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HIERRICK, HENRY STEPHEN. of Chicopee, was born In Montgomery ia 1822. the son of Aaron llerrick, one of the early settlers in Montgomery, a large and substantial farmer, and who died there April 28. 1828. This branch of the Herrick family is in a direct line of descent from leary Herrick. the fifth soa of Sir William Herrick, of Beau Manor Park, Leicester county. Eug- land. Ilenry came to America and settled first In Virginia and removed thence to Salem in 1653. His three sons were Zach- ariah. Ephraim and John. Ephraim was the great-great-grandfather of Henry Steph- en lerrick and the great-grandfther of Aaron Herrick, the latter of whom was the pioneer of the family in Montgomery and Hampden county. His wife was Polly Shurtelift, bora October 3, 1788, and died lu Litchfield. Ohio, ia 1869. Their five chil- dren were Aaron, Henry. Susanna, Orlinda and Maderia Herrick. Henry Stephen Her- rick served his towa and city ( Chicopee) in the capacity of census emmunerator three tiraes, selectman one year. assessor seven years, and also was one of the first council- men in the new city of Chicopee. Hle mar-
rind Louisa Cooley, of Somers, Conn., who was born June 14, 1824. and died in 1847. lle married, second. Cynthia A. Wright, 1854 thorn in Chicopee, June 20, 1832, and was educated in Mt. Holyoke seminary). Their children were Anna Louise, wife of the late Austin Ely Smith. of Springfield ; (Mr. Smith for several years previous to his death was general manager of the Spring- field street railway system, and iu that capacity was one of President Olmsted's must valued assistants. ) Edward Wright, educated in Chicopee high school. The children of Austin and Anua Louise (ller- ricky Smith, are Anna Lida. born 1876, died 1879 : Ruby Adelaide, born 1887. Cynthia A. Wright, second wife of llenry S. Merrick, is a descendant of Eleazer Wright, who with the Frinks. Pendletons and Browns found refuge in Willimansett and the region aow Holyoke when their lives and property were threatened by the British soldiers during the revolutionary war. Finding fertile lands in the locality, they settled here after the war and were numbered among the promi- neut settlers of their time. Eleazer Wright was a lieutenant in the American army during the war. and his son, Eleazer Wright, junior, served in the organization known as the home guards. Edward Wright Ilerrick was boru June 25, 1865. lle mar- ried Edna Stauwood Chapin. Nov. 3, 1885. Their children were Daisy Louise, born July 19. 1886 : Alice Edna, born October 18. 18ST: Amy Sophia. born July 17. 1889; Cora Wright, bora Feb. 25, 1891.
LOOMIS, SILAS. citizen and horticulturist of Mt. Vineyard, Westfield, was born August 26. 1829. ou the place where he now resides. Ile is a descendant of Joseph Loomis, who with his wife, five sons and three daughters came from Braintree. Essex county, Eng- land. in 1638, and settled in Windsor, Coun., in 1639. Ile was a woolen draper in England. They sailed from London in the ship "Susan and Elleu" aud arrived at Rostou, July 17. 1038. lle died November 25, 1658. Lieut. Samuel Loomis was born
In England, married Elizabeth Judd (De- cember 27. 1653), and moved to Westfield from Windsor between 1072 and 1675. Their sou William was born March 18. 1672. married, January 13. 1703, Martha Morley, who died February 22, 1753; he died In 173S. Jonathan. sr., son of Will- lam, was born January 23, 1719, married
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Hlaunab Sheldon of Springfield, May 11, 1746 and used in the revolution by Justus 1746. Ile died in 1798 in West Springfield. He was the father of eleven children, and was great-grandfather
