumn of 1854 he attended a course of lectures at the Dartmouth Medical School, and during the winter of 1855-1856 another course at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, where he took his degree of M. D. in March, 1856. On May 6, 1856, he was married to Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Anna (Longley) Hazen, of Shirley. His wife was born on February 4, 1838, and died at Groton, on May 5, 1858, leaving a daughter, Anna, who was born on August 28, 1857. On August 9, 1859, he was married, secondly, to Georgianna Lydia, daughter of Daniel and Lydia (Fisk) Hunt, of Groton, and a native of Sterling ; and they have had six children. Dr. Mc- Collester was a member of the School Committee of Groton
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from April, 1858, to April, 1866. During the War of the Rebellion, he was the Surgeon of the Fifty-third Regiment Massachusetts Militia, having been commissioned on De- cember 1, 1862 ; and he was mustered out of the service on September 2, 1863. In the spring of 1869 he removed to the adjoining town of Harvard, though he still kept an office at the Junction.
DR. EDSON CHAMPION CHIAMBERLIN came to Groton Junc- tion, probably in the summer of 1859. He has an advertise- ment in the "Railroad Mercury," September 15, 1859 ; and again in the Mercury, March 8, 1860, offering to sell his new house 'on Forest Street, as he " wishes to go South." Soon afterward he left the Junction and went to East Boston, where he opened an apothecary shop, and at the same time practised his profession, often changing his resi- dence as well as his place of business. While a resident of East Boston, he was a member of the Mount Tabor Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons.
Dr. Chamberlin was a native of Thetford, Vermont, where he was born about the year 1821. He graduated at the Worcester Medical Institution, on June 20, 1854, though he had previously practised medicine. He was married to Mary A. Pierce, of Southbury, Connecticut, where he died on January 26, 1877, aged 56 years ; and his widow died at the same place, only a few days later, on February 2, 1877, aged 50 years.
DR. GIBSON SMITHI came to Groton Junction from the State of Maine, about the year 1866. He was an " eclectic" physician and a spiritualist, and practised medicine after the manner of his school. He died at Ayer, on September 26, 1885, aged 70 years, and was buried at Camden, Maine. A notice of him appears in "The Groton Landmark," October 3, 1885. Ilis wife, Harriet Smith, died at Ayer on December 15, 1883, aged 64 years. She was a daughter of John and Rebecca Prince, and a native of Camden. Her father was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, and her mother in Boston.
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DR. JOHN ELEAZER PARSONS is a son of John and Rosa- linda Davis (Robbins) Parsons, and was born at Harrison, Maine, on November 20, 1835. He graduated at the Har- vard Medical School in the Class of 1863, and on March 18 of the same year was commissioned as Assistant Surgeon of the Twenty-eighth Massachusetts Volunteers, but for disability was discharged on July 30, 1863. Dr. Parsons next served as Acting Assistant Surgeon, and as Acting Passed Assistant Surgeon, United States Navy, from October 10, 1863, to De- cember 10, 1866, when he resigned. During the last week of December, 1866, he came to the village of Groton Junction, where he has since remained. Ile became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in the year 1865.
DR. BENJAMIN HALL HARTWELL is a son of Benjamin Franklin and Emma (Whitman) Hartwell, and was born at Ac- ton, on February 27, 18.45. His mother was a daughter of Dr. Charles Whitman, of Stow. He received his early education at Lawrence Academy, Groton, of which institution he is now one of the Trustees, and graduated at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, on March 7, 1868. Hle be- gan the practice of his profession at Troy, New Hampshire, where he remained for one year, and in March, 1869, came to Groton Junction. Dr. Hartwell was married on September 10, 1879, to Helen Emily, daughter of Major Eusebius Silsby and Mary Jane (Shattuck) Clark, of Groton. In 1870 he be- came a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and for many years has been one of its Councillors. On June 29, 1877, he was appointed by the Governor of the Common- wealth to be a Medical Examiner, which office he now holds. Since the town of Ayer was incorporated, he has filled many prominent positions of trust and usefulness, and is now one of the most influential citizens of the place.
DR. JAMES MOODY MOORE was a son of Dr. Ebenezer Giles and Eliza Sarah (Hidden) Moore, and born at Wells, Maine, on June 20, 1832. Ile graduated at the Dartmouth Medical School in the Class of 1860, in May of that year,
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and came to Groton Junction, where he remained until April 19, 1861. He joined the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1861. Dr. Moore then removed to Concord, New Hampshire, his father's home, where he died, unmarried, on February 3, 1870. Ile was a grandson of the Reverend Samuel Ilidden, the first minister of Tamworth, New Hampshire, and in his day a noted Congregational preacher.
