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We must also include Dr. John Hamilton Robinson, the brother-in-law of Dr. Saugrain, who settled in St. Louis in 1804. He was a native of Augusta county, Virginia, where he was born January 24, 1782. After completing his medical studies he came to St. Louis and in 1805 married Sophie Marie Michau, a sister of the wife of Dr. Saugrain. Dr. DR. J. H. ROBINSON Robinson was a man of adventurous disposition and when Maj. Zebulon Pike started on his western expedition he joined the
" According to Billon the following other physicians were early residents of St. Louis, viz .: Dr. J. M. Read, of Baltimore (1811); Dr. Edward S. Gantt
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corps as a volunteer surgeon and accompanied it as far as the Canejos, when in order to ascertain the trade and resources of Mexican territory, he separated from the corps on pretense that he had some commercial claims to adjust or collect. No doubt regarding this individual enterprise as a romantic adventure, he went alone through the Indian nations to Santa Fe where he was arrested and imprisoned. Pike afterward found him there but for fear that if it became known that he had separated himself from his expedition, he might be regarded as a spy, denied knowing him. When he met him again in Chihuahua, he admitted that he was his companion de voyage, nor did this surprise the Spanish officers. After his return to the United States he was commissioned sur- geon in the army and stationed at Fort Bellefontaine from 1808 to 1810. In 1814 he was commissioned surgeon of the Militia of the Territory of Louisiana. In 1815 he went to Mexico and participated in the Mexican war of Independence for four years, attaining the rank of Brigadier General in the Revolutionary army. In about 1819 he settled in Natchez and died there at the age of 38 years. Pike says of him that he "had the benefit of a liberal educa- tion," that "he studied and reasoned," that he possessed " a liberality of mind too great to ever reject any hypothesis because it was not agreeable to the dogmas of the schools," and that "his soul could conceive great actions, and his hand was ready to achieve them."
Dr. Walter Fenwick, son of Joseph Fenwick, came from Ken- tucky with his father as early as 1797, and either shortly before or immediately after the cession of Louisiana began the practice of medicine in Ste. Genevieve.5º He was born in 1775 and very prob- ably read medicine before the family came to the Spanish possessions. He in 1801 married Julie Valle, a daughter of Don Francesco Valle. Dr. Ezekiel Fenwick, his brother, also a physician, resided at the (1816); Dr. George S. Todsen, a native of Copenhagen, Denmark (1817); Dr. Arthur Nelson (1818), married a daughter of Dr. Gantt in 1819; Dr. Herman L. Hoffman (1819); Dr. Lewis C. Beck (1819), a brother of Abram Beck. Dr. Beck published the "Gazetteer of Missouri," getting the material, according to Billon, "by perambulating the different sections of the State;" also published a small volume entitled "Botany of the United States North of Virginia;" lived in Albany, N. Y., in 1823; Dr. Richard Mason (1820), from Philadelphia; Dr. William Carr Lane (1819); Dr. S. G. J. DeCamp (1819); Dr. Paul G. Gabert (1819), a native of France, died 1826; Dr. Zeno Fenn (1819); Dr. Samuel Merry (1820); Dr. Edward C. Carter (1820); Dr. Joseph Williams (1820); Dr. Le Mignon (1820).
" In the case of Peter Johnston, convicted of the murder of John Spear, May 25, 1810, it was ordered by the court that after the execution of the death sentence the body should be delivered to Dr. Walter Fenwick for dissection.
