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DANIEL CLARK LINSCOTT, son of Jonathan and Hannah Linscott, was born in Jef- ferson, Me., March 17, 1828, and was educated at the Lincoln and Yarmouth Acade- mies in Maine, and at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1854. He studied law in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 3, 1860. He was a member of the City Council of Chelsea in 1864, and has been president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Bowdoin College. He married at Topsham, Me., July 29, 1855, Annie Barron, and lives in Boston.
FREDERICK E. LITCHFIELD, son of George A. and Sarah M. (Gurney) Litchfield, was born in Winchester, Mass., September 2, 1866, and studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1890. He is a member of the city council of Quincy, where he has his home, with an office in Boston.
GEORGE SHERMAN LITTLEFIELD, son of George Thomas and Ann (Thorpe) Little- field, was born in Watertown, Mass., April 27, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of E. R. Hoar, O. S. Knapp, and Selwyn Z. Bowman, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in October, 1872. He was a member of the School Board of Win- chester thirteen years, trial justice of Middlesex county seventeen years, and special justice of the Fourth District Court of Eastern Middlesex ten years. He married in Somerville, June 29, 1874, Georgiana Stevens, and makes Winchester his home.
CALEB WILLIAM LORING, son of Charles Greeley Loring, an eminent lawyer of Bos- ton, whose sketch may be found elsewhere in this register, was born in Boston, July 31, 1819. The maiden name of his mother was Anna Pierce Brace. He graduated at Harvard in 1839 and at the Harvard Law School in 1841, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1842, becoming associated in business with his father and William Dehon. He has been largely interested in various real estate and manufacturing companies, among which may be mentioned the Fifty Associates and the Plymouth Cordage Company, of the latter of which he is president. He married in 1847, Eliza- beth Smith, daughter of Augustus Peabody, of Salem, and has his residence at Bey- erly Farms (Beverly).
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WILLIAM CALEB LORING, son of the above, was born in Beverly, August 24, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in 1872. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1874, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June of that year. From December, 1876, to July, 1828, he was assistant attorney-general of the Commonwealth. He married Susan Mason Lawrence in 1883, and lives in Boston.
H. SELDON LORING, son of Hollis and Laura W. (Hitchcock) Loring, was born in Marlboro', Mass., and was educated at Andover. He studied law at the Boston Uni- versity Law School and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge July 1, 1885. He was seven years in the United States consular service and three years as a commissioned officer in the War of 1861. He married at Marlboro', October 19, 1864, Sarah Howard Allen, and lives at Allston, a district of Boston.
PETER S. MANIER was born in South Boston, December 21, 1847, and after attend- ing the public schools entered the employ of James M. Beebe & Company, with whom he remained five years. He was then clerk in the banking house of William Chad- born and afterwards studied law in Worcester with George F. Very, and was ad- mitted to the Worcester bar in 1882. He came from Worcester to Boston in 1885, and became associated with Charles J. Noyes.
JOHN P. MANNING was born in Boston, June 17, 1851, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law in the office of John W. Mahan and was admitted to the Suffolk county bar January 1, 1874. In September, 1868, he entered the office of the clerk of the Superior Criminal Court as copyist, and in May, 1874, he was ap- pointed assistant clerk. On the death of the clerk, Henry Homer, John C. Park was appointed to fill the vacancy, but at the next election Mr. Manning was chosen clerk, and still holds the office.
FRANK ATLEE MASON, son of David Haven and Sarah (White) Mason, was born in Newton, Mass., April 12, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and the Boston University Law School, and with William HI. Orcutt, Albert T. Sinclair, and Edward H. Mason, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar in the autumn of 1888. He is unmarried and lives in Newton.
HARRY WHITE MASON, son of David Haven and Sarah (White) Mason, was born in Newton, May 20, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He married Ida P. Dawes at Boston, June 30, 1884, and lives in Newton.
