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(VI) Herbert Hayes, eldest son of John Davis and Emma J. (Corthell) Allan, was born in January, 1877, and is known in that part of the state as "the potato king." He married into an old Denneysville family, the Kilbys, his wife's name being Deborah, and they have no children. He was elected to the Maine legislature in 1904-06, as a Democrat, his district being strongly Republican; this was considered a great compliment and at- tests his popularity in his own town, to whose interests he is actively devoted.
An ancient New England TILLSON name is found in the early records with the spelling as above given, and also Tilson, the latter pre- dominating among the first generations. In the line herein treated the spelling at the head of this article was adopted in the present gen- eration. The family is supposedly of English or Scotch origin, but nothing appears in the records to show whence it came to this coun- try. It has been identified with the progress and development of New England and of the nation in full proportion to its numerical strength.
(I) Edmund Tilson is first found in Plym- outh, Massachusetts, in 1643, but there is no record of the family name of his wife Joan. His known children were: Mary, Ephraim, Elizabeth and Joan.
(II) Ephraim, elder son of Edmund Til- son, is given in Davis' "Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth" as the presumptive father of the next mentioned.
(III) Edmund (2), presumably the son of Ephraim Tilson, resided in Plymouth and was married, in 1691, to Elizabeth Waterman, and their children included John, Edmund, Jo- anna, Mary, Elizabeth and Ruth. He mar- ried, second, in 1707, Hannah Orcut, and they were the parents of Samuel and James. His third wife, Deborah, bore him Stephen and Hannah.
(IV) John, eldest child of Edmund (2) and Elizabeth (Waterman) Tilson, was born 1692 in Plymouth, and had a wife named Joanna. Their children of record were: Joseph, Ben- jamin, Mary, Joanna, John, Ephraim and Mary.
(V) John (2), youngest son of John (I) and Joanna Tilson, was born 1725, probably in Plympton, and settled in that part of the town which became a portion of Halifax, where he was undoubtedly a farmer, and died March 28, 1790. His intention of marriage was published at Halifax, June 30, 1751, and on the IIth of November, following, the wed- ding took place, the bride being Mercy Stur- tevant. Their children of record were: John, William, Mercy, Perez and Lydia. The youngest son died when a little more than one year old, and there is no record of any other of the name in Halifax, but it is extremely probable that they had another of the same name which failed to get on the records, or may have been born in another town.
(VI) Perez Tilson was a resident of Thomaston, Maine, and the records of that town show that he was born in 1765, in Hali-
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fax, Massachusetts. There can be little doubt that he was a son of John and Mercy ( Sturte- vant) Tilson, as there appears no record of another family in that town at that time. He settled in Thomaston, Maine, in May, 1795, and was actively identified with the church there, and is spoken of in Thomaston as Deacon Perez. He was married (first) Feb- ruary. 23, 1797, in Thomaston, to Melinda Fales, whose death does not appear of record. His intention of a second marriage to Mrs. Lucy Holmes was published in Thomaston, October 28, 1831, and no doubt the wedding took place in due time. He died October 5, 1852, at the age of eighty-seven years. His children were: Myra, Melinda F., Perez, Han- nah, Colonel Edward C. and Captain Charles.
(VII) Perez (2), eldest son of Perez (I) and Melinda ( Fales) Tilson, was born Octo- ber 21, 1801, in Thomaston, where his life was spent engaged in farming. He was married (first ) November 16, 1825, to Ruth W. Sweet- land, of Hope, Maine, and married ( second) in 1833, Martha Sawyer, of Cape Elizabeth, who died December 5, 1845. He married (third) June 9, 1847, Harriet Collins, of Port- land. The children of the second marriage were: Ruth, Joanna F., Perez, Henry and Ethan. By the third marriage were born George C. (died young), John S., George W. and Harriet C.
