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But his fine judicial qualities were even more signally displayed in his sittings at Nisi Prius. Here a judge is constantly exposed to emer- gencies which put his faculties and resources to the severest test ; for no foresight can predict, no preparation can anticipate, the unexpected turns of a trial, or the sudden questions which arise, and must be at once settled. All these claims were met by Judge Gilchrist with an ease and self-possession-a dignity and courtesy-which nothing but conscious strength could give. He ruled his Court without effort, and without his rule being uncomfortably felt. His own sweetness of tem- per and serenity of temperament had a natural and benignant influence upon the bar : his own manner was so collected and courteous that it acted with contagious power upon others. In all the jar and heat of forensic strife, he never for a moment lost his temper ; and was always ready, when the occasion required it, with a seasonable word or two to soothe the ruffled feelings of contending counsel. A gentleman of nice observation, who had long been a practitioner before him, states that he had never seen him, in a single instance, give way to the slightest ex- pression of impatience or irritability. His delicate sense of humor often enabled him, when the zeal of counsel was presuming a little too much upon the good nature of the bench, to check them by an admo- nition in a playful form which recalled them to their duty, but leit no sting behind.
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To the trial of a cause he gave strict and undivided attention. Not a word escaped from him-not a look could be detected-from which an inference could be drawn as to his impressions of the case. He took careful and full notes of the testimony : everything that occurred which was necessary to be remembered was recorded; the exact point of each exception written down, and in matters of nicety submitted at once to the counsel-so that when the trial was over, every one was ready to admit the absolute truthfulness of the record.
In charging the jury he stated with clearness and precision, but without any technicalities, the points of the case, and the exact ques- tions to be determined by them; and read from his notes everything which the witnesses had said material to those points. He was rarely heard to say that this or that witness proved such and such facts ; but he stated clearly what had been said, but without any comment which would have intimated his own opinion, or led the jury to think that he had done so.
He had none of that mistaken ambition which makes Judges some- times so anxious to obtain verdicts. It was his desire, not so much to try many cases and get many verdicts, as to try cases thoroughly and satisfactorily, and to secure verdicts that would stand, and which the parties would be willing to have stand, So that when the charge was - closed, and the case given to the jury, the parties and their counsel al- ways felt that they had had a fair trial, and that whatever the result might be, they would have the verdict of the jury, and not the verdict of the judge. The sense of defeat was never inflamed and aggravated by the sense of injustice and partiality.
The professional and judicial accomplishments of Judge Gilchrist fit- ted him, in a high degree, for the peculiar duties of a tribunal like the Court of claims, which were of a mixed character, dealing with law and facts, and requiring the constant exercise of the power of patient anal- ysis and methodical distribution. His appointment to the place of pre- siding judge was hailed with universal satisfaction, and the community felt that the President had herein given that tribunal the fairest possible start, and the best chance for permanent endurance. To the severe la- bors of his new post he applied himself with self-forgetting assiduity ; and we fear that his life may have been shortened by toils so unbroken and monotonous as the business of the Court imposed upon him.
And well and thoroughly was his work done ; it was large in amount and excellent in execution. In the great and exciting interests at Wash- ington, the functions of a modest judicial tribunal are apt to be over-
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looked ; but the thoughtful observer will see how important in a system like ours is an institution which rescues a mass of private claims from the strife of parties and the passionate debate of an impatient legislative body, and tries them by the application of unerring rules of law and precedent. What the fate of this tribunal may be we cannot say, nor how far the future Congresses may respect its decisions ; but if men like Judge Gilchrist can be found willing to devote themselves to its unam- bitious but important duties, we feel assured that it will be well for the country if its results should be deemed absolutely binding upon the rea- son and conscience of the legislature, and be respected as are the judg- ments of ordinary courts within their appropriate sphere.
