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Thomas Chickering, the CHICKERING English ancestor, of whom there is record, was of Wymondham, England, and died be- fore 1538. He married Clare Brown.
(II) Stephen, son of Thomas Chickering,
resided in Wicklewood, England, and died in 1576. He married Anne or Agnes Dey.
(III) Henry, son of Stephen Chickering, died in 1627. He resided in Ringsford, Eng- land, and had a wife Mary. Children: I. Dr. Henry, born in England; was proprietor of Salem, 1639; admitted to church at Dedham with his wife, January 29, 1640-41 ; admitted freeman, June 2, 1641 ; deacon; elected dep- uty to general court, but was excused from duty, being on the ship to go to England, Oc- tober 23, 1647. He was buried July 22, 1671, aged twenty-two years. In his will he be- queathed to wife, Elizabeth (Hackburne) ; to kinsman, Nathaniel Chickering, living with him; to pastor, John Allen; to church and school of Dedham; to son John, of Charles- town. 2. Simeon, mentioned below. 3. Prob- ably Francis.
(IV) Simeon, son of Henry Chickering, died in 1674. He lived in Wrentham, Eng- land, and married, in 1635, Prudence
(V) Nathaniel, son of Simeon Chickering, was born in England, in 1647, baptized at Wrentham, October 8, 1647, died October 21, 1694. He came to America, and settled first in that part of Dedham called Dedham Island, on what was later known as the Fuller place. In 1694 he removed to what is now Dover, Massachusetts, having acquired through grant and purchase a tract of land of a thousand acres. He built a house on the site of the present homestead now or lately occupied by George Ellis Chickering. The first house was taken down in 1767 and a new one erected on the spot, which was remodeled in 1867 and is now standing. The homestead has remained in the family until the present time. . He mar- ried (first) December 30, 1668, Mary Judson, who died soon. He married (second) Decem- ber 3, 1674, Lydia Fisher, born July 14, 1652, died July 17, 1737, daughter of Captain Dan- iel and Abigail (Marriot) Fisher, of Dedham. About the year 1671 she went into the family of Rev. John Russel, of Hadley, and for a year or more waited upon the regicides Whal- ley and Goff, who had fled to this country from the wrath of Charles II. Nathaniel died Oc- tober 21, 1694. Children: I. Prudence, born September 9, 1675; died November 26, 1675. 2. Nathaniel, born March 28, 1677 ; mentioned below. 3. Lydia, born October 1, 1678; mar- ried Thomas Metcalf. 1. Mary, born Decem- ber 15, 1680 ; married Nathan Alden. 5. John, born November 22, 1682; died January 16, 1714. 6. Abigail, born March 29, 1684-85; died unmarried. 7. Daniel, born July 1, 1687; died February 10, 1718. 8. Samuel, born Feb-
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ruary 14, 1689; married Mary Harding. 9. Esther, born May 7, 1694; married Ebenezer Ware.
(VI) Deacon Nathaniel (2), son of Na- thaniel (1) Chickering, was born March 28, 1677, and died at Dover, January 16, 1747. Hle resided at Dedham, and was selectman in 1733. Before the organization of the Dover church the family attended the church in South Natick, and Nathaniel was a deacon. He married, August 14, 1700, Mary Thorp, who died September 1, 1715, daughter of James and Hannah Thorp. He married ( sec- ond) January 26, 1716, Deborah Wight, who died January 16, 1746-47, daughter of Joseph and Deborah Wight. Children : I. Nathaniel, born April 15, 1701. 2. Mary, February 25, 1703. 3. Jeremiah, May 20, 1705. 4. Eli- phalet, November 24, 1707. 5. Hannah. 6. David, March 24, 1710. 7. Mary, August 9, 1712. 8. John, August 23, 1715; married Mary 9. Joseph, born May 5, 1717; mentioned below. 10. Daniel, born December 30, 1718; married Keziah Ellis. II. Deborah, born April 9. 1722. 12. Lydia, September 12, 1723.