(VIII) George William Tillson, youngest son of Perez (2) Tilson and his third wife, Harriet (Collins) Tilson, was born December 18, 1852, in Thomaston, Maine, where he passed his boyhood, passing through the pub- lic schools, including the high school, of his - native town. He graduated from Bowdoin .College as a civil engineer in 1877, and for a few years in early life was chiefly engaged in teaching in Maine and Massachusetts. He was subsequently employed as an engineer in sewer work in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1880. In 1881 he planned and superintended the construction of the sewer system of Kalama- zoo, Michigan, and before the close of that year went to Omaha, Nebraska, and continued there until 1887, in charge of pavement and sewer construction. He served as city engi- neer of that city from 1887 to 1892, and from the latter year to 1895 was engaged in en- gineering and construction work in Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado. In 1895 he was ap- pointed assistant engineer of the department of public works of Brooklyn, New York, and in 1902 was appointed chief engineer of the bureau of highways. In June, 1907, he was appointed chief engineer of the bureau of
highways, borough of Manhattan, and has since filled that position. That Mr. Tillson is a skilful and successful member of his pro- fession is shown by his association with the leading organizations, including the American Society of Civil Engineers, of which he is a director, and is president of the American So- . ciety of Municipal Improvements. He is a member and past president of the Municipal Engineers of the city of New York, also the Brooklyn Engineers' Club, and is president of the Midwood Club of Flatbush, and is a mem- ber of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and also of Zeta Psi. He is the author of "Street Pavements and Paving Materials," a standard work of five hundred pages, published in 1900 by John Wiley & Sons, and is also a frequent contributor to engineering periodicals and so- cieties on street and highway matters.
He was married October 5, 1887, at Lan- caster, New Hampshire, to Mary E. Abbott, of that place, a daughter of Isaac E. and Edna ( Hill) Abbott, of old New England families. They have a daughter, Madalene Abbott, born September 20, 1888.
KILBY John Kilby, of Boston, by wife, Rebecca (Simpkins) Kilby, had eleven children born in Boston, as follows: I. Elizabeth, December 15, 1686. 2. John, December 24, 1688. 3. Sarah, March 8, 1691-92. 4. Christopher, December 9, 1693, died young. 5. Richard (q. v.), January 2, 1694-95. 6. William, April 6, 1696-97. 7. Catherine, February 10, 1699-1700. 8. Re- becca, March 30, 1702. 9. Christopher, May 25, 1705. IO. Nicholas, July 28, 1708. II. Ebenezer, June 25, 17II.
(II) Richard, third son and fifth child of John and Rebecca (Simpkins) Kilby, was born in Boston, January 2, 1694-95. He mar- ried, May 14, 1719, Abigail, daughter of Dan- iel and Elizabeth (Thaxter) Cushing, of Hingham, Massachusetts. She was born in Hingham, January 1, 1699-1700, and after her husband's death she was married, May 10, 1739, to William Stetson. Richard Kilby was a master mariner, and died shortly after returning from Jamaica, West Indies, Decem- ber 4, 1736. He resided in the second pre- cinct of Hingham and was only thirty-nine years of age when he died. Children, born in Hingham: I. Catherine, April 26, 1720, mar- ried, March 26, 1745, Daniel Lincoln. 2. John, May 14, 1722. 3. William, March 23, 1723- 24, died May 20, 1725. 4. William (q. v.), baptized July 17, 1726. 5. Cushing, March 24, 1727-28. 6. Nathaniel Cushing, January
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2, 1730-31, died 1732. 7. Sarah, February 17, 1736-37. 8. Abigail, twin of Sarah, died Au- gust 14, 1737.
(III) William, third son and fourth child of Richard and Abigail (Cushing) Kilby, was baptized July 17, 1726. His mother was born in Hingham, but he probably settled in Co- hasset, where his son William was born in 1763. This is the more probable, as the his- tory of the town of Hingham, published by the town in 1893, gives the date of his baptism, but no account of his life beyond that event.
