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PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
Three Rivers Grange, No. 179, was organized December 27, 1873, with John E. Cook, master ; William Fulkerson, overseer ; W. D. Pettit, lecturer, J. W. Schuyler, secretary, and a goodly number of members.
The officers of 1877 are: W. D. Pettit, master ; S. M. Snyder, overseer ; Lucas Thurer, lecturer; J. W. Schuyler, secretary ; Mrs. W. D. Pettit, Ceres ; Mrs. C. W. Garrison, Pomona, and Mrs. J. E. Cook, Flora.
ARNER'S SILVER CORNET BAND
was organized in 1874 as the Three Rivers Cornet Band, with six instru- ments ; was reorganized in 1875 under the present name, and increased its equipment to sixteen of the best silver instruments manufactured by Hall & Quimby, eight of which are helicons, costing five hundred dollars. The uniforms of cadet-gray, and full equipments, cost one thousand dollars. W. J. Arner is the leader and director of the association.
THREE RIVERS LIGHT GUARDS
were enlisted September, 1874, and mustered into the Michigan militia in 1875. The company numbers eighty-three muskets and three commissioned officers : Harlow E. McCarey, captain ; - Coup, first lieutenant ; Charles W. Millard, second lieutenant. The company was in the encampment at Grand Rapids, a week, in 1876. The State furnished their arms and equip- ments, the former being the Springfield breech-loading rifles.
THE ST. JOSEPH FIRE-COMPANY
was first organized October 1, 1859, with fifty members, and a hose-company on the 25th of the same month. The first engine-house was John Young's shop. The present engine-house was built in 1866, at a cost of over four thousand dollars. Cisterns were built in the city in 1860.
THE MUNICIPALITY
of Three Rivers began its legal existence February 13, 1855, when it was incorporated by express action of the legislature. The first president was -; first recorder, George B. Reed, and first trustees, A. B. Moore, Thomas M. Clark, L. L. Herrick, Sylvester Troy, and W. D. Pettit.
In 1860 the corporation thinking to add to the pleasure of its citizens, pur- chased some musical instruments, and a brass band was organized.
August 6, 1866, the board appointed D. Francisco, S. Kelsey, and A. C. Prutzman a building-committee for the erection of an engine-house.
In 1871 the corporation was extended over Lockport, which was designated as the second ward, and also to include "Canada," which was designated the third ward.
The assessments of property, and taxes thereon, for corporate purposes in the corporation, for the year 1876, are as follows: In the first ward, seven hundred and seventy-eight thousand two hundred dollars; taxes, nine hun- dred and fifty-six dollars and twenty cents. Second ward, two hundred and seventy-nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-five dollars ; taxes, four hun- dred and seven dollars and ninety-eight cents. Third ward, one hundred and seventy-four thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; taxes, two hun- dred and forty-five dollars and ninety-two cents. Fourth ward, fifty-five thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars; taxes, eighty-five dollars and thirty-nine cents. Total assessment, one million two hundred and eighty- eight thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars; total taxes, one thou- sand six hundred and ninety-five dollars and forty-nine cents.
There are no debts outstanding against the township, corporation, school- districts, or churches, of any amount.
The position of president of the corporation has been filled since the first election as follows : Daniel Francisco, 1859, 1861, 1864-6, 1868-70 ; Thomas M. Clark, 1860; Stephen Kelsey, 1862, 1869, 1874; L. B. Rich, 1863; J. C. Morse, 1867; Henry Yauney, 1871-2; George A. Jackson, 1873 ; Henry Hall, 1875-6.
The recorders have been as follows : George B. Reed, 1855; D. M. Bate- man, 1856; James H. Lyon, 1857-8; H. L. Dickinson, 1859-64-67-70; John Cowling, 1860-76; Norman £. Andrews, 1861; C. Robertson, 1862-63; L. N. Straw, 1865; W. H. Warren, 1866 ; Joseph E. Prutzman, 1868; R.
R. Pealer, 1869-72; Thomas G. Greene, 1871 ; David Knox, Jr., 1873-75; W. B. Pierson, 1874.
THE MAGNETIC SPRINGS.
