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(XXIX) Guildford Dudley, youngest son of James (2) and Sally (Wiggin) St. Clair, was born in Union, Maine, September 30, 1824, residing in Camden, that state, and was a ship carpenter and farmer. He assisted in the con-
struction of many ships for the government in war time, and was in Maryland and Virginia manufacturing ship timber for the northern market. In 1877 he retired to his farm in Camden, near Ragged mountain. He was a pronounced Republican, taking a deep interest in public questions of the day, and was an omniferous reader. He married Leonore Helen, daughter of Colonel Asa and Hannah (King) Payson, of Hope, Maine. She was a schoolteacher, and a woman of rare intelli- gence and much executive ability. Issue : Ashley, George F., Lauriston F., Edna F., Eva L., Grace L. and Elmer C.
(XXX) Ashley, eldest son of Guildford Dudley and Leonore Helen (Payson) St. Clair, was born in Camden, Maine, March 22, 1847. He was educated in the public schools of Camden and at the Normal school at Farm- ington, Maine, where he graduated in 1869. He came to Calais, where he taught school for twenty-five years as principal of the high school. He studied law in the office of Hon. George M. Hanson, and was admitted to the Maine bar in 1894, when he formed a partner- ship with his old law preceptor. He was elected superintendent of schools for Calais in 1904 and has been relected every year since. He has been a member of the Calais city coun- cil, and run one year for the office of county attorney on the Prohibitory ticket. He is now a Republican and very active in party coun- cils. He is a member of the Baptist church, as also are his family. He is a member of Calais Lodge, No. 45, Knights of Pythias, of the Joel A. Hancock Post, No. 34, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is past commander. He enlisted in Company E., Second Maine Cavalry, for three years from November 10, 1863, and served till the end of the war. His service was in the Department of the Gulf, under General Banks. His battal- ion was stationed much of the time at New Orleans. He had his horse shot from under him in a skirmish at Marianne, Florida, and his sabre was shot away from his side at the same time, in a raid when the rebel legislature was dispersed. He married, in Philips, Maine, September 17, 1871, Sarah Evelyn, daughter of James and Sarah Tarbox, of Philips. She was born in Philips in 1850, died January 20, 1887. Their children were three: Louisa Eve- lyn, born January 3, 1872, in Philips, married William A. Holman, of Rockland, Maine ; Eda, born August 18, 1874; Alice Winifred, born September 27, 1883, died August 12, 1885. He married (second) Mary Louise, daughter of Isaac and Mary Hanson, of Calais, August 6,
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1890, and three children resulted from this union : Mary Phyllis, born December 7, 1891 ; George Ashley, February 19, 1894; and Guildford Payson, January 22, 1896. They are all in the Calais public schools.
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HODGKINS merously represented in this country as many others, but it was early imported from England, and has borne its full share in proportion to numbers, in developing the civilization in the settlement of the nation. It has been conspicuous in Maine from an early period and sent out to other states from this commonwealth many worthy representatives.
(I) William Hodgkins, immigrant ances- tor, was born before 1600 in England and came to Plymouth, New Hampshire, among the early settlers. He was admitted freeman in 1634 and served as juryman in 1636 at Plymouth. It is probable that his first wife died in England. He married (second) De- cember 21, 1638, Anne Hynes, at Plymouth, who deposed March 2, 1641, that she had lived at the house of Mr. Derby, father of John and Richard Derby. In 1643, January 2, Mr. Hodgkins placed his daughter Sarah with Thomas and Winfred Whitney to remain until twenty years of age. He removed to Ipswich, Massachusetts, about 1641, and prob- ably died there. His children born of the first marriage were: William and Sarah. Those of the second: A child born at Ipswich, No- vember 30, 1647, and Samuel, 1654.
(II) William (2), son of William (I) Hodgkins, was born 1622, in England, and came with his father to Ipswich in 1641. He resided near Little Neck in the town of Ips- wich for over fifty years, beginning about 164I, and died December 26, 1693. He mar- ried Grace, daughter of Osmond Dutch, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and they were the parents of William, Samuel, Mary, Edward, Hezekiah, Thomas, Christopher, John, Mar- tha, Abigail and Hannah.