(IV) William (2), probably eldest son of William (I), and grandson of Richard and Abigail (Cushing) Kilby, was born in Co- hasset, Massachusetts, in 1763. He was a blacksmith by trade, and removed to Dennys- ville, Washington county, district of Maine, in 1787. There he married Mary, daughter of Captain Theophilus and Lydia (Cushing) Wilder, born in Dennysville in 1768, and their children were born in that town. He was clerk of the town for many years, and also served as selectman, town treasurer and postmaster. Children: 1. William, born 1789, married his cousin, Abigail, daughter of Ebe- nezer C. and Abigail (Ayer) Wilder. 2. Dan- iel, 1791, married Joanna, daughter of Isaac and Joanna ( Hersey) Hobart, born 1799. 3. " John, 1793, married Lydia C. Hierd, daughter of Ebenezer C. and Abigail (Ayer) Wilder, born 1797. 4. Mary, 1795, married Aaron, eldest child of Isaac and Joanna ( Hersey) Hobart. 5. Theophilus (q. v.), 1797. 6. Sarah, 1799, died 1806. 7. Benjamin, 1801, married (first) Eliza Rice, (second) M. H. Stoddard. 8. Sarah, 1807, died 1827. 9. Lydia C., 1809, married John
(V) Theophilus, fourth son and fifth child of William and Mary (Wilder) Kilby, was born in Dennysville, Maine, in 1797. He mar- ried Deborah, born March 24, 1796, daughter of Crocker and Deborah (Jacob) Wilder, of Hingham, Massachusetts, April 27, 1822. Children, born in Dennysville, Washington county, Maine: I. Charles (q. v.), 1823. 2. Alden, 1824, married (first) Lucy Bugbee. 3. Martha C., 1826, married Edwin Towers. 4. Sarah C., 1830, married Horlich Totman. 5. Francis, 1832. 6. Alfred, 1837, married Adaline (Eastman) Jones. 7. Theophilus, 1841.
(VI) Charles Henry, eldest child of Theo- philus and Deborah (Wilder) Kilby, was born in Dennysville, Maine, in 1823. He married Julia E., daughter of Benjamin and Joanna (Foster) Foster, of East Machias, Maine. Joanna Foster was a granddaughter of Colo-
nel Benjamin Foster, niece of Samuel Foster, father of Benjamin, who came to Dennysville, Maine, in 1824. Children of Charles Henry and Deborah (Wilder) Kilby were born in Dennysville, Maine, as follows: I. Benjamin Foster (q. v.), March 1, 1852. 2. Charles Henry, July 3, 1853, a resident of South Portland, Maine. 3. Emily Ursulla, October 30, 1856, married Howard H. Kilby, of Den- nysville. 4. Herbert, July 8, 1860, married Hattie Pike and lives at Eastport, Maine.
(VII) Benjamin Foster, eldest child of Charles Henry and Julia E. ( Foster ) Kilby, was born in Dennysville, Maine, March I, 1852. He attended the public schools, worked on a farm and in the mills. He then engaged in the retail boot and shoe business on his own account at Eastport, Maine, which business he carried on for twenty-five years. He was ap- pointed to service in the United States cus- tom house at Eastport, and held his office 1889-94, and in 1894 he became purchasing agent for the Sea Coast Packing Company of that city. In 1898 he resigned from the pac- king company, to accept from Governor Cobb the office of register of deeds for Washington county to fill a vacancy, and this appointment caused him to remove his residence to Machias. He was elected to the office by the people at the general election of 1906. In 1883 he was elected as representative in the Maine legisla- ture. While a resident of Eastport he was elected a member of the board of trade of that city. His fraternal affiliation with the Ma- sonic fraternity began in Eastport Lodge, No. 7, and he was advanced to the Royal Arch Chapter, No. 10. His religious faith made him a member of the Unitarian church. He was married, December 19, 1877, to Lucy Abigail, daughter of Levi K. and Mary Cor- thell, of Dennysville, Maine. Children: I. Edith Lucy, born December 10, 1879, married Charles Carroll Rumery, of Eastport ; no chil- dren. 2. Marcia Mary, born March 10, 1881, married Dr. Frank C. Jewett, of Eastport, Maine, and has one child, Lucy Clark Jewett. The mother of these children died January 8, 1884, and Mr. Kilby married (second) Jan- tiary 22, 1907, Mary Ellen, daughter of Alex- ander McFaul, of Pembroke, Maine.