One of the prominent institutions of Three Rivers, which is advertising the place to a considerable extent, is the cure, established at the magnetic springs, by Thomas Silliman. There are several flowing springs in the city, which are said to contain magnetic properties ; but the only one that has as yet been utilized for medicinal purposes, is the one owned by Mr. Silliman.
Mr. C. C. Flint owned the property at the time the spring was discovered, the land, on which a small house was erected, being occupied by Mrs. Greene, for whose benefit the owner drove a well in the lot, in 1869 or 1870, some forty-five feet in depth, when water flowed over the top. Mrs. Greene, being in ill health, used the water, and was cured by it. The sug- gestion was then made of its possible magnetic qualities, and upon applying a test, the steel in a very short time became highly charged with magnetism. The rumor spread, and people began to come, to use the water ; whereupon Mr. Flint built some bathing-tubs, and began to utilize the water in a small way, and was soon overtaxed for want of room for his patients, who were rapidly increasing.
In the spring of 1873 Mr. Silliman bought the property, and enlarged the buildings, putting in a larger boiler and better facilities for using the water. He has had all the patients he could accommodate, besides shipping large quantities of the water to distant localities. The water has never been scien- tifically analyzed, and no exact statement can be made of its elements, but its magnetic qualities seem to be unquestioned.
FIRST POULTRY EXHIBITION.
The Michigan Southern Poultry Association was organized in 1876, and held its first exhibition at Three Rivers, February 9, 1877, at which, some very fine fowls were exhibited. The present officers are: S. D. Hutchinson, Parkville, president; J. H. Clement, Colon, first vice-president ; Henry Yauney, second vice-president; Edward Armitage, Three Rivers, treasurer ; E. G. Tucker, Three Rivers, secretary.
RIVERSIDE CEMETERY
is located on the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section seven- teen, township six, range eleven west. The association was organized under the statute for such purposes provided, October 2, 1858, by individual cor- porators :- Edward S. Moore, president; E. H. Lothrop, vice-president ; Adolphus E. Hewitt, secretary; A. C. Prutzman, treasurer; Henry N. Spencer, sexton ; and nine trustees. The association adopted a code of ordi- nances, laid off a "Strangers' Home," and mnade their first purchase, paying one thousand dollars therefor. January 11, 1859, the name "Oak Dale " cemetery (under which the organization was effected) was changed to the name it now bears, and in April additional grounds were purchased,-the whole tract now containing thirty-three acres, most beautifully and eligibly located on the north bank of the St. Joseph,-and grading was begun. The association paid fifty dollars per acre for their land, have laid out a large sum in grading and beautifying the grounds, and have two thou- sand dollars in their treasury. The oaks of the original openings shade the grounds most invitingly, and no lovelier spot can be found in all the county, replete though it is with charming lanscapes, for a city of the dead. Several elegant monuments attest the taste and affection of the living, who have laid their loved and lost to rest in the beautiful spot prepared for them by the liberality of the foremost citizens of Three Rivers. The present officers of the association are S. P. Adams, president; J. B. Millard, vice- president ; Stephen Kelsey, treasurer ; D. M. Bateman, secretary.
The first cemetery was given to the village by the original proprietors of the plat, and was used until the new cemetery was laid out; since which time the old ground has been abandoned, and the greater portion of the in- mates removed to the new one. But the old grounds are unprotected by fences, and lie open as commons, presenting a forbidding aspect, to the stranger, at least.
REMINISCENCES.
Littlejohn, in his legends of Michigan, makes the present site of the origi- nal village of Three Rivers, the scene of a desperately fought battle between the Ottawas and the Pottawatomies on the one side, and the Shawnees or Shawanese, of Indiana and the south, under Elkhart, a noted chief in the later history of the west. The imaginative author, by a most skillfully- prepared campaign,-sketched out while surveying the public domain,- forces the Pottawatomies from White Pigeon prairie, and drives them back upon the Kalamazoo, where a confederation is formed with the renowned fighters (the Ottawas), and a grand assault is made under cover of the night, with a skillfully planned surprise upon the intrenched Elkhart, who, assailed
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in front and on both flanks, is driven from his fortifications, and his warriors slaughtered without mercy, until, broken and disheartened, they flee south- ward; their power to invade the fertile plains of Michigan, forever broken. However graphically the story is told, it rests on the merest thread of tradition. Such a thing might have been, but none but the most fervid im- agination could weave so brilliant a web from so fragile a thread.
