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CHRISTOPHER GORE, son of John Gore, was born in Boston, September 21, 1758, and graduated at Harvard in 1776. He studied law with John Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1778. In 1789 he was appointed United States district at- torney and in 1796 was appointed one of the commissioners to settle American claims against England under Jay's treaty. In 1809 he was governor of Massachusetts,
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and from 1813 to 1816 United States senator. He died in Waltham, Mass., March 1, 1827.
ASHER WARE Was born in Sherburne, Mass., February 10, 1782, and graduated at Harvard in 1804. He was Greek tutor at Harvard from 1807 to 1811, and Greek pro- fessor from 1811 to 1815. He practiced one year in Boston, and in 1817 removed to Portland. In 1820 he was made secretary of state in Maine, and from 1822 to 1866 was judge of the United States District Court. He died in Portland.
BENJAMIN GORHAM, son of Nathaniel Gorham, was born in Charlestown, Mass., Feb- ruary 13, 1775, and graduated at Harvard in 1795. He practiced in Middlesex and Suffolk counties, and from 1820 to 1823 and from 1827 to 1835 was a member of Con- gress. His residence during his professional life was in Boston, where he died Sep- tember 27, 1856.
GEORGE WASHINGTON WARREN, son of Isaac and Abigail (Fiske) Warren, was born in Charlestown, Mass., October 1, 1813, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He was admit- ted to the Suffolk bar April 5, 1837, and settled in Charlestown. He was a representa- tive in 1838 and senator in 1853-4. After Charlestown was made a city by an act accepted March 10, 1847, he was chosen mayor three successive years. He was sec- retary of the Bunker Hill Monument Association ten years, and from 1847 to 1815 its president. In 1861 he was appointed judge of the Charlestown District Municipal Court, and continued in office until his death in Boston, where in his latter years he lived, May 13, 1883. He married first in 1835 Lucy Rogers, daughter of Jonathan Newell, of Stow, and second, Georgianna, daughter of Jonathan and Susan Pratt Thompson, of Charlestown.
WILLIAM WHITING, son of Col. William and Hannah (Conant) Whiting, was born in Concord, Mass., March 3, 1818. He was descended from Rev. Samuel Whit- ing, a non-conformist minister, who came in 1636 from Skirbeck, near Boston, Eng- land, and arrived in Massachusetts on the 26th of May in that year. This ancestor was born in Boston, England, November 20, 1597, became the minister of the church in Lynn, and remained there until his death, which occurred December 11, 1679. He married in Boston, England, on the 6th of August, 1629, Elizabeth St. John, daughter of Sir Oliver St. John, of Cashoe, England. A first wife died in England, by whom he had two sons and one daughter. The sons died in England and the daughter married Thomas, son of Rev. Thomas Welde, of Roxbury, Mass. Joseph Whiting, a son of the second wife, was born in Lynn, Mass., April 6, 1641, and graduated at Harvard in 1661. He was settled as a minister in Southampton, Long Island, in 1682, and remained in the pastorate until his death, April 7, 1723. He married first Sarah, daughter of Thomas Danforth, of Cambridge, who was the mother of his children, and second, November 11, 1646, Rebecca Prescott. John Whiting, son of Joseph, was born at Southampton, January 20, 1681, and grad- uated at Harvard in 1700. He was ordained at Concord, Mass., May 14, 1712. He continued his connection with the church until 1738, and after that time preached to a congregation of seceders until his death, May 4, 1752. His wife Mary was a daughter of Rev. John Cotton, of Hampton, N. H., and great-granddaughter of Rev. John Cotton, of Boston. Thomas Whiting, son of John, was born in Con- cord, June 25, 1717, and married Mary Lake. His son William, born at Concord, September 30, 1760, died at Lancaster in 1832. He married in June, 1783, Rebecca,
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daughter of Rev. Josiah Brown, of Sterling. Col. William Whiting, son of William and Rebecca, was born in Sterling, Mass., October 20, 1788, and was the father of the subject of this sketch. He died in Concord, September 29, 1862. Mr. Whiting pursued his preparatory studies at the Concord Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 1833. After leaving college, while pursuing a course of law studies, he taught a private school in Plymouth, and perhaps other places, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1838. