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(IV) Elijah, son of Josiah Grant, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, April 28, 1728, and (lied at Norfolk, August 7, 1798. He removed from Litchfield to Grantville in 1761, and was selectman and representative to the legislature. He married, March 10, 1755, at Amity, Mary Andrews, died December 11, 1821. Children : I. Joel, born February 21, 1756, mentioned below. 2. Lois, November 5, 1757, married, 1795, Chauncey Hills. 3. Roswell, August 18, 1762, died July 7, 1837; was in the revolu- tion ; married Anna or Eliza Coy. 4. Moses, August 3, 1765, died March 4, 1835 ; married, February 9, 1793, Sarah Phelps. 5. Levi, born 1771, died January 12, 1816; married, November 21, 1792, Rhoda Andrews.
(V) Joel, son of Elijah Grant, was born in Litchfield, February 21, 1756, died at Norfolk, March 16, 1796. He married, at Norfolk, January 5, 1782, Zilpah, born at Torrington, June 17, 1762, died August 18, 1824, daughter of Samuel and Sibilla (North) Cowles. She married (second) February 2, 1818, Joseph Hull, of Norfolk. Joel Grant resided at Nor- folk and was a farmer. He was in the revo- lution in Captain Beebe's company, Colonel Enos' regiment, in 1778. Children: I. Eli- jah, born October 28, 1782, mentioned below. 2. Jerusha, April 3, 1785, died March 3, 1828; married (first) December 10, 1801, Cyrus Walter; (second) 1808, Roswell Griswold. 3. Nancy, April 25, 1788, died January 5, 1833; married, January 30, 1811, Deacon Amos Pet- tibone. 4. James, January 29, 179-, died February 20, 1826; married, 1812, Jerusha Phelps. 5. Zilpah Polly, May 30, 1794, died December 3, 1874; married, September 7, 1841, Hon. William Bostwick Bannister.
(VI) Elijah, son of Joel Grant, was born at Norfolk, Connecticut, October 28, 1782, died at Millbrook, August 25, 1867. He resided at Millbrook and was deacon of the Congrega- tional church at Colebrook. He served in nearly every town office. He married, at Cole-
brook, November 11, 1807, Elizabeth, born October 18, 1784, died January 26, 1866, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth or Sarah ( Barnard) Phelps. Children : I. Elijah Phelps, born August 25, 1809, died December 2, 1875; married, September 7, 1836, Susan Jenkins Boyd. 2. Mary Zilpah, August 18, 1811, died in India, June 24, 1842; married, March 11, 1839, Ebenezer Burgess; was a missionary. 3. Elizabeth, February 8, 1813,
died 1885 ; married, September 12, 1836, Will- iam Burton. 4. Joel, January 24, 1816, men- tioned below. 5. Daniel, June 19, 1818, died January 2, 1892 ; married, May 10, 1843, Caro- line Burr. 6. Abigail, June 5, 1820, died July 25, 1835. 7. John, August 29, 1822, dicd July 5, 1878; married, August 20, 1857, Sarah Gertrude Day. 8. Martha, July 13, 1824, died unmarried September 21, 1847. 9. James Marcus, January 19, 1827, married, December 31, 1868, Harriet Lucy Wood.
(VII) Joel, son of Elijah Grant, was born at Millbrook, Connecticut, January 24, 1816, died at Downers Grove, Illinois, December 31, 1873. He graduated at Yale College in 1838 and attended Andover Theological Semi- nary in 1842-43, and Yale Theological Semi- nary in 1843-45. He taught school at Berlin, Maryland, in 1838-39 and from then until 1842 was professor of mathematics in the United States navy. He was pastor of Con- gregational churches at Lockport, Illinois, 1845-47, 1852-58, and 1860-61 ; in West Avon, 1847-52 ; in Bristol, Illinois, 1858-60; and Cam- bridge, Illinois, in 1866. He was chaplain of the Twelfth Illinois Volunteer Infantry 1861- 65, and of the One hundred and thirteenth United States Colored Infantry in 1865-66, in the civil war. He married, at Norfolk, Con- necticut, October 12, 1845, Abigail Fidelia, born August 13, 1820, died May 5, 1881, daughter of Moses and Hannah (Betts) Cowles. Children : I. John Cowles, born April 21, 1848, mentioned below. 2. Mary Hannah, June 18, 1851, died August 2, 1853. 3. William Elijah, July 30, 1852, died Oc- tober 16, 1869. 4. Robert Stuart, October 5, 1857, died December 7, 1858.
