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whose confidence and admiration he had won during his public service, that he did not seek higher honors after retiring from the speak- ership.
In Cambridge, where he has resided for many years at 3 Wadsworth House, he has kept in close touch with the social and civic life. For many years he was a member of the executive committee of the Cambridge Civil Service Reform Association, treasurer for a number of years of the Cambridge branch of the Indian Rights Association, treasurer of the citizens' committee for rais- ing funds for the public library, and he was president of the Library Hall Association in 1892. He has been president of the Colonial Club of Cambridge, and is a member of the Citizens' Trade Association and a trustee of the Prospect Union.
He has various business connections outside of his profession, and is a director of the Cam- bridge Trust Company and of the Walworth Manufacturing Company of Boston. He is a member of various social and political organ- izations: The Massachusetts Republican Club, the Middlesex Club, the Massachusetts Re- form Club, the Middlesex Bar Association, the National Geographic Society, the Massa- chusetts Civil Service Association, the Eco- nomic Club, the Cambridge Historical Society, the Massachusetts Forestry Society, the Hooker Memorial Association, of the Union University, St. Botolph, Merchants, Twen- tieth Century, Massachusetts, and Oakley Country clubs. of Boston, of the Cambridge and Colonial clubs of Cambridge, and of the Harvard, University and Zeta Psi clubs of New York City. He is a member of the Ma- sonic fraternity.
James Brooks, the first of the BROOKS line herein mentioned of whom we have definite information, was born in Haddam, Connecticut,, in Novem- ber, 1758, died December 30, 1832, in Carlisle township, Lorain county, Ohio, aged seventy- four years. He served seven years in the re- volutionary war, being a soldier in the Con- necticut line, from which he was transferred to the commander-in-chief's guard, otherwise known as the Washington Life Guard. He wintered at Valley Forge. He was taken prisoner five times, was never exchanged, but made his escape every time. Once, when on a prison ship, in New York harbor, after
they had gotten out into the sound, he crawled through the port hole and swam seven miles to Long Island. He had been a sea captain, was a powerful man and a good swimmer. He married, April 15, 1782, at Haddam, Con- necticut, Lydia, born December 2, 1763, on Long Island, died in La Porte, Lorain county, Ohio, December 3, 1847, aged eighty-four years, daughter of Samuel King. They were members of the Congregational church in Connecticut.
(II) Hezekiah, son of James and Lydia (King) Brooks, was born in Haddam, Con- necticut, April 10, 1791, died January 24, 1862, in Carlisle, Ohio. He was a mechanic and spent the winters of 1813-14-15 in South Carolina constructing "cotton gins." He, ac- companied by his wife and three children, Martin Luther, Ann Hopkins and Hannah Miller, removed to the "Western Reserve" in Ohio, in 1818, a journey of six weeks' dura- tion, with an ox team, and settled in the town- ship of Carlisle, Lorain county, among the first settlers in New Connecticut, as that region was called, enduring all the hardships of pion- eer life in the then wilderness. He was a man of considerable executive ability, and inter- ested in all that made for the welfare of the people. He was greatly interested in educa- tional work, a generous contributor to the building of Oberlin College, in which his fam- ily of ten children received their education. He was an ardent anti-slavery man and his home was a refuge for those of the colored race who attempted to escape from bondage to freedom. He and his family were mem- bers of the Congregational church. He mar- ried, March II, 1812, Hannah, born in Ber- lin, Connecticut, April 22, 1793, daughter of Phineas and Hannah (Miller) Johnson; she died in Cleveland, Ohio, July 23, 1880, aged eighty-seven years, three months.
