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(III) John, second son and child of Will- iam (1) and Millesaint (Eames) Sprague, was born at Hingham, Massachusetts, and baptized in April, 1638. He died at Mendon, Massa- chusetts, in 1683, at the early age of forty- five. Land was given him by his father at Ly- ford river, called Sprague Island. On De- cember 13, 1666, John Sprague married Elizabeth Holbrook, and among their children was William ( 2), mentioned in the next para- graplı.
(IV) William (2), son of John and Eliza-
beth (Holbrook) Sprague, was born at Men- don, Massachusetts, in 1679.
(V) William (3), son of William (2) Sprague, was born at Mendon, Massachusetts, in 1719, and died at Greene, Maine.
(VI) William (4), supposed to be the son of William (3) Sprague, was born at Mendon, Massachusetts, about 1759. At the age of six- teen he enlisted in the revolution, about the time of the battle of Bunker Hill. After pass- ing through several bloody engagements, hc was at last severely wounded by a bullet which passed through both thighs. After the battle he was taken to a hospital, where he remained till well enough to travel, when he was hon- orably discharged. Soon after this he "shoul- dered his pack," and started on foot for Win- throp, "in the district of Maine." Reaching there, he started in quest of a farm, which he finally found in a part of the township of Greene. lle built a log house which he and his wife occupied till 1783. At that time he had built a mill in which he sawed out lumber and put up a frame house. This, after com- pletion, did not suit him, and he immediately began work on a kiln for drying brick. In this way he constructed the material for one of the first brick houses in the region. This house was owned and occupied by Colonel Augustus Sprague, grandson of the builder, up to about 1875. About 1782 Colonel William (4) Sprague married Anna Marrow, born at Med- way, Massachusetts, in January, 1761. It is probable that her parents were living in Win- throp, Maine, at the time of her marriage. Children : 1. Moses, born August 8, 1783. 2. Ruth, October 22, 1784. 3. Nancy, November 1, 1786. 4. Susan, September 15, 1788. 5. William, February 15, 1790. 6. Isaac, Janu- ary 22, 1792. 7. Sally, February 19, 1794. 8. Charlotte, April 18, 1796. 9. Isabella, March 13, 1798. IO. Cyrus, May 27, 1802. II. Greene, whose sketch follows. 12. Washing- ton, March 4, 1807.
(\'II) Greene, fifth son of Colonel William (4) and Anna ( Marrow) Sprague, was born in Greene, Maine, August 18, 1804, died at Auburn, Maine, June 19, 1888. 1Ie was a car- riagemaker by trade and a captain in the state militia. In 1825 Captain Greene Sprague mar- ried Mahala, daughter of Abel and Lydia Crocker, and they had three children: Silas, mentioned below : William, June 3, 1828; and Lydia A., September 12, 1833.
(VIII) Silas, eldest child of Captain Greene and Mahala (Crocker) Sprague, was born at Greene, Maine, June 4, 1826, died Au- gust 27, 1897. He gained his education in the
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public schools and at Monmouth Academy. He was elected register of deeds for Andros- coggin county in 1867 and held this position for thirty years. June 6, 1849, he married Cynthia Mower, daughter of James and Lu- cretia (Mower) Tibbetts, who was born Jan- uary 26, 1830, at Dexter, Maine. There were three children : Henry M., Edgar G. and Ar- thur C.
(IX) Henry M., eldest son of Silas and Cynthia M. ( Tibbetts) Sprague, was born Au- gust 15, 1850, at Greene, Maine, and educated in the public schools of his native town. From his youth he has been greatly interested in lo- cal military affairs, and has served in the vol- unteer militia as private, corporal, sergeant. second and first lieutenant and captain of the Auburn Light Infantry. He was lieutenant- colonel of the First Regiment of the Maine Volunteer Militia, and assistant adjutant-gen- eral of the First Brigade, Maine Volunteer Militia, from its organization in 1869 till the resignation of General John Marshall Brown. Ar. Sprague was city clerk of Auburn for several years, and clerk in the office of the adjutant-general at Augusta during 1880-81- 82-83-84. From 1885 to 1889 he was pension agent for the state of Maine, and was after- ward adjutant-general and chief of staff with rank of brigadier-general on Governor Bur- leigh's staff, and his duties in this office were ably and faithfully discharged.
