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In 1888, he settled in Athol, where he engaged in the manu- facture of pianoforte cases as a member of the firm of Goddard and Manning, and continued in that business until 1897. Since that time he has devoted a considerable portion of his time to town affairs and other business of a public nature. He has served the town of Athol on the board of selectmen, board of health, assessors, sewer commissioner and in other town offices. He was appointed one of the deputy sheriffs of Worcester County. by SheriffChamberlin in Oct. 1903, and holds that position at the
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present time. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and one of its deacons.
On Sept. 15, 1880 he married Miss Sarah E. Forristall, daughter of Philander and Sally A. Forristall of Boston. They have two daughters: Charlotte Pitman, born Aug. 29, 1882; and Maud, born July 3, 1884.
Charlotte P. is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, and taught mathematics and science at the Bennington, Vermont, High School and other institutions. She is now treasurer and business manager of the Skidmore School of Art at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
Maud completed her education at the University of Minne- sota, and married Ernest C. Thatcher. They live in Athol.
THE FRANKLIN H. GODDARD FAMILY
Edward Goddard, son of William Goddard (2) was born in Watertown, Mass., March 24, 1674 or '75. He was a noted schoolmaster in Watertown, Boston and Framingham, Town Clerk of Framingham for twenty years from 1720, and also held many other important offices.
Simon Goddard, son of Edward Goddard (3) was born Feb. 18, 1701, and died Nov. 3, 1758, aged fifty-eight years. He settled in Shrewsbury, Mass. about 1731. He married Susannah Cloyes of Framingham, Nov. 2, 1727. She died at Athol where some of her family settled, November, 1798, aged ninety-four years.
Josiah Goddard, son of Simon Goddard (4), was born in Shrewsbury, Mass., Dec. 25, 1745. He settled in Athol, Mass., and married Ruth Raymond, Nov. 8, 1774 at Athol. He be- came a prominent citizen of Athol was magistrate, coroner and representative to the General Court. He was a prosperous farmer. He died at Athol, Oct. 23,. 1801. His children were: Henry, Nathan, Susannah, baptized at Royalston, May 12, 1787, and Sally, Nahum, Ashbel, Eber, Daniel, Rhoda and Nabby.
Ashbel Goddard, son of Josiah Goddard (5), was born in Athol about 1787.
He married Betsey Pierce, daughter of William and Sally Pierce, Nov. 21, 1811. He followed his father's occupation and was a well-to-do farmer of Royalston. His children,
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all born in Royalston were: Sally, born March 21, 1812; she married Samuel Wheeler of Dummerston, Vt., Aug. 25, 1846; Royal, born Jan. 8, 1814, died Oct. 17, 1839; Charles, born Nov. 19, 1815; Mary Ann, born June 2, 1818; George Nelson, born Feb. 18, 1821, died Jan. 1, 1840; Elizabeth, born Sept. 1, 1825; Franklin Horatio, born Nov. 25, 1828; and William Bailey, born July 13, 1832.
Charles Goddard, second son of Ashbel and Betsey Goddard, married Lucinda Presson of Gardner, March 1, 1842. He was a farmer in Royalston and moved to Athol about 1857. He had two children: Nelson Royal, born April 15, 1843 and died Sept. 19, 1849; and Charles Virgil, born Feb. 1, 1845.
Charles Virgil Goddard, son of Charles and Lucinda (Presson) Goddard married Ella F. Norcross, Dec. 31, 1867. They had nine children of whom all but one are now living (1915). He enlisted in the Civil War in Co. E, Fifty-third Mass. Regiment. After the war, he engaged in teaming of freight from the shops at Tully to Athol. He commenced the manufacture of blinds with Salmon Wakefield in a shop that stood where the plant of the Union Twist Drill Co. in Athol is now located. After one year he bought out Wakefield's interest in the business and ran it himself for about six years, employing about twenty- five hands. During about three years of this time the busi- ness was carried on in a shop known as the "Pioneer Mill" which he built on Laurel Street in Athol, and which was de- stroyed by fire and never rebuilt.
