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Mary E. Scott, Feb. 15, 1824, and died Jan. 15, 1826. His family experienced the usual hardships and privations of pioneer life, and on the 7th day of August, 1828, the household was broken up by the death of the wife, the father and the two boys getting on the best they could. Mr. Scott, about this time, became the owner of a span of horses,-a luxury for those days,-and these horses strayed into Cattaraugus County, which was then called the South Woods. There being no roads, Mr. Scott tracked them to what was known as the McCluer settlement (now the village of Franklinville), and found them near Olean Point, fifty or sixty miles from home.
Mr. Scott was married to Selecta A. Darling, March 4, 1830, at Springville. Mrs. Scott was the daughter of Rufus and Pruda Darling, who came into East Otto in 1825, and settled near Capt. Beach's grist-mill. She is the sister of the Hon. John P. Darling, now residing at Cattaraugus Station, and Rufus P. Darling, late of Monroe County, deceased. Allen D. Scott, the eldest of Mrs. Scott's children, was born at Springville, Jan. 15, 1831, now county judge of Cattaraugus County. Selecta A., now the wife of Dr. A. L. Dudley, of East Otto, was born in Otto, Feb. 18, 1833. Clark W., now a farmer residing in East Otto, was born .Jan. 15, 1835. Apoline P., now the wife of Luther B. Allison, was born March 30, 1837. Winfield L., now United States postal clerk on the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad, was born Dec. 1, 1842. Walter G. Scott, now station agent at Ashford, on the Rochester and State Line Railroad, was born Sept. 15, 1850. Lou Eda, now the wife of Chauncy W. Strickland, was born March 10, 1855.
In March, 1831, he bought the interest of Russell D. Gibson in sixty acres of land in the east part of the town of Otto, and by the untiring energy of himself and family cleared off and paid for the land, and purchased more until he became the possessor of five hundred acres of well- cultivated land. Here he remained until 1848, when he removed to Springville, the better to give his children facilities for an education, and in 1853 returned to the farm, where he still resides.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott early joined the Methodist Episco- pal Church, and have ever lived consistent Christian lives, respected by their neighbors, and loved and honored by their children.
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the butt of the community. She lived there many years, and finally died in the poor-house at Machias.
Stephen Rogers came to the town in 1824, and bought land where Waverly now stands; and in 1825 bought the saw-mill of C. B. Parkinson. In the fall of 1826 he erected . the first grist-mill in the town and the first tavern, raising them at the same time, the neighbors gathering at the raising. Among these were Thomas and Harvey Little, Darius Warner, Square Travis, the Austins, Fosters, Greens, Butlers, and Barbers. Whisky passed freely, and two days were occupied in completing the raising. He had a log house where Mr. Wm. F. Elliot's bank now stands, and in 1826 Sydney Stearns taught school there. In 1827 he sold the hotel to David Elliot, who kept it many years. Mr. Rogers soon after sold his property in the town and removed to Dunkirk.
James Barber settled on lot 12 in 1823, where his son, James M. Barber, now lives.
Robert McDuffie, a native of New Jersey, resided in Montgomery County, and for a period of six years followed teaming from Albany to Buffalo. In 1823 he came to this town, and located on lot 3, township 5, range 8, where Hoyt Hinman owns; lived there a bachelor for about three years, married Eliza Eldridge, and moved on the west side of the creek at Waverly; afterwards bought a half- interest in the carding and cloth-dressing mill of R. Knowl- ton, which he retained a few years. His death occurred in 1871, at the age of seventy-seven years. His son lives at Waverly.
Simeon Waterman, a brother of Ira Waterman, came here in 1823, and bought a chance of 15 acres of Edwin Farns- worth, on the hill north of Waverly. He built the first ashery in town, and a log house where Martin Botsford now lives.
In November, 1824, Vine Plumb, from East Otto, bought Waterman's chance, the ashery and house, put in some goods and opened the first store in the town. The winter was very open, and a good time for the farmers to make ashes and black salts, and Plumb manu- factured during the winter fifty barrels of pearlash, which he sent to his brother in Gowanda, with whom he was connected. He remained at this place about two years, and sold the place to Sylvanus Parkinson, who bought 170 acres of Edwin Farnsworth, including his. He then removed to Waverly, contracted land of Stephen Rogers, and erected the first frame house in Waverly for a dwelling and store, where Wolff's grocery now stands. He married Caroline Stebbins, of East Otto, in 1826, Squire Samuel Tuthill officiating on the occasion. He was born in Paris, Oneida Co., Jan. 4, 1798; emigrated with his brother Ralph to Gowanda in 1823, where Ralph went into business and lived many years. In June, 1824, Vine Plumb took stock of goods to half a mile east of East Otto and opened the first store in what is now that town, and remained until November of that year, when he removed to this town, where he still resides. He was town clerk from 1826 to 1837.