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1838, and es- tablished himself in Boston, where by his tact, industry and perseverance combined with intellectual power and legal proficiency he gained almost at a single leap an ex- tensive and lucrative practice. He entered the profession with a determination to succeed, making success the goal at which he aimed and on which he kept a single eye. The old Common Pleas Court was the first arena in which he exercised his powers and the records of that court attest the brilliant opening of his legal career. His transition from the lower to the higher courts was an easy one. Retaining his old clients he added to their lists those against whom he had secured verdicts, and from continued triumphs before a jury still further triumphs were evolved. It was not long before suits involving the largest interests were confided to him, and among them those arising under the patent laws more especially commanded his attention. It has been truly said of him that in " undertaking suits of this nature he studied not only the legal questions on which it was supposed they would turn, but he explored to their most minute mechanical details the application and operation of the patents he was defending or contesting, until he was able to instruct his clients upon practi- cal defects in their inventions, as well as upon the law." There were others as pro- found in the law and as persuasive and eloquent, but the distinction between him and them, and the secret of his success lay in the absolute thoroughness with which his cases were always prepared and the expert knowledge acquired and displayed in his examination of witnesses and in his argument to the jury. At the outbreak of the war, with the same determination to grasp and solve the many intricate legal ques- tions of the hour which had characterized him at the bar, he published a pamphlet on "The War Powers of the President and the Legislative Powers of Congress in Relation to Rebellion, Treason and Slavery," which attracted so much attention that he was invited at once by the president to act as solicitor of the war department. Another pamphlet published in 1863 on " Military Arrests in Time of War," aided still further in relieving the administration from doubts on embarrassing questions, and be- came the guide of the officers of law in all future prosecutions during the war. He served gratutiously as solicitor until his resignation in April, 1865. Mr. Whitney was a presidential elector in 1868, and in 1872 was chosen representative to Congress, but died before he took his seat at Roxbury, June 29, 1873. He married, October 28, 1840, Lydia Cushing, daughter of Thomas Russell, of Plymouth, Mass. The following are the published works of Mr. Whiting: Argument, Boston Gas-Light Co. vs. William Gault, Boston 1848; Argument, Elias Johnson et al., vs. Peter Low et al., Boston 1848; Report of the Committee in Favor of the Union of Boston and Roxbury, Bos- ton 1851; Speech before a Legislative Committee on the Destruction of Boston Har- bor, Boston 1851; Argument in Supreme Court of the United States, Brooks vs. Fiske et al., (Woodworth Planing Machine Patent), 1852; Argument in Circuit Court of the United States for Northern District of New York, Ross Winans vs. Orasmus Eaton et al., on the Eight-wheeled Car Patent, 1853; Address before the Historic
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Gen. Society, 1853; Memoir of Rev. Joseph Harrington, Boston 1854; Argument before a Legislative Committee against the Erection of a Bridge across Chelsea Creek, 1854; Argument in case of Volute Spring Steam Guage, 1858; Twenty Years' War against the Railroads, 1860; Argument in Supreme Court of the United States in Ross Winans vs. New York and Erie Railroad, 1860; The War Powers of the Presi- dent, etc., 1862; The Return of the Rebellious States, 1863; Military Arrests in Time of War, 1863; Slavery and Reconstruction, 1864; Military Government of Hostile Territory, 1864; Argument in the Circuit Court of United States, Union Sugar Refinery vs. Continental Sugar Refinery, 1867; Address before Roxbury Grant Club, 1868; Constitutionality of the Reconstruction Laws, 1868; Argument, Crowell vs. Sim et al., 1869; Argument, Rumford Chemical Works vs. John E. Lauer, 1869; Argument, City of Chicago vs. George T. Bigelow, Administrator, 1869; Argument, Union Sugar Refinery vs. Francis O. Matthiersson, 1869; Argument before Commis- sioner of Patents, 1870 ; Letter on Pacific Railroad, 1870 ; Argument, James S. Carew et al. vs. Boston Elastic Fabric Co., 1871; Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, 1872; Argument, Union Paper Collar Co. vs. Ward, 1872; Argument, Rumford Chemical Works vs. Hecker et al., 1872; Address before Roxbury Grant and Wilson Club, 1872; Address before Societies of Colby University, 1872. Mr. Whiting was president of the New England Historic Genealogical Society from 1853 to 1858, presi- dent of the Pilgrim Society in 1864, corresponding member of the New York Histori- cal Society, and honorary member of the historical societies of Pennsylvania, Wis- consin, and Florida.
ALICE PARKER, daughter of Dr. Hiram and Annie G. (Trafton) .Parker, was born in Lowell, Mass., April 21, 1863, and was educated in Lowell and Boston. She studied law in the office of J. M. Lesser of San Francisco, and was admitted to the California bar in 1888. Coming to Massachusetts she was admitted to the bar in Cambridge in 1890. Her business is confined chiefly to probate affairs and office consultations. She has been a contributor to the Illustrated American, the Boston Home Journal, and the Boston Herald. Her residence is in Lowell.