(III) Samuel, son of William (2) and Grace (Dutch) Hodgkins, was born Novem- ber 2, 1658, in Ipswich, and settled in Glouces- ter before 1684. In 1694 he was appointed to keep the ferry at Tyndall Cove, where he had already built a house. By trade he was a shoe- maker. His first wife, Hannah, was born about 1660, died July 28, 1724, and he mar- ried (second) May 3, 1725, Mary Stock- bridge. His children were: Samuel, Han- nah, John, Philip, William, Adam, Jedediah,
Patience, Abigail, Mercy, David, Martha, Anna, Jonathan and Experience.
(IV) Philip, fourth son of Samuel and Han- nah Hodgkins, was born January 25, 1690, in Gloucester, and removed to Falmouth, Maine, in company with his brother Jedediah; the latter was married in 1722 at Gloucester to Sarah Millet, of that town, and had born there before his removal two daughters, Sarah and Judith.
(V) Philip (2) and Shemuel, probably sons of Philip (I) Hodgkins, of Gloucester, were settlers about 1774 in Hancock, Maine, on the banks of the Skillings river, about ten miles north of Mt. Desert Island. Others of the name in that vicinity were: Moses and Ed- ward Hodgkins, and all had farms in the same vicinity. That of Philip consisted of one hun- dred and sixty-five acres and fifty-six rods, at Frenchman's Bay, at the mouth of the Skill- ings river, in what is now Marlboro. He had children : Edward, Jane, James, Mary, Lucy, Moses, Samuel and William. (Samuel and descendants receive mention in this article.)
(VI) Samuel, fourth son of Philip (2) Hodgkins, married Sally Flagg and their chil- dren included : Philip, Eben, Selinda, Nancy, Eunice, Hannah, Polly, Susan and Sally.
(VII) Philip (3), elder son of Samuel and Sally (Flagg) Hodgkins, married Mary Blunt, and their children were: Edmund, Alfred, Sophia, Amanda, Walter, Wallace and Jeffer- son. -
(VIII) Colonel Jefferson, youngest son of Philip (3) and Mary (Blunt) Hodgkins, was born October 27, 1844, at Lamoine, Maine, and attended the public schools of his native town. When a young man he became a sailor and for several years went out from New York and Boston. He served his country as private in Company C, Twenty-sixth Maine Infantry, enlisting from Trenton, now La- moine, and was mustered out with his regi- ment at Bangor. In 1867 he removed to Cali- fornia and engaged in farming for a time, then became a railway engineer, and drove the first stake for the Southern Pacific railroad in 1868. He removed to Kansas and joined a United States preliminary survey party, spend- ing two years in the Chickasaw Lands. He was taken sick in Kansas and his illness lasted long enough to compel the expenditure of the money he had saved, and in 1872 he arrived in Chicago with only two and a half dollars in his possession. The first work he did in that city was loading sand on the dock. He was for three years superintendent of the Chicago
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Dredging & Dock Company, and then en- gaged in contracting business for himself. About 1881 he organized and became president of Kimball & Cobb Stone Company, after a few years consolidating with Brownell Im- provement Company, of which company he is now president. The firm's principal quarries are located a few miles south of Chicago, at Thornton, Illinois, where they own five hun- dred acres and have an annual capacity of five hundred thousand cubic yards of crushed stone. They also have extensive lime kilns, and take large contracts for elevating the tracks of railroad companies within the city of Chicago. He is independent in his religious views, is a Republican, served two terms as commissioner for Cook county, and was for twelve years one of the South Park commis- sioners. He is a member of the order of An- cient Free and Accepted Masons, being a Knight Templar, and belongs to clubs as fol- lows: Union League, Chicago Club of Lake Geneva, South Shore and Commercial. Colonel Hodgkins served on the military staff of Jo- seph Fifer during that governor's term, in the state of Illinois. He is a member of Columbia Post, Grand Army of the Republic, also Vet- eran's Club. He is a director of the Engle- wood State Bank of Chicago. He married Jennie, daughter of William Lewis, of Orange, New Jersey, and they have two children, Wil- liam Lewis and one adopted daughter, Edna, who married Roy Adams.
