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schools of South Wilbraham. He married Brst. Elsle W. Cunningham, March 11, 1856. who died July 29, 1869 ; he married second, Lucy E. Cunningham. October 26, 1870. who died January 10, 1887 ; he married third, Clara Markham. August 22. 1888. who died lilm justice of the peace in 1902. February 13. 1000; he married fourth.
HAYNES, LINCOLN CALVIN, P. o. Spring. Lydia Ellen Toombs. April 11, 1901. The field, was born in Southbridge. Mass .. April children of William R. and Elsle W. Ses- 9, 1865; was educated In the Springtield slons were Elsle Mary, born September 7, public schools and was married September 1857; William Joseph, born December 18, 12. 1899, to Mary Burr Cook. Of this 1859 : Helen Lydla, born September 2. 1861, unlon two children were born : Harriet. dled May 21, 1883 : Lucy Marla, born Aug- ust 4, 1865 ; Mortimer Walker, born Decem- ber 2. 1867. dled Mary 17. 1872. All were born In South Wilbraham. Elsie Mary. married Jonas Coolidge Hills. of Hartford, Conn., April 23, 1896 ; Wililam Joseph mar-
born June 16. 1900, and Rachel, born De cember 25. 1901. Mr. Haynes bas lived in Hampden county since 1867. One of the first American ancestors of the Haynes family was Walter, who was born in Sut. ton. Mandeville. Wiltshire, England. 1583. rled Mary E. Anderson, of Lawrence. Mc- and came to America In 1638. He located Henry county, Ill., February 8, 1887. Their first at Watertown and lived there until children were Helen Lydia. born In Bene- Sudbury was settled, when he became one dlet, S. Dak., October 22. 1888. dled March of the original proprietors. It was there
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he was made a freeman in 1640. He was a called "Allyn Point," and was six miles representative in 1641, 1644. 1648 and 1651, and for ten years was a Sudbury selectman. His wife's name ws Ellzabeth. He dled February 14. 1665. John Huynes, son of Walter, was born in England In 1621, came to America In 1637, one year before his father and settled In Watertown. He re- moved to Sudbury after his father had set. tied there. lle was made a freeman in 1646, and was elected representative in 1671. This son, Robert. inherited Allyn 1668. In 1666, 1690 and 1691 he served as selectman. He was. In 1668. one of a com-
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below Norwich, Conn., opposite the Mohegan llelds and In full view of the ancient fort of U'neas. John Allyn, son o. Robert Allyn, was baptized at Salem, Mass .. May 22. 1642. and Inherited Allyn Point : was a man of prominence : assistant to the first county court (New London. Conn.) In 1666 : pre- siding ut the court In 1671, and died 1709. leaving one son. Robert Allyn, born Sept. -. Point : had eleven children. One of the sons. James, was born Feb. 29. 1699-1700. mittee to erect a new meeting house. Octo- at Allyn Point. New London. Conn. James ber 14. 1642. he married Dorothy, daughter had twelve children, among whom was of Peter Noyes. On his mother's side, Mr. Duvid Allyn, born Oct. 23. 1759. In what was then Groton, Conn .. but Is now Led- yard. David Allyn was a corporal, enlisted ~ May 6. 1775, in Captain Thomas Knowlton's company, 3d regiment. under General Israel Putnam, 1775, marched to camps formed around Boston ; statloned during the selge In Putnam's center division ut Cambridge.