(III) Dr. James (2) Brooks, son of Heze- kiah and Hannah (Johnson) Brooks, was born in Carlisle, Lorain county, Ohio, April 6, 1823. He received his literary education in Oberlin College, and later was a student in the medical department of the Western Re- serve College at Cleveland, Ohio, from which he graduated in February, 1846. He settled in Ellington, Chautauqua county, New York, May 6, 1846, where he practiced his profes- sion for half a century and resided for sixty- four years. He married, May 29, 1848, at Randoph, Cattaraugus county, New York,
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Melvina. born in Mt. Holly, Vermont, May 19, 1831, daughter of Hartwell and Hannah (Aldrich) Bent, who removed to Randolph when she was four years of age. She is now living in Ellington, which has been her home since marriage (see Bent). The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Children: 1. James Casper, born April 25, 1849, was killed in a railroad accident, Sep- tember 26, 1883, aged thirty-four years; he was a civil engineer ; married, September 9, 1874, Delora. daughter of Captain Julius B. and Caroline A. Maltbie, of Gowanda, New York : one child, Harry Birdsey Brooks. 2. Melvin Main, born July 14, 1851, died in El- lington, New York, January 11, 1895, aged forty-four years; was a civil engineer; was superintendent of the construction of several railroads, and had charge of several gas plants in Ohio, Indiana. and Jamestown, New York ; married, in September, 1876, Kate Josephine Morgan, of Fort Edward, New York ; chil- dren : Mabelle Morgan Brooks, born June 10, 1877: Kate Melvina Brooks, born June 13, 1880, and James Arthur Brooks, born August 26, 1885, accidentally killed while hunting, July 25, 1899. 3. John Marvin, see forward. (IV) Dr. John Marvin Brooks, son of Dr. James (2) and Melvina ( Bent) Brooks, was born December 19, 1856, in Ellington, Chau- tauqua county, New York. He received his early education in the schools of Ellington. and pursued his preliminary studies in medi- cine under the guidance of his uncle, Dr. M. L. Brooks, of Cleveland, Ohio. Subsequently he entered the medical department of the Uni- versity of Wooster, Ohio, graduating in 1881, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Im- mediately after graduation Dr. Brooks re- turned to Ellington and entered upon the ac- tive practice of his profession. He spent the winter of 1894-95 in New York City, pursu- ing a post-graduate course, afterward settling in Jamestown, where he has long occupied an enviable position in the ranks of his profes- sional brethren, being generally regarded as one of the foremost physicians of Western New York. The professional career of Dr. Brooks covers a period of thirty-one years, including thirteen years at Ellington, the time passed in New York City in post-graduate studies, and seventeen years at Jamestown, a period filled with tireless endeavor, steady progress and well earned appreciation and re- ward. He is a member of the American Medi-
cal Association, the Jamestown Medical Soci- ety and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Jamestown. His political affilia- tions are with the Republicans.
Dr. Brooks married (first ) March 12, 1884, E. Bessie, daughter of Morris and Mary Jane (Hooper) Cook, of Gerry, New York, and they became the parents of two daughters : Mary Kate, born July 29, 1897 ; Lillian Em- ily, October 28, 1899. Mrs. Brooks died Au- gust 14, 1901, and Dr. Brooks married (sec- ond ) July 4, 1910, Mrs. Rosabel ( Peterson ) Pratt, daughter of Simeon and Augusta (Chapman) Peterson. Mrs. Brooks was born July 17, 1872, in Gerry, New York, is a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church, and for a number of years sang in the choirs of Presby- terian and Methodist Episcopal churches.
(The Bent Line).
John Bent, the progenitor of this branch of the family, came to this country from Pen- ton, Grafton, England, in 1638, and his de- scendants have filled well their parts in all walks of life. He was a resident of Sud- bury, and was one of Major Simon Willard's troopers in the expedition against Minigset in November, 1654. Twenty-one descendants of John Bent served in the wars between 1654 and 1771 ; twenty-three descendants served in the revolutionary war of seven years, among whom was Silas Bent, of Rutland, commis- sioned lieutenant-colonel of the Seventh Regi- ment, Massachusetts Militia, July 1, 1781, and six other descendants were commissioned in Massachusetts militia from 1781 to 1824; thirty-nine descendants enlisted in the civil war : nineteen of his descendants were college graduates : eleven clergymen : nine physicians : eight lawyers : and twenty-eight were members of the state legislatures, among whom was Charles Bent, first governor of New Mexico, appointed September 22. 1846, by S. W. Kearny, brigadier-general of the United States army.