Loomis, sr., and by his son Justus Loomis, jr., in the war of 1812. Silas Loomis mar- ried. July 2, 1854, Susan A. Rowley (born in New Haven, Conn., January 8, 1835). Their two children are Eugene W. and Alice A. Loomis. Eugene is a whip manufactur- er. He was born May 14, 1855 ; married September I. 1880, Sarah F. Young (daugh- ter of George G. and Martha Ann Parker). Their four children were Nellie M., born July 26, 1881, married Orlo Robinson l'ease. October 30, 1900 ; Lilliau V., born December 9, 1885 ; llarold F., born April 11, 1887. died January 12, 1888 ; and Earl S., born June 13, 1894, died February 17, 1895. Alice A. Loomis was horn December 21, 1862 ; married September 29, 1887, Irwin Boswell Bailey, a wheelwright of Spring- field. They have two children, Olive Irene, born November 22, ISSS, and Leila Marion, born September 14, 1899. Mrs. Loomis's father, Erastus HIale Itowley, son of Thomas Rowley, jr .. was born January 8, 1809, in 1825. She died September 17, 1861, aged Southampton. He died in Pittsfield, Juue 10, 1852. Ile was a carriage maker, and being skilfull in carving and ornamental work, be assisted in making the beautiful carriage used by General Andrew Jackson. Ilis wife, Charlotte Taylor Rowley, was born in New Haven, February 15, 1813, a daugh- ter of Solomon Taylor. Their children are Mrs. Susan A. Loomis. Mrs. Alice C. Allen, George E. (soldier in the civil war), Mrs. Nellie Drew, Mrs. Ella C. Sloan, and Mrs. Emily Parker. The mother died September 4, 1853. Thomas Rowley, jr., was born in Bloomfield, Conn .. in 1780, and died Feb- ruary 23, 1864. In ISOG he married Su- sanna Clapp. daughter of Lieut. Joel Clapp and Mercy (Pomeroy) Clapp, who died in 1855, aged seventy. Ilis father, Thomas Rowley, sr., was born in Bloomfield. Decem- ber 24. 1753, and died in Southampton, Oc- tober 7, 1843. He was a soldier in the revolution and had several thrilling experi- ences. lle married Mary Hayes, of Granby, Conn. She was born October, 1761, and died in Southampton, February 13, 1852, on the old family homestead, which is still standing.
to Silas. Justus Loomis, sr., the fourth child of Jonathan, sr., was born March 7, 1754, married Mary Bow (1781), who died December 16, 1819, aged sixty-one. He served in the revolu- tionary war. He owued a good farm at Feeding Ilills, where he died May 14, 1818, aged sixty-four. To them six children were born. Their son, Justus, jr., father of Silas, was born at Feeding Ilills, Febru- ary 5, 1782. Iu 1806 he bought the farm now occupied by the subject of this sketch. Ile cleared aud improved a large portion of the land of which there were about thirty acres, a pathless wood, the abode of wild beasts and the hunting grounds of Indians. He was a soldier in the war of 1812-15. He was twice married, his first wife being Sarah Dewey: his second wife Irene Van- horn of West Springfeld (widow of Walter Loomis). They were married May 29. seventy-eight. She was the mother of Silas and one daughter, Amanda, and also of four children by her union with Walter Loomis, namely : Edmund. Amanda. Der- riek and William Rt. Loomis of Westfield, the latter of whom is still living and just past bis 89th birthday. Justus Loomis, jr., died August 28, 1864. Ile had a family of six children by his first union, all uow de- ceased : Hiram, Frederick, Mary Ann, Bet- sey, Emily aud Huldah (who married S. I'ease Chapin of Springfield, and she died in 1895). Silas Loomis learned the trade of a carpenter aud during the civil war he worked in the U. S. armory in Springfield. In October, IS55, he went to Ohio with his family, but returned in 1857 to Westfield. where he worked for some years at carpen- tering, and, being also n machinist, he as- sisted in the invention and manufacture of the Lombard rounding whip machine, which was patented in 1878, and in which Mr. Loomis owns one-fourth interest. Mr. Mr. Loomis has made many Improvements on the old home which he has owned since his father's death. lle makes a specialty of raising peaches and grapes and all fruits. JANES, GEORGE HERBERT, physician and surgeon of Westfield. medical examiner for lampden county since 1899. is a native of East Brimfield, born December 1, 1862, and In the family of Mr. Loomis Is a treasured relie of colonial times, n flint-lock gun with battered bayonet of the kind called the "Queen's Arms," an English piece made In a descendant of one of the earliest settlers
