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BON LAY, AVILA OSCAR, M. D., C. M., B. M., Brunswick, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, April 4, 1872, son of Luc E. and Marie Antoinette (Levesque) Bon Lay. His parents were emigrants
from France ; his father was a sea captain, and located permanently at Lowell in 1864. After attend- ing the public schools in Lowell for four years, the subject of this sketch entered Holy Cross College at Farnham, Province of Quebec, in the fall of 1881, and graduated at the head of his class in the business department, in June 1888. He continued his classical course at L'Assomption College, Prov- ince of Quebec, terminated philosophy at Le Blond de Brumath's Lyceum at Montreal in 1891, and entered the Medical Department of Laval Univer- sity, Montreal, in October of that year. Two years later he received the degree of Baccalaureateur in Medicine (summa cum laude), and that of Doc- toreur in Medicina (summa cum laude) was awarded him April 17, 1895. In 1894-5 he was assistant in the Hotel Dieu and Notre Dame hospitals, Mon- treal. In May 1895 he located in Brunswick, Maine, where he has since been in active practice. He was registered for the state of Maine on December 10, 1895. Dr. Bon Lay is a member of the Asso- ciation Medicale de Montreal, and Corresponding
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Secretary of the Societe St. Jean Baptiste de Brunswick. He is also President of Les Monta Guards (snowshoe club) of Brunswick, and a mem- ber of Court Laval, Foresters of America. In politics Dr. Bon Lay is a staunch Republican. He is unmarried.
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DOWNS, WALTER HOLBROOK, Lawyer, South John Edwards (2), born in Boston, January 3, Berwick, was born in South Berwick, March 26, - 1853, son of Frederick G. and Ruth T. ( Roberts) Downs. He received his early education in the . common schools and at Berwick Academy, graduated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, in June 1875, and from Columbia Law School in 1877. He was admitted to the Bar of New York City in 1877 and to the York County (Maine) Bar in 1880, and has been engaged in the practice of law since the former date. Mr. Downs was commis- sioned a Trial Justice in 1887 and reappointed in 1894, served as Town Clerk and Treasurer of South
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Berwick in 1881-2, and was Postmaster from 1890 to 1894. He is a member of St. John's Lodge of Masons, also of Unity Chapter, and St. Paul's Com- mandery Knights Templar. He is a Republican in politics, and is unmarried.
EDWARDS, CHARLES, Civil Engineer, Portland, was born in Portland, January 24, 1826, son of John and Sarah (Merrill) Edwards. He is de- scended from John Edwards (1), born in Wales, Great Britain, in 1670, and Sibella Newman, born March 10, 1670. The line of descent is through
1696, and Mary Lewis, born January 21, 1703 ; John Edwards (3), born in Boston, June 15, 1725, and Abigail Webb, born February 16, 1727 ; Thomas Edwards (4), born in Boston, August 1, 1753, and Mary Walker, born August 13, 1768; and John Edwards (5), born in Boston, November 6, 1802, and Sarah Merrill, born December 6, 1800. Thomas Edwards, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, graduated from the Boston Latin School, and from Harvard College in 1771, read law with John Williams of Boston, was admitted to the Bar and practiced law in Boston until 1777, when he enlisted and was commissioned Lieutenant in Henry Jackson's (Sixteenth) Regiment ; was at Valley Forge 1777-8 ; was Brigade Major in Rhode Island from September to December 1778; Judge Advocate for the Army in 1779 ; at West Point and Tappan, New York, in 1780; transferred to the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment in 1781, and was Lieutenant and Judge Advocate from January I to September 21 of that year, upon the latter date being appointed by Congress as Judge Advocate General of the Army ; was transferred to Sprout's (Second) Regiment on January 1, 1783, and soon after resigned and resumed the practice of law in Boston. Colonel Henry Jackson's Regiment, the Sixteenth Massachusetts, which was noted for its soldierly qualities, left Boston to join the main army near Philadelphia on October 7, 1777, and was at Valley Forge, New Jersey, 1777-8; Mon- mouth, New Jersey, in June 1778; Quaker Hill, Rhode Island, August 1778; Falmouth, District of Maine, September 1779 ; Springfield, New Jersey, June 1780 ; and West Point, New York, September 1780. Lieutenant Edwards was very active in the organization of the Society of the Cincinnati, and delivered the oration before the Massachusetts Society July 4, 1792, was delegate to the meeting of the general society in Philadelphia in May 1800, making the fatiguing journey by stagecoach, and was its Secretary from 1786 to his death in Boston, August 4, 1806, on which occasion the society voted to attend his funeral in a body. John Edwards, eldest son of Thomas and his second wife Mary (Walker) Jewett, and father of our sub- ject, attended the Boston Latin School until the age of fourteen, when he went into the office of the Portland (Maine) Gazette and Advertiser for a year, and then entered Fryeburg (Maine) Acad- emy. Upon graduation he returned to the Gazette office, and soon after bought a half interest. In
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1837 he sold out and bought a half interest in the Bangor (Maine) Whig and Courier, which he held three years, and returned to Portland in IS41, where he established the Bulletin and was con- nected with other journals until his retirement from