(IX) Edgar G., second son of Silas and Cynthia M. (Tibbetts) Sprague, was born April 29, 1855, at Greene, Maine, and was ed- ucated in the public schools of Auburn. His first position was that of clerk in the office of the register of deeds. In 1876 he entered the employ of Dingley, Strout & Company. In 1888, after he had been there twelve years, Mr. Sprague, in connection with others, reorgan- ized this company as Dingley, Foss & Com- pany, and in 1891 the concern was incor- porated as the Dingley Foss Shoe Company, with E. G. Sprague as treasurer, and has served in that capacity ever since. In politics Mr. Sprague is a Republican, and in religious preference he is affiliated with the Baptists. He belongs to the Odd Fellows, and is a Ma- son of the thirty-second degree. On October I, 1874, Edgar G. Sprague married Lilla B., daughter of James M. and Clara A. Gulliver, of Auburn. One child, Edgar Linn, born No- vember 10, 1875, who was educated in the pub- lic schools of Auburn. During the Spanish war he served as sergeant in Company C. First Maine Volunteers, being stationed at Chica- mauga. While there he contracted malarial
fever, which resulted in the impairment of his health. On May 5, 1903, Edgar L. Sprague married Beryl G. Stevens, of Auburn. One child, Charles William, born October 20, 1905.
(IX) Arthur C., youngest son of Silas and Cynthia M. (Tibbetts) Sprague, was born at Greene, January 4, 1861, and received his early education in the schools of his native town. In 1867 his father moved to Auburn, where the son attended the Edward Little high school, graduating therefrom in 1878. After completing his school education Mr. Sprague entered the Lincoln Mill as paymaster, re- maining there five years. From this place he went to the R. C. Pingree Mill at Lewiston, where for seventeen years he was confidential clerk and cashier; afterward served as city treasurer of Auburn. In February, 1907, he purchased the F. H. Briggs interest of the Howard, Briggs and Pray Company, shoe manufacturers of Auburn, and became treas- urer of this concern. Mr. Sprague is a Ma- son of the thirty-second degree, secretary of Tranquil Lodge, No. 29, and recorder of Lew- iston Commandery, Knights Templar. On De- cember 19. 1883, Arthur C. Sprague married Jennie D., daughter of Cornelius and Susan Stackpole, of Auburn. One child, Alice H., born July 30, 1886, who is now ( 1908) teacher of elocution and physical culture in the public schools of Burlington, Vermont.
ROWE Beautiful Devonshire in the south- west of England is the ancestral home of the Rowes. Here at Lamerton near Plymouth the family were long possessed of a considerable estate which was handed down from generation to generation, evidently since the days of Richard the First. It was in the days of the crusades that the founder of the house received as a token of his bravery in the holy wars the arms since borne by his descendants.
The name of Nicholas Rowe, a member of this family, is well known to all students of English literature as that of the first biograph- er of Shakespeare and translator of Lucan's Pharsalia. He was born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire, England, June 30, 1674, and was educated at Westminster school. studied law. became a successful courtier and politician. His edition of Shakespeare prefaced by the fa- mous biography was published in 1700 and was followed by various successful dramatic works. In 1714 he was made poet laureate by George the First to succeed Nahum Tate, but died two years later and was buried in West- minster Abbey. Previous to his appointment
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as laureate in the reign of Queen Anne he served as under secretary of state to the Duke of Queensbury.