DR. SAMUEL EMERSON was a son of the Reverend Daniel and Hannah (Emerson) Emerson, and born at Hollis, New Hampshire, on September 6, 1764. In the year 1779, while yet a lad, he enlisted as a fifer in the company commanded by his brother, Captain Daniel Emerson, during the Revolu- tion, and after the war was prepared for college by his father. lle graduated at Harvard College in the Class of 1785, and studied medicine under the tuition of Dr. Oliver Prescott, Senior, of Groton. Dr. Emerson passed his professional life at Kennebunk, Maine, where he died on August 7, 1851. He was the father of the late George Barrell Emerson, a graduate of Harvard College in the Class of 1817, and an eminent teacher and author.
DR. JOHN WALTON was a son of John and Keziah (Viles) Walton, and born at Cambridge, on October 29, 1770. He graduated at Harvard College in the Class of 1791, and studied medicine under the tuition of Dr. Oliver Prescott, Junior, of Groton. He passed his professional life at Pep- perell, where he died on December 21, 1862. He was a classmate of Dr. Amos Bancroft, of Groton, and at the time of his death was the second oldest graduate of the college.
WILLIAM DEXTER BLANCHARD was an only son of Dex- ter and Charlotte (Capell) Blanchard, and born at Groton, on December 6, 1826. He attended school at Groton Academy,
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and graduated at Williams College in the Class of 1847. He began the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. Amos B. Bancroft, but did not finish the course. When gold was first discovered in California, like many other young men, he was taken with a strong desire to seek his fortune on the slopes of the Pacific coast ; and in the spring of 1849 he left home for those distant regions, whence he never returned. He went by the Isthmus of Panama, and died, near the cross- ing of the Yuba River, on September 4 of that year. For a record of his death, see page 123 of the second volume of this Historical Series.
ACCORDING to "Turner's Public Spirit " (Ayer), June 22, 1878, there were at that time five physicians in Groton whose surnames began with the letter " S," and they were then the only physicians in the town. Mentioned in the order of their seniority as residents, they were Dr. George Stearns, Dr. Nor- man Smith, Dr. Miles Spaulding, Dr. David Roscoe Steere, and Dr. George Washington Stearns. The first two in the list are now dead, the next two are living at Groton, and Dr. George W. Stearns is a resident of Holyoke. There was no kinship between the first one in the list and the last, though there was a similarity of name.
A LIST OF PHYSICIANS,
NATIVES OF GROTON, OR CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH THE TOWN, WHO PRACTISED THEIR PROFESSION ELSEWHERE.
DR. EPHRAIM LAWRENCE was a son of Peleg and Ruth Lawrence, and born at Groton, on March 31, 1735. studied medicine and settled in Pepperell, where his father was then living. His preceptor was probably Dr. Oliver Prescott, of Groton, who at that period instructed many of the young physicians in the neighborhood. Dr. Lawrence was married, - first, on March 3, 1768, to Anna, daughter of Josiah and Sarah Fisk, of Pepperell; and, secondly, to Ruth His first wife was born on December 16, 1747, and died on June 12, 1774, leaving two children ; and his second wife was blessed with six more. Ile died at Pepperell on December 23, 1809.
DR. EBENEZER ROCKWOOD was a son of Elisha and Eliza- beth (Adams) Rockwood, and born at Groton on August 13, 1746. He graduated at Harvard College in the Class of 1773, and immediately afterward studied medicine, though there was then no institution in New England that conferred the degree of M. D. in course. Dr. Rockwood served for a time in the army during the early part of the Revolution. In a list of officers in Colonel Ebenezer Francis's Regiment, sta- tioned on Dorchester Heights, November 4, 1776, - pub- lished in the " Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder " .(V. 3) for July, 1888, - he appears as Surgeon's Mate. On June 10, 1779, he was married to Mary, daughter of the Reverend Daniel and Hannah (Emerson) Emerson, of Hollis, New Hampshire ; and they had nine children. In the year 1779 he received and accepted an invitation, signed by nearly all the voters of Wilton, New Hampshire, to settle in that town as a physician ; and he probably went there during the
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