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active business in IS70; he died in Portland December 23, 1886. Charles Edwards was edu- cated in public and private schools, and at Portland Academy. He was a civil engineer on the prelim- inary surveys, location and construction of the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad (now the Grand Trunk Railway) between Portland and Montreal from 1846 to 1853, and on surveys for the European & North American Railway in New Brunswick in 1853 ; was Resident Engineer on the Grand Trunk Railway, Portland Division, 1854-S ; City Engineer of Portland 1859-60; and in the United States Lighthouse Service as Acting Engineer and Super- intendent of Construction 1861-5, and Assistant Engineer and Superintendent of Construction from 1865 to 1886. Since 1886 Mr. Edwards has practiced his profession of civil engineer in Port- land to the present time, with the exception of a period spent abroad in 1838-9. He is a member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, and the Cumberland Club of Portland. In politics Mr. Edwards is a Republican. He is unmarried.
LIBBY, ISAAC C., Waterville, for many years known as the Cattle King of Maine, and more recently engaged in banking, real estate, farming, street-railway and other business enterprises, was born in Exeter, Penobscot county, Maine, June 2, 1837, son of James and Mary Ann (Boston) Libby. His parents came from Kittery and Newfield in the western part of the state, and were early settlers in the town of Wellington, Somerset county, where they were subjected to all the privations incident to pioneer life in a new country. The father was a mechanic, and subsequently moved to Exeter, where Isaac, the subject of this sketch, was born. He acquired his early education in the common schools of Exeter and Troy, and fitted for college at Hamp- den (Maine) Academy, but owing to the parental need of his services did not pursue a collegiate course. When twelve years old he learned the coopers' trade, at which he worked for several years. At the age of sixteen he commenced teaching, and taught ten terms in common town schools before he was twenty-one. In 1858 he engaged in farming in
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Troy, Waldo county, and in 1860 he started in the cattle business, shipping livestock to the Brigh- ton market. This business he closely followed for more than thirty years, winning by his extensive dealings and shipments the appellation of " Cattle King of Maine." During this period Mr. Libby
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made more trips to Brighton market, shipped and sold more cattle and sheep, distributed more money and traveled more miles than any other man in Maine. In 1873 he moved to Burnham, on the Maine Central Railroad, and made that town the livestock centre of Maine. Mr. Libby has not how- ever confined his industry and abilities to the cattle business. He has written more than a thousand articles for publication in New England newspapers, mostly on topics relating to agriculture, in which he has always been engaged, having operated one of the largest farms in Waldo county, besides carrying on extensive ranches in Montana, on which there are at the present time more than a thousand cattle and thirty thousand sheep. In 1892 Mr. Libby moved to the city of Waterville. He had for a long term of years been a Director in the People's National Bank of that city, and in 1892 he was elected President of the Waterville Trust and Safe. Deposit Company, which position he now holds. In 1893 he purchased from A. F. Gerald of Fair- field the Waterville & Fairfield street-railway and lighting plants, and is now President of both these enterprises. He was the first President of the Maine Condensed Milk Company, whose factories and plants are located at Newport and Winthrop, Maine, and Whitefield, New Hampshire. He has also constructed, in connection with A. F. Gerald, the Calais & St. Stephen, the Skowhegan & Norridge- wock, and the Bangor, Orono & Oldtown street- rail- ways, of all of which companies he is Treasurer. Mr. Libby purchased for' improvement in 1893 a large landed estate known as the "Waterville Ad- dition," on which he now resides ; a deer park and a " Central Park " being developed are among its acquisitions. He has been always a Republican in politics, and has held various municipal offices in all the towns in which he has resided. He repre- sented a strongly Democratic class in the Maine Legislature from 1885 to 1889, and was a inember of the Republican National Convention of 1888 that nominated Benjamin Harrison. He is a mem- ber of the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities, and an honorary member of all temperance societies in Maine. Mr. Libby has always paid a hundred cents on a dollar, on all debts and engagements ; has never drank or taken for medicine alcoholic liquors, and never smoked or used tobacco in any form. He is a strong believer in virtue and up- rightness, and while having no religious preferences, always contributes liberally to support the preaching of the gospel. He was married in 1859 to Helen
M. Green, of Troy, Maine ; they have seven sons - Arthur Preston, Charles Everett, Howard Isaac, Ernest Leonald, Frank Leroy, Pearl Ashton and Herbert Carlyle - and one daughter : Helen M. Green Libby. Six of the sons are able and suc- -cessful business men in Maine and the West; the youngest, H. C. Libby, is fitting for college at the Waterville High School. Helen M. Green Libby, the only daughter, was recently married to Dr. William M. Pulsifer of Waterville.