As we have before intimated, the public life of Judge Gilchrist was exclusively judicial ; and by his long and able service in this depart- ment he has earned a title to the lasting gratitude and reverence of the community. But in the hearts of his friends he has left other records and built other monuments. And he was rich in friends ; for his tastes and sympathies were not fastidious though discriminating; and his qual- ities of mind and character were such as to exert a strong attraction over all who came within his sphere. His love of literature continued unabated to the last ; in the reading of good books he found constant refreshment and relaxation in the arduous duties of his judicial life. With the Latin and French languages he was entirely familiar, and he read their books with discriminating relish ; but his chief pleasure was in constant communion with the best specimens of the literature of Eng- land and of his own country. His taste was manly, catholic and inde- pendent ; but with a natural preference for the writers who were popu- lar in his boyhood and youth. But no man was less exclusive or bigot- ed in his intellectual sympathies than he ; almost anything in the shape of a book was welcome to him; and no man had a more hearty enjoy- ment of genius in all its forms and manifestations. He delighted in lit- erary discourse, and the free interchange of literary discussion and crit- icisms, and his conversation had the flavor of scholarship and the per- fume of a cultivated taste. In the departments of historical research or literary investigation, he might have won distinction, had his powers been directed in that path.
He was a man of warm affections, social sympathies and genial tastes. He had the usual compensation that accompanies a life of hard and tranquil work, in the freshness of feeling maintained by him to the last. There was never a younger heart buried in the grave of a man of forty- nine. The natural pleasures which spring upon the lap of the common
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earth never lost their relish to him. He needed not the sting of strong excitements to rouse and animate him. His temperament was quiet but not torpid ; his mind was always active and his sympathies always rea- dy. Many of the friends to whom he was most attached he only saw occasionally, and this gave a peculiar zest to the moments he could spend with them. His was not a mind which was roused to brilliant display by the stimulating atmosphere of society ; but he was a most instruct- ive and agreeable companion at all times. His extensive knowledge of books was gracefully but not pedantically displayed ; and his fine sense of humor and keen perception of the ludicrous gave perpetual flavor and spirit to his discourse. There was a peculiar charm in his manners from their perfect repose. He had nothing of that uneasy unrest so common in busy men among us, who look and act as if they had lost the sense of present enjoyment from the pressure of a future engagement. Few men did more work than he; few men had more work to do, and yet in his moments of social relaxation he seemed like a man of abso- lute leisure, too happy to find some other idler to help him kill the hours as they rose.
No one had a better claim than he to the " grand old name of gent- leman," whether we regard the essential or the formal elements which make up that character-the inward sentiment or the external manifes- tation. He was a finished man, even in small things, He was careful for instance, and scrupulously neat, in his dress and personal appearance, and did not fall into the common practice-just the reverse of what should be the case-of growing slovenly and neglectful as he grew older. So, too, his handwriting was both legible and beautiful, and he took great pains to keep it so, and to resist the injuring influences of the con- stant taking down of testimony from the lips of witnesses. The com- fort of good judicial handwriting to lawyers, reporters and printers is more obvious than common.
Judge Gilchrist left a widow and two children-a son and daugh- ter-to survive him. In the several domestic relations of son, hus- band, father and brother, he was one of the kindest, most amiable, and most indulgent of men. His home, in the beautiful village of Charlestown -a finely situated, unostentatious, and most comfortable country house -was the seat of a simple and generous hospitality ; and those of his friends who have been welcomed by him under his roof, will sadly and tenderly recall the happy hours there spent, and the atmosphere of easy kindness which they breathed from the moment its threshold was crossed.
We are aware that this notice will be read by many to whom Judge
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Gilchrist was but little known. The worth and value of a good judge are not distinctly felt out of his own jurisdiction ; and as he lived in a quiet and secluded village, there were comparatively few who had the . opportunity of learning his engaging qualities as a man. To those who did not know him we may seem to have said too much in commendation of him ; but we have endeavored to do him no more than justice, and those who did know him will bear us out in this statement. Had the writer aimed to express his own sense of loss in parting from a friend to whom every chamber in his heart was unlocked-in seeing no more on earth a face that for thirty years was never turned towards his but with a glow of welcome, affection and trust-he would have used language stronger still. But this has not been our purpose; we have described what the public have lost and no more."