Mary Ann Goddard, second daughter of Ashbel and Betsey (Pierce) Goddard, married James M. Cheney of Athol, June 14, 1842.
Mr. Cheney was engaged in the manufacture of sash and blinds in a shop where the Union Twist Drill Co. is now located in Athol, and later had a sawmill near the same place. Their children were: Sarah Elizabeth, born in 1848, married Lewis S. Billings, May 27, 1896. They have no children and reside in Athol where Mr. Billings is engaged in the livery business.
William Wallace Cheney, born March 11, 1850, married Sadie Streeter of New York. They reside in Athol, where Mr. Cheney has always been engaged as a sash and blind maker.
James Wesley Cheney, born in November, 1851, and died when thirteen years old.
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Frank Cheney, born in 1861, died at the age of twenty-one years.
Mary Baker Cheney, born Jan. 19, 1856, married Arthur F. Tyler, a prominent manufacturer of Athol, May 12, 1875. They had eight children. She died in 1901.
Mary Ann (Goddard) Cheney died in January, 1902 and James M. Cheney in 1903.
Elizabeth Pierce Goddard, youngest daughter of Ashbel and Betsey (Pierce) Goddard, married Hiram Knapp of Franklin, Mass., Oct. 30, 1848, in Royalston, They resided in Athol for many years and had six children: Carrie Matilda, born Nov. 26, 1849; she married Albert D. Pond in Athol, Jan. 8, 1869, and they still reside in Athol; Annie Lizzie, born Nov. 23, 1849; she married Charles Eninger in Athol, Nov. 30, 1892 and is now living in New York City; they had one child who lived but a few months; Josephine Lucinda, born Oct. 1, 1851 and died Oct. 16, 1851; Charlie Gilbert, born Nov. 28, 1852, was drowned in the summer of 1859; Willie Elsworth, born Aug. 3, 1861; his home is in Athol; Emma Lois, born March 23, 1863, married Henri M. Prescott, and they live in Winchen- don. Hiram Knapp died in Athol, Dec. 28, 1885 and Eliza- beth Goddard Knapp died in Athol Feb. 8, 1892.
Franklin Horatio Goddard, son of Ashbel Goddard, was born in Royalston, Nov. 25, 1828. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Royalston Academy. When not in school he worked on his father's farm and in winter in the manufacture of straw hats. When a young man he left home and went to St. Louis, where he engaged in manufacturing. Just before the Civil War he enlisted in the Citizen Militia under General John C. Fremont and took an active part in the struggle which kept the State of Missouri in the Union when it seemed as if the secession sentiment was about to win. He was a prisoner of war in St. Louis for a short time. While in the west he taught school for a short time. Returning to Royalston, he engaged in farming until the infirmities . of old age compelled him to retire from active work. He was for many years one of the highway surveyors of the town, an active worker and member of the Congregational Church, and an earnest temperance worker. He married Sarah Mellen of Nashua, N. H. He married (second) Aug. 24, 1898, Ada Smith,
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daughter of Levi G. Smith of Winchendon. She was born April 3, 1858. He had no children by either marriage.
William Bailey Goddard, youngest child of Ashbel and Betsey Goddard, was born at Royalston, July 13, 1832. He married Fannie Earle of Phillipston. For a number of years he ran the stage line from Athol to Petersham and later from Royal- ston Centre to South Royalston, and resided for many years on the Common. He died April 5, 1893.
Henry Goddard 2d married Anna Davis, April 28, 1802. They had seven children: Mahala, born Jan. 16, 1803, married Sherman Bacon of Orange, April 30, 1831; Josiah, born April 6, 1805; Davis, born March 6, 1807; Anna and Amanda, twin daughters, born Jan. 11, 1809; Anna married Clement O. Reed of Worcester, Jan. 8, 1834 and Amanda married John Cowdrey of Westmoreland, N. H., May 25, 1835; Susanna, born March 22, 1811, died Oct. 13, 1827; and Sanford, born March 11, 1813.