GEORGE WINTER PARKE was born in Salem, O., October 20, 1840, and was educated at Western College, Cleveland. He resided in Michigan, and began the study of law with Charles S. May in that State, but entered the army in April, 1861, as an officer of Michigan volunteers, and resigned in consequence of wounds received in one of the early engagements in Virginia. He resumed the study of law with John P. Rob- inson of Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 25, 1863. He took up his residence in Cambridge, and was alderman there in 1869 and 1870, and repre- sentative in 1879 and 1880. His practice has been confined to property causes in the civil courts, among which may be mentioned Nichols vs. Boston, 98 Mass., 39 ; Felch vs. Hooper, 119 Mass., 52; Cook vs. Gray, 133 Mass., 106 and 135 Mass., 189; and Cole vs. Eastham, 133 Mass., 65.
WILLIAM FOSTER OTIS, son of Harrison Gray and Sally (Foster) Otis, was born in Boston, December 1, 1801, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where he grad- uated in 1821. He studied law with his brother, Harrison Gray Otis, jr., and with Augustus Peabody, and was admitted to the Common Pleas Court in Boston, Octo- ber 8, 1824, and to the Supreme Judicial Court in March, 1827. He was a represent- ative in 1830-31-32, and in 1831 delivered a Fourth of July oration before the young
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men of Boston. He took great interest in the temperance cause and was president of the Young Men's Temperance Society. He also took an interest in military af- fairs, and was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, an offi- cer in the New England Guards, and major of the Boston Regiment. He married, May 18, 1831, Emily, daughter of Josiah Marshall, of Boston, who died August 11, 1839, at the age of thirty-nine. He died at Versailles, France, May 29, 1858.
EDMUND M. PARKER, Son of Joel and Mary M. Parker, was born in Cambridge, August 15, 1856, and was fitted at the Cambridge High School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1877. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1882, and in that year was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He married Alice Gray, April 8, 1891.
PHILIP GLENDOWER PEABODY, son of Charles A. and Julia (Livingston) Peabody, was born in New York city, February 22, 1857, and was educated at Columbia College. He studied law in New York city, and was admitted to the bar in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., May 13, 1880, and to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He married in New York, July 30, 1879, and lives in Boston.
HENRY BROMFIELD PEARSON, son of Eliphalet and Sarah (Bromfield) Pearson, was born in Cambridge, March 29, 1795, and after attending Phillips Academy, Andover, and spending two years at Yale College he entered the senior class at Harvard, and graduated in 1816. He went to Philadelphia, and after preparing himself for the bar, practiced law until he became partially blind, when he returned to Massachusetts and settled on the Bromfield estate at Harvard. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Wil- liam McFarland, of Waterville, Me., in December, 1840, and died in Boston, June 29, 1867.
FRANCIS PEABODY, jr., was born in Salem, September 1, 1834, and removed to Lon- don with his father in 1871. He attended Cheltenham College two years, and enter- ing Trinity College, Cambridge, took the degree of B.L. in 1876. He then spent one year in the office of a leading barrister of Lincoln's Inn and Middle Temple, and re- turning to America entered the office of Morse, Stone & Greenough, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879, after a year's further study at the Harvard Law School. He was associated with Charles A. Prince five years, and since that time has practiced alone. He is at present on the staff of Governor Russell.
HENRY MELVILLE PARKER, son of Isaac and Sarah (Ainsworth) Parker, was born in Boston, August 7, 1820, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where he grad- tated in 1839. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1841, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 29, 1842. He married Fanny Cushing, daughter of Dr. A. F. Stone, of Greenfield, April 30, 1851, and died at Cambridge, October 17, 1863.
SAMUEL PARSONS, son of Samuel and Mary Brown (Allen) Parsons, was born in Bos- ton, May 2, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied law in Boston with C. B. Goodrich and William Brigham, and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1852, having been admitted to the bar at Cambridge in 1851. He practiced in Boston until his health failed, when he removed to Philadelphia, where he died October 28, 1859.
EDWARD PAYSON PAYSON, son of Edward and Penelope Ann (Martin) Payson, was born in Westbrook, now Deering, Me., July 16, 1849, and graduated at Bowdoin Col- lege in 1869. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and with Symonds & Libby, of Portland, and was admitted to the Maine bar in April, 1875. He was admitted to
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the Suffolk bar in Boston, November 20, 1883, and to the United States Supreme Court March 20, 1891. He has been a contributor to the American Law Review. His residence is in Boston.
