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now book-keeper for D. M. Baker, lumber and coal dealer. Mr. Tobey has always been an active, hardworking, energetic man, and and has done his full share in improving and developing Lenawee county and the city of Adrian.
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TEPHEN ALLEN was born in Morristown, Morris county, New Jersey, December 21st, 1795. His father, Silas Allen, was born in Morristown, Morris county, New Jersey, February 5th, 1770. His mother, Miss Esther Gardner, daughter of Henry Gardner, was born in Morristown, Morris county, New Jersey, in February, 1772. They had twelve children, seven sons and five daughters, three of whom are now living, Stephen, the subject of this sketch, being the oldest of the family. In the fall of 1805, Stephen Allen moved with his parents, to Romulus, Seneca county, New York, his father purchasing a large farm, where he died the 12th day of May, 1831. Mrs. Allen died there in October, 1818. Stephen Allen lived on a farm of his own in Seneca county, until October, 1836, when he sold out and emigrated to Michigan, with his family, consisting of his wife and eight children, arriving in Detroit the 5th of November, 1836, after being on the road twenty-seven days, coming through Canada with his own teams. From Detroit he went to Ann Arbor, where he stayed until February, 1837, when he came to Adrian, and purchased of Norman Blake, three hundred and twenty acres of land in the town of Madison, described as follows : the s. w. } of sec. 4, and the n. w. ¿ of sec. 9, where he still resides, having cleared up and improved the whole of this land, and upon two hundred and ten acres not a stump can be seen. Mr. Allen has always been a prominent man in his township, but he early espoused the anti- slavery cause, and was strongly identified with William Lloyd Garrison, James G. Birney, Garrett Smith, and the other leaders of that great movement, hence his unpopularity in the old political parties, and he never held any office of any great importance, but he considered his duty and honest convictions paramount to other political considerations. October 10th, 1822, he married Miss Deborah Sutton, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Sutton, of Romulus, Seneca county, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Sutton were pioneers of Seneca county, going there with all their effects
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upon one horse, but Mr. Sutton died a prominent and wealthy farmer. Stephen and Deborah Allen had nine children, five sons and four daughters, as follows : Benjamin S., Mary B., Esther G., Silas L., John W., Gilbert T., Louise C., Lewis T., and Phoebe M., five of whom are now living. Benjamin S. and John W. now reside upon a part of the old homestead, Silas L. lives upon a farm in Hudson township, Mary B. is the wife of E. B. Pond, formerly of the Ann Arbor Argus; Esther G. is the wife of James A. Bayles, of Lee Summit, Jackson county Missouri. Mrs. Allen died at the old homestead, April 6th, 1877. Mr. Allen still lives upon the farm, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, but still retains a vigorous mind and good bodily health.
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ARTIN P. STOCKWELL was born in Cato, Cayuga county, New York, February 11th, 1818. His father, Eliathah Stockwell, was born in Whitehall, New York, May 19th, 1791, where he resided until he was about eighteen years old. At that time his parents moved to Cato, Cayuga county, New York, and he accompanied them. He lived in Cato until 1837, when he came to Michigan, and settled near the center of Adrian township. He afterwards lived in Dover, where he died February 27th, 1867. About 1813 he married Miss Esther Perkins, daughter of Christopher and Hannah Perkins, of Cato, Cayuga county, New York, by whom he had eight children, Martin P. being the second child and oldest son. Mrs. Esther Stockwell was born in Saratoga, New York, July 8th, 1795, and died in Dover, this county, May 20th, 1856. Martin P. Stockwell lived at home until he was about seventeen years old, Mhen, his father being poor, with a large family, he determined to leave home and try for himself. This was in 1835, when the Michigan fever was at its highth in the vicinity in which he lived. He had heard of the cheap and beautiful lands to be obtained there for one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and in his dreams of the future, which are ever uppermost in the mind of an ambitious young man, he pictured to himself a farm with a fine house and barns and all the comforts of life about him, and resolved then, at that age, to emigrate there. He finally secured the consent of his parents, and starting from home on a Monday