(VII) Joseph, son of Deacon Nathaniel (2) Chickering, was born May 5, 1717, and died November 28, 1754. He had a farm on the original estate, which was later known as the Haven farm. The house is still or was lately standing. He was in the revolution, a minute- man from Dover, in Captain Ebenezer Brat- tle's company, and answered the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. He married, February 7, 1744, Rebecca, daughter of Captain Josiah and Hannah ( Fisher) Newell, of Needham. Children: 1. Experience, born November 10, 1744; died September 29, 1746. 2. Rebecca, born August 4. 1746; married June 14, 1764, Lemuel Richards. 3. Joseph, born September IO, 1748; died December. 4, 1754. 4. Deborah, born June 3, 1751 ; died December 3, 1754. 5. Jabez ; see forward.
(VIII) Rev. Jabez Chickering, son of Jo- seph Chickering, was born at Dover, Novem- ber 4, 1753, and died at South Dedham, March 12, 1812. He was one of the first from the "Springfield Parish" to graduate from Har- vard College, in 1774. He was the second minister of the church at South Dedham, now Norwood. He married, April 22, 1777 (in- tentions dated March 28, 1777), Hannah, daughter of Rev. Thomas and Mary (Sum- ner) Balch. Her father was Mr. Chickering's predecessor. Children, born in Dedham : I. Lucy, March 30, 1778. 2. Joseph, April 30,
1780; mentioned below. 3. Jabez, August 28, 1782. 4. Elizabeth, June 28, 1785. 5. Thomas Balch, April 24, 1788.
(1X) Rev. Joseph Chickering, son of Rev. Jabez Chickering, was born in South Dedham, April 30, 1780, and died January 27, 1844, at Phillipston, where he was buried. He was graduated at Harvard College, in the class of 1799, and studied theology there under Pro- fessor Tappan. He was ordained minister of the Woburn church, March 28, 1804. He con- tinued in this pastorate with much success. He was dismissed at his own request with the sanction of a council, April 11, 1821. He ac- cepted a call to the church at Phillipston, and was installed as minister there July 10, 1822. At his own request he was dismissed July 16, 1835, on account of age and bodily infirmity. He continued to reside in Phillipston to the end of his life. While he was pastor at Wo- burn, one hundred and sixty-four members were added to the church, and 270 persons baptized. He married (first) 1805, Betsey White, died November 3, 1815, aged thirty- two years, daughter of Deacon John White, of Concord. He married (second) Sarah Abbot Holt, of Albany, Maine, daughter of Jacob and Rhoda Holt. She was born at Andover, Massachusetts. Children of first wife: I. Rev. John White, born March 19, 1808; men- tioned below. 2. Joseph, born January 9, 1810; a mechanic of much skill; went west ; married April 3, 1833, at Phillipston, Ameline Jones. 3. Ruth, died October 27, 1815, aged three years four months. 4. Henry, died No- vember 14, 1815, aged twenty months. Chil- dren of second wife: 5. Abbot, born 1822; died June II, 1842, aged twenty years six months. 6. Benjamin, born at Phillipston, No- vember 18, 1824. 7. Betsey, died October 19, 1825, aged two days.
(X) Rev. John White Chickering, son of Rev. Joseph Chickering, was born at Woburn, March 19, 1808; died December 9, 1880. He graduated at Middlebury College in the class of 1826. He was ordained pastor of the High Street Congregational Church of Portland, Maine, and rounded out a very useful and suc- cessful pastorate of thirty years in that parish. He was for many years secretary of the Mas- sachusetts Temperance Society, and a strong and potent influence in the temperance move- ment all his life. He received the degree of D. D. from his alma mater. He married, No- vember 9, 1830, Frances Eveline Knowlton, born 1809, daughter of Deacon Joseph Knowl- ton. She died May 30, 1885, aged seventy-six
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years. Children, born at Bolton : I. John White, September II, 1831 ; mentioned below. 2. Joseph Knowlton, 1846.