Where the city now rises in brick blocks and palatial residences, present citizens have seen herds of deer, numbering twenty and thirty fine animals. Turkeys strutted in broods, bears lumbered lazily along, wolves howled, and sneaked wickedly by, and prairie-chickens drummed and uttered their musical and mournful notes, where now the daily bustle of the streets resounds, and commerce holds sway.
LOCKPORT IN THE REBELLION
made a record upon which her citizens may look and reflect with pride. She sent more than two hundred of her men, the flower of her citizens, to the front ; and when her wasted companies returned, their tattered ensigns testified but too plainly that they had been borne by brave men, and that, though
"Stormed at by shot and shell, Bravely they charged, and well, Into the very jaws of hell,"
of the frightful, fratricidal strife precipitated upon the nation by traitorous men. Her citizens lie mouldering beneath the flowery sod of the sunny south, or bear about their persons the sad evidences of the sacrifices de- manded of heroic men, by the bloody Moloch of war.
We here append a list of the citizens of Lockport, who went out from their homes at the call of the nation, to defend and uphold its integrity and its flag :
SECOND MICHIGAN INFANTRY.
Private Edwin P. Arnold, Company F; mustered-out.
Private Henry Henner, Company F; discharged for disability.
Private Martin V. Moore, Company F; mustered-out.
Corporal Samuel D. Southworth, Company G, lieutenant in regular army ; dead.
Private William G. Bennett, Company G ; discharged for disability. Private Gilbert Bloveldt, Company G; died of typhoid fever, Yorktown, Virginia, May 6, 1862.
Private Augustus Flint, Company G ; discharged for disability.
Private Hiram Hutchinson, Company G; discharged for disability.
Private William S. Woodhead, Company G; discharged at expiration of service.
Private Alonzo Wescott, Company G ; discharged for disability.
FOURTH INFANTRY. Private Lewis L. Flint, Company G; discharged for disability. SIXTH INFANTRY.
Private John R. Cowden, Company C; re-enlisted and mustered-out. Private Jacob Feagles, Company C; died at New Orleans, August 14, 1863. Private John P. Graham, Company C; re-enlisted and mustered-out.
Private Walter I. Hunter, Company C; died at Port Hudson, Louisiana, February 4, 1864.
Private Day Hicks, Company C; re-enlisted and mustered-out.
Private Ray Hicks, Company C; died at regiment hospital, October 2, 1862. Private Jacob W. Monroe, Company C; discharged for disability.
Private Rudolph Mohney, Company C; died at Camp Williams, Louisi- ana, September 9, 1862.
Private George P. Sterling, Company C; mustered-out.
Private James M. Smithey, Company C; re-enlisted and mustered-out.
Private Solomon Sugars, Company C; re-enlisted and mustered-out. Private Joseph Sargood, Company C; discharged at expiration of service. Private Charles Tutton, Company C; discharged at expiration of service. Private Samuel P. Babcock, Company C; died at Memphis, Tennessee.
SEVENTH INFANTRY.
Private John Kelly, Company B; killed near Petersburg, Virginia. ELEVENTH INFANTRY.
Adjutant Samuel Chadwick; resigned.
Drum-major Charles E. Franklin ; discharged, February 6, 1862. Principal Musician Hiram M. Wheeler ; mustered-out, August 22, 1862. Musician Horatio G. Taggart ; mustered-out, August 22, 1862. Musician Jason Clarke ; mustered-out, August 22, 1862. Musician Charles Rice; mustered-out, August 22, 1862. Musician James A. Knevels ; mustered-out, August 22, 1862. Musician Alfred Lantz; discharged for disability.
Musician John B. Silliman ; discharged for disability.
Private Charles Francisco, Company A; discharged for disability.
Private Loriston Fulkerson, Company A; died at Bardstown, Ky.
Private Henry Hale, Company A; discharged at expiration of service.