(IX) William Lewis, only son of Colonel Jefferson and Jennie (Lewis) Hodgkins, was born May 15, 1875, at Chicago. He received his education in the public schools of Chicago and Purdue University of Lafayette, Indiana, graduating with the class of 1897. In that year he entered the service of Brownell Im- provement Company, of which he is now vice- president. He is a member of Builders', Union League, Chicago Yacht, Lake Geneva, Kenwood and Midlothian clubs. November 24, 1903, he married May Press.
(VI) William, youngest son of Philip (2) Hodgkins, married Susan Doane, and they were the parents of : Samuel, Nathan, Thomas, Asa, Eliza, Phoebe, Daniel, William, Martha and Henry.
(VII) Thomas, third son of William and Susan (Doane) Hodgkins, married Margaret Moon, and their children were: Asa, Roland, Curtis, Caroline, Fairfield and Thomas Jeffer- son.
(VIII) Thomas Jefferson, youngest son of Thomas and Margaret (Moon) Hodgkins, was born September 20, 1844, at Hancock,
Maine. Attended the schools of his native town, also seminaries at East Corinth and Bucksport, Maine. At the age of seventeen he began teaching schools, which he followed during fall and winter months in his native and adjoining towns for fifteen years with marked success. While teaching he was also engaged in farming and fishing business. Fol- lowing this for five years he engaged in fire insurance and cooperage business. Served his town one term as member of the town board and assessor, and three years as school su- pervisor. For several years was in charge of the office and general store of the Stimpson Granite Company of Sullivan, Maine. In 1887 he removed to Chicago, Illinois, when he became connected with the firm of L. A. Marshall, general contractors. After spend- ing two years with this firm he was for two years secretary and general manager of the Minnehaha Granite Company of Rowena, South Dakota. Following this he entered the employ of Thomas J. Ryan on the Chicago Board of Trade, with whom he remained for four years as chief and confidential clerk. Since 1895 he has been in the employ of the Brownell Improvement Company of Chicago as manager of the sand and cinder depart- ments and now general salesman. He is a Democrat, and independent in religious views. January 5, 1867, he married Myra Cecelia, daughter of Jeremiah Wooster, of Hancock, Maine. They became the parents of: Sarah Wooster, Harriet Mabel and Harold Curtis.
FULLER Among the passengers of the "Mayflower," 1620, were Ed- ward and Samuel Fuller, who have been mentioned by various chroniclers of early colonial history as the "famous broth- ers." They were among the signers of the compact. Edward Fuller and his wife both died in 1621, during the second winter after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. They had a son Samuel, who came in the "Mayflower," and also a son Matthew, who did not come over until 1623, and then in company with Bridget, wife of Dr. Samuel, brother of Ed- ward.
(I) Dr. Samuel Fuller of the "Mayflower," progenitor of the family here under considera- tion, was a physician of much skill and a man who was distinguished for his great piety and upright character. He lived in the Plymouth colony and died there in 1633. He married (first) in London, England, Elsie Glascock, who died before 1613; married (second) in Leyden, Holland, in 1613, Agnes Carpenter,
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who died before 1617; and married (third) in Leyden, in 1617, Bridget Lee, who came over in the "Ann" in 1623, in company with Matthew, son of Edward Fuller. She also brought with her an infant child, who died soon after she arrived at Plymouth. Dr. Sam- uel and Bridget (Lee) Fuller had two chil- dren born in Plymouth, Samuel and Mercy, the latter of whom married Ralph James.
(II) Samuel (2), son of Dr. Samuel (1) and Bridget (Lee) Fuller, lived in Middleboro, Massachusetts. The baptismal name of his wife was Elizabeth, and she bore him seven children : I. Mercy, married Daniel Cole. 2. Samuel, born 1659. 3. Experience, married James Wood. 4. John. 5. Elizabeth, married Samuel Eaton. 6. Hannah, married Eleazer Lewis. 7. Isaac.