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lower end of the Brazeau bottom near the present town of Witten- berg. Almost immediately after the acquisition of Louisiana, Dr. Aaron Elliott of Connecticut, with his family arrived at Ste. Gene- vieve. Here he practiced medicine for a number of years. In 1808 he was one of the trustees of the town. In 1807 his daughter Ann married Hon. William C. Carr, then a resident of Ste. Genevieve. Another daughter, Marie Louise, married Leon DeLassus, a son of Camille DeLassus. It is said by Dr. Richard C. Waters, a grandson of Dr. Elliott, that he was a descendant of John Elliot the apostle of the Indians. In 1815 Dr. Lewis F. Linn began the practice of medi- cine in Ste. Genevieve, which he continued until he was elected to the United States senate.ºº Dr. Zenas Priest, a native of New York, and Dr. Thomas Neale, of Virginia, settled in Cape Girardeau district about 1805, and were perhaps the first American physi- cians who established themselves west of the Mississippi, with the exception of Dr. Fenwick. Dr. Thomas Byrne, in 1812, practiced near Cape Girardeau. He died at what is now known as Gray's Point. Among the first physicians at Jackson we find Dr. Posey, Dr. Slaughter, and Dr. Ellis of Georgia. Dr. Franklin Cannon, who began the practice of medicine there in 1819, was a native of North Carolina; in his day he was an influential politician, being elected frequently to represent the county in the House and State senate; and in 1836 he held the office of Lieutenant-Governor of the State. Dr. E. S. Gantt, already named, practiced medicine in Jackson before he removed to St. Louis.61 In the town of Cape Girardeau we find Dr. John C. Duncan following his profession in 1820; and Dr. Blumenau informs the readers of the "Independent Patriot" that he has just emigrated from Germany, and opened an office in that town. The leading physician in New Madrid for many years was Dr. Robert A. Dawson, a native of Maryland. In St. Charles, Dr. Andrew Wilson was the first American physician. Drs. Wheeler and Stoddard. also practiced there, and in the "Missourian" advise the public that they would receive several students of medicine.
In Franklin Dr. Hardage Lane, Dr. J. J. Lowry, Dr. D. P. Wilcox and Dr. Jabez Hubbard (died 1824) were among the first physicians, so also Dr. Charles Kavanaugh, Dr. J. B. Benson, Dr.
" Another physician of Ste. Genevieve was Dr. Louis Guignon.
" Among other early physicians settled in Jackson was Dr. John J. Vance (1818); and in the same year Dr. Hayden advertised in the "Missouri Herald" that he has cured cancer "when the patient had been given over to be out of the reach of medical aid."
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David Woods; and in Howard county Dr. William T. McLane and in Cooper county we find Dr. William Moore in 1818, Dr. Cooper in 1821, Dr. Finis McClanahan and Dr. B. W. Levens. 62
As connected with the medical profession it should be noted that in 1809 William Shannon established a drug store in St. Louis, one of the first in the Territory. In 1812 Drs. Farrar and Charless had an "Apothecary shop" adjoining the "Gazette" office, in which paper they advertise that they will always have on hand "fresh from Philadelphia genuine medicines." Drs. Simpson and Quarles, in 1817, and Drs. Nelson and Hoffman, in 1819, were also in the drug business in St. Louis.
Oliver Holmes "from Baltimore," it is worthy of remark, was the first surgeon-dentist who located west of the Mississippi, in St. Louis.
Both before and after the Louisiana purchase many Revolution- ary soldiers settled within the limits of the present State. The influence of Colonel George Morgan in bringing many of his old companions in arms from Pennsylvania to the Spanish province of Louisiana, is quite clear. It was owing to him that Colonel Christo- pher Hays came west and finally settled in Cape Girardeau district, after the collapse of Morgan's enterprise. He also induced General Benjamin Harrison, of Pennsylvania, and Colonel John Harrison, who had settled in Kentucky, to come to the new country with him. Both the Harrisons afterwards removed from New Madrid to the Ste. Genevieve district. Moses Shelby, a brother of Isaac Shelby, lived in New Madrid district and died at New Madrid.63
" Was a son of Henry Levens, who settled in New Design, in Illinois Terri- tory, in 1797; came from the western part of Pennsylvania. Reynolds' Pioneer History of Illinois, p. 127. Dr. Hardage Lane married Miss Ann Rebecca Carroll in 1821, daughter of Charles Carroll, who was killed in a duel with Gentry. Other physicians of Boonville in 1819 were Dr. D. R. Wilcox, and Dr. Bohannon, who then resided about two miles south of Booneville.