Daniel Botsford, a native of Middletown, Conn., came to this town in 1824, and settled on lot 6, township 5, range 8, buying 150 acres. He afterwards bought the farm of
Ephraim Brown, where he located and lived many years. He was the leader of the first Methodist class organized in the town.
Ephraim Green lived in Wayne County, and in 1823 came to this town and located land for his sons, Nathan and James C., on lots 23 and 24, township 5, range 8, who came in 1824. Nelson built a log house on lot 23 in the fall of 1825, and married in the spring of 1826. He afterwards bought a farm on lot 31, and lived there many years, and moved to Michigan. He represented the town as super- visor from 1832 to 1835 and from 1839 to 1844.
James C. Green came in at the same time with his brother, and in 1826 worked part of the lot his father selected. In 1830 he settled on 250 acres on lot 24, town- ship 5, range 8, and married Maria, daughter of David McMasters, who came in from Montgomery County in 1826, and settled 168 acres on lot 4, township 6, range 8, where his son, W. G. McMasters, now resides.
David and Wm. Blaisdell, in 1823, settled on lot 57; David on the farm where Frank Harvey now resides, in the southeast part of the town.
John Ferris, Matthew Parkinson, John Cotrael, and John C. Cross came in town between 1824 and 1826. Ferris, from Schoharie County, settled on lot 65, township 5, range 7, where James, his son, now lives.
John T. Ferris, his cousin, came in a year or two later, and settled in the north part of the town, on lot 69, town- ship 5, range 7, where Wiley Botsford resides. He was supervisor of the town in 1829-30.
John Cotrael emigrated from Schoharie County in 1826, with a team of horses, harness, and sleigh that the father and father-in-law of John Ferris wished to send out to him as a present. Mr. Cotrael located on lot 65, buying 200 acres, 100 acres of which were for John C. Cross, who settled in 1828. The sons of Mr. Cotrael are living in Waverly, where they are engaged in the hardware business. He is still living on the place he originally settled.
Dexter Bartlett, a native of Vermont, came to this town, with a wife and seven children, in November, 1825, travel- ing by canal from Troy to Buffalo, from thence by team to lot 6, township 5, range 8, where he settled upon 100 acres, building a plank house on the farm Wm. Bull now owns. His son Nelson lives in Waverly.
Champlain Babcock settled on lot 2, township 6, range 8, in 1826, where his family still reside.
Caleb Lewis, from Washington County, settled, in 1825, on lot 7, where his log house still stands, across the street from the Methodist church.
Bela Tarbox, Russell D. Gibson, and Hosea Merrithew settled on lot 51, in 1823-24. Isaiah Tarbox, brother of Bela, came in from Oneida County, with an axe on his shoulder, a clean shirt, ten cents in money, and an article for 50 acres on the same lot, and slept on the " breakers" in a hollow log when coming from Springville. He built a log house where his daughter, Mrs. Lansing Edwards, now lives. Hosea Merrithew lived near him. They put out apple-orchards on their farms that are still standing. In the first year his grist was carried on his back to Skinner Hollow to be ground.
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Sylvester M. Cox emigrated from Onondaga County when about eighteen years of age, arrived in this town the 4th of March, 1825, and was employed by Alexander Little, with whom he remained about two and a half years, working at clearing land and blacksmithing ; the first year he was in town he assisted in building 35 buildings,-dwell- ings, barns, and school-houses. Before he was of age he took a contract of John T. Ferris for clearing 45 acres. In 1828 he bought a chance of 100 acres of Thomas Beverly on lot 1, township 6, range 8, but soon traded for a larger farm on lot 7, township 4, range 8, in New Albion, with Vine Plumb. On the 25th of April, 1830, he mar- ried Reliance Slaght, and in the fall of that year commenced housekeeping, and remained there five years, and moved to Waverly, where he worked at blacksmithing for one and a half years. In the spring of 1837 he traded his house and lot and shop and some land he owned in Michigan for a part of the farm he formerly owned in this town, and moved upon it and remained until 1866. He was the father of four children. Mrs. Judge A. D. Scott, of Wav- erly, now deceased, and Mrs. Chas. F. Derby, of Gowanda, were his daughters. He now resides in Ellicottville.