ยท EDMUND HATCH BENNETT, son of Milo Lyman and Adeline (Hatch) Bennett, was born in Manchester, Vt., April 6, 1824. His father, a jurist of note, was born in Sharon, Conn., in 1790, and graduated at Yale in 1811. He studied law at the Law School in Litchfield, Conn., and establishing himself in practice in Burlington, Vt., became in 1839 an associate justice of the Supreme Court in Vermont, and died in Taunton, Mass., July 7, 1868. The subject of this sketch was educated at Vermont University in Burlington, where he graduated in 1843, and where he received the degree of LL. D. in 1872. He studied law with his father and was admitted to prac- tice in Vermont in September, 1847. He soon after came to Boston and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 1848. Not long after his admission to the bar he removed to Taunton, where he has continued to reside, with for many years an office in Boston. A thorough student of law, faithful and assiduous in the perform-
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ance of every duty, he soon became a marked and trusted man at both the Bristol and Suffolk bars. At the time the offices of judge of probate and judge of insolvency in the several counties were merged and the office of judge of probate and insolvency was created by law in 1858, he was appointed to that office for Bristol county, and held it until his resignation in 1883. He was mayor of Taunton from 1865 to 1867 inclusive, lecturer at the Harvard Law School from 1869 to 1871, and is now dean and professor in the Boston University Law School. In 1889 he delivered the his- torical address on the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Taunton, a production illustrating the thoroughness and exactness of research and statement which characterize all his efforts. His labors in the literature of the law have been constant and valuable. He has edited all of the law works of Judge Story, Brigham on Infancy, Blackwell on Tax Titles, Cushing's Massachusetts Reports, volumes 9 to 12 inclusive, Digest of Decisions, Goddard on Easements, Greenleaf's Reports, 8 volumes, English Law and Equity Reports, 30 volumes, Ben- jamin on Sales, Poperoy's Constitutional Law, Leading Criminal Cases, 2 volumes, Indermauer's Principles of Common Law, Fire Insurance Cases, 5 volumes, has been co-editor of the American Law Register several years, and contributor to the Al- bany Law Journal and the Boston Law Reporter. He married, June 23, 1853, at Taunton, where he still has his residence, Sally, daughter of Samuel L. Crocker, of that city.
CHARLES BROOKS BROWN, son of Major Wallace and Mary (Brooks) Brown, was born in Cambridge, Mass., September 29, 1835, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He studied law in the office of Griffin & Boardman in Charlestown, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 28, 1858. He first practiced in Springfield, then in Charles- town, and finally in Boston. He delivered an oration, November 14, 1860, before the Cambridge High School Association. In the War of 1861 he was a private in Company C, Third Massachusetts Regiment, during a three months' service, and a private in Company G, Nineteenth Massachusetts three years' Regiment, and was killed in the Wilderness, May 13, 1864.
EDWARD EVERETT BLODGETT, son of Warren K. and Minnie P. Blodgett, was born in Boston, January 22, 1865, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Gaston & Whitney, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1889. He married, November 17, 1891, Mabel L. Fuller, and lives in Brookline.
JOSEPH CUMMINGS, son of Joseph and Susan T. (Howland) Cummings, was born in Taunton, Mass., October 21, 1856, and was educated at the Taunton High School and at Tufts College, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1883. He was a member of the Common Council of Somerville in 1888-89. He is unmarried, and lives in Somerville.
SAMUEL W. CREECH Was born in Boston, November 7, 1839, and was educated at the public schools. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1862, and was associated for a time with Wm. J. Hubbard.
JAY BOYD CRAWFORD, son of Nathaniel B. and Lucretia R. Crawford, was born in Trumbull county, O., February 1, 1850, and was educated in Michigan. He studied law in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1875. He is engaged
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wholly in civil business. He is the author of a History of the Credit Mobilier. He married in Baltimore, Md., November 4, 1880, Eva J. Hunter, and lives in the Rox- bury District of Boston.
IHIRAM BURR CRANDALL, son of Hiram T. and Elberia (Jenks) Crandall, was born in Adams, Mass., October 21, 1834, and was educated at the Adams High School, the Fort Edward Institute, and at Williams College, where he graduated in 1859. He studied law with Jarvis N. Dunhamy, of Adams, and John Albion Andrew, of Bos- ton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 8, 1861. He was appointed commis- sioner of insolvency for Suffolk county, June 15, 1861; inspector of Rainsford Island hospital, October 13, 1865; public administrator for Suffolk county October 15, 1872; member of the Common Council of Boston in 1867, and adjutant of the Sixty-first Massachusetts Regiment November 30, 1864. He lives in Boston.