Haynes' first American ancestor was Joshua Bachelier, who was born In England, mar- ried there and came from Kent to America, with his brother Joseph, In 1636. Another prominent ancestor was Sergt. John Bachel- ler, son of Joshua. John was born in Eng- land, and died In Reading. Mass., March 3, 1676. P'revions to moving to Reading be In the latter part of the 18th century David resided In Watertown. where he was a pro- removed tu Montgomery, Mass., riding a prietor, also a selectman (1636-37), and horse from Groton to Montgomery, and car. admitted a freeman in that place, May 13, rylng his son David on the horse in front of 1640. Soon afterwurd he moved to Ded. him. This David had thirteen chlidren. ham, 1650, and was a selectinan from 1657 He applied for a pension January 1. 1833. to 1664. Dr. William Bacheller. another at which time he was residing at Montgom- ancestor. also galred distinction as the ery. The pension was allowed for nine. leading surgeon at the battle of Lexington. months' actual service as a private ; three He continued with the continental troops months and sixteen days service us a cor- until November 30, 1777. when he was hon- orably discharged. Lincoln Calvin Haynes' first Hampden county ancestors were Jos- eph Hlaynes and James Bachelier. former was born In 1687 and dled March 6, 1775. Ilis wife was Mary Gates. He was one of the original proprietors of Brimfield, about 1721. James Bachelier was born in Haverhill, Mass .. May 23. 1807: married Clarinda Walker. September 7, 1835, died June 21. 1892. He moved from Southbridge to Brimfield in April. 1874. Lincoln Calvin in 1833, and died In 1875. and Mary Bach- eller Haynes, born In 1836. The other chil- dren of these parents were James Everett, born in 1862, and C'iara Belle, born In 1863.
poral, and five months and fifteen days ser- vice as a sergeant In Connectleut troops. revolutionary war. His son, David, was The born In Groton, July 20. 1791. and died at Montgomery In 1860. He married Johanna Barrett. They had twelve children, among whom was Samuel Barrett Allyn. born August 31, 1821. in Montgomery, and died In Holyoke March 27. 1900. Samuel moved to Holyoke In 1847. and was Identified with the first beginning of the town ; a "meat man" and real estate dealer, and for a time Haynes' parents were Calvin Bugbee, born was Identified with the Holyoke paper com- pany. Ile bad two chlidren, Robert Arthur Allyn and Mary Katherine Allyn. Robert Arthur Allyn, 225 High street. Holyoke. Mass .. born November 23, 1869, at Holyoke, THE ALLEN FAMILY .- Robert Allyn was Jass., was educated at Holyoke publle at Salem, Mass .. In 1637 ; a member of the schools and Amherst college, where he was church In 1642: came to New London, graduated In 1892 ; studied law in Westfield Conn., in 1651 : received large grants of and Holyoke, and admitted. to the bar In land, one being on the east side of the 1894; appointed special justice Holyoke river in what is now Ledyard. This is still police court, June 13. 1900. by Governor
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Crane. He married Elizabeth Rockwell captive" of the Indians (French and Indian Cooley of Westfield, Mass., Jan. 1. 1895, They have two chlidren, llelen Elizabeth Allyn. born November 28. 1895, and Cath- wars, 1704), was of this same family and was the great-grandmother of the Rev. Ele- azer Williams, of Green Bay, Wis., the re- erine Merrill Allyn, born October 28. 1899, puted Dauphin, Louls XVII of France. So
PORTER, MISS CHARLOTTE W .- Jobn Por- was also the Hon. Wllilam Wlillams of Con- necticut, one of the siguers of the declara tion of Independence. James Bayard Por- ter, son of Lir. Wlillam and Charlotte Will- iams Porter, was a merchant in Hadley, jus- tice of the peace and trustee and treasurer of Hopkins academy. He married Susan- na Parsons. daughter of Ebenezer and Eunice Clarke Parsons of Hadley. Ebene zer l'arsons was descended in the fifth gen- eration from Joseph Parsons of Devonsbire. England, who settled In Springfield In 1636. Eunice Clarke was the daughter of Captain Samuel Clarke of Northampton. The chil- dren of James B. Porter and Susanna Par- sona Porter are Edward Clarke, born in Hadley, December 3. 1836, educated in Hop- kins academy, Iladiey, and Yale college. graduating from Yale, class poet, 1858. IIe dellvered the poem at the bi-centennial celebration In Hadley, June 8, 1859 ; mar- ried Julla Foster. Oct. 10. 