" From various sources the names of some of these Revolutionary heroes, who settled in territorial Missouri have been collected and placed for con- venience in the present counties, alphabetically arranged, although when they settled, in many instances, no such counties were organized or thought of. Those we find in the present Boone county were:
William Bryant of the North Carolina Continentals, John Connelly of the Maryland Continentals, Benjamin Colvin of the Virginia Militia, Samuel Elgin of the Maryland Militia, Reuben Hatton of the Virginia Militia, William Jones of the Virginia State Troops, Robert Lemon of the Pennsylvania Militia, William Thompson of the Virginia Militia, Isham Burks of the Virginia Con- tinentals, Benjamin Ethell or (Athell) Corporal in the Virginia Continental Line.
In Calloway county: William Armstrong of the Pennsylvania Militia, Thomas Boyd of the North Carolina Militia, Sylvester Baker, Jr., of the North Carolina Militia, Moses Ferguson of the Virginia Militia, David Henderson of the Virginia Militia, George Key of the Virginia Militia, Josiah Ramsay of
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Dr. James O'Fallon, a Revolutionary soldier who married a sister of General George Rogers Clark, was an early settler in St. Louis. O'Fallon for a time was an active agent of the South Carolina Yazoo the Virginia State Troops, Major Jesse Evans of the Virginia-Illinois Regiment, Charles Cooley of the Virginia Continentals, Samuel Rhodes of the Virginia Continentals. Josiah Ramsay was a hero both of the Colonial and Revolutionary war, and died at the home of his son, General Ramsay, in 1833.
In Cape Girardeau county: Thomas Bull of the Virginia Continentals, John Harbison of Captain John Holder's Company, John Cockran of the North Carolina Militia, Mitchell Fleming of the North Carolina Militia, Thomas Hill of the North Carolina Militia, Alexander McLane of the North Carolina State Troops, Robert Greene, sergeant of the Maryland Continentals, Thomas Wrightington of the Massachusetts Continentals, Major T. W. Waters of the South Carolina Troops, Stephen Ranney of the Connecticut Troops, Uriah Brock of the Virginia Continental Line, Robert Chase of the North Carolina Continentals, James Crouster or (McCronister) of the North Carolina Con- tinentals, James Verden of the South Carolina Continentals, John Boyd of Captain May's Company, in 1778 of John Bowman's Regiment, Ithamar Hubble of the New York State Troops.
In Chariton county : William Burton of the Virginia State Troops, Jonathan Elston of the New Jersey Militia, Joseph Parke of the North Carolina State Troops, Thomas Watson of the Virginia State Troops, Thomas Holloned of the Virginia State Troops.
In Clay county : James Jewell of the Virginia Militia, Richard Simmins (?) of the Virginia Continentals, Safert Sollers of the Virginia State Troops, Joseph Wills of the Virginia State Troops, William Ross of the Virginia Continentals.
In Cole county: James Moore of the Virginia Militia, William Powell of the North Carolina Militia, John Roberts of the Virginia Militia, Andrew Salisbury of the North Carolina State Troops, Enoch Job of the Virginia Con- tinentals.
In Cooper county: David Allen of the Virginia Militia, George Carr of the Virginia Militia, George Cathey of the North Carolina Militia, John Chil- wat of the Pennsylvania Militia, Joseph Dickson of the Virginia Continentals, David Jones of the Virginia Militia, Robert Kilpatrick of the Virginia Militia, James Kelly of the Virginia State Troops, William Campbell of the Virginia Continentals, Edward Robertson of Housegger's German Regiment.
In Crawford county: Thomas Nelson of the Virginia State Troops, Wil- liam Wright of the Virginia State Troops.
In Franklin county: John Epperson of the Virginia Militia, Leonard Far- rar!of the North Carolina Militia, Littleberry Hunt of the Virginia Militia, William Mitchell of the Virginia Militia, Hartley Sappington of the Virginia Militia, Russell Twitty of the North Carolina Militia, Charles Whittlesey of the Connecticut State Troops, George Miller of the Pennsylvania Continentals.
In Howard county: Benjamin Cooper, Lieutenant in Virginia-Illinois Regiment, Amos Ashcraft of the Virginia Militia, Abner Chappell of the Vir- ginia Militia, James Calloway of the Virginia Continentals, Joseph Hager of the Pennsylvania Militia, Claiborne Johnson of the Virginia State Troops, William Long of the Virginia State Troops, James Noble of the Virginia Con- tinentals, Edward Williams of the North Carolina Militia, Jesse Walker of the North Carolina Militia, Henry Lynch of the Virginia Continentals.