(VIII) John Cowles, son of Joel Grant, was born at Avon, Connecticut, April 21, 1848. He received the degree of A. B. at Yale Col- lege in 1869 and A. M. in 1872, and the de- gree of LL.D. at Fargo College in 1897. He resides in Chicago, Illinois. He married (first) at Denver, Colorado, July 14, 1878, Susan Rae, born in New York City, December 4, 1847, died January 14, 1883, at Chicago, daughter of Charles Henry. He married
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(second) at Wiscasset, Maine, August II, 1886, Anna Foote Coffin, born January 21, 1857, daughter of Isaac H. and Mary Tod (Foote) Coffin. Child by first wife: Susan Cowles, born November 1, 1882, married Har- old Joseph Emerson Smith (see Smith fam- ily). Child by second wife : Mary Foote, born October 30, 1891.
(For preceding generations see Henry Prentiss (Pren- tice) 1.) (VI) Henry, son of Rev. Ca- PRENTISS leb Prentiss, was born Decem- ber 10, 1779. died November 2, 1843. He settled in Paris, Maine, where he resided for many years. He was a promi- nent Whig, a witty, sharp political writer. In 1822-23 he was state representative, justice of the peace, etc. He married, February 13, 1804, Mary, born February 13, 1779, died of palsy, daughter of Dr. John Hart, of Reading, Massachusetts. Children: I. Mary, born Oc- tober 17, 1804, died February 12, 1805. 2. Mary Hart, January 26, 1807. 3. Henry Epaminondas, February 12, 1809, mentioned below. 4. Emily, December 27, 1810, died July 1, 1812. 5. Lucinda, July 7, 1812, mar- ried, September, 1834, Henry Howes. 6. Pa- mela, 1813, died February, 1817. 7. Emily, 1814. 8. Julia, March 13, 1815, married El- brige Forbes. 9. Sarah Jane, November 29, 1823, died October 21, 1877, unmarried ; nurse in the civil war.
(VII) Hon. Henry E., son of Henry Pren- tiss, was born February 12, 1809, died sud- denly of heart disease July 1, 1873. He was educated at West Point, graduating in 1831, ranking fourth in his class. He was assistant teacher of mathematics there two years, and then received a commission in the United States army and was sent with the troops to Fort Morgan, Alabama. In 1835 he resigned to study law. He read law with Kent & Cut- ting in Bangor, and settled in Old Town, Maine. In 1836 he was a law partner with Israel Washburn, afterward governor of Maine, in Orono, Maine. In 1839 he was captain of engineers to settle the northeastern boundary in the Aroostook war. He returned to Bangor in 1839 and practised law several years until he became interested in the lumber business. He was his own surveyor and ex- plorer, traveling in the wilds of Maine with a pack on his back, climbing tall trees to get a better survey of the timber lands, often by himself. At the age of eighteen he joined a temperance association, and always was faith- ful to its principles. He was frugal and lib-
eral, and fond of books. He gave three public libraries to towns where he owned land, and one to his native place, and in his will a hand- some donation to the principal library in Ban- gor, and his own library to his wife. From 1857 to 1859 he was a member of the state legislature, and in 1870-71 was mayor of Ban- gor, and in both cases was elected on account of his stand on the temperance question. Hon. A. G. Wakefield, of the Penobscot bar and of the supreme judicial court at Bangor, said of him: "By his cheerful temper, courteous manner and genial companionship, he had en- deared himself not only to his brethren in the profession, but to all in the circle of his ac- quaintance, and won a high and honorable position at the bar as a good lawyer. In early life of adverse circumstances, he cheerfully and manfully practised strict economy, and when wealth had crowned a life of industry he used it to minister to refined and cultivated taste and in liberally and cheerfully dispens- ing his charities and hospitalities for the happi- ness of others; possessing untiring industry and perseverance, unspotted integrity, loyalty to every duty in all things, and strictly hon- est that we feel ourselves honored in tendering to his memory this tribute of our sincerest respect." Mr. Prentiss was very lib- eral in the education of his children, sisters and friends, and left legacies to each of his nieces. He married, September 30, 1836, Abi- gail Adams, born February 5, 18II, at Paris, Maine, died about 1908, daughter of Captain Samuel and Polly (Freeland) Rawson, and a direct descendant of Edward Rawson, colonial secretary of Massachusetts, who came of an ancient and honorable English house, one of his forbears having the rare distinction of be- ing interred within the royal precincts of Windsor Castle. Children : I. John Hart, born November 26, 1837, died July 3, 1859; educated at Union College, New York ; studied medicine at Brunswick, Maine, and at the Jef- ferson Medical College, Philadelphia; assis- tant physician in the hospital for the insane at Augusta, Maine, where he died of typhoid fever contracted there. 