Nearly a quarter of a century before the birth of Nicholas, however, another member of the family, lured by the promise of the New World and the freedom of worship according to conscience, left the country of his ancestors and settled on the bleak shores of New Eng- land. John Rowe came to Cape Ann in 1651 and established himself on the estate still well known to his descendants, being the first to settle in that part of Gloucester known as the Farms. Here in the wilderness with no neigh- bors within a radius of two miles even the stout heart of the pioneer near failed him, and such was the loneliness that he is reported as saying that were it not for his wife he would burn his house and run away by the light of it. He remained, however, and became the father of a numerous family whose names will long be remembered in the annals of "Old Cape Ann." His great-grandson, the third John Rowe, was an ensign at the assault of Crown Point and served as a lieutenant throughout the French wars. When the coun- try rushed to arms at the sound of the shots at Lexington and Concord, he was placed in command of one of the Gloucester companies and led it at Bunker Hill. Under him at this time served three other Rowes, his sons and nephews. One of these, his son Jolin, served in Washington's army all through the Revolu- tionary War, and commanded one of the state companies in Shay's Insurrection. When Hull started on his disastrous expedition in the War of 1812 he was offered a high commission in his army, but refused, foreseeing and prophe- sying, it is said, the unfortunate outcome of the enterprise.
John Rowe, the first settler, died in 1662, leaving a son of his own name, and he, dying, was survived by several children, of whom two, Samuel and Stephen, married. Samuel was the father of three sons, Jonathan, Zebulon and William, who, leaving old Gloucester, came in 1763 to New Gloucester, Maine, which the general court had granted in 1735 to the inhabitants of the old town on Cape Ann. Jonathan settled on the tract of land between what is now the upper and lower corners ; Zebulon and William near each other, at what is known as the Cobb Bridge neighborhood, being the earliest settlers in these places. William had two sons, Ebenezer and Jonathan. Ebenezer married three times and had a large family. By his first wife, who was a Cobb, he had three sons. Eben. Jacob and Sylvanus
Cobb. Eben was killed while yet young by a branch falling upon him while he was working in the woods. Jacob married, and his widow but recently died in Newton Center, Massachu- setts, at the advanced age of ninety-eight. She was survived by two daughters, Mrs. Mary Hartshorn and Mrs. Jennie Stetson.
Sylvanus Cobb Rowe was born in New Gloucester, October 26, 1807. In 1864 he removed from New Gloucester to Yarmouth, settling on a farm on the so-called North Road. . He became a member of the Baptist church in Yarmouth and served it for many years as deacon, which office he had also held with the New Gloucester church. When fail- ing health and advancing years led him to present his resignation, the church would not accept it, but made him deacon emeritus, and he continued to administer the duties of his office until his death, February 16, 1882. He was a man of distinguished practical piety, and is still affectionately remembered by those who knew him or were associated with him in the active duties of the parish. One of his former pastors, speaking of his public prayers, was wont to say: "There is more food for spiritual life in one of Deacon Rowe's prayers than in many sermons." He married, March 25, 1834, Polly, daughter of Peter Haskell, and granddaughter on her mother's side of Colo- nel Isaac Parsons, a revolutionary soldier and clerk of the proprietors of New Gloucester .. Thus were united three of the foremost fam- ilies that had come from the settlement on Cape Ann, the Parsons, Haskells and Rowes. They had seven children, four of whom died when very young, and of the remaining three, Salome Cobb died in 1887, Charlotte Wood- man married John M. Cobb, of Yarmouth, and died in Yarmouth, and Charles Otis, mentioned below.
Charles Otis Rowe was born in New Gloucester, December 24. 1851. He attended the schools of his native town, and when in his thirteenth year his father removed to Yar- mouth, he attended North Yarmouth Academy. On the death of his father he continued to manage the farm until 1906, when he sold it and moved to Yarmouth village. where he now resides. He is a very helpful member in the Baptist church at Yarmouth village, and is a Republican in politics. He married, January 21, 1880, Mary J., daughter of Deacon Will- iam Penn Hutchinson, of Yarmouth, of the notable family of New England Hutchinsons she being the sixth in the direct line from the illustrious Thomas Hutchinson, the first great American historian and last royal governor of
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Massachusetts. Children : 1. William Hutch- inson, mentioned below. 2. Sylvanus Charles, mentioned below.
William Hutchinson Rowe was born in Yarmouth, March 6, 1882. He received his education in public schools of Yarmouth and graduated from its high school in 1899. He then entered the drug-store of Leon R. Cook, where he remained nearly three years, and then entered Colby College. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. In 1903 he began work in the drug-store of Burt L. Al- den, and purchased the business in March, 1904, becoming upon examination a registered druggist in October of the same year. Since then he has added to his stock of drugs, paints and wall paper, the dry and fancy goods busi- ness formerly conducted by the W. N. Rich- ards Company. In the spring of 1905 he was elected to the school board and has served on that committee since, being its chairman the past two years. He is a member of the Bap- tist church, also of the Masons, both Blue Lodge and Chapter, and the Order of the Eastern Star. Mr. Rowe married, April 15. 1908, Anna M. Dubois, of Nashua, New Hampshire.