In Jackson county: William Moore of the Virginia Continentals, Ledston Noland of the North Carolina Militia.
In Jefferson county: James Sturgis of the Virginia-Illinois Regiment, Joseph Bartholomew Herrington of the Pennsylvania Line.
In Lafayette county: James De Master of the Virginia Continentals, Joshua Ferguson of the North Carolina State Troops, James Kincaid of the Virginia Militia, John Mclaughlin of the Virginia Continentals, Andrew McGirk of the Virginia Continental line.
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Land Company, and in treaty with Governor Miro to secure per- mission to take possession of the country claimed by his company, which was also claimed by the Spanish officials as lying within the
In Lincoln county: Joseph Brown of the Virginia Continentals, William Butler of the Virginia State Troops, James Cannon of the South Carolina Militia, Thomas Graves of the Virginia Militia, Thomas Hampton of the Mary- land Militia, Hezekiah Murphy of the Maryland Militia, Robert McNair of the Pennsylvania Militia, Adam Zumwalt of the Virginia State Troops, John Basco of the North Carolina Continentals, John Chambers of the Virginia Continentals.
In Madison county: William Boren of the South Carolina Militia, Isham Harris of the Virginia Militia, John Reeves of the North Carolina Militia, Jeremiah Robinson of the Virginia Militia, Robert Sinclair of the Virginia Militia, Jacob Stephens of the Virginia Militia.
In Marion county: Michael Burchfield of the North Carolina Militia, Moses Gill of the Maryland State Troops, William Johnson, Sr., of the Virginia Militia, Anderson Long of the Virginia Militia, William Montgomery of the Virginia Continentals, John Wash, Sr., of the Georgia Militia.
In Monroe county: Neilly Bybee of the Virginia Continentals, Samuel Cobb of the Virginia Militia, William Hull of the North Carolina Militia, Jacob Patton of the South Carolina Militia, Daniel Taylor of the Virginia State Troops.
In Montgomery county : Robert R. Felter of the Washington Life Guards, William B. Rice of the Virginia Continentals, Stephen Hancock in Captain John Holder's Company in 1779.
In Morgan county: Benjamin Letchworth of the Virginia Continentals. In New Madrid county: Conrad Carpenter, Captain of Richard May's Company under command of Colonel John Bowman.
In Perry county: John B. Gough of the Maryland Militia, Casper Hinkle . of the North Carolina Militia.
In Pike county : Zachariah Burch of the Maryland Continentals, William Craig of the Virginia Militia, James McElwee of the South Carolina Militia, John Mulheren of the South Carolina Militia, James Mackey of the North Carolina Continentals, William M. Quire of the Virginia Militia, George Read- ing of the Pennsylvania Militia, David Tomb of the South Carolina Militia, Samuel Watson of the South Carolina Militia, Elijah Hendrick of the Virginia Continentals, in 1819 was 62 years old, served under Washington in New Jersey, under Gen. Sullivan, and was taken prisoner in North Carolina in 1781.
In Pulaski county: John Vest of the Virginia Militia.
In Ralls county: Ignatius Greenwell of the Maryland Militia, Robert Jamison of the Virginia Militia, R. R. Sims of the Virginia Militia, Samuel Turner of the Virginia Militia.
In Randolph county : Leonard Bradley, Lieutenant Virginia State Troops, Edmund Bartlett of the Virginia Militia, Edmund Chapman of the Virginia Militia, James Davis, sergeant of Virginia State Troops, James Fletcher of the Virginia State Troops, Charles Finnell of the Virginia Militia, Nicholas Tuttle of the Virginia Continentals, Bernard Tilley of the North Carolina Militia.
In St. Charles county : Christopher (Stoffle) Zumwalt (Soumwalt) was under the command of Colonel John Bowman in 1778, Matthew Farmer of the Vir- ginia Militia.