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of that historie old town. Indeed. on the has one child. Doris Augusta Jaues, born paternal side, Dr. Janes is descended from August 24, 1899. ancestors who were among the earliest FOWLER. CHARLES F., farmer, of West- field. son of Royal and Harriet Smith Fow- ler. was born Sept. 28, 1835, in the house and on the farm where he now lives. Ile was educated in the famous old Westfield Academy, and always has pursued the avo- cation of farming. He married May 21, 1861. Emily M. Hawley, of Hadley. Hamp- shire county. colonists of New England, following closely upon the coming of the Pilgrims. The Janes family In America dates its ancestry to William Janes, born in Essex county, England. in 1610, and arrived in this conn- try in 1637. settling in the New Haven plantation, where he was a teacher for a period of seventeen years. In 1656 he re- moved to Northampton and there was a THE MOSELEY FAMILY .-- The direct Amer- ican ancestor of the Moseley family was John Moseley. Blake's Annals of Dorches- ter has a frontispiece with a fac similie of his signature, with that of other free-hold- ers, attached to a document making a con- Veyanee of land to the town. for the espec- ial establishment and maintenance of a free school. in 1641, in which he spells his name "Maudesley." All of this surname in New England are presumed to be descended from him, Savage. in his Biographical Fiction- ary, says the name has had many changes, but that the spelling has long been fixed at "Moseley." In the old burying ground in Dorchester he was buried in a grave or tomb a few feet north of the Rev. Richard Math- er's grave. The memorial stone is In a good state of preservation. The inscription reads : John Moseley, came from Lanen- shire, England. and settled in Dorchester in 1631. He died Aug 29th, 1661. Cicely, his wife. died Dec. 23. 1661. Their children were Thomas. John and Elizabeth. John was born in 1038. Ile removed to Wind- sor. Conn., and is among the list of free- men there in Oct. 7. 1669. On the 10th of December. 1664. he married Mary Newbury of that town. Ile was a lieutenant in 1678, and was active in King Philip's war. Their children born in Windsor were Benjamin, Margaret (died young). Joseph, Mary and Consider. In the year 1677. John Moseley removed his family to Westfield. and in 1679 the name of John Maudlesley is found in the First church record book as one of the original seven members, or "foundation inen." as they were called. The children born in Westfield were John. Comfort, Mar- garet. Elizabeth and llannah. John Mau- desley returned to Windsor, where he died Ang. 18, 1690. teacher of the youth ; also a teaching elder in the town church, and being a man of intelligence and substance. he was chosen to fill the office of town recorder. In 1671 he was one of the petitioners for and joined a company for the settlement of Squakheag ( Northfield). In his office of teaching elder he preached to the settlers assembled under the old historie Northfield oak. After the destruction of the settlement by the In- dians, 1675. he returned to Northampton. where he lived until his death. in 1690. Abel Janes, son of Elder William, a soldier in the Falls battle with King Philip's war- riors In 1676, lived most of the time in Northampton until 1706. when he removed tu Lebanon, Conn. William Janes, son of AAbel. with five sons, removed from Lebanon to Brimfield, and there became the owner of 500 acres of land. The year of his removal is not known, and while his name does not appear among the proprietors of that town. hr is believed to have settled there as early as 1734. Ills lands were acquired through a grant from the crown. In IS76 the lands included in the old grant to William Janes were occupied by Harvey. David W. and Edwin A. JJanes. Capt. William J. Sherman, Jonathan Emerson and Capt. Parsons Allen. all of whom, except fapt. Allen, are de- srendants of for related by marriage to them) William Janes. the ploneer. Now. however, these farms are owned outside the family. The Janes famlly had representa- tives in the colonial army In King Philip's war. the succeeding series of long continued French and Indian wars, and several in the contineninl army in the revolutionary war. Dr. George Il. Janes was educated in the Brimfield publle schools, the Hitchcock Free high school and Union university. He came to Westfield in 1993. He married. January Third Generation : - Joseph Moseley mar- 25. IS9\ Minnie L .. Cadwell, by whom he ried Abigail Root. Sept. 13. 1696. He died
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in Glastenbury. Conn., in 1719. Their chil- dren were Abigail. Abner, Sarah. David, Mary. Hannah, Isaac, Rachel and Job.