2. Henry Mellen, July 20, 1840, mentioned below. 3. Abbie Rawson, June 25, 1842, married, March 19, 1868, George Frederick Godfrey, a lumber merchant of Bangor; children: i. Henry Prentiss Godfrey, born November 8, 1869; ii. Angela Godfrey, October 9, 1871; iii. George Herbert Godfrey, January 21, 1876; iv. Ed- ward Rawson Godfrey, December 27, 1877. 4. Mary Freedland, September 1, 1846, in Bangor, married, October 15, 1879, James
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Murray Kay, of Glasgow, Scotland ; children : i. Winifred Prentiss Kay, born August 21, 1880; ii. Jean Katherine Murray Kay, August 8, 1882. 5. Samuel Rawson, August 26, 1849, graduated at Harvard Law School ; partner of his brother, Henry M. Prentiss, at Bangor, and was in the land and lumber business also at Oakland, California; married, November 3, 1874, Maria Louisa Wing, daughter of Aaron H. Wing, of Bangor, and had John Wing, born August 15, 1875.
(VIII) Henry Mellen, son of Hon. Henry E. Prentiss, was born in Bangor, Maine, July 20, 1840. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1864, and on completion of his studies became the manager of his father's ex- tensive estate, directing operations on the vast tracts of timber lands owned by the elder Prentiss in Maine and Pennsylvania and ex- hibiting a business ability and shrewd judg- ment far beyond his years. It was his prac- tice to spend his forenoons in the office, look- ing after the important interests under his charge, and to devote the afternoons to those outdoor sports peculiar to his native state, in which often strenuous pastimes he became an expert and an acknowledged leader. He con- tinued actively engaged in the management of timber lands until as late as 1902, and dur- ing the thirty-odd years that he was identified with the industry, he acquired a knowledge of the business that was conceded to be au- thoritative. There was nothing relating to the timber lands of Maine that he could not discuss with accuracy, his broad range of knowledge on this subject being based on practical experience. While an untiring worker in his own field and an enthusiastic sportsman, Mr. Prentiss still found time for intellectual diversions. He remained a perse- vering scholar all his life and was known as a deep reader of the best English and French literature and also as a writer of ability. He gave a portion of his time to authorship and acquired no mean reputation as a writer on scientific topics. He was especially interested in the matter of Arctic explorations, and his studies of that subject were such as to gain for him world-wide reputation as an authority. Many papers from his pen on this question were published in the Westminster Review, the Nineteenth Century magazine, the New York Herald, and other leading periodicals, and his book, "The Great Polar Current." attracted much attention and favorable comment in the scientific world and received the approbation of such distinguished authorities upon the sub- ject as Admirals Makaroff, Markham and
Melville, Commanders Peary, Nansen and Prince Kropotkin. He was a prominent mem- ber of the National Geographical Society, of Washington, D. C., and the Royal Geographi- cal Society of London, England, and he be- longed to the Somerset Club of Boston and the Tarratine Club of Bangor. He was a Uni- tarian in his religious views, and was an in- dependent Republican in his political thought and action, holding the general good above mere partisan considerations. It has been justly said of him that in his business rela- tions, his reputation was that of an absolutely fair and honest man. His courtesy and kind- ness toward all were unfailing, his hospitality was unbounded, and he won the warm esteem of all with whom he came in contact by reason of qualities that could not fail to attract and command regard.