In St. Francois county: James Cuningham of the Virginia Militia, James Caldwell of the Virginia Militia, William Murphy of the Virginia Militia, Joseph Murphy, Sr., of the Virginia Militia, William Nicholson of the Penn- sylvania Continentals, Thomas Arman of the Virginia Continentals.
In St. Louis county : William Berry of the Virginia Continentals, John Cuningham of the Pennsylvania Continentals (lived near Joseph Conway), Zacharia Cross of the North Carolina Militia, Francis Hickman of the Penn-
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limits of the jurisdiction of Spain. Nogales, where Vicksburg now stands, was the place where O'Fallon proposed to plant a colony under Spanish protection.04
sylvania Continentals, David Musick of the North Carolina Militia, Abram Musick of Albemarle county, Virginia, a spy in the Revolutionary war.on the frontiers of North Carolina, was the father of David Musick. Thomas Mathias Rose of the Virginia State Troops, Daniel Applegate of the North Carolina Continentals, Robert Blackwell of the Virginia Continentals, James Little of the Pennsylvania Continentals, Thomas Wyatt of the Pennsylvania Continentals, Joseph Conway, served in the Indian wars during the Revolution; Thomas R. Musick of the North Carolina Troops. Stephen Hempstead of the Connecticut Continentals, came to St. Louis in 1811; born May 6, 1754, in New London, Conn .; died in 1831 in St. Louis; joined the Revolutionary army at the breaking out of the war; was with the first troops at Boston; under arms in New York; heard the Declaration of Independence read while under arms with the troops; was in the forlorn hope that attacked the British frigate in New York harbor; was at the retreat from Long Island, and closed his military career at Fort Trumbull, where he was bayonetted and received many wounds, and by accident escaped being dumped into the river as dead.
In Saline county: Isham Brown of the Virginia Continentals, Benjamin Chambers of the Virginia Continentals, Benjamin A. Cooper of the New York State Troops
In Ste. Genevieve county : Jean Beauvais St. Gem of the French Company, enlisted after the conquest of Kaskaskia by General Clark, Major John Dodge of the Virginia-Illinois Regiment and who removed to New Bourbon shortly after the Revolutionary war and died there, Captain François Charleville, who commanded the French Company organized at Kaskaskia, Jean B. Janice (Janis) Ensign of this Company, died in 1802 on his way from Ste. Genevieve to New Orleans, Peter Hildebrant of Pennsylvania, served in Virginia-Illinois Regiment under General George Rogers Clark; came from Monongahela to the Falls of the Ohio in 1776, then to Fort Jefferson; was killed by the Osages. John Hildebrant, a brother of Peter. - Draper's Notes, vol. 24, p. 151, et seq. To these names may be added that of LaPlante and Dufore, who piloted General George Rogers Clark from the Ohio river to Kaskaskia; both died in Ste. Genevieve, LaPlante in 1812 and Dufore in 1835.
In Warren county : Benjamin Sharp of the Virginia Militia, John Wyatt of the North Carolina State Troops, William Ward of the Pennsylvania State Troops. In Wayne county: David Strickland, sergeant in Virginia Continentals. Also through John Scott, delegate of the Territory, Thos. Wyatt and James Little, soldiers of the Revolution, ask for a land bounty.
" Dr. James O'Fallon was born at Athlone, Ireland, came to America before the Revoluion and served as Surgeon in the Continental army. He married Miss Frances Clark, the youngest sister of Gen. George Rogers Clark in 1790, but died at Louisville in 1793, leaving two sons, John O'Fallon and Benjamin O'Fallon. John O'Fallon attended school at Danville, Kentucky, and in 1810 went to Louisville to complete his education, and with his brother Benjamin he afterward came to St. Louis and lived with his guardian, Gov. William Clark. In 1811 John O'Fallon marched with the Kentucky volunteers to the Indian towns on the Wabash river, and was wounded at the battle of Tippe- canoe. In 1813 he was appointed Ensign in the army; and later was promoted to 2d Lieutenant, and then Ist Lieutenant and Captain. He resigned in 1818, moved to St. Louis and became an army contractor and sutler. He amassed a great fortune, principally by investing in St. Louis real estate. He was a man of great public spirit. He died at the age of 74. In 1821 he married Miss Harriet Stokes, who died in 1826 and subsequently he married Miss Caroline Sheets, from Baltimore. His brother Benjamin O'Fallon was Indian agent and was with Long in 1819 on his expedition to the Rocky mountains.