Sylvanus Charles Rowe, brother of William H. Rowe, was born in Yarmouth, November I, 1885. He attended the public schools of his town, graduating from the high school in the class of 1903. He at once entered the offices of the Forest Paper Company as a draughtsman. He spent a year in the Univer- sity of Maine, being a member of the Sigma Kappa fraternity. In 1907 he accepted a po- sition with the Hollinsworth & Whitney Paper Company, of Winslow.
POOLER The origin of this name seems at present clouded in obscurity. As there were many Huguenot French settlers along the north shore of Long Island Sound, it is presumable that this name is of French origin. The first of which any definite knowledge can now be discovered was a revolutionary soldier and with him this rec- ord must begin.
(I) George Pooler enlisted on May 8, 1775, as a private in the Sixth Company under Captain William Clift, of the Sixth Regiment of Connecticut revolutionary militia, com- manded by Colonel Samuel H. Parsons, of New London, and was discharged December 15, 1775. This regiment was recruited from New London, Hartford and Middlesex coun- ties, but was chiefly made up of residents of New London county. It is probable that
George Pooler was a native of the last named. We next hear of him, through the family tra- dition, as a member of Benedict Arnold's un- fortunate expedition through the wilds of Maine in the winter of 1775. On account of a misunderstanding between Arnold and the ma- jor of his regiment, the latter, with several of his men, turned back after the expedition had reached the northern part of Maine. At that time they were, of course, deserters, but a subsequent investigation exonerated the major and his men from blame in the matter and thus this stigma was removed. George Pooler settled in Bloomfield, Maine, and there spent the remainder of his life. He cleared a farm in the wilderness and endured the hardships and privations common to pioneering in that region. No record of his enlistment in the Arnold expedition appears in the rolls of Mas- sachusetts, New Hampshire or Connecticut, and it is probable that he joined the desperate undertaking of Arnold immediately after his discharge from the Connecticut regiment as above noted. He married, in Maine, a Miss Stewart, of whom no further record appears.
(II) George (2), son of George ( I) Pooler, was reared in Bloomfield and was a farmer. He was captain of a militia company which served in the war of 1812. He cleared up a farm in the wilderness and spent his life in his native town. His wife was a Weston and they were the parents of four sons and four daughters : Samuel W., Conly, Lorenzo, Henry, Cynthia, Almeda, Mary and Clara.
(III) Samuel W., eldest child of Captain George (2) and - - (Weston ) Pooler, was born in Bloomfield, now Skowhegan, Maine, in 1812, and died in Sonora, California, July 8, 1900. He was reared on a farm in Bloom- field, and in early life turned his attention to farming, lumbering and river-driving, continu- ing until 1852, when he made a voyage to Australia, from whence he proceeded to Cali- fornia, in which state he spent the remainder of his life. He married, in 1839, Mary, born in Clinton, Maine, August 17, 1815, died Sep- tember 11, 1906, youngest child of Lemuel and Mary (Morey) Dunbar (see Dunbar sketch herewith). Children: 1. Ann, deceased. 2. Manley T., see forward. 3. Ellen Martha, born November 1, 1845. 4. Flora, July 5, 1847. married, November 5, 1877, Frank M. Pratt. 5. Sumner W., August, 1849, was a soldier in the civil war; married, December, 1877, Cora White; child, Elizabeth, born Jan- uary 25, 1880. 6. Isabel, June 5, 1851, mar- ried, November 6, 1876, Charles H. Clark ; child, Florence, born January 26, 1878. 7.
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Charles F., July 9, 1853. married, October 20, 1880, Helen Clough, born August 25, 1859, died March 3, 1907; children : Charles F. Jr., born September 8, 1881, died May 14, 1897; Francis, born December 11, 1890.