Such is the account of one who had the best opportunity of knowing the true character and worth of this accomplished man. The time of the birth of Judge Gilchrist has already been given. He married Aug. 25th, 1836, Sarah Dean Hubbard, (dau. of Hon. Henry Hubbard), b. Oct. 8th, 1814. By this marriage he had two children. 1. Sarah Hubbard, b. July, 1837 ; m. Henry F. Daland, of Boston, Mass. 2. James, b. Oct. 1838, residence in Boston. IV. Edward, b. Feb. 1811 ; m. July 12th, 1856, Clarissa Sage Crosby, (dau. of Rev. Dr. Jaazaniah and Huldah Robinson (Sage) Crosby), b. Sept. 17th, 1829. Dr. Gilchrist died Nov. 4th, 1869, at which time Mr. Hillard who had written the obit- uary of Judge Gilchrist, at the time of his decease, contained above, prepared and published the following notice of him.
" EDWARD GILCHRIST, M. D.
Dr. Gilchrist, whose sudden death, at Chelsea, has been mentioned in the papers, was a man who should not pass away without some no- tice. He was a native of Medford, in this State, but while he was yet a boy his father removed to Charlestown, N. H., and it was from this place that he entered the navy in 1832. At the time of his death he stood in the order of date of commission nearly at the head of the sur- geons of the navy. He had had an ample professional experience, and was master of his profession in all its departments ; a skilful and ready surgeon, and a sagacious physician, fruitful in resources, with a pres- ence of mind that never failed. Nor was his capacity by any means limited to his profession. He was a man of force and brain, who in any sphere would have been a man of mark. He had no small share of executive and administrative ability, with a love of order, an in-
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stinct of method, and a ready command of details. Of a noble pres- ence, with manners of a natural dignity, a resolute will and dauntless courage, it was an easy matter for him to enforce due obedience. He always gave one the impression of having a large amount of reserved power. His general knowledge and literary attainments were very great. His love of reading was a passion that never abated, and his memory was " wax to receive, and marble to retain." He knew the whole range of English literature from Chaucer to Tennyson. He was fa- miliar with the languages of France and Spain, and not ignorant of those of Italy and Germany. There was not a question in science, literature, history, or philosophy which he could not enter upon with more or less of preparation. He had read immensely, observed much, and thought much. With such large powers and such varied attainments, it may be asked why he has not left behind him some enduring record in science and literature, and the answer is, that what he lost in fame he gained in happiness. He felt neither the sting of ambition nor the hunger of vanity. Though capable of great and long-continued labor, his natu- ral temperament was inclined to love of ease. In the discharge of his professional duties, and in his omnivorous reading, he found all the oc- . cupation and interest that his nature craved. Dr. Gilchrist had in large measure the traits and qualities which endear men to their friends. His heart was warm, his social nature strong ; he was hospit- able, generous and true. He was discriminating in the choice of friends, but faithful to all the claims and offices of friendship. A vein of eccentricity ran through his being, which was perfectly natural, but was not understood by all. Independent and self-reliant, he carried his contempt for public opinion to an unnecessary, perhaps an unwise extent. His hatred of hyproerisy and cant was such that he would often set his shadows rather than his lights in the foreground. His dislike of pretension caused him rather to hide than proclaim his at- tainments and accomplishments. Had he been vainer he would have been more popular, but he would not have had more friends. He was in all respects a marked, individual, characteristic man. His motives and impulses were always self-derived. No man was less shaped by the attrition of others ; he was a crystal and not a marble. To him might be applied with exact truth the lines of Sir Henry Wotton :-
" How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will."
The writer of this notice knew him long, and loved him well ; he
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will never cease to honor his memory and lament his loss. And there are many others that will share his love and his grief."
V. Hannah S., b. Apr. 25th, 1812; d. Oct. 27th, 1859. VI. Susan, b. Aug. 22nd, 1814; m. Nov. 5th, 1833, Francis Low. VII. Martha R., b. Oct. 27th, 1818; m. Nov. 24th, 1858, Edmund L. Cushing. (See Chief Justice Cushing). VIII. Daniel S., b. June 17th, 182 -; m. June 1858, Caroline M. Parker. IX. Charles H., b. June 11th, 1829 ; d. June 4th, 1849.