(I) David Bent, a descendant of John Bent, aforementioned, was born in Rutland, Massachusetts. April 3, 1756, died in Mt. Holly, Vermont, January I, 1832, aged sev- enty-five years. He was a farmer by occupa- tion. He started for Cambridge at the head of his company, with Colonel Nathaniel Spar- hawk's regiment, as soon as the news of the battle of Lexington was received. He saw some service in the latter part of the revolu-
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tion (October, 1781) in Captain John Spoor's company, Colonel John Ashley's regiment, that marched to Stillwater. He moved, about 1776, from Rutland to Templeton, Massachu- setts, and thence, about 1786, with his brother- in-law, Joseph Green, to Mt. Holly, Vermont, where he was one of the first settlers. Mt. Holly, which was incorporated in 1792, lies in a depression of the Green Mountains, about fifteen miles southeast of Rutland, and was the old stage road from Boston to Rutland and the north. He served as town clerk of Mt. Holly in 1797. He married, April 26, 1775, Phebe, born November 5, 1756, died April 15, 1848, aged ninety-one years, daugh- ter of John and Elizabeth (Earle) Whitte- more, of Paxton, Massachusetts, and a de- scendant of Thomas Whittemore, who settled in Charlestown (the part now Everett) Mas- sachusetts, in 1645. Mr. and Mrs. Bent were the parents of fourteen children, six sons and eight daughters, among whom was David, see forward.
(II) David (2) son of David (1) Bent, was born October 23, 1780, in Templeton, Massachusetts, died in Cavendish, Vermont, in December, 1859, aged seventy-nine years. He accompanied his parents to Mt. Holly, Vermont, was reared and educated there, and followed the occupation of farming there for many years. He was a member of the Bap- tist church, and a generous and highly re- spected citizen. He married (first) in 1800, Lucy Fletcher, who died about 1807, aged twenty-four years; married (second) Lydia Bemis. Children of first wife: Dalmanntha, born August 5, 1801 ; Hartwell, see forward ; Betsey, born May 7, 1805; Robinson, born alout 1807. moved in 1835 from Vermont to New York, and five years later to Wisconsin, lived near Jamesville, married Esther Pierce. and they had four children. Children of sec- ond wife: Samuel Walker; Elvira, married Sinclair, of Mt. Holly, Vermont; Cor- liss H., died unmarried, went west in 1845, and drove a stage for S. Bent Walker, and was killed by being thrown from his stage: Mark Cole, born in Mt. Holly, 1825, went west in 1852, settled in Wisconsin, died un- married.
(III) Hartwell, son of David (2) Bent, was born in Mt. Holly, Vermont, May 28, 1803, died in Randolph, New York, May 2, 1844, aged nearly forty-one years. He was a merchant in Mt. Holly for several years
before removing to Randolph, New York, where he took up his residence on September 30, 1835, and purchased a farm, on which he resided for two years, when he rebuilt and opened a public house (Union House) in Oc- tober, 1838, and which he conducted the last six years of his life. He was a man of enter- prise, public-spirited, engaging in business that would build up the town and give aid to all. He with Thomas B. Walker, of Ellicott- ville, owned and conducted the old stage route from Ellicottville to Jamestown, where, with coach and four horses, the mail and passengers were carried each day on the old stage route, east and west, from 1838 to 1844. He held office of deputy sheriff of Cattaraugus county for several years, also held town offices. He was largely interested in the Holland Land Company of that day.
He married, in Shrewsbury, Rutland county, Vermont, March 12, 1829, Hannah, born in Shrewsbury, March 25, 1807, died in Ran- dolph, August II, 1842, eldest daughter of Abner and Betsey (Sanderson) Aldrich. Children, born in Mt. Holly: I. Elizabeth, born and died February 2, 1830. 2. Melvina, born May 19, 1831; married Dr. James Brooks (see Brooks III). 3. Betsey, born September 29, 1832. 4. Horace Aldrich, born June 14, 1834, died May 21, 1862, from in- juries received in a railroad accident at Sala- manca, New York. Children, born in Ran- dolph : 5. Diana Hannah, born March 31, 1840; living in Randolph, New York; mar- ried, January 29, 1861, George S. Jones ; children : Frank H. Jones, born September 21, 1863, a printer in Washington, D. C. ; mar- ried and has two children; Glenn C. Jones. born November 27, 1865, a real estate agent in Chicago, Illinois, married and has one child: Anna M. Jones, born June 28, 1868, married and has one child ; George Hartwell Jones, born April 20, 1871. graduate of Buf- falo University, and a druggist in Dunkirk, New York, married and has one child. 6. Hartwell Jr .. born April 22, 1842, died June 20, 1842.