(XI) Professor John White Chickering, son of Rev. John White Chickering, was born in Bolton. Massachusetts, September 1I, 1831. He attended the public schools, and entered Bowdoin College on June 23, 1849. He was orator of his class in both junior and senior years ; was graduated with the class of 1852, with the degree of A. B .; was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa for high rank in scholarship, and delivered the Latin salutatory at com- mencement. He received the degree of A. M. in 1855. From 1852 to 1858 he was a teacher in the public schools at Bucksport, Foxcroft, Corinna and Portland, Maine, and at Ovid, New York. He decided to study for the min- istry, and was graduated in 1860 from the Bangor Theological Seminary. He was in- stalled as minister of the Congregational Church at Springfield, Vermont. He resigned this pastorate in 1863. From 1865 to 1870 he was pastor of the Second Congregational Church at Exeter, New Hampshire. He was elected secretary of the Vermont Bible Society in 1863. In 1870 he accepted the chair of nat- ural history in the Deaf Mute College at Washington, D. C., and held this professorship until 1900, when he retired from active teach- ing, but still continues to lecture on pedagogy in Gallaudet College and Howard University, Washington City. He is a member of the fol- lowing societies: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Social Science Association, Philosophical Society, Anthropological Society, Biological Society, National Geographic Society, Choral Society, Appalachian Mountain Club, Civic Centre Club, Sons of the American Revolution, and Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He has con- tributed liberally to various scientific periodi- cals, reviews and newspapers.
Professor Chickering married. December 18, 1856. Luciana Jameson, daughter of Rev. Thomas Jameson, of Gorham, Maine ; she died November 9, 1893. Children: John Jame- son, Frances Elizabeth and Luciana. His resi- dence is at the Portner, Washington City.
(XII) John Jameson Chickering, son of Professor John White Chickering, was born in Gorham, Maine, September 27, 1857. He was graduated from Amherst College with the class of 1879. and was a member of Psi Up- silon fraternity. From 1879 to 1892 he was principal of the Wallack School. Washington, D. C. During several years of this time he was in charge of the department of physiology
and hygiene in the National Deaf Mute (now Gallaudet) College in Washington City. He also read law, and graduated from the Colum- bian (now George Washington) University Law School with the degrees of LL.B. and LL.M., and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar on examination. From 1892 to 1894 he was principal of the Columbian Uni- versity Preparatory School ; from 1894 to 1898 superintendent of schools at Flushing, Long Island, New York. From 1898 to the present time he has been district superintendent of schools of New York City, Borough of Queens.
Mr. Chickering married, October 28, 1893, Anne E. Russell, daughter of Hon. William A. Russell, of Boston, Massachusetts. Child : John Jameson Jr., born in Boston, October 31, 1906.
This name is one which has MOORE been familiarly connected with science and the fine arts for many years, and the bearers of it who emi- grated to this country and their descendants have not allowed its luster to become dimmed. The members of this illustrious family came to America early in the seventeenth century. Several of their immediate descendants were in the revolutionary war, and bravely bore their share in that struggle.
(I) William Moore was born in North Anson, Somerset county, Maine, May 9, 1798, and died in 1853. His profession was that of civil engineer and architect. In his early manhood he went to the south and practiced his profession. He took up his residence first in the city of Mobile, Alabama. He planned and erected some of the finest public and private buildings in the south, where he accu- mulated a large fortune. He was largely in- terested in railroad and steamship lines and was an extensive landholder in Alabama, Texas, and other places. He owned a large number of slaves, which was necessary under the condition of affairs then existing in the country. Upon his retirement from business in 1851 he gave them all their freedom papers, as well as a sufficient sum of money to each to give them their start in the various branches of skilled labor. Mr. Moore did not believe in slavery. He married Almeda Wyman, who was born in Skowhegan, Maine, where her father was an editor for many years. She was a noted beauty, and miniatures of her were frequently painted by noted artists. Her brother, Hon. Asa N. Wyman, was a state senator in the legislature of Maine, but sub-
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sequently went to the Mexican war as a cap- tain. At the conclusion of that war he went from Mexico to California, and was one of the "Forty-Niners." Mr. Wyman was for many years editor and owner of several Cali- fornia papers. He died in Washington, in I869.