1866. daughter of Dr. John II. Foster of Chicago, Ill. : was rector of St. James' church. Chicago, and ter was one of the founders and patrlots of the colony of Massachusetts Bay about 1630. The records in England give his descent In the sixteenth generation from William de la Grande, a Norman knight. who came with the army of the Norman duke at the conquest, A. D., 1066, and that acquired lands at or near Kenilworth, In Warwickshire. His son Ralph became "Grand Porteur" to Henry 1, A. D. 1120. 1140, from which he derlved the name Porter. In 1637, John Porter, with Rose, his wife, and his seven children, joined the settlement at Windsor, Conn. He was made constable, then a high and responsible office, and, as appears by his will, was a man of considerable substance. Samuel Porter, son of John and Rose Porter, was one of the original settlers of Hadley In 1659, and one of the forty seven proprietors of an allot- ment on the broad west street of that his- torle town. His son. Hon. Samuel Porter of Hadley, a representative to the general court, an extensive trader with England St. Luke's, Racine. WIs. He died at Ra-
. and judge and sheriff of the county, "left to his family an immense estate of £10,000." lils son, Eleazer Porter of Hadley, married
cine, January 8, 1876 : burled In Rose Hill cemetery, Chicago. Charlotte Wlillams Por- ter, born in Hadley, October 6. 1840, edu-
a granddaughter of Willlam Pitkin, one of cated in Hopkins academy and Miss Porter's the founders of Hartford. and attorney school, Farmington, Conn. ; principal of The Elms, home, day and music school for girls, general of the state. Sarah, daughter of
Eleazer, married Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D. HIndiey. This school was removed to D. Hon. Eleazer Porter of Hadley, son of Springfield in 1881 and continues as "The
Eleazer, graduated from Yale college in
1748, was a Justice of the peace and judge music school for girls. High street and in-
of probate. Ile married Susanna Edwards, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Ed- wards of Northampton. president of Prince-
Elms," home, day, college preparatory and graham avenue. William Parsons Porter. born In Hadley, March 9. 1844 ; graduated from Hopkins academy : merchant in Had
ton university. Dr. Wlillam Porter, son of ley until 1880, when he removed to Spring.
Eleazer and Susanna Edwards Porter, was a physlelan and trader In Hadley. He mar-
fileid and became a partner with L. Z. Cutler (Cutler & Porter) ; Is trustee and treasurer
ried Charlotte Williams, daughter of Hon. of Hopkins academy. Hladley, and director William Willlams of Dalton and grand- of Second National bank, Springfield : mar- rled, April 28. 1886, Mary Bartlett. daugh- ter of the late Asahel H. Bartlett, New York city, and Minerva Mliler, daughter of Captain John Miller of Ludiow. (Their children : James Bartlett, born and died February 4, 1887. William Bartlett, horn September 10. 1588, died February 19. 199; daughter of Col. Israel Williams of Hat- field. a distinguished officer In the French and Indian wars of 1744-55. Charlotte Wlillams was descended in the sixth gene- ration from Robert Wililams, who came from Wales to Roxbury In 1638, and Robert Ash- ley, who came to Springfield In 1639. Eu- nice Willlams of Deerfield. the "unredeemed Edward Maurice, born March 23. 1891.
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HAYNES. CHARLES ROBBINS, p. o. Spring- county physician, and also for some time field. Mass., Is a direct descendant of Wal- president of the Hampden district medical ter Ilaynes. an Englishman who come to society. He also had the distinguished America In the ship Confidence, and settled honor of being the orator of the Massachu- at Sudbury. Mass. Charles R. was born at setts Medical Society on the occasion of Billerica. Mass .. on the 17th of April. 1836. the visit of Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazii. Ills parents were Lyman and C'aroline Hunt who was made an honorary member of the Haynes, both of Sudbury, soclety. In 1845 Dr. Peter Le Breton
STICKNEY. DR. PETER LEBRETON, Spring- Stickney was married to Miss Mary Rhea feld. Mass., was the only son of Capt. of ['hiladelphia. Pa. lle dled November David and Elizabeth LeBreton Stickney. 5, 1887. leaving a widow and three chil. born in Newburyport, May 9. 1814. In dren. his boyhood he attended public and private