He married (first) November 30, 1865, Julia, daughter of Calvin Dwinel, of Bangor, by whom he had two children: I. Henry, married Leslie Boynton, of Boston. 2. Elsie, married Nathaniel Lord, owner of the Veazie Bank, of Bangor. He married (second) 1901, Mrs. Marian Howard Smith, daughter of D. M. Howard, of Bangor, by whom he was sur- vived (see sketches of Howard and Smith families elsewhere). Shortly after his second marriage, he removed from Bangor to Wis- casset, where he and his wife spent the greater part of the time, having a winter residence in New York City, and it was at his latter home that Mr. Prentiss died of heart failure, suc- ceeding an attack of bronchitis, March 4, 1906. Besides his widow and two children, he was outlived by a brother, Samuel R. Prentiss, of Bangor, and by two sisters, Mrs. J. Murray Kay, of Brookline, Massachusetts, and Mrs. G. F. Godfrey, of Bangor.
The surnames Lothrop and LOTHROP Lathrop have been known in New England history since the earliest times of the colony, and whether written Lothrop, Lathrop or Lathropp, the meaning is the same, and has relation to either one or the other of two half-brothers, the first being the Rev. John Lathropp and the other Mark Lothrop, both sons of Thomas Low- throppe, of Cherry Burton, a town about four miles from the ancient seat of the old Low -. thrope family, in the wapentake of Dickering, east riding of Yorkshire, England. Lowthrope is a small parish of about one hundred and fifty inhabitants, a perpetual curacy in the archdeaconry of York; and from this parish the family of Lowthrop, Lothrop or Lathrop.
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received its name. Robert de Lowthrop was a chaplain of the church in the reign of Rich- ard II. In the early part of the sixteenth cen- tury John Lowthroppe was living in Cherry Burton, and was a gentleman having landed estates in various parts of Yorkshire. There is no record of his parentage or of any of the members of his own family except the account of his son Robert, who succeeded to the pater- nal estates in Cherry Burton, and who died in 1558. Among the children of Robert was Thomas, who was born in Cherry Burton, and married there three wives, there being issue of each marriage. One of the children of the second marriage was the Rev. John Lathropp, the American ancestor of one of the principal branches of the Lothrop-Lathrop families in this country. The third wife of Thomas Lothrop was Jane, and one of their five chil- dren was Mark Lothrop, who was baptized in Etton, September 27, 1597, and with him begins the narrative of the Lothrop family purposed to be treated in this place.
(I) Mark Lothrop was in Salem, Massa- chusetts, in 1643, when "at a meeting of 7 men on the IIth day of the Ioth month 1643, Marke Lothrop is receaved an inhabitant, and hath a request for some ground neer to his kinsman, Thos Lothrop." And further the records of that ancient town say that "at a meeting of the selectmen, the 17th 3rd month 1652, granted to Hugh Woodberrie, Marke Lothrop and Thomas Priton a spot of medoe, lying between Benjamin Felton's medoe and the Great Swamp, near Wenham, to be equally divided between them." As his name does not appear in any of the records previous to 1643 it is quite probable that he settled in Sa- lem soon after his arrival in this country; and it is uncertain how long he continued to live in Salem, for in 1656 he was living in Bridge- water, Massachusetts, and was one of the proprietors of that town. In 1657 he took the oath of fidelity. was elected constable in 1658, and for the next quarter century held a promi- nent place in public affairs in that town, serv- ing at various times as trial and grand juror, surveyor of highways, and also as one of the committee appointed "to lay out all the waies requisett in the township of Bridgewater." Mark Lothrop died October 25, 1685, and his son Samuel was appointed administrator of his estate, which inventoried 253 pounds I shilling. The name of his wife does not ap- pear, but he had at least four children whose names are known: Elizabeth, Samuel, Mark and Edward.