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John McClellan, famous as an Indian scout, was among the pioneers of territorial Missouri. Together with Crooks he made the celebrated trip across the Rocky mountains, which has been forever embalmed in the classic pages of Irving. McClellan was general master of pack-horses of General George Rogers Clark's army, and afterward served under Anthony Wayne. It is said that he lies buried in the old Cape Girardeau graveyard, but no stone marks his last resting place.
William Neeley, a son-in-law of Colonel Anthony Bledsoe, cele- brated in the annals of Tennessee, settled in Cape Girardeau district in 1810, and before he came to Missouri was famous as an Indian fighter. He was one of the early members of the territorial council of Missouri.
A notable resident of territorial Missouri was John Mckenzie, who took up his residence in Jackson, but while temporarily absent from home died at Arkansas Post, at eighty years of age. Mckenzie was a Scotchman by birth, and at the time of his death the last remaining adventurer who accompanied the celebrated Captain John Cook on his voyage around the world. He came to the United States about 1770, and first lived in Georgia, but after the acquisition of Louisiana removed to Jackson.
Another celebrated character among the early settlers of Missouri was Russell Farnham, who first appears in history as a clerk in the em- ploy of Astor and Company in New York. As agent of this firm in about 1817 he came to St. Louis and here he died in 1832. He was one of the Astorians who sailed for the mouth of the Columbia in the Tonquin in 1811. His life on the Pacific coast was full of adventure. Ramsey Crooks said of Farnham's life on the Columbia that "he underwent greater privations than any half dozen of us." He was one of those who captured a number of deserters in the fall of 1811. He was in the party which included Reed, the man who carried the bright tin box which excited the cupidity of the Indians, and par- ticipated in the fight at the Dalles of the Columbia when the tin box was stolen. He was at Spokane and helped to build the fort there, and spent the winter of 1812-13 among the Flatheads. It was Farnham to whom fate assigned the duty of executing the Indian whom Clark ordered to be hanged for theft in June, 1813. After the downfall of Astoria he sailed with Hunt in the brig Pedlar in the spring of 1814. Farnham was landed on the coast of Kamchatka with instructions to get to New York, while Hunt continued his
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journey by water. In his "Narrative," Franchère " says: "Mr. Farnham accomplished the journey, reached Hamburg, whence he sailed for the West Indies, and finally arrived at New York, having made the entire circuit of the globe." 06
As if the achievement of Farnham in making his way alone across Siberia and Russia were not remarkable enough, romance has played her part, and made of this feat a superhuman performance. With some variation the story has become traditional that Farnham walked from St. Louis to St. Petersburg, crossing Bering Strait on the ice. 67
Among other territorial residents we also find Sylvester Pattie and his son James O. Pattie, famous as hunters and trappers. The father, Sylvester Pattie, came to the territory from Kentucky during the war of 1812 and settled in the St. Charles district, at that time the scene of the predatory excursions of the Indians. He was ap- " Franchère's Narrative, p. 370.
66 When the American Fur Company began to regain its business on the Missouri after the War of 1812, Farnham was sent by Astor to St. Louis, where he became a valiant worker for supremacy in the fur trade. In 1829 Farnham married Miss Susan Bosseron, daughter of Charles Bosseron and Therese Brazeau Bosseron. He died of cholera at St. Louis, October 30, 1832. His wife died a few days before him, leaving a little son, Charles, who lived to the age of eighteen and died of consumption. In a letter to Pierre Chouteau, Jr., written in New York in the fall of 1832, Ramsey Crooks said: "Poor Farn- ham; he has paid the debt of nature after a life of uncommon activity and endless exposure. Peace to his manes! He was one of the best meaning but the most sanguine men I almost ever met. During all the ravages of the pestilence here, and the unexpected rapidity with which some of my friends were hurried to their long account, I never felt anything like the sensation I experienced upon hearing of my honest friend's death, for I did not know he was at St. Louis, and thought him safe in some part of the wilderness."
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