Josiah Goddard, married Miranda White in Royalston, Feb. 3, 1829. When a young man he was in business in Boston for a time, after which he bought a farm in Orange where he lived until he died, Oct. 7, 1859. He had eight children, four boys and four girls, all of whom lived to manhood and woman- hood. He was a tall man, being six feet and four inches in height. He was a prominent man in his town and represented it in the Legislature. His oldest son, Dr. Josiah H. Goddard, was a leading physician of Franklin County, and during the forty years of his practice traveled with his team over two hun- dred thousand miles to answer calls.
Sanford Goddard was married in Boston to Julia A. Kendall of Dummerston, Vt. in 1835. They had six children; three boys and three girls: Edward L. Goddard, born in Royalston, Jan. 31, 1836 and Elvira A., born in Royalston, Aug. 12, 1838. Sanford Goddard moved to Montague, Mass., in 1839, where the other four children were born. Edward L. Goddard en- listed in Co. K, 26th Mass. Regiment, Sept. 12, 1861. Elvira A. Goddard married George A. Kaulback, March, 1867, and he enlisted in Co. G, 10th Mass. Regiment in June, 1861 and served three years.
Davis Goddard, the youngest son of Henry and Anna (Davis) Goddard was born in Royalston, March 6, 1807. He spent his boyhood days on a farm and received a common school edu- cation. When in his teens, he went to Boston, and, with his
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brother, started a light trucking business, which they continued a few years and found very profitable. He then went to North Orange, and opened a general country store, also acting as post- master. After a few years he moved to Orange, and in 1852, was appointed postmaster, a position which he held twenty- four years, when he resigned. He was elected town clerk in 1846, and was re-elected each year until 1856; was chosen select- man in 1861 and held the chairmanship for seven years. He went to the General Court as representative in 1857 and as senator in 1858. He also served as county commissioner of Franklin County from 1864 until 1870. He was for many years a director of the Franklin Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany of Greenfield, a charter director of Orange National Bank, and one of ten men who owned the Universalist Church at one time, and surrendered their claim to the Society. In poli- tics he was a Republican and in religion, a Universalist. He married Clara C. Ward of North Orange in 1834. They had no children. He was of an unassuming disposition, but still a leader among men, his advice on important matters being asked and always proving practical.
THE PIERCE FAMILY
The Pierce family of Royalston for the first century of the town's history was one of the most numerous families of the town, but to-day there is but one person bearing the name of Pierce who claims to be a resident of Royalston. The first member of the family to settle in Royalston was Capt. Gad Pierce, who was born in Lexington, Mass., June 10, 1741. He married Mary Foster of Acton and removed to Royalston. He built his home on the west bank of the Lawrence, where he opened a public house, and had a good farm. He died Jan. 15, 1811, at the age of seventy. The children of Capt. Gad and Mary (Foster) Pierce, born in Royalston were:
John, born Dec. 31, 1763, he married Hannah Sibley, June 28, 1787; Gad, born Jan. 19, 1768; Jonathan, born July 4, 1766, died July 29, 1838, aged 72; Molly, born Jan. 2, 1770; she married Josiah Piper, Jr., April 1, 1790, and died Jan. 24, 1849; William, born March 4, 1772, married Sally Work,
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May 12, 1791; Susannah, born March 5, 1774; Esther, born Feb. 16, 1776, married Robert Nichols, Sept. 1, 1796; Delight, born Mar. 19, 1778, married Wm. Sweetzer, Nov. 28, 1799; Joseph, born Aug. 23, 1782, married Patty Sharon, Feb. 22, 1802; Silas, born Sept. 14, 1784, married Anna Chubb, Sept. 6, 1807; Hannah, born April 24, 1780, married Elkanah Whipple.
William Pierce from Acton, father of Capt. Gad, and two other sons, Zebulon and Eliphalet, came to town with or soon after, Capt. Gad Pierce, and made settlements in the same neighborhood. But they all early removed and left no representatives.