Fourth Generation :- David Moseley, Esq., remained at the "Mansion home" in Sixth Generation : William Moseley was married to Lydia, daughter of Matthew Noble and Lydia Eager, his wife, Jan. 7. 1785. Matthew Noble was a revolutionary soldier and a member of the committee of correspondence and safety, appointed by the town to carry out the plans of the provin- Westfield after his parents removed to Glastenbury, where their son Abner was living. He was a man of decided convic- tions and fearless in the expression of them. lle held a commission as a magistrate of Hampshire county from King George II, bearing the date the 28th day of June, 1749. cial congress. Capt. William Moseley was
This commission with his compass used in surveying. and his account book with rec- ords of perambulating of town line and sur- veying tiers and sections of land. are both in possession of his descendants. He was born Feb. 9, 1704. and until his death, Jan. 3. 1768. he was loyal to his King. He mar- ried Margaret, daughter of Jedediah Dewey. Sept. 4, 1730. Their children were : Mar- garet, born November 15, 1731. married John Ingersoll; Hannah, born Mareb 17. 1733, married John Moseley ; David, born March 17, 1735. married Lydia Gay : Grace. born May 16. 1737, married Ilon, Samnel Mother ; Mercy, born July 26, 1742. married John Phelps. Esq. : Rhoda, born May 24. 1743, married Dr. Charles Mather.
Fifth Generation :- Col. David Moseley married Lydia Gay. daughter of Luther Gay. In this marriage the Puritan and Pilgrim families were united, as John Gay. his father, was a Pilgrim and came to this country May 16, 1630; settled at Dedham. His wife was Johanna Bunker. Her father owned the land on Bunker Hill-hence the name. David Moseley was colonel of the Third regiment of militia in Ilampshire county. From his diary : "24 day of Sept. 1777. I went to Saratoga In the alarm of the militla ; General Burgoyne was delivered into our hands a Prisoner of War the 17th day of October 1777. I returned home the 19th Day of October from the Camps." Their children were: David, born De. 27. 1762. married Rebecca Dewey : WIl- liam. born April 6. 1764, married Lydla Noble; Lydia, born Nov. 14, 1766. married Paul Fowler; Mary, born Nov. 25. 1768. married Joshun Green ; Elljah, born April 2. 1770, married Molly Phelps ; Frances. born July 25, 1772, married William Shep- ard ; Rhoda. born Jan. 23, 1775. married Solomon Phelps : Jereminh, born Jan. 20, 1777, married Nancy Weller : Nancy, born
April 23. 1779, married Joshua Green (his second marriage) : Betsey, born August 31. 1781. married Elisha Rtoot ; Cynthia, horn August 30. 1783, married Henry Chapin.
an othicer in the state militia and a man of influence in the town. He died April 30. 1839. Ten children were born to them. Col. David Moseley was the seventh child in this family. He was born March 6, 1798. at the homestead where he passed his days, and where he died Angust 26, 1871. He was educated in the schools of the town. Westfield academy was then a flourishing institution. For many years he was chair- man of the school committee, was select- man. representative, and in 1851 a member of the senate. Ile nlso was a trustee of Westfield academy, and in 1831 was ap- pointed colonel of tue state militia. Ile married in January, 1823, Silence Cham- pion, daughter of Renben Champion and Silence Ely. Both of her grandparents, Nathan Ely and Dr. Renben Champion of West Springfield, were in the revolutionary war. Of the eight children born to them, five were sons. Four of them grew to man- hood : Henry, David, Edward and Thomas Benton. Franklin died young. Edward, born March 3 1835, is unmarried.
Seventh Generation :- Henry Champion, married March 23, 1826, Susan Corliss ; David Noble, married May IS, 1865, Mary Green Phelps : Thomas Benton. married Oct. 25. 1876, Clara Moseley.
Eighth Generation :- David Henry and Ellen Lydia ; Harold Phelps ; Katherine Elizabeth.
Ninth Generation :- David Corlis and Ella Lydla ; David Mills.