LEWIS GILMORE, (son of Apollos and Julia (Heaton) Gilmore) b. Jan. 17th, 1792; m. 1st, Feb. 14th, 1814, Sarah Wilbur, of West- moreland, (dau. of Jonathan Wilbur). Ch. I. Roxana W., b. June 20th, 1814; m. Thomas Whipple ; (see Whipple.) II. Susan R., b. May, 1st, 1816; m. April 19th, 1843, C. T. Buffum, of Keene, N. H. d. Dec. 22nd, 1854; one child, Ellen A., b. Nov. 18th, 1848; d. Feb. 20th, 1865. Mrs. Sarah (Wilbur) Gilmore dying, Mr. Gilmore m. 2nd, Feb. 18th, 1842, Emily Campbell, (dau. of James and Desire (Slader) Campbell, of Walpole, N. H.,) b. March, 14th, 1797, and d. March, 25th, 1851. Ch. I. Albert W., b. Dec. 1st, 1822; m. Nov. 1847, Louisa Way, (dau. of Leonard Way,) resides in Chicago, Ill. II. George M., b. April 24th, 1824; m. Sept. 15th, 1851, Sophia J. Metcalf, (dau. of Horace Metcalf,) resides at Faribault, Minn. Ch. 1. George H., b. Dec. 18th, 1854; 2. Frank M., b. Nov. 29th, 1855; 3. Minnie S., b. Oct. 8th, 1857; 4. Jennie M., b. Jan. 20th, 1860 ; 5. Julia H., b. Dec. 30th, 1862; 6. Albertine L., b. Dec. 12th, 1865; 7. Grace C., b. April 10th, 1871. III. Solon C., d. young; IV. Emily A., b. April 22nd, 1829; V. Solon C., b. Jan. 19th, 1831; m. Aug. 14th, 1868, Annie Cleveland, of Bangor, Me; resides in Boston. VI. Julia H., b. Aug. 9th, 1833; VII. Harriet L., b. Sept. 28th, 1836; m. Sept. 28th, 1868, Winslow C. Neal, of Acworth ;- Ch. 1. Albert G., b. Jan. 25th, 1870; 2. Annie G., b. June, 1872; 3. Alice L., b. Dec. 8th, 1873. Mr. Gilmore came from Drewsville to Charlestown, in 1826. He built a woolen mill in North Charlestown about 1827, and owned a grist-mill and saw-mill, near where Charles Way has a mill.
GEORGE GILMORE, (son of Thomas and Janet (Campbell) Gilmore) b. Oct. 12th, 1824, in Markinch, Scotland-Came to Charlestown, Feb. 13th, 1848, immediately after his arrival in the United States. He m. Apr. 29th, 1858, Angeline Calista Keyes, (dau. of Vine and Mary B. (Taylor,) Keyes) b. in Littleton, N. H., Dec. 19th, 1838. Ch. I. Thomas, b. July 20th, 1859 ; d. Sept. 21st, 1859; II. Nettie, b. July 12th, 1860; m. July 3d, 1875, Charles Fisher, (son of Asa M. and
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Marion C. (Erskine) Fisher,) b. in Claremont, N. H., Sept. 27th, 1852; III. Katie, b. Dec. 21st. 1862; d. Aug. 27th, 1864; IV. Della, h. June, 20th, 1865.
RICHARD GLIDDEN, m. Abigail Hubbard, eldest child of Capt. Jon- athan Hubbard and Abigail (Jenison) Hubbard, and had eight daughters and three sons, all of whom lived to grow up. The follow- ing is a very imperfect account of this family, but the best that the writer has been able to obtain. Ch. I. Ruth, m. - Kelso, and remov- ed to Stockholm, N. Y. II. m. Richard Holden, and lived in Waterbury, Vt. III. Fanny, m. - IV. Hannalı, m. Tim- othy Holden, and lived and died in Charlestown. (see Holden.) V. Mary, m. Stephen Willson, and removed to Lancaster, N. H. where she lived and died. VI. Rebecca, m. Paul Cushman, and removed after a time to Dalton, N. H., where she died. VII. Grace, m. Parker Cushman, and removed to Littleton, N. H., where she died. Mr .! Cushman died at the age of 99 years, and five months. Horace Cush- man, now of Dalton, 74 years old (Jan. 1876) is his son. VIII. Su- sanna, m. Aug. 21st, 1799, Levi Osgood.