TAPP James Tapp, the English ances- tor of this family. was born in London, England, in 1810, and died in 1881. He was a shoemaker by trade and kept a shoe store in London. Fourteen chil- dren, three of whom died in infancy, the others were: John R., deceased : George W ..
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deceased : Julia, deceased ; William Henry, of whom further: Martha, deceased : Thomas B .. of Farmersville. New York; Albert P., deceased : Anna, of Churchill ; Joseph D., de- ceased. James, George W., William H .. Thomas P., Anna and Joseph D. came to the United States.
(II) William Henry, fourth son of James Tapp, was born in London, England, in 1839, died in 1904. In the year 1854, at the age of fifteen, he came to this country, crossing in a sailing vessel, and joined his brother who had arrived some time previously, at Rushford, New York. In August, 1861, he enlisted in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Infantry: was taken prisoner at the battle of Bull Run ; he re-enlisted in the Second United States Artil- lery. B. & L., was taken prisoner again and was sent to Washington Territory, to guard the Indians. He was discharged in Febru- ary. 1867. After having served in the army in all for a period of six years, he returned from his western service to Rushford, New York, and bought for himself a farm of one hundred acres in Farmersville. Here lie en- gaged for awhile in farming, but was taken sick as a result of sunstroke, and spent some time in the Buffalo Hospital. Upon being re- stored to health he left that institution and settled at Hardys Corners. He was a member of Woodruff Post. Grand Army of the Re- public, and was a Republican in politics : he belonged to the Baptist church.
In 1868 he married Mary Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Thomas and Mary ( Moore) Agatt, who had nine children : Mary Elizabeth. Sarah Jane, Phoebe, Martha, Lottie. William J., John Luke. Henry G. and Thomas. Thomas Agatt, the father, was a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Tapp had three children : 1. Mertie May, born September 21, 1871; married, February 25. 1890, Ernest Pratt, and had two children : Roy, born in November, 1899, and Evelyn, born March 6. 1907. 2. William James, of whom further. 3. Fred H., born December 16, 1878: married, October 21. 1906, Mildred Stevens ; one child Gertrude, born August 5, 1907.
(III) William James, son of William Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Agatt) Tapp, was born February 17, 1873. He attended the public schools. At the age of twelve years he began working on the farm during the sum- mer and attending school during the winter, continuing thus until he was nineteen years
of age : he then helped his father, also going out to work. For a year he was employed in a cheese manufacturing business, and then for another year in the oil business at Deer Creek, engaging in the latter business also at Salt Rising. After this he went to West Virginia in company with Martin ()'Connor, and bought oil land in Hancock county. He then came back to Cattaraugus county, New York, buying leases on lands at Knapp Creek, on which there were twenty-nine wells. This he retained for eight years and then sold his interests at a great advance. having bought this property for twelve thousand dollars and selling for twenty-five thousand dollars. Af- ter this he came to Olean, New York, buy- ing houses, finishing and selling them; and at Portville he invested in seventeen acres for a private home where he now resides. He is interested in the Ann Oil Company of West Virginia, which has eleven wells, pump- ing free, and also in the Kinley Company which he operates at Knapp Creek. He is a genial man, well known in the community and possessing the esteem of all among whom he moves, and by his industry and native shrewdness has accumulated for himself con- siderable means. He is a member of the Re- publican party, and a trustee of the Metho- dist church.