FREDERIC CUNNINGHAM, son of Frederic and Sarah M. (Parker) Cunningham, was born in Cohasset, Mass., and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Har- vard, where he graduated in 1874. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1877, and after further study with Lewis S. Dabney in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1878. His business is confined chiefly to marine cases. He married in Brookline, December 11, 1877, Hetty S. Lawrence, and lives in Brookline.
THOMAS FLORIAN CURRIER, son of Thomas Sargent and Betsey Currier, was born in Newbury, Mass., about 1835, and attended public and private schools. He studied law with A. L. Cushing in Randolph, Mass., and was admitted to the Norfolk county bar at Dedham in 1862. He lives in Boston, where he has his office.
JOHN HENRY BUTLER, son of William and Hannah (Paine) Butler, was born in Thomaston, Me., October 11, 1819, and fitting for college at Sandwich, N. H., and Fryeburg, Me., graduated at Dartmouth in 1846. After leaving college he was usher in the Brimmer School in Boston three years and master three years. He studied law in Boston with Lyman Mason and with Ranney & Morse, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the winter of 1852-3, and was associated for a time with Aaron Kingsbury. He married in 1849, Charlotte P. Libbey, of Portland.
WILLIAM HENRY BROWN, son of Daniel H. and Anna Maria (Abbot) Brown, was born in Ashland, Ky., and was educated at the Bridgewater Normal School. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1886. He is unmarried and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston.
CHARLES BROWNE, son of Moses and Mary Browne, was born in Beverly, Mass., May 24, 1793, and studied law in Beverly with Nathan Dane. After his admission to the bar he came to Boston and became a partner in the book firm of Hilliard, Gray & Co., and was a director in the New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. He married, December 14, 1825, Elizabeth Isabella, daughter of Bryant P. Tilden, and died in Boston, July 21, 1856.
EDWARD INGERSOLL BROWNE, son of the above, was born in Boston, February 11, 1833, and was educated at the English High and Latin Schools in Boston, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1855. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1857, and in Boston in the office of Edward D. Sohier and Charles A. Welch, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 21, 1858. He is un- married and lives in Boston.
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WARREN PRESTON DUDLEY, son of Harrison and Elizabeth (Prentiss) Dudley, was born in Auburn, Me., June 25, 1852, and was educated at the public schools in New Bedford. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1877, and in Boston in the office of Sanford Harrison Dudley, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar October 31, 1877. He has been secretary of the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission since its inauguration August 15, 1884. He is unmarried, and lives in Cambridge.
GEORGE ADDISON BROWN, son of James S. and Polly Frazier Brown, was born in Plymouth, Vt., November 24, 1854, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1877. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and at Bellows Falls in the office of J. D. Bridgeman, and was admitted to the Windham county bar in Vermont, and to the Suffolk bar March 3, 1891. He married Flora E. Pierce in Springfield, Vt., July 18, 1877, and lives in Everett.
HOWARD KINMONTHI BROWN, son of George Bruce and Marrianne E. (Sprague) Brown, was born in Boston, September 25, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of George V. Leverett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1883.
JOHN F. BROWN was born in Douglas, March 20, 1848, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar in July, 1874. He was a representative in 1887-88.
GEORGE ERASTUS CURRY, son of James C. and Minnie (Young) Curry, was born in Cleveland, Tenn., February 13, 1854, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and Boston University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He married Clara A. Neal in Dorchester, July 16, 1880, and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston.
HENRY OTIS CUSHMAN, son of George F. and Luella M. Cushman, was born in Lis- bon, N. H., and graduated at Dartmouth in 1887. He studied law with H. C. Ide and W. P. Stafford, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Vermont bar at Montpelier, and to the Suffolk bar October 20, 1891. He was a lecturer on commercial law at the Howard University Law School in Washington, D. C., in 1890. He married in Boston Isabel Poland Rankin, and lives in Boston.
FRANCIS LOWELL DUTTON, son of Warren and Elizabeth Cabot (Lowell) Dutton, was born in Boston, June 21, 1812, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1834, and was a member of the Suffolk bar. He died in Brookline, December 15, 1854.
RICHARD SYLVESTER Dow was born in Davenport, Ia., May 2, 1863, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1891, and lives in Boston.