BEAN. JEFFERSON WEBSTER, assistant postmaster and a native of Holyoke, was born in the town (before the city charter was adopted), June 12, 1856, although he maintains a residence on the South Hadley Falls side of the river. Mr. Benn way educated In the Ilolyoke public schools. lle married. October 24. 1883. Agnes E. Chal- mers, nud to them have been born ten chll-
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dren, six of whom are still living, viz. : or Cooley ,, and Timothy M. Cooley. to Rev. Benjamin F. Cooley. Deacon Benjamin Parsons, another ancestor. came from Eng- land, and he, too, was an early settler in Springfield. Ilis great-great-grandson, Is- rael Parsons, who was great-grandfather of Rev. Benjamin F. Cooley. served during the revolution. and moved to Granville some- time after the war. He was a personal ae- quaintance of Washington and was em- ployed by him in several important under- takings. Israel married Mary Marvin, daughter of Ezra Marvin of Granville. Tim- uthy M. Cooley, 2d. son of James, was dep- uty sheriff fifty or more years. Ile was the father of four children, whose names are noted above, Rev. Benjamin F. Cooley being the eldest of them. Evan S,, born November 18, 1854: Thomas W., born November 25. 1886; Dorothea K., born November 9, 1892; Sarah V .. born December 16, 1894; Rachel A., born Febru- ary 5, 1897, and Constance, born June 30. 1900, Mr. Bean is of Scotch and English descent, his paternal ancestors having been John Bean and Margaret, his wife. both of Scotch birth and parentage and who settled in Exeter, N. H., in 1660. They were de- vout Presbyterlans and came to America that they might have religious freedom which was denied them in the mother country. On his mother's side Mr. Bean is descended from George Little and his wife, both of English ancestry, and who settled in Newbury, Mass .. in 1640, Mr. Bean's father. Sinkler Bean, was born September SACKETT, HARRY ROBERT, M. D., of HIol- yoke, was born in Springfield June 25, 1871. and acquired his early education in private schools in that city, the public schools of South Hadley Falls, and was graduated from the llolyoke high school in 1889. Ilis medical education was acquired at the Homeopathic Medical college in New York city, where he graduated May 1. 1893. Dr. Sackett married July 7, 1896, Edith Par- sons Hayes, by whom he has one son, George Leslie Sackett, born October 24. 1901. Dr. Sackett's ancestor in America was Simon Sackett, a native of the Isle of Ely. Cam- bridgeshire, England, who sailed from Bris- tol. December 1. 1630, on the Ship Lion, in company with Roger Williams, and landed at Nantasket roads, off Boston town, ton (now t'ambridge), and the house he erected stood on the north side of what now is Winthrop street. He died in October. 1635, leaving two sons Simon. then aged five. and John, aged three years. 26. 1797, and died September 19. 1867. 1le was by occupation and trade a millwright and settled in Holyoke in 1832. Sinkler Bean's wife was Susan W. Little, born November 22. 1815. and died July 21. 1896. CHOLEY, REV. BENJAMIN F .. of Westfield. was born in Granville, September 12. 1834, and was educated at Southington academy (Conn.) and Nashotah Theological semi- nary, Wis. Mr. Cooley is a son of the late Timothy Mather Cooley and his wife Sarah Jennette +Andrews) Cooley. The children of this marriage were Benjamin Franklin. born September 12, 1834: Ellen Louisa. born December 19. 1836: Elizabeth Mor- gan, born July 25. 1842. died December 5. 1870; and Frederick Bradley, born Novem- ber 25, 1-53, died February 1. 1838. Rev. February 5. 1631. lle located first at New- Benjamin F. Cooley Is descended from three notable families in New England history- the Cooleys, the Parsonses and the And- rews, each of which has armorial bearings legally granted. Ensign Benjamin Cooley, his paternal ancestor in America, came from STOCKWELL, GEORGE WATSON CUTLER, 11- brarian of the Atheneum, Westfield, was born November 7. 1873, in Northampton ; was educated In the Northampton high school. a New York State library school, and also under the private tutors. Ile marrled April 18. 1900, Winnie Ione James, of Con- cord, N. 1I. England and settled in Springfield in 1640, and was a man of much consequence in the town. having been selectman about eighteen years besides filling other offices of respon- slbility. From him the line of descent fol lowed through Daniel. 1st. Daniel 2d. Daniel 3d. (Capt. Daniel, a revolutionary patriot, who. with four sons, Daniel, William, Clark GRANT, FRANK. Is a native of Westfield, horn December 21, 1850, son of Lemuel Grant, who came to Westfield from South Windsor, Conn., about 1843. On the pa- ternal side Mr. Grant is a descendant in the righth generation of Matthew and Pris- and George, settled in Granville in 1741 and was one of Its pioneers). Capt. Willlam (of revolutionary fame and also known as Deacon Cooley ), James ca Inwyer of promi- hence, and a brother of Rov. Timothy Math-