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morning with a sack of provisions on his back, which his good mother had provided for him with tears and doubts, and the gravest forebodings for her son, he started on foot for Buffalo, an emigrant for the vast wilderness of Michigan, a boy only seventeen years of age, with only three dollars and fifty cents in money in his possession. He went to Buffalo and took steerage passage for Detroit on a steamboat, which he was told by a "runner" would only cost two dollars and fifty cents, but the captain afterwards made him pay the regular fare, three dollars. The captain noticed that he shed tears when he paid the other half dollar, and after- wards spoke to him about it, and accused him of running away from home, but was convinced that this was not the fact after Martin told his story. The captain then befriended him and told him not to go to Detroit but to get off at Toledo, which would save him over thirty miles travel in getting to Adrian. He finally arrived at Adrian on the evening of the 15th of May, 1835, after walking from Toledo in a drenching rain, through the cottonwood swamp, with only twenty-five cents in money in his possession. He stopped all night with Isaac French, and paid him one shilling ; he purchased six cents worth of crackers for his supper, and when he arrived at his uncle's-Moses Perkins-in Dover the next morning he only possessed six cents in money. He soon obtained work and stayed here until the last of September, when he returned home to Genesee county, with forty-seven dollars in his pocket, which he gave to his father. He came back to Michigan in 1837, since which time he has lived mostly in Dover. . He first worked by the month until he earned forty acres of land for his father, before he was twenty-one years old. Hc finally bought his time of his father, nine months before he became of age. He then worked for David Bixby for seven months. In 1839 he purchased eighty acres of land in Hillsdale county, but never lived there. In 1842 he purchased 160 acres on section twenty-two, in Dover, and in 1846 he purchased 160, on section fifteen adjoining, where he has since erected one of the finest dwelling houses in Dover, besides good barns, etc. He has served four years as justice of the peace, being elected in 1857. In the spring of 1859 he was clected supervisor of Dover, and was re-elected the following spring. He was county superintendent of the poor for eight years, and was a member of the constitutional convention in 1867. He owns a con- trolling interest in the Dover Center checse factory, which is located on his farm. In religion he is a Baptist ; in politics he has always been an active Republican. August 11th, 1841, he married Miss Louisa Baley, daughter of Joseph and Olive Baley, of Dover, by whom he has had eleven children, as follows: Olive, born July
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11th, 1842, now the wife of Byron L. Shaw, of Adrain ; Cinderilla, born February 15th, 1844, now the wife of I. R. Gale, of Canajoharie, New York; Agnes L., born February 26th, 1846, now the wife of Aaron Van Ostrand, of Dover; Joseph B., born June 5th, 1848, a farmer of Dover; Zarifa, born September 20th, 1850, now the wife of Robert F. Pouley, of Blackberry, Kane county, Illinois; Anna P., born October 12th, 1852, now at home; Alice M., born November 7th, 1854, and died February 8th, 1864; Esther M., born December 14th, 1858, and died March 26th, 1864; Elmer E., born October 20th, 1860, and died October 5th, 1863; Minnie, born July 14th, 1864, now at home; Louie, born July 26th, 1866; at home. Mrs. Louisa Stockwell was born in Romulus, Seneca county, New York, October 31st, 1823, and came to Michigan with her parents, in 1837. Her father was born in 1793, in Pennsylvania, and died in Dover, this county, November 4th, 1844. Her mother was born in Enfield, Tompkins county, New York, in June 1795, and died in Romulus, Seneca county, New York, February 10th, 1836.