(II) Samuel, son of Mark Lothrop, was
born before 1660, and died after April II, 1724, the date of his will, at which time he is mentioned as "being old." In 1682 he is re- ported as being of age, and then was one of the proprietors of Bridgewater. March IO, 1675, the constables of Bridgewater were fined two pounds "for pressing Samuell Lay- thorpe illegally, and hee a man unfit to goe forth on the service." This had relation to the attempt of the constables to force Mark Lothrop into service during King Philip's war. His wife was Sarah Downer, who bore him seven children, all born in Bridgewater or West Bridgewater: I. Mary, October 28, 1683; married John Kieth. 1. 2. Samuel Jr., May 17, 1685. 3. John, October 15, 1687; married Mary Edson. 4. Mark, September 9, 1689 ; married, 1722, Hannah, daughter of . Deacon Joseph Alden, and great-granddaugh- ter of John Alden, of Duxbury. 5. Sarah, June 5, 1693 ; married Solomon Packard. 6. Joseph, twin with Sarah ; married Mary Snow. 7. Edward, July 7, 1697; married Hannah Wade.
(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) and Sarah (Downer) Lothrop, was born in Bridgewater, May 17, 1685, and died there January 13, 1772. He married (first) Novem- ber 14, 1710. Abial Lassell, born June 25, 1688, died November 3, 1749, daughter of Isaac Lassell. He married (second) in 1751, Lydia Hayden. He had five children, born of his first marriage, and in Bridgewater or West Bridgewater : I. Samuel, September 23, 17II, died November 9, 1776; married April 3, 1735, Elizabeth, daughter of John Kieth. 2. Isaac, December 21, 1714, died No- vember 25, 1774; married (first) Bethiah, daughter of Major Edward Howard, (second) April 13, 1742, Patience, daughter of Joseph Alger. 3. Sarah, September 15, 1717; mar- ried November 17, 1737, Aliezer Edson. 4. Daniel, May 2, 1721. 5. Abiel, December 7, 1729, died May 3, 1755; married May 28, 1747, Israel Alger, Jr.
(IV) Colonel Daniel, son of Samuel (2) and Abial (Lassell) Lothrop, was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, May 2, 1721, and died in Leeds, Maine, March 18, 1818. When Washington took command of the American army at the beginning of the war of the revo- lution, Colonel Lothrop was major of militia in Colonel Crafts' regiment, and immediately entered the service. His subsequent record as a soldier may be noted as follows: Captain of a company of artillery in Colonel John Bailey's regiment, April 10, 1775 to May 2, 1775; company raised agreeable to vote of the
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provincial congress as ordered by the com- mittee of safety ; also captain same company and regiment from May 3, 1775, to August 1, 1775; captain same company and regiment, June 3, 1775, to August 11, 1775; captain of a company in General John Thomas's regi- ment, according to return dated Roxbury, Oc- tober 6, 1775 ; captain of a company in Colonel Thomas Crafts's regiment of artillery, and name reported in a list of officers to be com- missioned, as returned by Colonel Crafts, dated Boston, September 27, 1776; ordered in council, October 9, 1776, that said officers be commissioned; also captain of the 7th com- pany of Colonel Crafts's regiment of artillery, from May 9, 1776, to November 1, 1776, 5 months 24 days; also captain in same regi- ment from November 1, 1776, to February I, 1777, service 3 months; reported as having served one month in colony and two months in Continental army ; also captain in same regi- ment from February 1, 1777, to date of dis- charge, May 7, 1777. After the close of the war Colonel Lothrop removed to the province of Maine and took up his residence in the town of Leeds, where he died, in 1818. In 1744 he married Rhoda, daughter of Thomas Willis; children : I. Daniel, Jr., born Decem- ber 10, 1745. 2. Rhoda, April 9, 1747 ; mar- ried, 1763, Daniel Williams, Jr. 3. Molly, August 2, 1755; married June 20, 1771, Thomas Johnson. 4. Abigail, February 4, 1758; married February 1, 1775, Isaac Hart- well.