RANKIN Rankin is the diminutive of Randolph, formed as are many other old English surnames. Tradition traces the descent of the family to John, son of a knight, Jacob de Rankine, bur- gomaster of Ghent, who married a daughter of the house of Keith and became progenitor
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of the Rankin family. The name is spelled Rankines, Rankins, Rankings, Rangkings, and is numerous in Scotland, as well as England. A coat-of-arms borne by the Scotch Rankins at Orchardhead, Scotland, as early as 1672: Gules three boars' heads erased argent be- tween a lance issuing out of the dexter base and a Lochaber ax issuing out of the sinister both erect of the second. Crest: A lance ar- gent. Motto: Fortiter et recte. A branch of the Scotch Rankins settled in the Ulster province, in the north of Ireland, and from them many of the American families are de- scended.
(I) Robert Rankin, progenitor of the fam- ily mentioned in this sketch, was born in Perth, Scotland. He married Katherine Mc- Claren.
(II) Moses, son of Robert Rankin, was born in Perth, Scotland, in 1834, and died in Sanford, Maine, in 1900. He married Isabelle Parkhill, at Glasgow, Scotland. She was born August 20, 1837, and is now living in San- ford, Maine. He attended the schools of his native place in Scotland and learned the trade of block-printing in the mills there. He came to this country in 1860, and found employ- ment at his trade in the mills of Lawrence, afterwards working in mills at Matteawan, New York, and Milton, New Hampshire. Children : I. Mary. 2. Katherine. 3. Thom- as T., mentioned below. 4. Margaret. 5. Robert. 6. Darius. 7. George. 8. Willis. 9. Charles. All the children were born in this country.
(III) Thomas T., son of Moses Rankin, was born in Peekskill, New York, May 4, 1865. (The middle initial was added by Mr. Rankin and represents no baptismal or per- sonal name.) He was educated in the pub- lic schools of the various towns in which his parents lived during his youth, Matteawan, New York; Milton Mills, New Hampshire ; and Sanford, Maine. He was engaged for a time in the meat and provision business in Sanford. He was appointed deputy sheriff, and in 1901 was placed in charge of the York county jail, continuing to hold that responsi- ble position to the present time. Mr. Rankin is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Riverside Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Sanford, and of Fraternal Lodge of Free Masons, of Alfred; of White Rose Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Sanford, and of Fern Chapter, Eastern Star. He is a member also of the Alfred Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He married, in 1884, Lora. B. Jones, daughter of Benjamin Jones, of Kennebunk, Maine.
Children, all born in Sanford: I. Lillian, No- vember 9, 1886. 2. Harry, August 14, 1888. 3. Ethelyn, December 7, 1890. 4. Everett, October 24, 1892. The two eldest are grad- uates of the Sanford high school.
Maine loaned to the great state GREEN of Mississippi Sergeant S. Pren- tiss, one of the most brilliant orators the south ever knew. Dixie repays the obligation by sending us a scion from its leading first families.
(I) The Right Rev. William Mercer Green, D. D., was born in Wilmington, North Caro- lina, May 2, 1798, and died at Sewanee, Ten- nessee, February 13, 1887. His father was a wealthy rice-planter in the old North state. His grandmother was of the Quaker faith, He owed much to the discipline and good example of his sainted mother which in after life he was never slow to acknowledge. He was graduated with high honor from the Uni- versity of North Carolina in the class of 1818, and immediately upon graduating began his theological course. He was ordained deacon in Christ Church, Raleigh, by- Bishop R. C. Moore, April 29, 1821, made a priest in St. James, Wilmington, April 20, 1822, and be- came rector of St. John's, Williamsburg, North Carolina. From there he went to Hills- borough, to become rector at St. Matthew's, which he established. In 1837 he was ap- pointed chaplain and professor of Belles Let- tres and Rhetoric at his alma mater. Penn- sylvania University conferred the degree of D. D. upon him in 1845. Dr. Green was elected to the bishopric of the diocese of Mis- sissippi in 1849, and was consecrated in St. Andrew's, at Jackson, February 24, 1850. Bishop Green was among the most devoted churchmen, ever laboring zealously for the ex- tension of God's kingdom on earth. After sixty-one years of arduous service in the min- istry, thirty-three of which he served the church as bishop, he was compelled by in- creasing infirmities to relinquish some of his labors and rely on a coadjutor, but for the remaining five years of his life he performed many of his official duties. He was one of the founders of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1860, just as the war was about to deluge the beautiful southland in seas of blood. In 1867 Bishop Green was chosen chancellor of the university. He printed several sermons, notably those on "Baptismal Regeneration" and "Apostolic Succession," but his monumental works were the life of Right Rev. Dr. Ravenscroft, of
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North Carolina ( 1830) and the life of Right Rev. Dr. Otey, of Tennessee. His second wife, who died in 1860, was Charlotte Isabella (Fleming) Green, of Wilmington.