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R. THOMAS H. LAVERTY was born in Lockport, New York, December 11th, 1821. His father, David Laverty, was born in New York, July 15th, 1795. His father was a tailor, and learned his trade in London, England, but David was brought up a farmer, and owned a farm near Lockport, New York, where he lived until 1831, when he came to Michigan, and took up one hundred and twenty acres of land, about eight miles east of the present city of Jackson. He lived there until his death, which occurred August 30th, 1834. December 14th, 1820, he married Miss Dorinda Holmes, of Royalton, Niagara county New York, by whom he had three children, Thomas being the oldest. Mrs. Dorinda Laverty was born in New York, December 30th, 1801, and died in Jackson county, Michigan, June 28th, 1833. Dr. Thomas H. Laverty was left an orphan at the age of thirteen, and lived with a bachelor uncle, in Jackson township, until he was eighteen, receiving very little schooling. In 1839 he went to Northville, Wayne county, and worked for a school teacher-a Mr. Chase-for his board and tuition, during one term. He after- wards went to school at different places on the same terms, until he was twenty, when he went to Sandstone, Jackson county, then a
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live little town, and commenced the study of medicine. For four years he worked in haying and harvesting during the summer, in order to pay his board and clothing. In 1844 he went to Castleton, Vermont, and attended the medical college for one term. In the spring of 1845 he went to Royalton, Ohio, and commenced the practice of medicine. In 1846-7 he went to the Western Reserve college, at Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from the medical department in the spring of 1847. He again returned to Royalton and remained one year, when he moved to Fairfield village, Lenawee county, Michigan. In 1852 he went to Hillsdale, where he lived until 1856. He then went to Adrian, and lived one year, and in June, 1857, went to California and spent ten years and six months on the Pacific coast, in the practice of dentistry. In 1868 he returned to his old home in Fairfield where he has resided ever since, and is now practicing medicine there. The Doctor has seen a vast deal of pioneer life, especially that of a pioneer physician. He has made visits twenty miles apart in one day, when he had to hitch his horse to a tree, and wade through water, and over logs and brush for long distances. He has witnessed a wonderful amount of sickness and suffering among the settlers, who did not know how to manage the fevers of the early days of this county. The Doctor saw Jackson when there was but one house there-a log hotel, kept by a man by the name of Blackmar. He remembers when the farmers of Jackson county, came to Adrian to sell their wheat, and purchase their salt and other supplies. January 22d, 1848, he married Miss Hannah J. Ferguson, daughter of Henry and Sarah Ferguson, of Fairfield, by whom he has had one child, Thomas H., born in Adrian, April 7th, 1858, now of Fairfield village. Mrs. Hannah J. Laverty was born in Pennington, New York, June 9th, 1829, and came to Michigan with her parents in 1835, and settled in Fairfield. Her father was born in Macedon, New York, July 26th, 1787, and died in Fairfield, Michigan, September 16, 1863. Her mother was born in the same place, September 9th, 1787, and died in Fairfield, September 30th, 1876.
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UFUS BAKER was born in Palmyra, Wayne county, New York, June 30th, 1821. His father, John Baker, was born in Adams, Massachusetts, January 17th, 1798, but in 1800 his father, Moses Baker, moved to Wayne county, New