Mr. Tapp married. June 20. 1900, Parma Belle, daughter of William P. and Margaret (Sindorf ) Bowser. Mrs. William Tapp's father. William P. Bowser, was the son of Benjamin Bowser, who was born in Walk Chalk. He was a farmer in Kittanning. Wash- ington township, Pennsylvania, also followed hotel keeping and was for many years turn- key of the jail: was a well known man of that town, deacon of the Baptist church, and is still living at the age of ninety-four. He married (first) Elizabeth Children : Christopher : Catherine : Ann. married
Hawks; Rachel, married McGregor : William P. (Mrs. Tapp's father ). Married (second) Catherine Yerty, born in Arm- strong county, Pennsylvania. Children: Mer- win. Stephen. Abraham, Sophia, Ellen. Denny. Five died in infancy. Mrs. Tapp's mother was born in Sherrett. Her father, John Sin- dorf. was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He was a blacksmith. followed that at Sher- rett and in 1875 moved to Du Bois where he followed the livery business until his death at sixty-five. He married Isabella Ray, of
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Torentine, Pennsylvania. Children : John, Amelia, Margaret (Mrs. Tapp's mother), James, Henry, Herman, Robert, Ray. Four died in infancy. The mother of these children is still living in Du Bois, at eighty-seven years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Bowser have had seven children : Parma Belle, Celeste, Clema, Sadie, Park, Clarence, Wayne. Mr. Bowser, father of Mrs. Tapp, is an oil man of Kittanning, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Tapp have had four children : William Wayne, born March 19, 1903; Margaret Elizabeth, July 29, 1905 ; Harold Leslie, February 10, 1907; Theodore Leland, August 1, 1910.
BULL Henry Bull, governor of Rhode Island in 1685 and again in 1690, and the ancestor of many bearing the name, was born in 1609 in England or South Wales. Previous to July 17, 1636, he entered his name on a volume in Ms. at the augmentation office (so called) in London, where Rev. Joseph Hunter, one of the record commissioners, presided in Rolls Court, West- minster Hall, as a passenger to New England in the "James," John May, master, and em- barked at the port of London after Christ- mas, 1634, with forty-three other passengers by permission. On May 17, 1637, there was a summons of the court of Boston to Henry Bull and others to appear. He was one of the company who went to Rhode Island in 1637, and was one of the signers of the con- tract for a "Body Politic," as also for the purchase of Aquidinick Island of the Indians. In 1680 Henry Bull was a deputy to the gen- eral assembly, Newport, and again in 1681. He died at Newport, 22 of II mo., 1693-94 (Friends' Record) aged eighty-four years, "the last man of the first settlers of this Rhode Island." He married (first ) Elizabeth
who died in 1663: married ( second) Esther daughter of Ralph and Esther (Swift) Al- len, 14 of 12 mo., 1664 (Sandwich, Massa- chusetts record ) ; she died 26 of 12 mo., 1676 (Portsmouth, Rhode Island record) : mar- ried (third) Anne (Clayton) Easton, widow of Governor Easton ; she died in 1707. Chil- dren : Jireh, see forward; Daughter, married Allen, of Little Compton ; Amey, mar- ried Edward Richmond, of Little Compton.
(II) Jireh, son of Henry Bull, was born at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1638. He married and had sons: Jireh, see forward; Henry, married Ann Cole; Mary, married John
Coggeshall; Ephraim, married (first) Mary Coggeshall, ( second ) Hannah Holway ; Eze- kiel, married Elizabeth -
(III) Jireh (2) son of Jireh (1) Bull, was born in 1659. died July 16, 1709. He mar- ried Godsgift, daughter of Governor Arnold. Children : Jireh, Benjamin, Benedict, see for- ward.
(IV) Benedict, son of Jireh (2) Bull, was born in 1687. He went to Milford, Connec- ticut, 1711-12. He married, December II, 1716, Sybella, daughter of Alexander Bryan Jr., of Milford. Children: Benedict, born 1717, died young ; Sybella, born February 14, 1720 ; married - Hunting; Jireh, see for- word; Benjamin, twin of Jireh, born Octo- ber 10, 1721; married (first) Esther Bald- win : (second) Anna Platt; Godsgift, born February 24, 1724; Content, born about 1725, married -Bryan.