JOHN SIDNEY PATTON, son of Robert and Elizabeth Emeline (Warlick) Patton, was born in McDowell county, N. C., and fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Harvard, where he graduated in 1874. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Arkansas bar at Little Rock in June, 1878, and to the Texas bar at Dallas in July, 1878, and to the Massachusetts bar at Cambridge in July, 1880. He married at Cambridge, April 15, 1885, Anna Kelley, of Boston, and lives in Allston, a district of Boston.
SALEM DARIU'S CHARLES, son of Abraham and Esther L. (Wallis) Charles, was born in Brimfield, Mass., March 19, 1850, and graduated at Amherst College in 1874. He studied law with Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Springfield, Mass., in 1878. He was a representative from Boston in 1891 and 1892. He is unmarried and lives in Jamacia Plain (Boston).
PARKER CLEAVELAND CHANDLER, son of Peleg Whitman and Martha (Cleaveland) Chandler, was born in Boston, December 7, 1848, and was fitted at the Boston Latin School for Williams College, where he graduated in 1872. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Chandler, Shattuck & Thayer, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, October 2, 1875. He has been managing counsel for the defendant in the suit of the American Bell Telephone Company vs. the Drau- bough Telephone Company. He resides in Boston.
ORRIN HENRY CARPENTER, son of Henry B. and Lucy A. (Reed) Carpenter, was born in Grafton, Vt., January 17, 1861, and was educated at the Bellows Falls High School and Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and at Bellows Falls in the office of C. B. Eddy and in Boston in the office of Gaston & Whitney, and was admitted to the Vermont bar in September, 1883, and to the Suffolk bar in September, 1884. He has been for six years chairman of the Board of Assessors in Malden, where he resides, and has taught in the Boston Even- ing High School three years. He married Mary L. Dow at Bellows Falls, Vt., in 1883.
JOHN RAY CAMPBELL, son of Tristram and Annie (Meehan) Campbell, was born in Roxbury, Mass., November 29, 1860, and was educated in the Dwight Grammar School in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 17, 1888. Since January, 1887, he has been assistant clerk of the Superior Court, criminal side. He married Margaret Frances Doherty in Boston, July 17, 1888, and lives in Brookline.
JOSEPH ALOYSIUS CAMPBELL, son of Francis and Rose Ann Campbell, was born in Boston, October 16, 1863, and was educated at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmits- burg, Md. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar at Cambridge, January 29, 1891. He married Louise De Lamater in New York, October 22, 1891, and lives in Boston.
CHARLES STARK NEWELL, son of Samuel Newell and Elizabeth, daughter of Major Caleb Stark and granddaughter of General John Stark, was born in Boston, August 19, 1814, and graduated at Harvard in 1834, and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1848. He was a member of the House of Representatives in 1851 and 1852, and in
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the Civil War was on the staff of General A. Von Steinwehr. He married, July 19, 1843, Alice Jane, daughter of William and Mary (Todd) Crabb, and died in New York, December , 1876.
HARRY HUESTIS NEWTON, son of Adin H. and S. Angenette Newton, was born in Truro, Mass., December 2, 1860, and was educated at the Boston University. He studied law in Wellfleet, Mass., with Judge H. P. Harriman, and was admitted to the bar at Barnstable, Mass., April 11, 1889. He was principal of the West Newbury High School one year and of the Wellfleet High School five years. His residence is in Everett, Mass.
BENJAMIN ROPES NICHOLS, son of Ichabod and Lydia (Ropes) Nichols, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., May 18, 1786, and graduated at Harvard in 1804. After admis- sion to the Essex bar in 1807 he practiced in Salem until 1824, when he removed to Boston. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, clerk for a num- ber of years of the Boston and Providence and Boston and Lowell Railroad corporations, and before leaving Salem the clerk of that town. He married, April 12, 1813, Mary, daughter of Colonel Timothy and Rebecca (White) Pickering, of Salem, and died in Boston, April 3, 1848.
BENJAMIN WHITE NICHOLS, son of Benjamin Ropes and Mary (Pickering) Ropes, was born in Salem, Mass., April 7, 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He gradu- ated also at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and after reading law one year in Boston in the office of Sidney Bartlett, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1846. He is unmarried and lives in Boston.
CHARLES CORBETT NICHOLS, son of Joseph E. and Lucena C. (Corbett) Nichols, was born in that part of Malden which is now Everett, October 31, 1859, and was edu- cated at the Malden and Everett schools, the Chelsea High School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1883. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles Robinson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1886. He has been auditor, and is now a member of the Board of Selectmen of Everett, where he resides. He married in Lisbon, Me., October 8, 1888, Hattie Frances Corbett.