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York, where he was a pioneer, and assisted in building the aqueduct for the Erie canal over the Genesee river, at Rochester, and also worked on the canal. Moses Baker took up a large tract of new land in Macedon, Wayne county, New York. He after- wards divided this land among his sons, John coming into possession of a part of it, where he lived until 1832. In the fall of 1831, Moses Baker and two of his sons, John and Orin, sold out and all came to Michigan, arriving in Detroit June 1st, 1832. Being well acquainted with Darius and Addison J. Comstock, in Wayne county, and John having a brother-in-law already settled here-Levi Shumway-they naturally came to Lenawee county, where they finally settled, as follows: Moses taking the s. e. } of the n. e. frc'l { of sec. 3; Orin took up the n. } of the n. e. frc'l ¿ of sec. 3; John, the n. w. frc'] } of sec. 2, all in Fairfield, the locality for years being known as "Baker's Corners," now the platted village of Fairfield. Moses Baker lived in Fairfield upon his original purchase until his death, which occurred November 26th, 1853. Orin Baker died on his old farm in Fairfield, January 30th, 1871. April 6th, 1820, John Baker married Miss Polly Smith, daughter of Ezekiel and Sylvia Smith, of Macedon, Wayne county, New York, by whom he had ten children, Rufus being the oldest. Mrs. Polly Baker was born in Lower Canada, December 1st, 1800, and died in Fairfield, this county, January 17th, 1871. John Baker died in Fairfield, this county, on the farm he purchased of the government, May 7th, 1873. Rufus Baker was brought up a farmer and only received a common school education. He was but eleven years old when he came to Michigan with his parents, and has, therefore, passed through all the different phases of pioneer life, many of the hardships and pleasures of living in the woods being impressed more vividly upon his mind than upon those who were older and had more cares and anxieties. He grew with the country and improved with it, and at the age of nineteen commenced teaching school, his first term being two months, for which he was to have ten dollars per month, but he never received all his pay. He taught eleven winter terms of school. He never believed himself fully qualified to teach, but thought he could do as well as many others in the same capacity, and decided to do what he could. He worked by the month summers and taught school winters, until 1846, during which time he purchased forty acres of land in Madison, where he lived until 1855. He then purchased 160 acres of land, it being the s. w. ¿ of sec. 2, in Fairfield, where he now resides. Since that time he has added to his farm until he now owns 370 acres of choice land. His health failing him, in
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1853, he commenced dealing in live stock, which he followed with energy and success until 1860, during which time he saw many men in the same business, whom he considered "smarter" than himself, fail, or constantly lose, when he made up his mind to profit by what he saw and quit the business while yet he could, and have something left. In the spring of 1860 he commenced dairy farming with eighteen cows, gradually increasing until 1866, when he built the Fairfield cheese factory, the first to be operated in Michigan, preceding Mr. Samuel Horton of the same township, only four days. Since that time he has been engaged, with his 'son, E. L. Baker, largely in the business, manufacturing, during some seasons, as high as $60,000,00 worth of cheese. During the year 1865, his dairy consisted of forty-eight cows, producing 640 pounds of cured cheese each, netting for cheese and butter $105.00 per cow. In 1872 Ruf:s Baker & Son opened a wholesale cheese store in Adrian, and continued until 1874, when L. Ladd was admitted as a partner, and the firm then known as Rufus Baker & Co., continued until December 1878, when E. L. Baker went out. March 23d, 1846, Rufus Baker married Miss Maria D. Vail, daughter of Moses and Amanda Vail, of Seneca, this county, by whom he has had three children, as follows: Edwin L., born in Madison, January 5th, 1847, now of the firm of Clark, Baker & Co., of Adrian; Albert G., born in Madison, September 6th, 1848, now of the firm of Rufus Baker & Co., of Fairfield; Angelia M., born in Madison, June 28th, 1850, now the wife of Edwin D. Stone, of Fairfield. Mrs. Maria D). Baker was born in Fabius, Onondaga county, New York, September 17th, 1828, and came to Michigan, with her parents in 1836. Her father was born in Dover, Duchess county, New York, January 25th, 1801, and is still living in Seneca. Her mother was born in Onondaga county, New York, November 20th, 1803, and died in Seneca, December 17th. 1853.