(III) Samuel (3), of Plympton, Massachu- setts, son of Samuel (2) and Elizabeth Fuller, of Middleboro, was born in 1659, married Mercy Eaton and had by her eleven children : I. Nathaniel, born 1687. 2. Samuel, 1689. 3. William, 1691. 4. Seth, 1692, married (first) Sarah, daughter of Adam Wright, (second) widow Deborah Cole. 5. Ebenezer, 1695, married Joanna Gray. 6. Benjamin, 1696. 7. Elizabeth, 1697. 8. John, 1698. 9. Jabez, 1701. 10. Mercy, 1702, married Ebenezer Raymond. II. James, 1704, married Judith, daughter of Henry Rickard.
(IV) Nathaniel, son of Samuel (3) and Mercy (Eaton) Fuller, was born probably in Plympton, Massachusetts, in 1687, and mar- ried in 1712, Martha Sampson. They had seven children : I. Sarah, born 1712, married (first) Isaac Sturtevant, of Halifax, (second) probably Austin Bearce. 2. Ruth, 1714, mar- ried James Cobb. 3. Amos, 1719, married (first) Abigail Harlow, (second) Rachel 4. Nathaniel, 1721, married Lydia Perry. 5. Barnabas, 1723. 6. Jesse, 1726. 7. Samuel, 1729.
(V) Barnabas, son of Nathaniel and Mar- tha (Sampson) Fuller, was born in 1723, and married in 1748 Rebecca Cushman, a de- scendant of the fifth generation of Robert Cushman, who was born in England about 1580 and about 1602 joined the church at Scrooby with Rev. John Robinson, Elder Brewster, Governor Carver, Governor Brad- ford, Isaac Allerton and others. It was he who hired the "Mayflower" for the transpor- tation of the first colony of Pilgrims, 1620, while he and his son Thomas took passage in the "Fortune" in 1621. He was a preacher, although not a clergyman, and the day before he sailed he preached a sermon to his old
friends and gave them great hope and cour- age, notwithstanding their misfortunes. It was a remarkable discourse and was the first printed sermon delivered in New England. He was influential in securing the charter for the Plymouth colony and also took a promi- nent part in the settlement of the Massachu- setts Bay colony at Cape Ann. He died sud- denly in 1625. Governor Bradford said of him that "he was our right hand with the ad- venturers, who for diverse years has managed all our business with them to our great ad- vantage." The name of his wife is not known, and his son Thomas, who came with his father, is the only child of whom there is a record. Barnabas and Rebecca (Cushman) Fuller had nine children: I. Jesse, born 1748. 2. Bar- zillai, 1751. 3. Robert, 1752. 4. Martha, 1754. 5. Azubah, 1756. 6. Joshua, 1758. 7. Rebecca, 1761. 8. Ruth, 1764. 9. Barnabas, 1768.
(VI) Jesse, son of Barnabas and Rebecca (Cushman) Fuller, was born in 1748 and went to live in the province of Maine. The later years of his life were spent in Lincolnville, and he died there. He married Ruth, born Au- gust 7, 1758, daughter of Kimball Prince, born May 9, 1726, died 1814; married No- vember 13, 1749, Deborah, daughter of Dea- con John Fuller. Kimball Prince was a son of Job Prince, who was born in 1695, and whose wife was Abigail Job Prince was a son of Thomas Prince, baptized August 3, 1658, and lived in Scituate, Massachusetts. He married Ruth Thomas, and had sons Thomas, Benja- min and Job. Thomas Prince was the young- est of twelve children of John Prince, who came from England and died in Hull, Massa- chusetts, August 6, 1676. He was a son of the Rev. John Prince, of Strafford, England. Jesse and Ruth (Prince) Fuller had thirteen children : I. Joshua, born 1778, removed from Castine to Thomaston, Maine, in 1794, and there was apprenticed to the trade of car- penter and joiner with H. Prince; married Nancy Adams. 2. Deborah. 3. Captain Sam- tel, born 1782. 4. Jesse, died young. 5. Noah. 6. Ruth. 7. John. 8. Rebecca. 9.
Barnabas. IO. Kimball. II. Martha. 12 Sarah. 13. Jesse.