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cilla Grant, who came from England iu the having become a member of the Hampden ship Mary and John and landed at Nan- bar in 1865. From that time Judge Chapin has been identified with the practice of law in the county, and also has been a factor in the industrial history of Holyoke for many years. On May 16, 1866, Edward W. Chapin married Mary L. Beebe, a uative of Monson. Their children are Arthur Beebe Chapin, born in Willimansett November 17, 1868, now and for the last four years mayor of Holyoke: Anne N. Chapin, born in Willi- mansett July 13, 1870, wife of William F. Whiting ; Alice M. Chapin, born in Hol- yoke December 12, 1874, and Clara M. C'hapiu, born in Holyoke March 7, 1878. tasket, May 30, 1630. After living in Dor- chester five years they removed to Windsor, Conn., in 1635, being members of Rev. John Warham's party-the first "going west" overland in America, Matthew Grant was surveyor aud town clerk for many years. He was born October 27, 1601, and died December 16, 16SI. On the maternal side Mr. Grant is descended from Joseph Loomis. another early settler of Windsor, Conn., and also is descended from the other well- known families, whose surnames were Root, Moseley, l'helps and Bancroft. May 25, 1875, Frank Grant married Ellen Frances PAGE, IRVING IJOWARD, president and treasurer of the J. Stearns Arms and Tool company, of Chicopee Falls, was born in Biddeford, Maine, November 15, 1858, and removed with his father's family to Chico- pee in April, 1867. He married, November 3, 1886, Alice, daughter of the late John R. Whittemore, of Chicopee. Mr. Page's father, Amos W. Page, was the first of his immediate family to settle in Hampden county, he having removed to that (then) town in the spring of 1867. Amos Wood- man Page was born in Hollis, Maine, August 8. 1823, and died in Chicopee August 31, 1891. le married (October 17, 1847) Caro- line Warren Shute, who was born in Ef- fingham Falls, Maine, and died in Chico- pee November 25, 18SS. Their children (all born in Biddeford, Maine) were Frances Moore l'age, born November 28, IS48, died October 5, 1861; Laura Eva Page, born January 8, 1833; Ernest Lawrence Page, born September 6. 1855, died February 27, 1837 ; Irving Iloward l'age, born November 15, 1858, and Woodmau Shute Page, born May 7, 1862. Peebles, youngest daughter of Lyman Pee- bles and Ursula Sackett. Their children are Robert Lyman Grant, born in Man- chester, N. H., January 22, 1879, B. A., Amherst college, 1900, and Raymond Wind- sor Grant, born in Chester, Mass., Septem- ber 22, 1884, died in Westfield May 25, 1885, In the activities of business life Mr. Grant has been a prominent figure for more thau thirty years; was clerk and teller of the First National bank of Westfield, 1867-70 ; bookkeeper in Hartford, Conn., and Wor- chester, Mass., 1870-72 ; member of the firm of George S. Peck & Co., whip manufactur- ers, Westfield. 1873-78 ; treasurer Vitrified Wheel and Emery Co., 1876-78; inventor and manufacturer of the Grant Corundum wheel, Manchester, N. H., and Chester, Mass., 1878-84, being the first to adopt this mineral for exclusive use in wheels ; mem- ber of the firm of Chapman & Grant, West- feld, whip manufacturers, and secretary- treasurer National Whip Manufacturers' Association, 1885-86 ; treasurer and mana- ger Bay State Whip Co., 1887-93 ; patentee of the Grant Vulcanite whip ; director Unit- ed States Whip Co., 1893-08 : deacon First Congregational church, 1889-99; treasurer Westfield Atheneum ; vice-president Amerl- can Free Trade league, and secretary-treas- urer Grant Family association (Inc.).
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