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ELSON FISHER was born in Pompey, Onondaga county, New York, October 30th, 1809. His father, Joel Fisher, was born near Boston, Massachusetts, May 20tlı, 1780, where he lived until he was about twenty years old, when he went to Onondaga county, purchased a new farm, and lived there until 1826. He then sold out, and moved into Chautauqua county,
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and purchased a farm in Harmony, where he lived until his death, which occurred October 8th, 1850. January 30th, 1803, he married Miss Charlotte Rancheon, of Pompey, Onondaga county, New York, by whom he had seven children, Nelson being the third son and fourth child. Mrs. Charlotte Fisher was born in Connecticut, November 16th, 1775. Her father died when she was very young, and she, with her mother, moved to Onondaga county, New York. She died in Harmony, New York, November 1st, 1838. Nelson Fisher was brought up a farmer, and was educated in a log school house. He lived with his parents until he was twenty years old. He worked by the month and cleared land, until 1826, when his father gave him a piece of land which he cleared and built a house upon, where he lived until 1836, when he so'd his "improvements" to his father. That summer he came to Michigan to locate land. He came to Toledo by boat, and from there he walked to Adrian. After looking around a short time, he decided to move his family here, and returned that fall. January 31st, 1837, he started from Harmony with a yoke of four year old oxen that he had raised, and an old fashioned sleigh, upon which he loaded his household goods, wife, and two children, and after twenty-one days constant travel, arrived at the house of his father-in-law, Jonathan Spaulding, in Palmyra, this county, about four and a half miles south-east of Adrian. In March following, he entered one hundred and twenty acres of land in Florence, Williams county, Ohio, and built a log shanty, but never moved his family there. In the fall of 1838 he traded with Rufus Rathbun, for the farm he now resides on, it being the w } of the n. w. frac'l } of sec. 30, in Palmyra. Since that time he has added to this, until he now has four hundred and forty-three acres. He has erected a large brick house, one framne house, and four barns, and has improved and under cultivation, one hundred and seventy acres, but the entire tract is fenced, and largely used for grazing purposes. May 2d, 1830, he married Miss Eliza A. Spaulding, daughter of Jonathan and Susana Spaulding, then of Harmony, New York, but afterwards pioneers of Lenawee county, by whom he has had five children, as follows : Caroline B., born in Harmony, New York, February 12th, 1832, widow of Osman Sizer, of Adrian, who died July 28th, 1875; Willet R., born in Harmony, New York, March 6th, 1834, a farmer, and works the home farm in connection with his father. Three children died in infancy. Mrs. Eliza A. Fisher was born in Hoosac, Rensselaer county, New York, February 12th, 1811. Her father was born in Rensselaer county, New York, January 21st, 1779, and died in Palmyra, this county, August 28th, 1838. Her mother was
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born in Rhode Island, October 8th, 1783, and died in Brady, Kalamazoo county, Michigan, September 4th, 1858. May 8th, 1862, Willet R. Fisher married Miss Mary L. Hopkins, daughter of Samuel and Susana Hopkins, of Ogden, this county, by whom he has had six children, as follows: Clara E .; born June 20th, 1863; Nelson E., born February 3d, 1865; George H., born December 8th, 1866; Ernest S., born March 11th, 1870; Carrie May, born September 7th, 1874, died January 14th, 1877; Elroy L., born October 18th, 1877. All of the children were born in Palmyra. Mrs. Mary L. Fisher was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, May 16th, 1839, and came to Michigan with her parents, in 1855, and is the oldest of eleven children, all of whom are living.
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ATHAN H. BASSETT was born in Cheshire county, New Hampshire, March 3d, 1812. His father, Artemas Bassett, was a member of the society of Friends, and was originally a tanner and currier, but after his marriage became a farmer of Cheshire county. He was born June 19th, 1782, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, and went to New Hampshire with his parents, William and Margery Bassett, when a child. March 28th, 1805 Artemas Bassett married Miss Sarah Harkness, daughter of Nathan and Susana Harkness, of Richmond, New Hampshire, by whom he had seven children, three sons and four daughters, Nathan, the subject of this sketch, being the second son and fourth child. All of this family were members of the society of Friends. Nathan H. Bassett moved with his parents, in 1823, to Starks- borough, Vermont, and lived there until he was twenty-one years old, when he emigrated to Michigan, arriving in Tecumseh about the 1st of May, 1833, and stopped at the hotel, then kept by Jesse Button, over night. For three years after he came to Lenawee county, he worked by the month, as a farm hand, and in 1836 went to Medina, this county, and established a woolen factory and carding machine, which was the second institution of the kind in the county, and did business with the settlers for forty miles west and south. Mr. Bassett run this factory for about fourteen years, when, in 1855, he sold to Hotchkiss and Daniels, and purchased a farm in Adrian township, about midway between Adrian and
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Tecumseh. He has improved this farm, and put up all the build- ings himself, and now resides there, in comfort and plenty. September 15th, 1836, he married Miss Adelia F Webb, daughter of Dr. Ezekiel Webb, of Raisin, this county, by whom he has had four sons, as follows: William J., died in the Indian Territory, August, 1869; Albert H., of Denver, Colorado; Edgar A., agent for Markley, Allen & Co., Chicago, Illinois; Francis N., died August 16th, 1855, aged five years. Mrs. Adelia Bassett was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, November 4th, 1812, and came to Michigan with her parents in 1825. [For her family relation, see James K. Webb's record].