Private John A. Mills, Company A; veteran reserve corps.
Private George S. Sheffield, Company A; discharged at expiration of service.
Private Anson Spencer, Company A; discharged at expiration of service. Private Milo L. G. Wheeler, Company A; discharged at expiration of service.
Private Thomas V. Woodhouse, Company A; discharged at expiration of service.
Private Elias Ward, Company A; discharged for disability.
Private Dexter Avery, Company B; discharged.
Private Samuel Pugh, Company B; discharged.
Private Elliott S. Gray, Company C; discharged.
Captain Henry N. Spencer, Company E; resigned.
First Lieutenant Thomas Flynn, Company E; captain and killed at Stone River.
Sergeant John Graham, Company E.
Sergeant Edward M. Frost, Company E; discharged at expiration of service.
Sergeant George Nyce, Company E; discharged for disability.
Corporal John W. Banter, Company E; discharged at expiration of service.
Corporal Harvey Lockwood, Company E; discharged at expiration of service.
Corporal Lot T. Woodworth, Company E; discharged for disability.
Corporal Ezra Spencer, Company E; died at Stone River.
Corporal James T. Elliott, Company E; discharged for promotion.
Private George S. Baum, Company E; discharged at expiration of service.
Private Frank M. Bauter, Company E; discharged.
Private Arthur M. Bush, Company E; discharged for disability.
Private Hiram L. Brewster, Company E; discharged at White Pigeon. Private Edwin Craig, Company E; discharged at White Pigeon.
Private George Drescher, Company E; discharged at expiration of service.
Private Charles David, Company E; discharged at expiration of service. Private John Eggelshoffer, Company E; discharged at expiration of service.
Private Augustus Ennis, Company E; discharged at expiration of service. Private Alexander Ennis, Company E; discharged at expiration of service. Private Caleb W. Elmer, Company E; died at Louisville, August 10, 1862.
Private Cornelius J. Fonda, Company E; died at Nashville, August 10, 1862.
Private Michael Fellinger, Company E; discharged.
Private Henry Hix, Company E; discharged.
Private Philip Jones, Company E; discharged at expiration of service. Private Joseph Malalivly, Company E; died at Tullahoma, Tennessee, July 12, 1863.
Private Samuel Quaco, Company E; discharged at expiration of service. Private John Ramsey, Company E; discharged for disability.
Private George W. Spencer, Company E; discharged at expiration of service.
Private James Graham, Company E; died Charleston, Tennessee.
Private William S. Woodhead, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Dwight Cummings, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Edward W. Franklin, Company E; mustered-out.
Private William Oswalt, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Charles E. Quaco, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Adrian Van Ordstrand, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Reuben Truxler, Company E; mustered-out.
Private Alex. Detwiler, Company F ; mustered-out.
Private Daniel Harwood, Company G; discharged at expiration of service. Private Eli Mann, Company G; discharged at expiration of service.
Private Foster Drake, Company G; discharged at expiration of service. Private Charles H. Stamp, Company H; mustered-out. Private Adam Oswalt, Company H; mustered-out.
Private George W. Barton, Company K; discharged at expiration of service. THIRTEENTH INFANTRY.
Private Samuel Stamp, Company E; missing at Bentonville, Arkansas. Private Orlando J. Bradley, Company E; mustered-out.
RESIDENCE OF JACOB GODSHALK, LOCKPORT TP., ST JOSEPH Co., MICH
RESIDENCE OF GEORGE. SCHOCK, LOCKPORT TP., ST JOSEPH CO, MICH
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Private Herbert L. Chadwick, Company E; mustered-out. Private Charles Jackson, Company E; mustered-out. Private John Quake, Company E; mustered-out. Private Joseph S. Stamp, Company E; mustered-out. Private Conrad Wagner, Company E; mustered-out. Private Daniel F. Stamp, Company E; mustered-out. Private Garrett J. Wise, Company E; mustered-out. Corporal George W. Buck, Company H; discharged, June 16, 1862. Private Philo Arnold, Company H; re-enlisted and mustered-out.