(II) Rev. Stephen H., son of Bishop and Charlotte I. (Fleming) Green, was born at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 28, 1849. He was educated at private schools and by private tutors, and was a student at the Berkley Divinity School, Middletown, Con- necticut, graduating therefrom in June, 1871. He was ordained deacon June 25, 1871, at Sewanee, Tennessee, and priest at Jackson, Mississippi, November 2, 1873. His first charge was at Grenada, Mississippi, 1871-77, and the next at Dallas, Texas, 1877-82. On account of the ill health of his family he re- moved to Elgin, Illinois, where he was rector for sixteen months, when he was called to St. John's Church, St. Louis, of which he had charge for twelve years. His other pastorates were: Annastan, Alabama; Kirkwood, Mis- souri; Memphis, Tennessee, and his second pastoral charge at Elgin, Illinois. Removing to the seacoast, by reason of sickness, he took charge of St. Saviour's church, Bar Harbor, Maine, May 1, 1903. The name of the church suggests an interesting bit of history of Mt. Desert Island. The Jesuits settled at Pemetic, now Northeast Harbor, Maine, in 1613, seven years before white men landed on the rock at Plymouth. While on a voyage from France they were driven out to sea in a storm, and prayed God to deliver them in his mercy. He heard their prayer, for in the morning the fog cleared away, the stars shone, and the boat- pilot steered them into a harbor which they, in gratitude, named San Saveur, in commem- oration of their joyful and providential deliver- ance. After a few years' stay, during which the mild-mannered La Saussaye gave more at- tention to the peaceful pursuits of agriculture and the curing of souls, neglecting the sterner wants of war, they were attacked, surprised and overwhelmed by a superior force in the command of Samuel Argall, from Virginia. The dispersion of the Jesuits ended French domination on the coast of Maine, but the name of the first Christian mission is per- petuated in the Episcopal church at Bar Har- bor. Of this church Mr. Green assumed the rectorship in 1903. In 1878 a small stone chapel was built for the worshipers, and this was enlarged by the addition of the present nave and cancel, and seats comfortably nearly eight hundred. By personal kindliness of heart and public spirit, combined with a gra- cious dignity of manner and a ripe scholar-
ship, Mr. Green is fitted to commend to this people the message from. the Master.
Rev. Mr. Green married Cornelia Matilda, daughter of William C. Casey, of Middletown, Connecticut ; seven children, two of whom are married and one is studying with a view to entering the ministry.
The Stanley family in Eng- STANLEY land was of noble birth. Sir William Stanley bore a promi- nent part in the fight at Bosworth Field, which seated the Tudors on the throne of England. For his conspicuous gallantry there he was created earl of Derby, which title now remains in the family. Another distinguished name is Arthur Penryn Stanley, dean of Westminister. The name is derived from two Saxon words, "stone" and "leigh," and denotes a stoney field. It has been spelled "Standley," "Stans- ley" and "Stanslee." The family has produced many tall men. The first of the name to come to this country sailed on the good ship "Eliza- beth and Ann," and was Christopher Stanley, April 29, 1635, who settled in Boston.
(I) The founder of the family in Maine was William Stanley, of Kittery, that state. He married Hannah Pope, October 20, 1714. His will was dated February 23, 1744, and was probated April 6, 1747. He lodged in garrison 23, with nine other families, in 1722. He bought of William Godsoe, May 13, 1719, an acre of land on the York road, and also owned land on Spruce creek.