ILLIAM G. GILES was born in Raisinville, Monroe county, Michigan, July 4th, 1822. His father, George Giles, was born in Cayuga county, New York, in 1789. At an early age he went to Canada, and lived on the River Thames, where he carried on a farm. He lived there at the time of the war of 1812, and was imprisoned by the British Government, because he refused to take up arms and fight against the United States. Soon after the close of the war, he made his escape from Canada, and settled in Monroe county, Michigan. He took up a farm in that county, ten miles above Monroe, on the Raisin river, where he made a large improvement. He lived on this farm until the spring of 1826, when he came to Blissfield, arriving there on the. 17th day of April. He cut a road through the woods and swamps from Petersburg, Monroe county, to Blissfield, a distance of at least fifteen miles. He took up the e. frac'l part of sec. 31. The same year he put in ten acres of crops among the stumps and logs ; the second year he put in thirty acres of crops. In 1834 he built a house 26x36, three stories high, out of oak and white- wood timber. This was the first hotel built in the village, and was known for years as the "Giles House." It stood where the Dewey House now stands. He made the first brick in this part of the county, and Noah Norton and Isaac French, of Adrian, both purchased brick of him in 1832. During the years 1834-5 he cut a road through the Cottonwood swamp to the head of Ottawa lake, a distance of about six miles, and cleared it out and made it passable for teams, in dry weather, and was instrumental in getting a State appropriation to build a log causeway through the swamp. He improved the fording place across the river,
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at Blissfield, and kept a canoe to transfer beds, bedding, provisions, etc., across the river for the emigrants. He was one of the most active men in the village, and did more to improve and build up the place than any man in his time. He furnished Mr. Armstrong, the first Presbyterian minister to locate there, a house and one acre of ground, and kept his horse for over one year. His hotel was known from New York to Chicago, as one of the best places on the route to stop at. . On the morning of the 22d day of May, 1841, he was stricken with paralysis, while plowing in a field, between four and five o'clock, and died the following day. He married Miss Margaret Crow, of Pennsylvania, by whom he had nine children, four sons and five daughters. Mrs. Margaret Giles was born in Pennsylvania, in 1793, and died in Blissfield, October 14th, 1864. Mrs. Giles was one of the most useful, kind hearted, and intelligent women who ever settled in a new country. She was a good cook, a good nurse, and was the only doctor in Blissfield for fourteen years. No woman was ever better or more favorably known throughout a whole region of country than she. She answered calls from Adrian to Petersburg, day or night, and always went on horseback. Mrs. Giles' name was a household word in the east half of the county. William G. Giles lived with his father until his death, and was brought up a farmer, with very little education. He has always lived in Bliss- field, with the exception of about four years, when he lived in Ingham county. In October, 1877, his elegant residence, standing on the old homestead, was destroyed by fire. This was one of the finest dwellings in Blissfield. March 10th, 1842, he married Miss Cornelia Clark, daughter of Abram Clark, of Toledo, Ohio, by whom he has had three children, two sons and one daughter, as follows: William A., born January 23d, 1843; Charles H., born February 9th, 1846 ; Margaret E., born December 9th, 1850, wife of R. G. White, of Toledo, Ohio. All of the children were born in Blissfield. Mrs. Cornelia M. Giles was born in Lisbon, New York, December 25th, 1825, and came to Michigan in 1838. [For lier family relation, see William A. Clark's record.]
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