(VII) Captain Samuel (4), son of Jesse and Ruth ( Prince) Fuller, was born in 1782, probably in Castine, Maine, and died in Thom- aston in 1846. He went to Thomaston from Castine and there learned the trade of car- penter and joiner, but in 1807 removed to St. George, Maine, and for a time engaged in
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trade with H. Prince, Esquire. He afterward returned to Thomaston and carried on trade at Mill River, and also engaged in coasting, in which latter occupation, being a master mariner, he acquired the title of captain. For a time also he lived in Boston, but soon re- turned to Thomaston, and was deputy sheriff from 1815 to 1821, postmaster, register of deeds for the eastern district of Lincoln county. On July 9, 1806, he married Nancy Coombs, born St. George, Maine, December 3I, 1792, who carried on business as a mil- liner from the time she was sixteen years old until the time of her death, being then eighty- two years old. Captain Samuel and Nancy (Coombs) Fuller had twelve children: I. George W., born May 23, 1808, died July I, 1808. 2. Colonel Sylvester, born Castine, No- vember 19, 1809, died January 10, 1855; lived in Thomaston and was a tavern keeper ; mar- ried, April 8, 1837, Amelia D. Holmes. 3. Asa E., born March 8, 1812, was a trader and lived in Thomaston; married (first) July 5, 1846, Mary D. Snow; married (second) October 25, 1857, Ann B. Snow. 4. Caroline S., born October 30, 1814, lived in Wiscasset and Thomaston; married Edwin Rose. 5. Nancy, born August 19, 1816, was drowned in September, 1860; married, March 31, 1845, Charles N. Hopkins. 6. Sarah L., born De- cember 3, 1818, married, April 7, 1842, Cap- tain Jeremiah Murray, and removed to Cali- fornia. 7. Mary S., born March 18, 1821, married Captain John T. Spofford, and lived in Rockland, Maine. 8. Isabella B. P., born Boston, June 20, 1823, died on board the ship "Alice Counce" on the passage from Mel- bourne to Callao, and was buried in Thomas- ton, July 20, 1861 ; married Captain William John Singer. 9. Rev. Samuel Alexander, born July 10, 1825, in Boston. 10. Ruth J., born November 2, 1827, died April 19, 1850; was a music teacher and assistant register of deeds. II. Abby B., born March 4, 1830, married Levi B. Miller and lived in Chelsea, Massa- chusetts. 12. Jane G., born October 4, 1842, married Captain William John Singer, of Thomaston.
(VIII) Rev. Samuel Alexander, son of Cap- tain Samuel and Nancy (Coombs) Fuller, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, July 10, 1825, and for many years was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church. He also was an artist of considerable celebrity and many fine portraits and landscape paintings have been produced by his brush. For fifteen years he was connected with the East Maine Confer- ence and afterward was transferred to the
New England Conference. He preached sev- eral years at West Hampstead, giving his services where he felt the need of a chapel for the benefit of those children and older ones who could not go to the Centre. They at first formed a Sunday school and the interest in- creased, and in 1897 the Methodist Church of the New Hampstead Conference was estab- lished. He retired from the active work of the ministry about 1898. For many years, too, he was earnestly identified with the tem- perance work of the Massachusetts Total Ab- stinence Society. In 1862, during the second year of the civil war, he enlisted for nine months and served as chaplain of the First Maine Volunteer Cavalry. On May 12, 1855, Mr. Fuller married Susan Elizabeth Greenlaw, of Waldo, Maine, daughter of Alexander Greenlaw, who built the first framed house at Waldo, and sister of Alexander Greenlaw, a soldier of the civil war, and who was killed in the battle of Williamsburg, Virginia. Alex- ander Greenlaw, after leaving Maine, entered the Fortieth New York Regiment at West Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before departure he nailed the American flag on a very high pole, with the request that it remain for him to take down on his return. It floated as long as there was a vestige left. Rev. Samuel Alexander and Susan Elizabeth (Greenlaw) Fuller had three children: I. William John, born Newport, Maine, February 26, 1856; af- ter leaving the public schools he attended the Wilbraham Academy, at Wilbraham, Massa- chusetts, and later was associated with his brother Samuel A. at law in Boston. While at his summer home at Derby he broke his arm, and died at the Massachusetts General Hospital of blood poisoning, July, 1906. He was married to Ada Spaulding, of Charles- town, Massachusetts, February, 1890; they had four children: Samuel Alexander, born No- vember, 1891 ; William John, September, 1893 ; James Spaulding, 1895, died 1899; Benjamin Butler, November, 1905; all were born in Derry, New Hampshire. 2. Catherine Marie, born May 28, 1857. 3. Samuel Alexander, born Dresden, Maine, February 22, 1859, at- tended Pinkerton Academy of Derry, New Hampshire; studied law in the office of Steven B. Ives and Otis P. Lord, of Salem; after- ward at Boston University Law School; was admitted to Essex bar in 1882, at Salem, Mas- sachuetts, and in 1886 went to Boston; mar- ried Sadie Isabella Dean, July 1, 1895, at Somerville, Massachusetts ; five children : Dor- athea Isabell, March 3, 1897; Susan Beatrice September 1, 1898; William D., June 22,
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1900; Samuel Alexander, October 27, 1901 ; Earl Randolph, April 20, 1908.