HAYNES, CLIFFORD C., p. o. Springfield. schools in that city. He became a stit. Mass., was born in Billerica. Mass .. August dent at Bradford Academy in 1832, leav 10, 1859. Ills father. Cyrua HI. Haynes, Ing there for Phillips Academy at Andover was a native of the same place. born July In 1834. and completing his preparation 8. 1833. In 1852 he came to Springfield for college there. lle entered Dartmouth and engaged In the clothing business, which college in 1835 and graduated in 1839. He he still follows : he married Harrlet C .. took high rank in college and was a mem- daughter of Caleb S. Brown of Billerica. ber of the I'hl Beta Kappa, an honor 80. Muss. ; they had seven children, five now Ilv- ciety. After leaving Dartmouth. he en- ing : Nathaniel L., Phillip L .. Caleb Sum- tered Jefferson Medical College In Phlla- ner. Otis Brown, and Clifford C. Cilfford delphla, and graduated with high honors (. Haynes received his education in the In 1842. After graduation he was made schools of Billerica and the Springfield house physician of the Blockley Hospital schools. After leaving school he entered of that city. where he remained three the Third National Bank of Springfield as years. In 1845 he moved to West Spring- a clerk and worked his way up to teller. feld. where he practiced until 1851, and which position he has held for the last while there he served us postmaster and twenty years. Mr. Haynes was a member was a member of the school board. sle left of the board of fire engineers of West West Springfield In 1831 and moved to Springfield and for ten years was treasurer Terre Haute, Ind. Owing to Ili health of the Memorlal Society of Springfield, re- he came back east In 1853 and went to signing January 1. 1901. On September 30). Fast Windsor, Conn. where he remained 1885. he married Esther M .. daughter of till 1854. when he removed to Chicopee, Jobn Field, a native of Hatfield, Mass .. who Mass .. resuming the practice of medicine, was killed In the battle of the Wilderness and spent there the most active years of on May 6. 1864. To Mr. and Mrs. Haynes his professional life. While In Chicopee were born four children : Walter I ... Rob. he became a member of the school commit- ert F., Ruth, and Dorls
tee and wax instrumental in introducing SMITH. JOHN MACKENZIE, Springfield. the graded system of schools. For thirteen Mass .. former senior partner In the firm of years he was a valued member and chair. Sinlth & Murray, and for more than thirty man of the school board. He was active years one of the leading business men of in town affairs, and attended town meet- Springfield, was born In Dumfriesshire. Ings regularly, and bore his part of the Scotland. Sept. 24. 1841. and died In publie burdens. During the war he was Springfield Dec. 12. 1898. Ills early life a medical examiner for the U'nlted States was spent In his native land. where he ac- government, and was placed on duty In quired a good elementary education and also Springfield. He came to Springfield in lald the foundation for hils subsequent suc- 1870 and engaged In active work until cessful career in a thorough business train- October. 1886. lle gathered about him ing in a wholesale house In Glasgow. He the friends made In his residence at West came to America In 1860. locating In Bos- Springfield and Chleopee. and had one of ton, and was employed by the old dry goods the largest and widest practices of any house of George Turnbull & Co .. remaining physician In the rity. He was elty and with that firm five years. In 1865 be re-
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moved to Springfield. formed a partnership and Eliza Clapp, of Leicester, Mass. James with A. B. Forbes ( Forbes & Smith), and Holland Pynchon married Mabel C'. Edgerly succeeded to the business formerly con- on the 12th day of January, 1899. ducted by John T. Rockwood. In 1874, In WRIGHT. GEORGE L., p. o. Springfield. Mass., the son of Solomon and Hepzibah Russell Wright. was born in Wilbraham now Hampden, on the 5th of April. 1813. He married Caroline Rogers of Springfield and they were the parents of two children. Caroline A. and George I .. , jr. partnership with A. R. Wallace. Mr. Smith established a branch store In Pittsfield. and in the same year also he became a member of the large Boston dry goods firm of Churchill & Watson. He then severed his connection with the Springfield and l'itts- field houses and for the next five years de- BARR, EDWIN CLIFFORD. P. o. Springfield. Mass., has lived in Springfield continuons ly since 1858, with exception of two years spent in Montana. 