MARQUIS FAYETTE DICKINSON, son of Marquis F. and Hannah S. (Williams) Dickin- son, was born in Amherst, Mass., January 16, 1840. He received his early education at the public schools, at the Amherst and Monson Academies, and at Williston Semi- nary in Easthampton, from which he graduated in 1858. He then entered Amherst College, and after graduating in 1862 he was a teacher in the Williston Seminary un- til 1865, after which he studied law in Springfield in the office of Wells & Soule, in Boston in the office of George S. Hillard and at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1867, and was assistant United States attorney from
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1869 to 1871. He then became associated in practice with George S. Hillard and Henry D. Hyde, as a member of the firm of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson, and after the death of Mr. Hillard the firm was changed to Hyde, Dickinson & Howe, it now being Hyde & Dickinson. The business of the firm was early established, and through its various changes has maintained a leading position at the Suffolk bar. It has been specially prominent in the management of a large number of important cases for the West End Street Railway Company: The process of merging a number of companies in that corporation, the changes from horse to electric power, the ac- quirement of new rights and privileges from the Legislature, from the city govern- ment, and the authorities of towns contiguous to Boston, together with the numer- ous questions and claims necessarily attending the life and maintenance of a com- pany on whose methods and acts the rapid transit of suburban travel depends, have imposed on this firm constant and increasing responsibilities, which have been met and discharged with fidelity and skill. Mr. Dickinson has been a member of the Boston School Board, trustee of the Boston Public Library, trustee of the Williston Seminary, overseer of the Charity Fund of Amherst College, was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1871 and 1872, and during the latter year the president of the board. He delivered the centennial address in Amherst in 1876. He married at Easthampton, Mass., November 23, 1864, Cecilia R., an adopted daughter of Samuel Williston, and has his legal residence at Cohasset, with a winter residence in Brook- line.
THOMAS AMORY DEXTER Was born in Boston May 16, 1790, and graduated at Har- vard in 1810. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813, and died in Boston, March 9, 1873.
ARTIIUR LITHGOW DEVENS, son of Charles and Mary (Lithgow) Devens, and brother of General Charles Devens, was born in Charlestown, Mass., April 27, 1821. He fitted for college under the instruction of Joseph Lovering and Abiel Abbot Livermore, and graduated at Harvard in 1840. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and after admission to the bar began practice in Walpole, N. H., moving afterwards to Northfield and Ware, Mass., and remaining in the latter place until 1850. In 1848 he was a representative from Ware. In 1850 he was appointed agent of the Otis Man- ufacturing Company, and continued in that position until 1859, when he became a partner in the firm of James W. Paige & Co., of Boston. In 1862 he was appointed treasurer of the Appleton and Hamilton Manufacturing Companies, and so continued until his death. He married Agnes H., daughter of Abijah White, of Watertown, and died at Nahant July 22, 1867.
ISAAC JONES CUTTER, Son of Daniel and Sally Cutter, was born in Jaffrey, N. H., May 21, 1830, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1852. He studied law with Edward S. Cutter in Peterboro', N. H., and with John Q. A. Griffin in Charlestown, Mass., and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in 1855. He married at Boston in 1858, Margaret F. Wood, and lives in Boston.
LOUIS THOMAS CUSHING, son of Thomas and Elizabeth A. (Baldwin) Cushing, was born in Boston May 31, 1849, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1870. He studied law in Boston in the office of Ly- mian Mason and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875. He was a representative in 1883, and has been chairman of the
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School Committee and trustee of the Cohasset Public Library a number of years. He married at Cohasset February 14, 1871, Mary Rebecca Johnson, and lives in Cohasset.
HENRY CODMAN, was born in Portland October 1, 1789, and graduated at Harvard in 1808. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1811, and practiced in Bos- ton. He died in Roxbury May 4, 1853.
ROBERT ORNE BURNHAM, son of John and Sarah (Choate) Burnham, was born in Essex, Mass., October 28, 1849, and was educated at Colby Academy, New London, N. H., and at Brown University, where he graduated in 1875. He studied law in Salem with George F. Choate and William D. Northend, and in Boston with Edgar Jay Sherman and E. B. Hagar, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 8, 1884. Soon after leaving college he was attacked by a disease of the eyes, which, until re- lieved by an operation about two years since, threw a serious obstacle in the way of his preparation for the bar, and subsequently in the way of his entrance upon his pro- fession. The relief so fortunately secured has enabled him to advance rapidly towards success in his career.