William Pierce, third son of Capt. Gad and Mary (Foster) Pierce married Sally Work, May 12, 1791. They had ten children: Betsey and Sally, twin daughters, born in November, 1791, William, born April 19, 1794, Martha, born April 1, 1796; Jonas, born Feb. 15, 1798; Mary, born March 5, 1800, Royal, born March 27, 1802, Royal, born March 26, 1804, George, born Aug. 25, 1805 and James, born Oct. 2, 1807. Betsey married Ashbel Goddard, Nov. 21, 1811 and was the mother of Franklin H. Goddard. Mary married Leonard R. Turner, June 21, 1834 and was the mother of Mrs. Joseph T. Nichols.
Jonathan Pierce, second son of Capt. Gad and Mary (Foster) Pierce was born July 4, 1766. He married Huldah Sibley, daughter of Jonathan Sibley, one of the early settlers of Royalston. He was the "portly" post-man to whom Governor Bullock referred in his Centennial address, who drove the post and carried the mail between Worcester and Keene, through Royalston, bringing the weekly papers, the regular politics, and the distant gossip from the outside world. This mission he performed for nearly a quarter of a century, commencing about the year 1800.
Jonathan and Huldah (Sibley) Pierce had twelve children of whom the three first born died in infancy; the others were: Jonathan Sibley, born June 20, 1796, died June 13, 1829; Huldah, born April 20, 1799, died July 25, 1823; Cynthia, born Sept. 12, 1801, died May 24, 1822; Sumner, born Feb. 14, 1803, died March 8, 1878; Horace, born Dec. 15, 1804, died May 3, 1883; Paul, born March 8, 1808, died Oct. 27 1884; Columbus, born
IIORACE PIERCE
MILO H. PIERCE
FRANKLIN II. GODDARD
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Charlotte, born June 4, 1812, died May 3, 1893; Eunice, born Sept. 20, 1814, died Oct. 13, 1891.
Horace Pierce, son of Jonathan and Huldah (Sibley) Pierce, was born in Royalston, Dec. 15, 1804. He was for many years a manufacturer of wooden pails and buckets, his mill being in the north part of the town. At one time his son Milo was associated with him, the firm name being Horace Pierce & Son. He married Mary Blood, daughter of William and Betsey (Frye) Blood, Oct. 23, 1828. Their children were: Milo Horace, born June 28, 1829; Mary Louise, born August 5, 1831, died August 29, 1849, William Watson, born August 11, 1833, died May 27, 1836; Leander Frye, born March 28, 1836, died Dec. 29, 1836; Henry Leander, born Nov. 20, 1837, died April 29, 1863; Elizabeth Ann, born Oct. 10, 1841, died Sept. 10, 1849, Adelia Frye, born Aug. 14, 1844, died Aug. 24, 1849; Emma Louise, born March 5, 1849; Junius Ebenezer, born Oct. 28, 1850.
Milo Horace Pierce, son of Horace and Mary (Blood) Pierce, was born June 28, 1829. He was in business with his father in Royalston until 1869 under the firm name of Horace Pierce & Son, manufacturers of wooden pails and buckets. In the year 1869 he went to Baxter Springs, Kansas to be associated in business with William Blood, a brother of his mother. A few years later he was joined by his brother, Junius E. Pierce. They went to Texas and for a number of years did business in Dennison and Gainesville, under the firm name of M. H. Pierce and Brother. His health failed in 1892, when he returned to New England, and died at the home of his sister, Emma Pierce Stow, in Granville, Mass., Dec. 3, 1892. While in Kansas and Texas he was prominent in church and civic affairs and highly esteemed for his business integrity.
Junius E. Pierce was active in the development of the mer- cantile business of the firm and the towns where they were located. They were then frontier towns of the Southwest calling for men with strong convictions and the courage to stand for them. He was married Dec. 20, 1881 to Mildred A. Beety. They had one son who is Lieut. Junius Pierce, Coast Artillery, stationed at Fort McDowell, Angel Island, San Francisco Harbor, Cal. Junius E. Pierce died Oct. 20, 1896.
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Emma Louisa Pierce, youngest daughter of Horace and Mary (Blood) Pierce, was a well-known teacher in Royalston and Athol for a number of years. She was also a member of the Royalston School Committee, and for a short time librarian of the public library. She married Marshall V. Stow of Granville, Mass., Sept. 6, 1888, and that town is their home.