(IX) Catherine Marie, only daughter of Rev. Samuel Alexander and Susan Elizabeth (Greenlaw) . Fuller, was born in Brewer, Maine, May 28, 1857, and was educated in public schools in Searsport, Brewer, Maine, Mrs. Hill's private school at North Brook- field, Leicester, Millbury and Topsfield, Mas- sachusetts, and Adams Female Seminary, at Derry, New Hampshire, where she graduated in 1878. She is a member and treasurer of the Sons and Daughters of Maine Society, of Nashua, New Hampshire; the King's Daugh- ters, the Good Templars, of Hampstead, New Hampshire, and Daughters of Grand Army of the Republic, of Nashua. At Derry, New Hampshire, October 4, 1884, she married Charles A. Huntington, of Nashua, and had four children, three of whom were graduates of the Nashua public schools: I. Edgar Al- stein, born August 22, 1885, married, January 31, 1904, Molly C. Brackett. 2. Helen Al- meda, June 22, 1889. 3. Anna May, July 9, 1893, died August 1, 1894. 4. Isabel Fuller, March 31, 1895.
MAYO The surname Mayo may be iden- tical with Mayhew, a name dis- tinguished by Rev. Thomas May- hew, the noble preacher to the Indians at Mar- tha's Vineyard, son of Thomas Mayhew, of Watertown, Massachusetts, but some authori- ties believe that the names are distinct and the immigrants not related, stating that Mayo is distinctively an Irish name.
(I) Rev. John Mayo, immigrant ancestor of this family, was born in England, edu- cated there, and was presumably a college graduate. He came to New England in 1638 or 1639, and in the latter year became teacher in Mr. Lothrop's church at Barnstable, Ply- mouth colony. He was admitted a freeman March 3, 1639-40, by the general court at Plymouth. About 1644 he removed to Nauset, or Nawset, later Eastham, Massachusetts, upon the gathering of a church at that place, and became the minister. There is no account of his connection with the church at Nauset in existing town or church records. Among the list of men able to bear arms in 1643 in Plymouth county, we find the names of Mr. Mayo and his sons Samuel and Nathaniel, all of Barnstable, however. Samuel Mayo and his father were of the forty-five original set- tlers of Barnstable. Mr. Mayo remained at Eastham until 1655, when he was called to Boston to become pastor of the Second
Church, and ordained there November 9, 1655. He preached the election sermon before the general court in June, 1658. There is little known of Mr. Mayo's pastorate excepting what is contained in the church records in the handwriting of Rev. Increase Mather, who succeeded him in the ministry: "In the be- ginning of the year 1670, Mr. Mayo, the pas- tor, grew very infirm, insomuch as the con- gregation were unable to hear and be edified, wherefore the brethren (the pastor manifest- ing his concurrence) desired the teacher to take care for a supply of the congregation that the worshipful God may be upheld amongst us, which was for the present by him consented to, as Christ should enable him." "In the 15th of the 2d. month ( April) 1673, Mr. Mayo removed his person and goods also from Bos- ton, to reside with his daughter in Barnstable where (and at Yarmouth) since he hath lived a private life, not being able through the in- firmities of old age to do the work of the min- istry."
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