(II) William (2), son of William (I) and Hannah (Pope) Stanley, was born October 12, 1715, and married Mary He re- moved from Kittery to Shapleigh, Maine, in 1774, and settled on what was afterward called Stanley ridge. Their children were John, William, Mary, Dennis and Joseph.
(III) William (3), son of William (2) and Mary Stanley, was born in Shapleigh. Maine, in 1776, the year independence was declared ; he was their second son and child and in ad- dition was the first male child born in the town. Uniting in matrimony with Susanna Morrison, December 25, 1797, he removed to Porter, Maine, thence to Hiram, same state, where he built a mill and cleared a farm. He died April 27, 1822, at the comparatively young age of forty-six; his wife survived him until July 16, 1836. Both were buried on his land at South Hiram. To this couple were born Esther, Isaac, William, Jacob, Joseph and John.
(IV) Rev. John, son of William (3) and Susanna ( Morrison) Stanley, the sixth child
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and fifth son of the union, was born May 28, 1816, in Hiram, Maine. He married Salome Stacy, of Porter, Maine, April 9, 1840, Will- iam F. Taylor, Esquire, officiating at the cere- mony, and thither he removed. He was a preacher of the Free Baptist denomination supplying at the Porter church. His whole life was devoted to the betterment of man- kind and leading souls to the fold. He en- deavored to walk in footsteps of the Master, showing the way to others. The blessings of the ministrations of the good man of God "live on" long after he has gone to his reward. Mr. Stanley's labors were coeval with that of the founders and missionaries of the church, Da- vid Marks, John Colby and Benjamin'Randall. His family consisted of Lewis J., Sarah L., Isaac M., Cyrena F., Hannah J., Preston J., Olive J., Salome V., Randall L., Tobias A.
(V) Preston J., son of Rev. John and Salome (Stacy) Stanley, was born at Porter, Maine, January 24, 1853, and was the sixth of the family. He received his early educa- tion in the common schools of Porter, and worked as a day-laborer and as a journeyman cooper. When thirty-five years of age he started in the grocery business in Kezar Falls Village, remained there five years, sold out to George W. Wadleigh, and was employed by Allen Garner in a gents' furnishing and boot and shoe store, and eventually bought out the business. He took his son, Orman L., into the concern in 1897, and then added furniture, and continued to assist in conducting it until his death in 1902. He was a Republican in politics ; he was serving as postmaster at the time of his death ; had served as town treas- urer, town clerk, and on the school committee at Porter. He was a member of Greenlief Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Cornish ; Ossipee Lodge, K. of P .; Costello Tribe of Red Men; was a member of the I. O. O. F., and active in the Methodist church. He married, De- cember 2, 1874, Naomi Stacy, of Porter, born 1855. Their children were: Sidney B., now R. F. D. carrier from Kezar Falls ; Orman Le- roy, Sherman P., Evelyn M., Florence M. and Ina N.
(VI) Orman Leroy, son of Preston J. and Naomi (Stacy) Stanley, was born in Porter, Maine, December 14, 1876, educated in its schools and at North Parsonfield Academy, graduating in 1895. He taught the high school in Porter, and was superintendent of schools of that town. He went into business with his father in 1897, and succeeded him at his death, and has managed it alone since. He was appointed postmaster to succeed his
father, which office he now holds. He is a Republican, and has been chairman of the Re- publican town committee. He is a member of the present ( 1909) legislature of Maine, rep- resenting ' the seventy-fourth district, com- prising the towns of Porter, Hiram, Brown- field, Fryeburg and Lovell. He is a member of Greenlief Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Cor- nish, Aurora Chapter, R. A. M., of Cornish, Oriental Commandery, K. T., of Bridgeton, Kora Temple, of Lewiston, of the Ossipee Lodge, K. of P., of which he is a district deputy, and for two years has been deputy grand chancellor of the eighth district, which comprises five towns. He is also a member of Costello Tribe of Red Men and of the Charter Oak Grange, of Porter. He was mar- ried November 28, 1900, to Elizabeth M., daughter of Walter H. and Carrie Ridlon, of Kezar Falls. Their children are: Doris M., born May 5, 1902, Mildred, January 16, 1905, and Caroline Naomi, February 18, 1907.
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