The sons were Hubbard, Willard, and Richard. IX. Hubbard, b. March, 8th, 1775; m. Oct. 11th, 1807, Elizabeth Metcalf, b. March, 14th, 1779. She d. Dec. 25th, 1850. He wes selectman from 1825 to 1833. Ch. 1. Richard, b. Feb. 28th, 1809 ; d. Jan. 28th, 1817.
2. John M., b. Dec. 14th, 1810; d. Dec. 19th, 1873; m. Oct. 14th, 1835, Mary Etta Parks, b. Dec. 24th, 1815; One daughter (adopted) Nettie L. Chase, b. Aug. 25th, 1861. John M. Glidden was twelve times Moderator-Representative in the years 1845-1854-55-1863-64. State Senator, 1865-66-67. He was a prominent man in all the business af- fairs of the town. Mrs. Glidden at present (Jan. 1876) resides in Claremont. X. Willard, m. Mary -, and their children b. in Charlestown were, 1. Grace Maria, b. Mar. 16th, 1808; 2. Timothy Holden, b. March 29th, 1810 ; 3. Josiah, b. May 12th, 1812-He re- moved to Genesee County, N. Y., where he died. XI. Richard, d. in Charlestown, about 1805.
RILEY GOODELL (son of Alvin and Mehitable (Perry) Goodell) b. in Westminster, Vt., Apr. 28th, 1830; m., March 1st, 1853, Harriet Rog- ers, (dau. of Lemuel and Fanny (Putnam) Rogers) b. in Rockingham, Vt., Feb. 25th, 1836. Ch. I. George A., b. Feb. 5th, 1854; d., in Westminster, Aug. 23d, 1854; II. Mary Ellen, b. May 25th, 1857 ; III. Dora, b. Dec. 31st, 1859 ; d. Dec. 17th, 1874; IV. Emma, b. Mar.
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29th, 1866 ; V. Hilliard Ebenezer, b. Jan. 12th, 1873. Mr. Goodell settled in Charlestown, December, 1854.
FREDERICK GOODWIN m., 1st, Elizabeth Boutell, Jan. 12th, 1817. Ch. I. Frederick, b. Jan, 23d, 1818 ; m., 2nd, Aug. 15th, 1822, Abi- gail Rumney. Ch. II. Mary Ann, b. Oct. 25th, 1823; III. Martha S., b. May 24th, 1825. Frederick Goodwin, sen. died May 31st, 1864 aged 75.
SAMUEL E. GOWING, (son of Samuel and Polly (Remington) Gowing) b. Aug. 31st, 1823; m., Feb. 16th, 1847, Laura R. Roundy, (dau. of John and Laura (Simonds) Roundy ) b. Sept. 23d, 1826. Ch. I. John R., b. Dec. 16th, 1848 ; resides in Springfield, Vt .; II. Arthur C., b. Sept. 17th, 1864. Mr. Gowing came from Rockingham, Vt. to Charles- town, in March, 1860.
ALBERT G. GRAHAM m., 1853, Harriet Corbin, (see John Corbin) Ch. I. Ella D., b. 1855; II. Alice, b. 1857; d. 1873 ; III. Fannie M., b., 1862.
PHINEAS GRAVES m. in 1762, Elizabeth (dau. of Isaac Parker, jr. and Mary his wife) b. in Groton, Mass., Feb. 3d, 1744. Ch. I. Belin- da, b. Jan. 6th, 1763 ; m. Elihu Dickinson, (see Dickinson); 2. Daniel, b. Feb. 21st, 1764; 3. Eunice, b. Aug. 11th, 1765, and d. May 1766, (see Col. Abel Walker).