Sergeant Charles C. Flint, Company K; mustered-out. FIFTEENTH INFANTRY. Private Robert Shiffard, Company A ; re-enlisted and mustered-out. Private John W. Hollowell, Company C; mustered-out. Private Elias Ward, Company K; mustered-out. Private Alfred McApted, first independent company ; mustered-out. Private Oscar Lockwood, Company H; died at City Point, Virginia. NINETEENTH INFANTRY. Private John J. Garrison, Company D; mustered-out. Private John C. Jones, Company D; mustered-out. Private Henry Ney, Company D; discharged. Private James M. Duncan, Company D; mustered-out. Second Lieutenant Charles W. Fonda, Company D; first lieutenant and adjutant; discharged for disability.
TWENTY-FIFTH INFANTRY.
Captain Julius C. Cross, Company D; resigned. Corporal David H. Dunham, Company D; mustered-out. Private Charles P. Buck, Company D; mustered-out.
Private Joseph Detwiler, Company D; mustered-out. Private George W. Detwiler, Company D; discharged. Private Levi E. Wing, Company D; mustered-out. Private Daniel W. Fease, Company D; mustered-out. Private Samuel S. Fease, Company D; died December 3, 1862. Private George A. Garrison, Company D; veteran reserve corps. Private Henry Hale, Company D; mustered-out. Private William C. Hale, Company D; died August 7, 1864. Private Smith Jones, Company D; mustered-out. Private John E. Sickler, Company D; mustered-out.
Private Burton H. Wright, Company D; died at Louisville, Kentucky, January 19, 1863.
Private Jonathan Stuck, Company D; discharged at expiration of service. Private Christie G. Walters, Company D; mustered-out. Captain William Fulkerson, Company G; resigned.
First Lieutenant John B. Handy ; Company G; captain, and mustered- out. Second Lieutenant D. D. Thorp, Company G; discharged for disability. Sergeant Romanzo J. E. Bailey, Company G ; died at Louisville, February 8, 1863.
Sergeant William L. Cole, Company G ; first lieutenant, and mustered- out. Sergeant John Gilbert, Company G ; second lieutenant, and resigned. Sergeant Philemon Bingham, Company G; discharged.
Corporal Ashbel W. Snyder, Company G ; second lieutenant, and mus- tered-out.
Corporal Daniel O. Thorp, Company G; veteran reserve corps. Corporal James K. Franklin, Company G ; mustered-out. Corporal Benjamin B. Cronk, Company G ; mustered-out. Corporal Hugh Wallace, Company G; died at Louisville, May 10, 1863. Corporal Wilkinson C. Porter, Company G; discharged. Musician Charles W. Hiles, Company G ; mustered-out. Musician William H. Lesner, Company G ; mustered-out.
Private Edward T. Bolton, Company G; died at Louisville, December 17, 1862.
Private Robert H. Buck, Company G ; mustered-out. Private Charles W. Bassett, Company G ; N. C. S .; mustered-out. Private Hiram L. Brewster, Company G; mustered-out. Private Joseph Collesi, Company G ; mustered-out. Private William H. Cummins, Company G ; mustered-out. Private John H. Cole, Company G ; mustered-out. Private Venal Dupuies, Company G ; mustered-out. Private Isaiah Dexsee, Company G ; mustered-out. Private Bernard Euckerott, Company G ; mustered-out. Private Charles S. Fitch, Company G ; died at Bowling Green, Kentucky, March 8, 1863.
Private John Forste, Company G ; died at Louisville, November 14, 1862. Private William Ferry, Company G; mustered-out; Private George Gearth, Company G; mustered-out. Private Henry J. Horn, Company G ; mustered-out. Private William Jay, Company G; mustered-out. Private Cyrus Judson, Company G ; discharged. Private Edwin Lantz, Company G; mustered-out. Private Jefferson P. McKey, Company G ; mustered-out.
Private Wesley Noe, Company G; mustered-out. Private Benjamin Oswalt, Company G ; mustered-out. Private William F. Stivers, Company G ; mustered-out.
Private James M. Snyder, Company G ; died August 8, 1864. Private Stephen M. Snyder, Company G ; mustered-out. Private Isaac M. VanOestrand, Company G ; mustered-out.