ALDEN, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, General Eastern Agent of the Maine Central Railroad, Waterville, was born in Augusta, Maine, August 11, 1847, son
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of Darius and Bertha S. (Nickerson) Alden. He received his education in the public schools of Augusta, and at the Highland Military Academy of Worcester, Massachusetts, the Woodbridge School in Auburndale, Massachusetts, and the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. In April 1864, at the age of seventeen, he commenced as office boy with the Portland & Kennebec Rail- road in Augusta, and has since continued in the service of that road and its successor, the Maine Central, rising by successive stages, and for the last twenty years filling the position of General Eastern Agent of the Maine Central Railroad, with his office
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and residence at Waterville. Mr. Alden was born a Democrat, but reserved the right to change his poli- tics, and voted for Mckinley and " honest money " in 1896. He has served for two years as Alderman of the city of Waterville. He was married in Feb- ruary 1871 to Mary Elizabeth Milliken, daughter of Hon. D. L. Milliken of Waterville ; they have two children : Jennie Milliken and Darius Payson Alden.
BOYD, BYRON, Deputy Secretary of State, Au- gusta, was born August 31, 1864, son of Robert and Eliza J. (Savage) Boyd. He was fitted for college at Houlton (Maine) Academy, and graduated at Colby University, Waterville, Maine, in the class of 1886. For a year following graduation he taught the high school at Bar Harbor, Maine, and in Janu- ary 1889 he entered the office of the Secretary of State at Augusta as clerk. In December 1890 he was appointed Chief Clerk of the office, in which capacity he continued until appointed to his present position of Deputy Secretary of State, in March
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1895. Mr. Boyd is a Republican in politics, and is at present Secretary of the State Republican Committee. He has also served for five years on the Republican City Committee of Augusta. He was married January 9, 1895, to Lucy E. Burleigh,
daughter of ex-Governor E. C. Burleigh ; they have one child : Dorothy Boyd, born November 12, 1895.
SPEAKE, ALBERT MOORE, Lawyer, Mayor of Gardiner 1889-92, was born in Litchfield, Kenne- bec county, Maine, March 17, 1852, son of Andrew
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P. and Alice P. (Moore) Speare. He received his early education at West Gardiner and Monmouth (Maine) academies, and Coburn Classical Institute at Waterville, graduated from Bates College at Lewiston, Maine, in the class of 1875, studied law at Lewiston with the late firm of Hutchinson & Savage - composed of the late Liberty H. Hutchinson and A. R. Savage of Auburn -- and was admitted to the Bar in October 1878. On January 1, 1879, Mr. Speare began the practice of law in Hallowell, Maine. In March following he was elected a member of the School Board of that city, and for seven years served as its Chairman, until his removal to Gardiner in 1885 where he has since remained in active practice. He was also City Solicitor of Hallowell for a period of six to seven years. In 1889 he was elected Mayor of Gardiner, and was three times re-elected, serving four successive terms. Mr. Speare was a member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1883 and 1885, and a member of the Senate 1891-4. In
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1883 he was a member of the Commission on the Revision of the Statutes, and in 1893 4 he was President of the Senate, the second officer of the state. Politically he has been always an active Republican, and has been on the stump in every campaign since 1878. Mr. Speare is President of the Pukwana Club of Gardiner, and a member of the Abnaki Club of Augusta. He was married July 23, 1875, to Helen F. Andrews, daughter of George H. Andrews, of Monmouth, Maine ; they have two children : Alice M. and Louis M. Speare.
ROBINSON, DANIEL ARTHUR, M. D., Bangor, was born in East Orrington, Penobscot county, Maine, June 22, 1850, son of Harrison and Mary A.
DANIEL ARTHUR ROBINSON.