(II) Hon. Edward Bruce Moore, son of William and Almeda (Wyman) Moore, was born on a farm near North Anson, Maine, December 25, 1851. He was the youngest of a family of nine. His grandfather, William Paine, of Anson, Maine, was born in Wool- wich, Maine, November, 1760, and died Octo- ber 14, 1846. He enlisted in the Continental army at the age of sixteen years, his military record being as follows: A private in Captain Wiley's company, Colonel Michael Jackson's regiment, in which he served from March II, 1777, to December 31, 1779. He participated in the battles of White Plains, Cherry Valley, Ticonderoga, Brandywine, and many others. After his discharge from the army he was ordained in 1808 as a preacher in the Baptist church, with which he was identified until his death. He traveled extensively, and was an ardent worker in the interest of his church. He was married sixty years, and was the father of sixteen children.
Hon. Edward Bruce Moore was scarcely more than an infant when his father died, and his mother, in order to give her children greater advantages afforded by a new country, moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan. His edu- cation was acquired in the public schools of Grand Rapids, and under private tuition. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He took a two years' review course at the Na- tional University Law School in Washington, D. C. His oldest brother, George Owen, after traveling extensively in foreign coun- tries, also took up his residence in Washing- ton, where he was secretary under the Grant administration, to the Spanish and American Claims Commission. He was honored by re- ceiving his appointment from both govern- ments, Spain and the United States. He, like his mother, engaged in literary pursuits. His letters in the Washington and other papers, describing his travels, were widely read and copied. Two other brothers, Heman N. and Malcolm M., both went into the army during the civil war, and were majors in the Fifth and Seventh Regiments of Cavalry, respectively, serving under General Custer. They were wounded and brought to Wash- ington from the front. Their mother came on to nurse them, and finally, in 1865, she
moved with the family from Grand Rapids to Washington, where they have since lived.
Edward Bruce Moore was a page in the United States senate during 1865-66, and with the exception of the few years he was away completing his education, has resided in Wash- ington. He entered the service of the United States Patent Office as an assistant examiner in 1883. He rose through the various grades to law clerk to the commissioner, and prin- cipal examiner, and was then sent to Europe by President Mckinley as a representative of this government to the Paris Exposition of 1900. Upon his return from Paris he was appointed, on his record and wholly without political influence, Assistant Commissioner of Patents, which position he held until June, 1907, when he was appointed by President Roosevelt, Commissioner of Patents, which po- sition he now holds. He was sent by the State Department in August, 1908, as the sole dele- gate representing the United States at the In- ternational Congress at Stockholm, Sweden. At the conclusion of that Congress he went to Berlin, where he was successful in nego- tiating a treaty with Germany which abro- gated the "Working Clause" in the patent laws of that country, for which effort he received the thanks of the Department of State, and the plaudits of the inventors, manufacturers, and exporters of the entire United States. Mr. Moore was appointed to all the positions he ever held strictly through merit. He is the first Commissioner of Patents in a period of one hundred and eighteen years of our Amer- ican patent system who was promoted through merit to the head of that most important and very highly technical bureau.
Mr. Moore has been president of the Michi- gan State Society of Washington, D. C., and is president of the District of Columbia So- ciety of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a member of the Cosmos Club, Country Club, and the Press Club of Washington. He was made an honorary member at the same time with President Taft and Senator Carter, of Montana. of the legal fraternity Phi Al- pha Delta. He has a very extensive acquaint- ance throughout the world with scientific men and prominent men in all walks of life.
Deacon John Pearson was PEARSON born in Yorkshire, England, in 1615, was married in Eng- land, and came with his wife Maudlen to Saugus (Lynn), Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1637, and to Reading in 1639. He was one of the seven heads of families that formed
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the First Church at Reading, and he took a prominent part in founding the town, being deacon of the church which was the basis of the town government. Deacon John and Maudlen Pearson had three children born in Lynn and two in Reading, their names in the order of their birth being: Mary, Bertha, Sarah, John (q. v.), James.