Charlotte Pierce, daughter of Jonathan and Huldah (Sibley) Pierce, born June 4, 1812, married Lucien Bryant of Templeton, Mass., April 24, 1833. She had two sons, Rev. Albert Bryant, a prominent clergyman and Solon Bryant, a merchant, and a daughter, Eunice Bryant, who was a well- known school teacher, and married W. F. Sawyer, a prom- inent druggist of Boston. She married, second, John Pierce, a widower, Nov. 30, 1848. They lived on a farm in the south part of the town, and later for many years on Royalston Common. She died May 3, 1893.
THE JONAS PIERCE FAMILY
Jonas Pierce, son of William and Sally (Work) Pierce, was born in Royalston, Feb. 15, 1798. He was a farmer and lived in Royalston. April 19, 1826, he married Fanny Earl, who was born June 17, 1804. They had ten children, all born in Royalston. William Pierce, born Feb. 19, 1827; he married Miss Lucretia Robinson, had one child Henrietta, now living in Norwood, Mass .; he died in Georgia in 1903; George Pierce, born August 11, 1828, died March 4, 1841; Henriette Pierce, born Nov. 14, 1830, married D. H. Haywood in 1860 and went West, had two children, Herbert and Bell; James W. Pierce, born Jan. 28, 1832. He lived in Fitchburg, Mass. where he was in the rattan cane business until 1861, when he went West to Denver City, and for the past thirty-five years his residence has been in Washington, Kansas, where he was engaged in mercantile business until 1911, since which time he has been retired from business.
He married Mary E. Langdon in Hartford, Conn., May 23, 1883; they have four children; two daughters, both married, one son in college in Lincoln, Nebraska, and one son in business; Jonas Blake Pierce, born Oct. 28, 1832,
GEORGE PIERCE
GEORGE E. PIERCE
MRS. LUCIEN LORD
MRS. MARY PIERCE TURNER
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married Betsey Warren; he died June 3, 1883; no children; Charles Pierce, born July 11, 1835, married - - Kellogg; they had four children, three daughters all of whom are living; he died August, 1905; Persis Witt Pierce, born March 19, 1836, died in infancy July 26, 1836; Sophia G. Pierce, born July 1, 1840, married Dr. Chester Stockwell, and had four children; she died August 24, 1905, in Springfield, Mass. George Pierce, the second, was born Sept. 8, 1841; he lives in Springfield, Mass. and has one son; Willard Pierce, born Oct. 27, 1851, married in Springfield and died in Hartford, Conn. in 1890. No children.
George Pierce, son of William and Sally (Work) Pierce was born in Royalston August 25, 1805. His life extended over nearly the whole of the 19th century, during which time he was a prominent factor in the life of the town. He was a well-known schoolmaster and taught in the northeast district where he had one hundred scholars. For many years he was a teamster to and from Boston before the day of railroads, driving an eight horse team and having for his load to Boston, pails, furniture, chairs, etc., from the Royal- ston shops, while on his return trip he brought great loads of goods for the Royalston stores which were then doing an extensive business. When the railroad was opened through the town that business was ended, and he became a farmer and butcher and dealer in cattle. In the early forties he purchased the General Gregory property on Royalston Common, which was his home for about half a century. On the organization of the Royalston Grenadiers he was chosen as First Lieutenant, and on the resignation of Capt. Cyrus B. Reed he was chosen Captain, which office he held as long as the company existed. He was the moderator of Royalston town meetings for twenty-five years or more. In politics he was first a Whig and later was a staunch Democrat. for many years, being a leader of the few Democrats in town. He married Delia Peck of Royalston, Sept. 17, 1835. The children of George and Delia (Peck) Pierce were as follows: George Everett, Lyman Elliott, Edwin F., Warren Albert, Delia M., Leonard T., and Webster.