(V) Daniel (2), son of Colonel Daniel (I) and Rhoda (Willis) Lothrop, was born in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, December 10, 1745, and died in Wilton, Maine, in 1837. He too was a soldier of the revolution, serving under his father, and his record is noted as follows : Private and matross in Captain Daniel Lothrop's company of artillery, Colonel John Bailey's regiment, April 10, 1775, to May 2, 1775 ; company raised agreeable to a vote of the provincial congress, as ordered by com- mittee of safety; private in Captain Daniel Lothrop's company, Colonel Thomas Crafts's regiment of artillery, from June 3, 1776; also private same company and regiment from May 16, 1776, to August 1, 1776; also private in Captain Daniel Lothrop's 7th company, Colo- nel Crafts's regiment, from August 1, 1776, to November 1, 1776; also same company and regiment from November 1, 1776 to February I. 1777; reported as serving one month in colony service and two months in continental army ; sergeant, same company and regiment from February I, 1777, to date of discharge,
May 7, 1777. Sergeant Lothrop removed to Maine probably with his father, and lived in the town of Wilton, where he died in 1837. He married (first) August 23, 1764, Hannah, daughter of George Howard. She died soon after the birth of her fourth child, and he mar- ried (second) September 5, 1775, Lydia, daughter of Samuel Willis. After her death he married (third) September 1, 1785, Mary, daughter of George Turner. He had in all eleven children. 1. George, born Bridgewater June 13, 1765 (see sketch). 2. Daniel, March 28, 1767; removed to Maine, and died in Lee ; married, 1787, Sally Whiting; was member of the Maine legislature. 3. Thomas, born 1768, died in infancy. 4. Thomas, married Cynthia Pratt, and removed to Leeds, Maine. 5. Hannah, born 1771; married, 1789, Joshua Gilmore, of Easton, Massachusetts. 6. Sam- uel, born 1777, died Leeds, 1871; married, 1799, Bethiah, daughter of Joseph Johnson. 7. Sullivan. 8. Lydia, married Stillman How- ard. 9. Polly, married Luther Carey. 10. Rhoda, married Nathan Richmond. II. Al- son, married Huldah Richmond.
(VI) Sullivan, son of Sergeant Daniel (2) and Lydia (Willis) Lothrop, was born in Leeds, Maine, in 1778. He married (first) Haynes, and married ( second) - Jennings. He had four sons and one daugh- ter, and among the former was Daniel O., who removed to Malone, New York, and Sullivan.
(VII) Sullivan (2), son of Sullivan ( I) Loth- rop, was born in Leeds, Maine, October, 1802, and was an enterprising and successful busi- ness man, proprietor of a large general coun- try store, a tannery and a saw mill, and en- gaged somewhat extensively in lumbering. He married, June 22, 1826, Susan Bigelow, born in Bloomfield, now Skowhegan, Maine, in 1803, daughter of James Bigelow (see Bigelow). Children: I. Amasa Bigelow. 2. Mary Bigelow. 3. Allen H. 4. James Bige- low. 5. Roscoe G. 6, Olive (now dead). 7. Esther E. 8. Daniel Webster. 9. Mellen (now dead). 10. Susan A.
(VIII) Daniel Webster, youngest son of Sullivan and Susan (Bigelow) Lothrop, was born at St. Albans, Somerset county, Maine, May 20, 1842, and received his early educa- tion in public schools and Harland Academy, and after leaving school he worked for his father in his various business enterprises until he was about twenty-one years old. He then went to Boston and entered the employ of King, Hovey & Co., wholesale produce deal- ers, with whom he remained some time, and in February, 1865, through the influence of
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William P. Fessenden, of Maine, he was ap- pointed to a position in the office of the Sixth Auditor, in the departmental service, Washing- ton, D. C., where he has remained to the pres- ent time. During the civil war, while living in Maine, Mr. Lothrop recruited Company F, of the Twentieth Maine Volunteer Infantry, Captain Andrews. In 1870 he married Jennie R., daughter of William M. Nimmo, of Mary- land. children : I. Edwin S., born August 23, 1871 ; is a physician, and president of the Washington Homoeopathic Medical Society ; married Alice Sykes; children: Corrinna, ten years old, and Blanche, three years old. 2. Frank N., born June, 1874; married Fannie Rich, and has one child, Phyllis. 3. Alice, born July 30, 1877 ; married J. C. Thompson, a native of England, lives in Washington, and has one child, Edwin S. Thompson, born Oc- tober, 1908. 4. Jennie R., born November, 1880. 5. Etta T., born March, 1887.
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