JOHN NOBLE, son of Mark and Mary (Copp) Noble, was born in Dover, N. H., April 14, 1829, and fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Harvard, where he graduated in 1850. He was usher and master in the Boston Latin School from 1850 to 1856, when he entered the Harvard Law School and graduated in 1858. He also read law in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 26, 1858. He practiced in Boston until 1825, when he was appointed clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court to fill out an unexpired term and has held the office by successive elections to the present time. He married Katharine W. Sheldon at Deerfield, Mass., June 11, 1873, and resides in Boston.
ALBERT BOYD OTIS, son of Samuel and Eliza M. Otis, was born in Belfast, Me., and graduated at Tufts College in 1863. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Belfast with Nehemiah Abbott, and in Boston with Jewell, Gaston & Field, and was admitted to the bar at Belfast in October, 1864, and at Boston, February 16, 1867. His home is in Boston.
ISAAC PEABODY OSGOOD, son of Dr. Kendall and Louis (Peabody) Osgood, was born in Peterboro', N. H., February 22, 1793, and graduated at Ilarvard in 1814.
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He studied law with S. P. P. Fay, and after admission to the bar began to practice in Boston, where he continued in business through life. He married, August 2, 1841, Mary Ann (Price) Valentine, widow of Lawson Valentine, of Boston, and died in Roxbury, January 12, 1867.
WILLIAM BYRON ORCUTT, son of Franklin W. and Abigail (Davis) Orcutt, was born in Georgia, Vt., February 26, 1845, and after attending the New Hampton Institute, Fairfax, Vt., he entered Dartmouth College and graduated in 1871. He studied law with Bainbridge Wadleigh in Milford, N. H., and in Boston with Col. T. L. Liver- more, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 11, 1873. He has been chair- man of the School Board of Milford, N. H. He married Katie E. Wheeler at Mil- ford, December 22, 1874, and lives at Wollaston (Quiney).
JONATHAN PORTER, son of Jonathan and Phebe (Abbot) Porter, was born in Med- ford, Mass., November 13, 1791, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He studied law with Luther Lawrence at Groton and Asahel Stearns at Chelmsford, and was ad- mitted to the Middlesex bar in November, 1819, and practiced in Boston. He de- livered the Phi Beta oration in 1828. He married, July 22, 1823, Catharine, daughter of Samuel and Anna (Orne) Gray, of Medford, and died at Medford June, 11, 1859.
EDWARD HENRY PIERCE, son of Samuel and Wilhelmina (Zimmerman) Pierce, was born at Stony Brook, Long Island, N. Y., and was educated at the Rochester Uni- versity, N. Y. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston with Smith & Bates, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 30, 1865. He was a member of the House of Representatives in 1868 and was counsel for the plaintiff in the well- known case of Chase vs. Nantucket, in which a verdict for $15,000 in consequence of a defect in the highway was the means in 1877 of altering the law applicable to such cases. He married at Rochester, N. Y., May 5, 1869, Emily Williston, daughter of Charles J. Hill, of Rochester, and his residence is now at Newtonville (Newton).
JOHN TYLER HASSAM is descended from William Hassam, or Horsham, who came to New England in or about 1684, and settled in Manchester, Mass. This ancestor married in Marblehead, December 4, 1684, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Allen, of Manchester, and died in Manchester about 1735. Jonathan Hassam, son of the ancestor William, was born in Manchester, August 17, 1702, where he married, August 10, 1727, Mary Bennett, and where he died February 21, 1754. William Hassam, son of Jonathan, was born in Manchester, August 11, 1752, married there Elizabeth, daughter of Ambrose Allen, May 15, 1780, and there died April 9, 1833. Jonathan, son of the last William, born in Manchester, May 23, 1784, married there October 22, 1808, Sally, daughter of John Cheever, and in 1849, Mary, widow of Thomas Smith, and died in Manchester, January 14, 1859. John Hassam, son of Jonathan, born in Manchester, September 4, 1809, married May 15, 1836, Abby, daughter of Amos Hilton, of Manchester, and died in Boston, August 3, 1885. John Tyler Has- sam, the subject of this sketch, was the son of John Hassam, and was born in Boston, September 20, 1841. He fitted for college at the Boston Latin School and graduated at Harvard in 1863. In December, 1863, he entered the army as first lieutenant of the Seventy-fifth United States Colored Infantry, and remained in the service from December 8, 1863, to August 1, 1864, having taken part in the Red River expedition. He studied law in the office of Ranny & Morse in Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, 1867. Beginning as a lawyer in general practice he has
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