(V) Jireh (3) son of Benedict and Sybella (Bryan ) Bull, was born October 10, 1721. He married Sybella, daughter of Jere. Peck. Children : Jabez Benedict, see forward ; Sibyl, baptized January 7, 1750, married Daniel Buckingham ; Jireh, Henry, Jeremiah, Abigail, Jerusha, Content.
(VI) Jabez Benedict, son of Jireh (3) and Sybella (Peck) Bull, was born January 5, 1748, in Milford, Connecticut, died December 25, 1815. He married, December 6, 1770, at Milford, Mara Naomi, daughter of Captain Richard Bristol. Children, born at Milford: I. Benedict, see forward. 2. James, born Oc- tober 19. 1772: married Margaret, daughter of Dr. Samuel Pond, and died in Milford, March 18, 1831. 3. Mara, born October 7, 1774, died in New Albany, Indiana, July 4, 1833; married Joel Scribner. 4. Jireh, born April 7. 1776, died December 31, 1823. 5. Richard Bryan, born March 21, 1778, died in New York, May 14, 1804, after being absent from home four years and five months ; un- married. 6. Lucy, born July 21, 1780; mar- ried, December 4, 1800, William Atwater. The mother of these children died in December, 1842, at the residence of her son, Benedict, in Plymouth, Connecticut. in her eighty-sev- enth year.
(VII) Benedict (2) son of Jabez Benedict and Mara Naomi (Bristol) Bull, was born July 10, 1771, died September 23, 1852, in Plymouth, Connecticut. He married, April 6, 1800, Elizabeth. daughter of Dr. Edward and Susan (Whittlesey ) Carrington. Children,
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born at Milford: I. Eliza, December 29. 1800, died unmarried in Plymouth. 2. Edward Car- rington, April 9, 1802, died April 27, 1845, in Orwell, Pennsylvania: married Cynthia M. Bronson. 3. Richard Bryan, April 24, 1803, died May 8, 1808, in Milford. 4. Sus- anna, April 13. 1804, died July 22, 1854, in Vernon, Connecticut : married - Talcott. 5. Jabez Benedict, see forward. 6. Isaac Miles, August 14. 1807. died September 8, 1884, at Cromwell, Connecticut, unmarried. 7. James Carrington, March 29, 1809. lived but two days. 8. Martha. February 2, 18II ; married Aaron D. Wells and died in Plymouth. 9. Henry Carrington, October 29, 1812, died Au- gust 24, 1885. in Bunker Hill, Illinois ; mar- ried but had no issue. Children born at Ply- mouth: 10. Mary Bristol, June 27, 1815, died there February 27, 1824. II. William Whit- tlesey, November 28, 1816, died there; mar- ried twice but had no issue. 12. Esther Car- rington, November 14, 1818. died there Octo- ber 29, 1856. 13. Elizabeth M., November II, 1820, died there June 30, 1838. 14. Jireh, July 24, 1822, died August 8, 1822.
(VIII) Jabez Benedict (2) son of Bene- dict (2) and Elizabeth (Carrington ) Bull, was born in Milford, Connecticut, August 29, 1805, died in Buffalo, January 26, 1871. He taught school as a young man in Farming- ton, Connecticut, and removed to Buffalo, New York, about 1830, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was associated in business with George Palmer and Noah H. Gardner, operating a tannery at the "Hydrau- lics" with store and salesroom on Lloyd street. He was president of the Western Savings Bank and the Young Men's Association, but held no public office. He married, April 12, 1841, at Litchfield, Connecticut, Sarah Eliz- abeth, daughter of James and Sarah (Cooke) Butler. Children, born in Buffalo: 1. Mary, February 10, 1842, died February 24. 1865. unmarried. 2. Henry, see forward. 3. Ed- ward, May 28, 1846, died November 18, 1846. 4. Sarah Elizabeth, September 17, 1847, died September 24. 1848. 5. Catherine Maria, De- cember 12. 1849, died September 30, 1870, unmarried. 6. Elizabeth, September 20, 1853. died February 24, 1855. 7. Jeannie, June 4, 1855 : unmarried. 8. Charles, see forward. 9. Elizabeth Carrington, July 14, 1861, died May 17. 1897. in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, unmarried.
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