H. (Clement) Robinson. His father's people were of Scotch-Irish descent, and his maternal ancestors were English. His grandfather Elisha Robinson was a Revolutionary soldier, from Wrentham, Mas- sachusetts. He received his early education in the common schools of East Orrington and at the Ban- gor High School, and graduated from Bowdoin College with the degree of A. B. in 1873. In 1876 he received the degree of A. M. from that institu- tion. Following graduation he taught school in Orrington, Brewer and Bangor until 1878, when he
was elected Assistant Professor in Mathematics and Director of the Gymnasium at Bowdoin College, and filled these positions, at the same time pursuing his studies in the Maine Medical School (the med- ical department of Bowdoin) until his graduation as M. D. in 1881. Since then Dr. Robinson has prac- ticed medicine in Bangor. He is President of the Maine Medical Association for 1896-7, a member of the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Medicine, and has served four years as Assistant Surgeon in the Second Regi- ment Maine Volunteer Militia, and for years as Surgeon-General of the State, on the staff of Gov- ernor Burleigh. He has been Chairman of the School Committee of Bangor for ten years, and was Chairman of the Board of Health four years, was a member of the Commission to locate the Eastern Maine Insane Hospital, and is a member of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College. He is also a member of the Melita Club of Bangor. In politics Dr. Robinson has always been an earnest and active Republican, and was President of the Harrison and Morton Club of Bangor for that cam- paign. He was married July 27, 1881, to Lettie Harlow, of Brewer, Maine ; they have four children : Fannie Harlow, Julia Augusta, Harrison Leonard and Dorrice Clement Robinson.
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RICH, ISAAC BAKER, Proprietor and Manager of the Hollis Street Theatre, Boston, was born in North Bucksport, Hancock county, Maine, Febru- ary 23, 1827, son of Isaac Baker and Margaret (Lewis) Rich. His early education was acquired in the public schools of his native town; and in 1846 he came to Boston and entered the employ of William Pelby, manager of the old historic National Theatre, since which time he has been connected in various capacities with Boston playhouses and amusement enterprises, gradually working his way up to the positions of manager and proprietor. For many years he held a joint proprietorship in the well- Chown Howard Athenaeum, his connection with that popular resort for playgoers dating back to the days of the famous old stock company. He him- self flourished for a short time as an actor. For three years he was Treasurer of James Myers' and Nixon & Kemp's Equestrian Companies, and for several years he played at the Howard Atheneum the most famous stars of the period. In August IS68 he formed a managerial partnership with Joseph Trowbridge, at which time the Howard
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stage was given over to variety business. The fol- lowing season Joseph Hart became a partner, and later John Stetson, Jr., took Mr. Hart's place, when Messrs. Rich and Stetson purchased Mr. Trow- bridge's interest, and this partnership continued
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unbroken for seven years. In 1885, on the evening of November 9, Mr. Rich opened the Hollis Street Theatre, and as conductor of that fine and now favorite playhouse has steadily held the position of one of the most popular and prosperous of theatri- cal managers. Notwithstanding the exacting de- mands upon his time and vitality in his theatrical business, Mr. Rich has for years been the successful proprietor and publisher of the Banner of Light, the weekly organ of the Spiritualists, and has carried on an extensive business in the publication of works relating to Spiritualism. He was married to his first wife, Mary Elizabeth Wadleigh - now dead - Feb- ruary 23, 1851, and to his present wife, Pauline Babo, in December 1886 ; he has six children : Clara E., Abbie M., Charles J, George P., Maude L. and Ralph E. Rich.
COBB, ANSON AUGUSTUS, M. D, Ophthalmic Sur- geon of the Central Maine General Hospital, Lewis- ton, was born in Casco, Cumberland county, Maine, January 31, 1868, son of Dr. Albion and Louisa A.
(Stockman) Cobb. His paternal ancestry dates in America from Elder Henry Cobb, who came from Kent, England, in 1632, and in December of that year settled in Barnstable, Massachusetts. From him were descended, in succession, Jonathan, Sam- uel, Peter, Peter, Jr. (a soldier in the Revolution), Asa, and Albion Cobb, M. D., father of Anson A. Cobb. On the maternal side the subject of this sketch is of German descent. He attended Bridg- ton (Maine) Academy, but most of his early edu- cation was received by private tutorship, under his father. After two courses at the Maine Medical School, he tools both a preliminary and a regular course at the University of Vermont, Medical De- partment, from which he graduated in July 1892. After a period of hospital experience abroad, he settled in Auburn, where he has since resided, his practice being limited to diseases of the eye, ear and throat. Dr. Cobb is one of the youngest eye
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and ear surgeons in the state, and is considered one of the best. His European experience was gained in the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, under the tutorship of Professor Nettleship; the Central Throat Hospital, London, with Professor Lenox Brown as tutor ; the Charitae Hospital, Ber- lin : and in the private clinics of Edmund Landolt, Paris, on the errors of refraction. He enjoys the
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reputation of having as lucrative a practice as any of the physicians and surgeons in his county. He at present holds the position of Ophthalmic Surgeon in the Central Maine General Hospital, Lewiston. Dr. Cobb is a member of the Calumet Club of Lewiston and the Abanaqui Club of Auburn, also of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias fraternities, and the Order of Sons of Veterans. In politics he is a Democrat. He was married in March 1891, to Annie I .. Bailey, of Mechanic Falls, Maine.