JAMES W. MCDONALD, son of Michael and Jane McDonald, was born in Marlboro', Mass., May 15, 1853, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law in Marl- boro' with William B. Gale, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in July, 1876. He has been a member of the School Committee in Marlboro' twelve years, special justice of the Marlboro' Police Court, city solicitor, representative in 1880, and senator in 1891-92. He lives in Marlboro'.
SAMUEL W. McDANIEL, son of Joseph A. and Hannah McDaniel, was born in Phila- delphia, November 18, 1833. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 12, 1878. He was a representative in 1873, a member of the Cambridge School Board from 1874 to 1877, a councilman in Cambridge in 1882-83, alderman in 1884, has been trustee of the Cambridge Public Library, spe- cial justice of the Third District Court of Cambridge, and trustee of the State Reform School, which office he now holds, for five years from July, 1890. He lives in Cam- bridge.
JAMES E. MAYNADIER, son of General William Maynadier, was born in Baltimore, November 23, 1839, and was educated in Maryland and Washington. He came to Boston in 1856, and entered as a student the office of Causten Browne, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar November 28, 1859, at the age of twenty years. He served one year in Company K, Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, in the War of 1861. His practice is chiefly connected with patents.
JAMES AUDLEY MAXWELL, son of Joseph Edward and Sarah Holmes Maxwell, was born in Sunbury, Ga., and was educated at Franklin College, University of Georgia and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied law with Chief Justice Lumpkin, of Georgia, and T. R. R. Cobb, author of the "Digest of the Law of Georgia," and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1874. He is the author of a work on the " Causes and Consequences of the Civil War." He married Kathleen Came- ron, of Ridgewood, N. J., February 24, 1870, and lives in the Roxbury District of Boston.
GERARD CURTIS TOBEY, son of Joshua B. and Susanna K. (Pratt) Tobey, was born in Wareham, Mass., October 16, 1836, and was educated at the public schools in Ware-
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ham, the Bridgewater Academy, the Pierce Academy in Middleboro', at Paul Wing's private school in Sandwich, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1858. He grad- uated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and after further study in the office of Brooks & Ball in Boston, he was admitted to the Stiffolk bar May 4, 1863. He be- came associated with Brooks & Ball as partner and continued with them in active practice until 1872. Since that time he has been extensively engaged in a business combining the departments of banking, manufacturing, and shipping. He is un- married and lives in Wareham.
HENRY CHILDS MERWIN, son of Elias and Anne (Childs) Merwin, was born in Pitts- field, Mass., August 5, 1853, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1877. He is associate justice of the Central Middlesex District Court, and lect- ttrer in the Boston University Law School. He is the author of a work on the " Pat- entability of Inventions," and a book entitled " Road, Track and Stable." He mar- ried Anne Amory Andrew in Boston, April 22, 1884, and has his residence in Con- cord, with an office in Boston.
BENJAMIN LOWELL MERRILL TOWER, son of Dr. George and Adelane (Lane) Tower, was born in Boston, June 17, 1848, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1869. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston with Brooks & Ball, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1871. In 1874 he became a partner in the firm of Brooks, Ball & Storey, and in 1887, after the death of Mr. Brooks and the departure of Mr. Storey from the firm, the firm name has been Ball & Tower.
THOMAS FRENCH TEMPLE was born in Canton, Mass., May 2, 1838, and was educated at the public schools of Dorchester. He was clerk and treasurer of the town of Dor- chester before its annexation to Boston in 1869, when he was appointed judge of the Municipal Court of the Dorchester District of Boston. Since 1871 he has been regis- ter of deeds of Suffolk county.
BENJAMIN FRANK WATSON was born in Warner, N. H., April 30, 1826, and was educated chiefly in the public schools of Lowell, where he lived from 1835 to 1848. He studied law in Lowell, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1849. He settled in Lawrence, was the editor and proprietor of the Lawrence Sentinel, postmaster under Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln, and as major and lieutenant-colonel served with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment three months at the beginning of the war. He was in command of the detachment of the Sixth Regiment which was attacked in its passage through Baltimore in April, 1861. In 1867 he removed to New York.
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