(IV) Manley T., eldest son of Samuel W. and Mary (Dunbar) Pooler, was born in Bloomfield, Maine, September 13. 1843. He received his education in the public schools and Bloomfield Academy. He engaged in farming, carpentry and lumbering, and served for a time as a soldier in the civil war. In 1898 he moved to Wellesley, Massachusetts, in order to properly educate his children, and after remaining there several years, returned to his home in Skowhegan, and has since been retired from active business. He served as a director of the Maine State Fair Association, and has been extensively engaged in breeding thoroughbred horses. He is an earnest sup- porter of the principles of the Republican party, but has taken no active part in the conduct of public affairs. An industrious and quiet citi- zen, he has devoted his time to the care and education of his family, and is a respected and useful citizen. He married, December 24, 1870, Ella Mary, daughter of Samuel W. Co- burn, of Skowhegan (see Coburn). Children : I. Fred C., born March 28, 1872. 2. Florence, May 17. ISSO. 3. Mabel, July 3, 1882.
DUNBAR The name Dunbar is found very early in the history of New England, and especially in Plymouth colony, and from one ancestor have sprung nearly all who bear the name in America. The name is of Scotch origin, and those who bear it are of a sturdy, industrious race.
(1) Robert Dunbar, immigrant ancestor, came to America from Dunbar, Scotland, and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, about 1650, bringing his wife Rose with him. She died November 10, 1700, surviving him for several years. He died September 19, 1693. In his will dated September 13, 1693, at Hingham, he gives "to wife Rose a living in my now dwelling-house, and the use of all the land which I give to my sons, Joseph and James, the whole term of her keeping the name of Dunbar, and in case of necessity she may sell or let said land for her maintenance;" to sons John, Joseph and Peter the home land ; to son Joshua "the rest of my land as far as the river ;" bequeathes to James Dunbar, "the son of my son James deceased," ten pounds. He further gives to Joseph "enough apples annu-
ally from the trees in my orchard to make two barrels of cyder." To his three daughters, "Mary Dunbar, Sarah Dunbar and Hannalı Dunbar all my land on the other side of the river, share and share alike, and all my indoor movables after my wife's decease." His chil- dren, all born in Hingham, were: John, Mary, Joseph, James, Robert (died young), Peter, Joshua, Robert (died young), Sarah, Hannah and Benjamin.
(Il) James, third son of Robert and Rose Dunbar, was born June 5, 1664, in Hingham, Massachusetts, and died in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1699. His widow married (second) Peletiah Smith. He was an early settler of West Bridgewater. He was mar- ried to Jane, daughter of Isaac and Mercy (Latham) Harris; Mercy Latham was born in 1650, and was the daughter of Robert and Susannah ( Winslow ) Latham. Susannah Winslow was a daughter of John and Mary (Chilton) Winslow. Mary Chilton was the first English woman to land on Plymouth Rock from the "Mayflower." John Winslow was brother of Governor Edward Winslow. Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar were the parents of the following children: Robert, James ( died young ), Elisha, Samuel, James, Captain Josiah and Jesse.
(III) Elisha, third son of James and Jane ( Harris) Dunbar, was born in 1699, in West Bridgewater, and died in North Bridgewater in 1773. He settled in North Bridgewater. He was married in 1727 to Mercy, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Hayward. Their children were: Abigail, Jacob, Lemuel, Elisha, Seth, Nathaniel, Peter and Silas.
(IV) Jacob, eldest son of Elisha and Mercy (Hayward) Dunbar, was born in 1730, in North Bridgewater. He married ( first), July 8, 1756, Hannah Randell, who died July 5, 1775. He married (second), in 1776, Thank- ful Thayer. His children, all by first wife, were: Ebenezer, Hannah, Anna, Mercy, Ja- cob, Lemuel and Thomas.
(V) Lemuel, third son of Jacob and Han- nalı ( Randell) Dunbar, was born August 9, 1771, in Bridgewater. He removed in 1803 to Maine, resided for a time in Minot, later re- moved to Clinton, then to Bloomfield (now Skowhegan), where he settled on a farm. He married, in 1795, in Bridgewater. Mary Morey, who died November, 1864. Their children were: Jacob, Sally, Franklin, Thankful, Thomas, Lewis, Matthew, Cornelius and Mary.