Private George A. Westover, Company G ; killed by guerillas.
Private Allan Westcott, Company G; discharged. Private Aaron S. Wilhelm, Company G; mustered-out. Private Edward Miller, Company G ; mustered-out. Sergeant-Major Edward M. Prutzman; adjutant June 17, 1863, and killed in action at Resaca, Georgia, May 17, 1864.
Quartermaster's Sergeant Edwin R. Wilbur; first-lieutenant, and mus- tered-out. TWENTY-EIGHTH INFANTRY.
Private Joseph Lehr, Company I; died at Louisville. Private Hosea Burch, Company K ; mustered-out.
ELEVENTH CAVALRY.
Private Jacob K. Ennis, Company C; transferred to Eighth Cavalry, and mustered-out.
Private Stephen T. Woodhull, Company C; mustered-out.
Private Dwight Cummings, Company D; discharged for disability.
Private Charles E. Austin, Company H; transferred to Eighth Cavalry, and mustered-out.
Private John L. Taylor, Company K; mustered-out. Private Augustus Flint, Company M ; mustered-out. FIRST MICHIGAN LIGHT ARTILLERY. Artificer George C. Meade, Battery D; mustered-out. Private Charles Crachy, Battery D; discharged for disability.
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Private John H. Donahue, Battery D; discharged for disability. Private Columbus Fulkerson, Battery D; mustered-out. Private Sylvester C. Smith, Battery D; mustered-out. Private Joseph H. Dunworth, Battery D; mustered-out. Private John Taylor, Battery D ; mustered-out. Private Samuel Pugh, Battery D; mustered-out. Private John McClymont, Battery D; mustered-out. Private James Honts, Battery F; re-enlisted and mustered-out. Private George Honts, Battery F; re-enlisted and mustered-out. Private Adam Miller, Battery F; re-enlisted and mustered-out. Private Hiram Millard, Battery F; re-enlisted and mustered-out. Private James Wheeler, Battery F; discharged for disability. Private Alonzo Westcott, Battery F; mustered-out. Private Edgar W. Ensign, Battery F; mustered-out. Private William A. Ensign, Battery F; mustered-out. Private Joseph Adams, Battery G; mustered-out. Private John Richards, Battery H ; mustered-out. Private C. C. Cummings, Battery M ; mustered-out. Private Austin E. Wing, fourteenth battery; mustered out. FIRST MICHIGAN SHARP-SHOOTERS.
Private Henry Apted, Company H; killed in the Wilderness. Private Michael Fellinger, Company H; killed near Petersburg. Private Benjamin VanOrdstrand, Company H; mustered-out. Private Charles E. Judson, Company H; mustered-out. Private John Miller, Company H; mustered-out. Private Sullivan Cook, Company H; mustered-out. UNITED STATES NAVY. Private William Baum ; died at Helena, Arkansas, August, 1862.
We are under obligations to Hon. Edward S. Moore and J. B. Millard, the presidents of the national banks of Three Rivers; Hon. A. C. Prutz- man, Captain Elisha Millard, Ezra Cole, Esq., John Cowling, Esq., Mrs. Sol. Hartman, Mrs. John M. Leland, John W. Hoffman, Esq., Captain John B. Handy, Rev. W. A. Masker, W. F. Arnold, Esq., and D. M. Bateman, Esq., for valuable aid rendered in the compilation of the history of Lock- port and Three Rivers.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
MR. CHARLES MACOMBER.
MRS. CHARLES MACOMBER.
CHARLES MACOMBER.
The subject of the following sketch was born July 16, 1800, in Johns- town, in the State of New York, where he lived with his parents, Rogers and Anna (Waterman) Macomber, until he was fourteen years of age, when he went to live with an older brother (John) in Scipio, in the same county. With him he remained until 1820, at which time he removed with his parents to Perry, Genesee (now Wyoming) county, New York. He received an ordinary English education at the district schools of the State, and assisted his elder brother on the farm until he removed to Perry. After a residence of seven years in Perry, Mr. Macomber removed to Alabama township, Genessee county, where for sixteen years he pursued the legal profession, being also a justice of the peace during the whole period of his stay in the place.
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