1862 to 1864. He was the oldest of seven children of Sumner and Susan Robinson Barr. of New Braintree. Massachusetts, and was born on the 31st of May, 1829. His mother was originally of Boston. Mr. Barr married. frst. Ade- line Field Stone, and they were the parents of five children : George E. (deceased ;. Walter S. tdeceased). Edgar E .. Jesse O (deceased ). and Emma 1. He married second. Minerva Emeretta Arthur, and they have one son. Walter Sumner. Mr. Barr has three sisters ilving in Hampden coun- ty, Massachusetts : Mrs. Kate Wilkinson. Mrs. Addison Brown. both of Springfield. und Mrs. Jane Stoddard, of Chicopee. voted his energles to Boston interests. for three years as member of the firm of Churchali, Glichrist, Smith & Co., and for two years as head of the successor house of Smith & Watson. In 1879 Mr. Smith re- turned to Springfield, where he had main- talned a residence during the five years men- tioned. and became senior partner In the firm of Smith & Murray, whose house is still known In business circles as one of the largest and best stocked establishments of Its kind in the entire Connectleut valley re- glon. After his return to Springfield Mr. Smith devoted himself to his own personal Interests. and at the same time became an active factor for good in the Industrial and financial history of the city. He also held a prominent standing In Masonie and cinb circles, and as a citizen he always was held in high esteem. Ills wife, whom he mar- HASTINGS. HERBERT ASHTON. P. 0. Springfield, Mass .. son of Samuel and Fi- vira Hastings, was born In Amherst on the 3d of November, 1850. Ills father was also born in Amherst. and his mother. who was the daughter of Israel Cooley. was born In Sunderland. Mr. Hastings mar ried Louise Maria Reynolds. of Springfield. ried in 1867, was Adelaide Gabriile Phelps, danghter of the late Charles Phelps, of Springfield. Charles Phelps was a native of Massachusetts, born August 5. 1800. and became a resident of Springfield In 1840. after a journey around the world. He par- chased a large portion of the land In what Is now known as the "hill distrlet." includ-
SEELYE, RALPH HOLLAND, M. D., p. o. Ing "Ingersoll's Grove," and all the land Springfield. Mass. was born In Springfield. between Magazine street and the "dry May 10. 1865. the son of I .. Clark Seelye. bridge." besides certain portions on the president of Smith College, and Henrietta other side of St. James avenue. He was C'hapln Seelye. On his mother's side he is married on February 12, 1834. to Frances a direct descendant of Deacon Chapin. He Antoinette Amblaird. a native of Bordeaux, graduated at Amherst. 1886: Harvard France. They had one son and two dangh- Medical College 1889. November 14. 1895. ters. Joseph Richard Richard Van Zant, Jo. he married Grace Allen Blodgett. and to sephine Antoinette, and Adelalde Gabrielle, them have been born two children. Barbars He dled August 25. 1872.
and Rebecca.
PYNCHON, JAMES HOLLAND. p. o. Spring- REYNOLDS. HOWARD STEPHEN, P. O. field. was born In Springfield, on the 2d day Springfield, Mass., was born in Spring of August, 1858. the son of Joseph Charles feld. September 5. 1855, the son of George and Julla Mather Clapp Pynchon. The Reynolds. born in Southbridge. Massacho. father was a direct descendant of William setts. and Harriet Angellne Colton Rer- Pynchon. who settled In Springfield in 1636 : nolds, born In Longmeadow. Massachusetts and the mother was the daughter of John Howard Stephen Reynolds was married to
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Maria Josephine Davis, of Springfield, on field. He practiced for seven years In August 21. 1877. and they have one son, Leavenworth. Kan., and In 1873 removed to George Harold Harold. .
New York, where he lived ten years (nt one KIRKHAM, JAMES WILSON, p. o. Spring- time being assistant district attorney), and field. Mass., the son of James and Frances In 1883 cume to Springfield. Mr. Birnie Kirkham, was born In Springfield on the now is assistant secretary and one of the 8th of April. 1850. He was graduated directors of the Springfield Fire and Marine from Yale In 1872. Mr. Kirkham married Insurance company. In 1889 he came to Fannie C. Barri. of Cambridge, and they Longmeadow and purchased the farm prop- are the parents of one son, Willlam Barri. erty on which he has since Ilved. He now a student at Yale. J. Stuart Kirk- served as selectman of the town for two ham. a cousin of James W., Is also a resl. dent of Springfield.