(II) John (2), eldest son and fourth child of Deacon John (I) and Maudlen Pearson, was born in Reading, 1650 or 1653, died in 1720. He was known as Captain Pearson, and was a representative for the town of Lynn in the general court of Massachusetts from 1702 to 1710. He married, about 1677,
Kendall. Children : I. James, born 1678, Swain. 2. Tabitha, married married Goodwin. 3. John, married
Batcheller. 4. Rebecca, born 1686. 5. Ken- dall (q. v.). 6. Susanna, born 1690, mar- ried Gould. 7. Mary, born 1692, mar-
ried - Eaton. 8. Thomas, born 1694. 9. Ebenezer, born 1696. 10. Sarah. II. Abi- gail. 12. Elizabeth.
(III) Kendall, third son and fifth child of Captain John and (Kendall) Pearson, was born in Reading, Massachusetts, 1688, died in Lynn, Massachusetts, 1768. He mar- ried - Boardman, had one child Thomas (q. v.).
(IV) Thomas, only child of Kendall and - ( Boardman) Pearson. was born prob- ably at Lynn in 1709. Married Lewis, and among their children was Thomas (q. v.). (V) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) and (Lewis) Pearson, was born February 12, 1733. He enlisted in the navy and served until November 5, 1749. He married Martha born August 8, 1730. Children: I. Elizabeth, born December 7, 1748, died March 24, 1749. 2. A daughter, stillborn, April 12, 1750. 3. Nathaniel, August 3, 1754, died Oc- tober 24, 1758. 4. Thomas, birth unknown. 5. Martha, September 13, 1757. 6. Eunice, February 12, 1760. 7. Sarah, October 7, 1762, died September 18, 1764. 8. A son, stillborn, March 17, 1765. 9. Louis, born July 22, 1766. IO. Hannah, February 23, 1770. . II. Wood- bridge (q. v.).
(VI) Woodbridge, youngest child of Thom- as (2) and Martha Pearson, was born Sep- tember 18, 1772, died in his carriage while on his return from Swansville to his home in Morrill, Maine, November 3, 1848. He was among the early settlers of Unity, Maine; from there removed to Montville, Maine, 1814, and about 1829 took up his residence in Mor- rill. He married Mary Whitney, born Octo-
ber 7, 1780, died November 29, 1861, daugh- ter of Rev. John and Joanna (Fox) Whitney. Children : 1. Martha, born in Unity, Maine, June 26, 1799, died in Montville, Maine, Sep- tember 22, 1890; married, February 1, 1824, William Alexander. 2. Trial, Unity, Maine, November 6, 1800, died November 8, 1888, 3. in Montville; married Martha Witham. Joanna, November 16, 1802. 4. Samuel, April 27, 1804, died in Belfast, Maine, March 18, 1897; married (first) Desire Ellis; (second) Mrs. Mary Waterman. 5. Fannie, Unity, Maine, March 16, 1806, died in Swansville, Maine, January 27, 1882; married Elisha El- lis. 6. Louis, Unity, Maine, April 6, 1808, died about 1843; married Henry Warren. 7. Orrison, Unity, Maine, June 1I, 1810, died March 30, 1818. 8. Mary, Unity, Maine, No- vember 22, 1812, died in Montville, Maine ; married Thomas Nickerson. . 9. John Charles, Montville, Maine, March 18, 1817, died July 29, 1886, in Morrill; married Eliza Jackson. IO. Thomas (q. v.). II. Hannah, October 31, 1819, died in Montville, Maine, November 17, 1821. 12. Jeremiah, July 5, 1823, died in Portland Hospital, July 17, 1898; married (first) Mary Doten; (second) Ursula Gould.