WILLIAM GREGG, (son of John and Lydia (Melvin) Gregg) b., in Acworth, Oct. 2nd, 1801; m., in Charlestown, Jan, 1839, Adeline Frost (dau. of Thomas and Betsy (Butters) Frost). Ch. I. George W., b. March 25th, 1840; d. Sept. 29th, 1853 ; II. Sue M., b. Oct. 26th, 1840 ; resides in Red Wing, Minn .; III. Mary, b. May 12th, 1844; d. Sept. 10th, 1862. Mrs. Gregg d. Aug. 20th, 1863. Mr. Gregg settled in Charles- town in 1835.
CAPT. MATHEWS WYLEY GREEN is an old retired ship-master who commenced his sea life at the early age of eleven years, as a cabin boy. He sailed from Boston for the East Indies with Capt. James Gilchrist (late of this town) immediately after peace was declared in 1815. He retired from the sea in 1868. In the course of his eventful life he has visited most parts of the known world. He has circumnavigated it four times ; doubled Cape Horn twenty-one times ; made many voyages to Europe, South America, the East Indies, the North West coast and Kamtchatka.
The Green family came to Charlestown together with the Gilchrist family, from Medford, Massachusetts, in the year 1822, and then consisted of Mrs. Harriet Green, the widow of Mr. Francis Green, a
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merchant of Boston, her two sons, Henry and Mathews, and two daugh- ters, Anna and Mary. Mrs. Green died in 1847. Anna married Dr. Samuel Webber, of Charlestown, and died in 1868. Mary lived with Henry at Bellows Falls, where they both died ; Mary in 1853, and Henry in 1867.
Mathews is the only survivor of the family. He married Mar- garet, a daughter of his old commander, Captain Gilchrist, in 1832, who died in 1864. They had four children, two daughters, Harriet and Margaret, and two sons, Francis and James, who are now both Lieu- tenant Commanders in the United States Navy. Francis married a daughter of Judge Cushing, of this town, and James married a daugh- ter of Judge Bond, of Edenton, North Carolina. Capt. Green is now, at the age of 71, enjoying a green old age strong and hearty and is one of the very few that remain of a class of New England seamen, who were trained from early boyhood to battle with the elements upon the ocean before the days of steam and iron ships.
The above was written in 1873. Capt. Green represented the town in the Legislature in 1873. He died April 8th, 1874, under the fol- lowing circumstances. He had called at a neighbor's, in his usual health, on a benevolent errand, and had only had time to bid the family a cheerful good morning and take a seat, when he fell from his chair heavily forward upon the floor. It was at once supposed that he had fainted or was in a fit, but a physician being immediately sent for it was found that he was dead. He was an exemplary member of the Episcopal church-a consistent supporter of the temperance cause, and in every respect a worthy and good citizen.
SAMUEL H. GRINNELL, b. Oct. 27th, 1811; m. Dec. 15th, 1842, Caroline Walker, (dau. of Gilson Walker, of Langdon) ; b. Jan. 11th, 1820. Ch. I. Abbie Walker, b. March 17th, 1844; Mrs. Grinnell d. Jau. 1st, 1846; and Mr. Grinnell m. 2nd, June 30th, 1847, Ann Tufts Wetherbe, b. May 30th, 1820. (See Wetherbe.) The children of this marriage were; II. George Wetherbe, b. Aug. 21st, 1848; d. Feb. 27th, 1861. III. Annie Eliza, b. Feb. 7th, 1854. IV. Louisa Hub- bard, b. Oct. 4th, 1855. Mrs. Ann Tufts Grinnell, died Sept. 7th, 1873. Mr. Grinnell was one of the selectmen in 1854-55 and 56, and Quarter Master of the 16th Regiment of N. H., Militia, during the colonelcy of John M. Glidden.
ELIJAH GROUT, EsQ.
ELIJAH GROUT, (son of John and Joanna (Boynton) Grout), b. Oct. 29th, 1732; m. July 17th, 1757, Mary (daughter of Jonathan
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and Kezia (White,) Willard, of Lunenburg, Mass.,) b. Feb. 13th, 1734-5; a descendant, in the 4th generation of Major Simon Willard of Concord, Mass. Mrs. Grout d. at Charlestown, in 1786; Mr. Grout, March, 1807. Ch.
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