HART, WILLIS FRANKLIN, M. D., Camden, was born in Holden, Penobscot county, Maine, July 5, 1859, son of Francis K. and Sylvina B. (Goodwin)
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Hart. His paternal grandparents came respectively from Walpole and Norton, Massachusetts, and settled in what is now Holden, Maine. On the maternal side his ancestry is traced back to a Lord Granville of England. He lived with his parents on a farm until about the age of eighteen, availing him- self of the privileges for education afforded by the town schools, and then pursued a four-years course at the Maine Central Institute, Pittsfield, graduating from the latter in June 1882. In March 1883 he entered a physician's office and commenced the study of medicine, where he remained the following three years, except when attending medical lectures
at Bowdoin, and during a period of about three months each fall, which he spent in teaching school. Receiving his degree from the Maine Medical School (Bowdoin) in June 1886, he commenced the practice of medicine in Exeter, Maine, the following September, and remained there until July 1891, when he moved to Camden, where he has since continued in active practice. Dr. Hart is a member of the Maine Medical Association, also of the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic order, and the Knights of Pythias. In politics he is a Republican. He was married November 24, 1886, to Mary A. Gilmore of Dedham, Maine ; they have one child : Fred Willis Hart.
DURGIN, WILLIAM ELLSWORTH, Superintendent of the Long-Distance Telephone, Boston, was born in Waterboro, York county, Maine, January 5, 1863, son of John C. and Emma J. (Tibbetts) Durgin. He comes on both sides from old Maine families, the Durgins of Cornish and the Tibbetts of
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Waterboro. His education was limited to that acquired in the country schools. From 1879 to 1887 he was Cashier of the Boston Loan and Trust Company, and since then to the present time has been connected with the American Telephone &
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Telegraph Company, as District Superintendent for New England of the system known as the Long-Dis- tance Telephone. Mr. Durgin left his country home before he had reached the age of sixteen, and since then has made his own way in the world. He is a member of the Pine Tree State and Dirigo clubs of Boston, also of Unity Lodge and Paul Revere Encampment of Odd Fellows, Archimedes Lodge Ancient Order United Workmen, and Trimount Council Royal Arcanum. In politics MI. Durgin is a Democrat. He was married August 28, 1890, to Annie A. Heffernan, of Lynn, Massachusetts.
DAY, JOSIAH FISHER, M. D., Alfred, was born in Union, Knox county, Maine, May 19, 1833, son of Josiah Fisher and Mary Ann (Savage) Day. His
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paternal ancestor was Ralph Day, who came from Great Torrington, England, in 1640-5, and settled in Dedham, Massachusetts. On the maternal side he is descended from Captain Daniel Savage of Boston, who commanded the brig Rambler of that port, which enjoyed the distinction of being the first vessel that ever hoisted the American flag in the Straits of Gibraltar, and also in the Port of Smyrna. He received his early education in the public schools of Portland and at Gorham (Maine) Academy,
studied medicine, and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York (the Med- ical Department of Columbia College) in 1856. He commenced practice in Mayville, Dodge county, Wisconsin, where he remained a short time and went from there to Harrison county, Missouri, where he remained till the commencement of the Rebellion. when he returned to his native state and immediately entered the military service, in which he continued for nearly six years. He served as Sergeant of the Tenth and Twenty-ninth Regiments Maine Volun- teer Infantry, and in 1862 was Surgeon and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel of United States Volunteers. He also served for a time as Chief Medical Officer on the staffs of Generals Emory and Beal, and as Medical Director of the Eastern District of South Carolina. In 1866 Dr. Day established himself at Alfred, where he has since continued in the active practice of his profession. He has been a member of the United States Board of Pension-Examining Surgeons since 1892, and in the Grand Army of the Republic, in which he is a member of Willard Post of Springvale, he was Medical Director of the Department of Maine in 1891-2, and has served on the Council of Administration, Department of Maine, from 1894 to the present time. In politics Dr. Day is a Republican. He was married March 17, 1856, to Sarah Maria Rogers, of Falmouth, Maine ; they have three children : Richard Douglas, Mande Marian and Alice Haidee Day.
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