MANGERI'M. CLAUDE'S C., D. o. Spring- fleld, Mass., was born in Suffield. Connecti- ent. March 20. 1844. and came to Spring field In 1875. Ou January 20, 1867. he 31. 1877. Mr. Birnle was at one time married Elizabeth Holmes, of Sumfeld, chairman of the liberal republican state Connectleut. Ils father was Edwin Grey
committee, and also hus been president of Margerum, of l'ennsylvanin, and his the Hampden county agricultural society. mother Rebecca Ann Rossell. of New Jer. BUSH, AUSTIN BALLOU, a native and life- sey. Henry Margerum, Bucks county, long resident of Hampden county, was born l'ennsylvanla, who, with other friends. 1082, was the first American ancestor of the Margerum family. Edwin F .. a brother of Claudius C., Is also a resident of Hamp- den county. The first Murgeram In Spring- field was George S., who died In 1885.
HALE, DAVID, p. o. Springfield. Mass .. was born at Ballykelly. County Down, Ireland. on the 10th day of April. 1864, He ac. quired his eduration at three well known Institutions : Banbridge academy. Belfast model school, und at Wilbraham academy. and settled In Hampden county in October, ago. On January 11. 1854. Mr. Bush mar- 1881. On the 18th of September, 1889. Mr. rled Susan P., daughter of David and Re- Hale was married to Myrta M. Sanderson. becca Millard. His second wife, whom he They have three children : Marlon Theda, marrled February 15, 1892. was Persis born September 5. 1890: Clarence Wlillam. Crawford Prosser. His children, both by born November 7. 1892 : and James, born the first marriage. were James A .. born No. July 27. 1895.
vember 12, 1854. died December 19. 1854:
BIRNIE, CHARLES A., p. o. Longmeadow, and Harry Dean, born April 2, 1857. The Mass., was born In Becket, March 13. 1844, ancestors of this branch of the Bush fam- a son of Willlam and Surah L. (Perkins) liy in America were Samuel, first, and Jon- Birnle. Wliltam Birnie was a native of athan Bush, who Immigrated to this coun- Scotland and came to America when a try probably abont 1640 and settled at young man. He was employed on the work Enfield, Conn. They were "approbated" as of construction of the B. & M. R. R. and members of the colony there and Jonathan lived In Springfield from 1852 until his had permission to bulld. December 26, 1678. death. in 1889. Charles A. Birnie was edu- On November 2, 1685, Jonathan assisted in cated In the Springfield schools, and in locating the boundary Ilne between Enfield 1862 enlisted In Co.A. 46th regiment of in- and Springfield. Rufus Bush, son of Rufus fantry. He was discharged at the end of and direct descendant of the Immigrant an- nine months. He then began the study of cestor, was the pioneer of the family in law and was admitted to the bar In Spring- Hampden county, and his chlidren, of whom
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years. On December 23, 1872. Mr. Birnie married Susan G. Wright of Newburg, N. Y. Two children were born of this marriage : Alexunder O. Birnle, born November 21. 1875. and Gabriel G. Birnie, born January
In Willimansett. December 21. 1829. At emigrated from Wiltshire, England, In that time Willimansett formed a part of the town of Springfield, but in 1848 was set off to Chicopee. In his youth Austin B. Bush attended the old State street school. then under teachers Sanford Lawton and Arlel Parish, and afterward completed his early education in the Clinton (N. Y.) Liberal Institute-two years, Rev. T. J. Sawyer, principal : the Norwich (Vt.) Military academy-one year. Capt. Alden Partridge, principal. Both of these teachers were famous educators half a century and more
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there were eleven. were born within the born March 14, 1875. died October 24. 1881. limits of what now Is this county. They Mr. Potter was educated In Wilbraham were Rufus Allen. David A., Almira, Ada. academy. In 1806 be bullt a saw and plan- line. Amanda. Henry Irrison. Clarinda, ing mill In Bondsvlile and with his father Gillbert. Sarnh. Orville and Emily A. Bush.
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