(VII) Thomas, son of Woodbridge and Mary (Whitney) Pearson, was born in Mont- ville, Maine, January 4, 1819, died there Octo- ber 24, 1890. He conducted farming opera- tions in Morrill, Maine, from whence he went to Montville and there resided on a farm the remainder of his days. He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a Democrat in politics. He married. Oc- tober 18, 1846, Melvina Doten, born in Waldo county, Maine, October 28, 1831, and late in life removed to Maplewood, Massachusetts, where she lived with her eldest son, Joseph O. Children: 1. Joseph Orrison, born De- cember 22, 1847, married, March 18, 1874, Mehitable Plummer, born November 9, 1849, died August 6, 1891 ; children : i. Fred Alton, born April 23, 1876, married, July. 1904. Or- pha Hicklin ; ii. Maud Melvina, July 31, 1878. died September 20, 1880: iii. Joseph Lavell, March 13, 1880, married, January 7, 1902, Eva S. Taylor, two children: Myrtle Flor- ence, born July 17, 1904, and Marion Eva, June 2, 1907 ; iv. Hattie Orrie, March 3, 1886; v. Thomas Ray, March 5. 1888. 2. Lucy E., March 19, 1850, died February 28, 1854. 3. Eugene Lavell, December 10, 1853, lives in Massachusetts ; married, July 31, 1884, Mar- garet McLean. 4. Josiah Wilson, April 7, 1856, died in Providence, Rhode Island, De- cember 1, 1901; was a physician and sur-
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geon ; married, November 26, 1884, Carrie Crockett, one child, Keith Nelson, born Sep- tember 1, 1888. 5. Eddy Vivan, May 19, 1861, died July 5, 1861. 6. Nelson Rich (q. v.). 7. Thomas Norman, June 2, 1865, was a physician in the town of Morrill, Maine; married, June, 1894, Lilla Hatch. 8. George Edwin, July 31, 1867, lives in New Jersey ; married, August 24, 1892, Elizabeth . one child, Madge Melvina, born August 24, 1893. 9. John Woodbridge, April 21, 1871, resides in Waterville, Maine: married, No- vember 27, 1901, Bertha Rollins.
(IX) Nelson Rich, son of Thomas and Mel- vina (Doten) Pearson, was born in Morrill, Maine, February 6, 1863. He attended the public schools of his native town and the academies at Albion and China, Maine. He attended the East Maine Conference Seminary from 1886 to 1890. He began preaching and exhorting in the Methodist churches at Ripley and Harmony, in 1888, and was ordained a deacon by Bishop Andrews at Dover, Maine, in 1890. He was stationed at Vanceboro and Lambert Lake in 1890-92; was ordained elder by Bishop Goodell at Rockland in 1892; was itinerant generally for two years at Easton, Spragues Mills, South Presque Isle, China, East Vassalboro, Rockport ( four years), Cara- bou (three years), Columbia Falls (one year), Pembroke, Sullivan, Sorrento, and was ap- pointed to Waldoboro, Lincoln county, in the spring of 1908. He was initiated as a mem- ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Belfast ; of the Knights of Pythias at West Sullivan ; of the David A. Hooper Lodge, An- cient Free and Accepted Masons, at West Sullivan, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Carabou. He married, April 4, 1892, Emma M., daughter of Simeon H. and Huldah (Kendall) Perkins, of South Paris, Maine. Huldah (Kendall) Perkins was born in Berlin, New Hampshire. Children: I. Ruth Hutchins, born in Easton, Maine, April 26, 1893. 2. Carl Rees Thomas. Rockport, Maine, June 30, 1896, died there December 6, 1898. 3. Esther Charlotte, Carabou, October 31, 190I.
GANNETT The Gannett family of Amer- ica were from England. Two brothers and a sister were among the early settlers. Judith Gannett, aged twenty-six, came in the ship "Francis," of Ipswich. April 30, 1634, and lived in the family of John Coggeshall, being admitted to the Boston church September 7, 1634; mar- ried at Scituate, September 20, 1636, Robert
Shelley. She was received in the church at Barnstable in 1644, being dismissed from Bos- ton, July 14, 1644. Anne Shelley, sister of Robert, also lived in the Coggeshall family.
Thomas Gannett appears to have come from England about 1638. He and his brother Matthew settled first at Hingham. In 1642 Thomas became one of the first settlers and proprietors of Duxbury, but in 1651, having obtained a grant of land in Bridgewater, he became one of the first five settlers of that town, where he died in 1655. He married Sarah Jarmill, who married (second) Septem- ber 6, 1655, William Saville, and (third) July 5, 1670, Thomas Faxon, both of Bridgewater. She died there in 1697. Thomas made his will June 19, 1655, and it was proved August 7, 1655, bequeathing to his wife and brother Matthew, having no children. A family of this name lived in Blandford, England, from 1580 to 1680. The surname is doubtless of French origin, though the family has been in England many centuries.
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