George Everett Pierce, born Feb. 25, 1836, was the oldest son. He has been engaged the most of his life in the cattle business, commencing to buy cattle when but twelve years
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old. He used to buy up oxen and take them to the Brighton market, going to Vermont, and on some trips buying as many as four hundred head. He kept up this business most of the time from 1857 to 1892. Early in the Civil War, he, with a number of other Royalston men, was drafted and paid a commutation of $300. About 1861 he purchased of P. C. Tyler a stock of store goods at South Royalston, and had been started only three months when he was burned out, but continued the business about two years, having charge of the Post Office. He also went to Chicago about 1871, where he was engaged in the chair business for about two years. He has also done quite an extensive business in lumbering during the last twenty-five years. In 1899 he married Emma A. Reed, daughter of William Reed of Royal- ston. They were married in February of that year and she died in December of the same year. He was a prominent town officer having served on the Board of Assessors for many years. (He is the only person by the name of Pierce who is now a resident and taxpayer in the town of Royal- ston.) Was Town Treasurer from 1888 to 1899, and was collector of taxes for several years.
Lyman Elliot Pierce, second son of George and Delia (Peck) Pierce, was born Nov. 17, 1837. His business career began in Boston, as an employee of Joseph W. Merriam in the new Faneuil Hall market. Afterward he became a member of the firm of E. K. Goodall & Co., butter merchants in Faneuil Hall market, and having severed his connection with this concern, he accepted a position in the Chamber of Commerce.
For about thirty years he chaperoned the annual Pierce parties to Moosehead and Rangeley lakes. He was past Emi- nent Commander of the Coeur-de-Lion Commandery of Knights Templar of Charlestown, and an old member of Siloam Lodge of Odd Fellows. He married Annie Kirke of Nova Scotia, and resided in Melrose, Mass. He died in 1900, while attending a convention of butter-makers at Lincoln, Neb.
Edwin F. Pierce, third son of George and Delia (Peck) Pierce, was born July 5, 1839. He went to work for the Heywood Chair Company in Gardner when fourteen years old, and then to Springfield, Mass., where he was employed in the United States Armory for two or three years. He then
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went back into the chair business with Parker, White & Co., in their Boston store. He went to Chicago about 1864, and started a store, where he remained until 1871, when he sold out the spring before the great fire and returned to Boston, where he has ever since been engaged in the wholesale jobbing business in chairs. He married Elnora E. Barrett, of South Hadley, Mass., in 1868, and married, second, Sarah E. Davis in 1891, at Somerville, Mass. They have two daughters: Mary Ellen Pierce and Margaret Pierce.
Warren Albert Pierce, fourth son of George and Delia (Peck) Pierce, was born Nov. 28, 1840. When he first left home he was employed in the store of Oakes and Newton in Athol. He then went west, where he was a traveling sales- man in the boot and shoe business for many years. He married Fannie Lay of Chicago, which was their home there- after. He died in March, 1912 and Mrs. Pierce in 1915.
Delia M. Pierce, only daughter of George and Delia (Peck) Pierce, was born in Royalston Sept. 29, 1844. She was for several years a well-known teacher in the schools of Royalston and Athol, and it was while a teacher in the Athol schools that she became acquainted with Lucien Lord, a prominent young man of Athol, to whom she was married Sept. 31, 1868.
She was for many years one of the leading women of Athol, and the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Lord on Chestnut Hill Avenue became a popular center of social life, where frequent gatherings of their church and Sunday school were held, and where all of their many guests were enter- tained in a most hospitable and generous manner. From the organization of the Second Unitarian Church, Mrs. Lord was one of the most active and prominent members of that church, and also of the Woman's Alliance connected with it, and all the interests of those organizations received from her the heartiest support. She was also a charter member of the Athol Woman's Club in which she always took a deep interest. Mr. and Mrs. Lord had two children: a son, Edwin Everett, born in 1869 and died in 1874, and a daughter, Delia Eliza- beth, born Feb. 9, 1878. She married Carl Fletcher of Athol, Oct. 8, 1901, and their home was in Baldwinville, where Mrs. Fletcher died July 20, 1903. Mrs. Delia (Peirce) Lord, died March 6, 1915.
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