(VI) Mary, youngest child of Lemuel and
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Mary ( Morey) Dunbar, was born in Clinton, Maine, August 17, 1815, married, in 1839, Samuel W. Pooler, of Skowhegan ( see Pooler sketch ).
The first in this country of the
BOWLER line of the Bowler family to be followed in this place was William Ormskirk, born in Chester county, England, November 8, 1758, son of Joseph Bowler, and who was conscripted into the British army to serve in this country under Burgoyne in the revolution. But he deserted the British ranks, joined the Colonial army and served until the close of the war. He then went to Salisbury, New Hampshire, where he taught school and carried on a small farm as well. He died in 1835 in Anderson- ville, Indiana. He married Jane Lang, of Salisbury, in 1781; children: 1. Joseph O., born 1781 (see post). 2. Stephen T., June 22, 1782, died September 6, 1857. 3. William. April 30, 1788. died September 24, 1873. 4 .. James H., 1790. 5. Belloni, lost at sea. 6. Samuel H.
(II) Joseph O., eldest son and child of Will- iam O. and Jane (Lang) Bowler, was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, June 22, 1781. He married Hannah Greeley, March 1, 1801 ; children: 1. Louisa, born July, 1802. 2. Silas Hamilton, June 3, 1804 ( see post). 3. William O., February, 1808, died June, 1832. 4. Jo- seph, February 4. 1810, died April 15, 1881. 5. Jane L., July 18, 1813, died 1831. 6. Louisa, January 13, 1816, died April 17, 1904. 7. Allan, January 8, 1819, died December 1, 1884. 8. Albert, January 7, 1821, died 1888. 9. James R., July 10, 1825. died January, 1891.
(III) Silas Hamilton (1), second child and eldest son of Joseph O. and Hannah (Gree- ley) Bowler, was born in Palermo, Maine, June 3, 1804, died August 31, 1830. He mar- ried Hannah Brown, of Palermo, who died in 1897. Children: 1. Anson B., born October 14, 1826. 2. Silas H. Jr. (see post).
(IV) Silas Hamilton (2), second son and child of Silas H. (I) and Hannah (Brown) Bowler, was born in Palermo, Maine, Febru- ary 24, 1829. He attended school in Palermo. and in the earlier years of manhood took up shipbuilding as a trade, working in Rockland and Walderboro for a period of several years. He later settled on part of the old homestead farm and gave his attention to conducting it. subsequently acquiring the whole of the prop- erty and living there for the remainder of his life. He died September 10, 1907. He was al-
ways noted for frankness, but was kind heart- ed and true. He had for nearly fifty years been an active christian worker, was deacon of the Second Advent church at Sand Hill, Somer- ville, since its organization and ever took a deep interest in all its affairs. For fourteen years he was a trial justice, and the same principle of life which was dominant in all his secular and religions work governed all his official acts, and he was never biased by friend, foe or influence. He has been heard to re- mark that he had the satisfaction of feeling that he had never rendered an unjust decision. He married, May 20. 1858, Mary M. Farrar, of Washington. Children: 1. Fred A., died young. 2. Lila May, died young. 3. Emma C., born November 8, 1861, married, Decem- ber 25, 1883, O. C. Cushman, of Centre Mont- ville, Maine : children: Chester Bowler, born July 13, 1885; Harold Ernest, November 13, 1889: Cassie K., September 2, 1896. 4. Silas E., born November 8, 1863, resides on the old homestead. Ile is one of the substantial men of his town, where he has served as selectman and superintendent of schools for many years ; is also deputy sheriff of Waldo county ; he is an active christian worker and deacon of the Baptist church ; he has two children : Kathryn C., born November 4, 1894, and Beatrice E., December 20, 1896. 5. Wilfred, born Novem- ber 12, 1867; by profession he is an oculist and practices in Bridgton, Maine: he has served his native town, Palermo, as selectman, and is a prominent Mason ; married, Septem- ber 22, 1889, Editlı B. Dodge, of Somerville, Maine : children: Grace E., died young, and Edna D. 6. Ernest Constant ( see post ).
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