James Borden, from Schoharie County, came to Waverly in 1826, with his wife and two children, and settled on lot 1 in the village of Waverly. He was a tanner by trade, and in the first season built vats in the yard in the rear of his house. In the spring and summer of 1827 he built a tan- nery across the brook from his house. It remained in pos- session of the family until February, 1872, and was de- stroyed by fire in October following. Mrs. Borden is living at Waverly. W. H. Strickland married their daughter for his second wife. Sons and daughters are living in the town.
Livingston and William Cross came to the village of Waverly in 1827 ; the former was a carpenter and worked upon the grist-mill and tavern of Mr. Rogers, and still resides in the village. The latter tended the grist-mill. Peter Karker was here in 1827, and assisted in setting the machinery in the grist-mill in June, 1827. He was one of the constituent members of the Presbyterian Church.
Bliss Loomis emigrated from Bennington, Vermont, to this town in the winter of 1826-27 with his wife, and. passed the winter at Waverly. Mrs. Loomis made the bolt for the mill, which was the first used in the vicinity. In the spring of 1828 he located about two miles east of Waverly on lots 49 and 50, and built a log house on the spot where his son's barn now stands. They had two sons, Henry C. and Nelson. Henry C. went out in the war of the Rebellion as lieutenant in the 64th Regiment and after- wards joined the 154th, of which regiment he became col- onel. He now resides in Kansas. Nelson, and Charles O'Brien, of Waverly, were the first two to enlist in the town on the call for troops in 1861, the latter being the first. Nelson is living on the old homestead.
Justus Scott came from Springville to the town of Otto, in March, 1843. He bought a part of lot No. 50, the interest of Russell D. Gibson, in 60 acres of land, held by contract, where the farm buildings now stand. Mr. Gib- son, in 1824, had two pieces of land on lot No. 51. Ad- joining them were four or five acres cleared, and as much more slashed. The old framed house now used as a tenant
house was inclosed and roof on, and the frame of the old barn was up. Mr. Scott and the two older boys com- menced chopping and clearing and buying more land until he became the owner of about 500 acres of land,-one of "the finest and most productive farms in the county, and more than half of which has been reduced from a wilderness to productive, well-cultivated land by his untiring energy, assisted by his sons.
An incident occurred in 1838 worthy of mention. Mr. Scott had slashed about 10 acres, intending to burn and clear it off for a crop, but was compelled to be away from home about a week at a time when it should have been burned. Mrs. Scott waited a day or two for his return, but finally concluded to set the fires herself. The trees had been felled in windrows, and she took the torch, and as she entered the slashing commenced setting the fires, passing on and on with her torch, touching the dry leaves here and there until there was a streak of flame around nearly the whole piece, and she inside, apparently with no way of escape. In the excitement she had neglected to attend to her own safety. Greatly frightened and fully appreciating her danger, she reflected a moment and then ran to the place she entered, where she found a space between the end of the windrows, where she passed out, nearly exhausted with the heat and smoke. This is an instance illustrating the energy and spirit that actuated the wives of the early settlers of this county. In 1845, Mr. Scott borrowed $500 at the bank, and purchased a dairy of 50 cows. They cost him in March of that year $12.64 each when he got them home. He hired one of the Austins, of Hamburg, to teach the family how to make cheese, and that year he sold his cheese to Ralph and Joseph Plumb, of Gowanda, for five cents a pound, and delivered the same in Buffalo, and with the proceeds paid his bank-note, and had more money to pay on his land than he had ever been able to pay in any previous year. He urged the Plumbs to contract his cheese for five years at five cents per pound, which they declined. He never sold so cheap afterwards. In 1848 he rented his farm with 50 cows to Noah Starr for five years, at $500 a year, and removed with his family to Springville, to enable his children to attend the academy. In 1853 he retired with his family to the old farm in Otto, where he now lives.
Rosewell Knowlton, in 1829, built a custom-mill, and set up a carding-machine on the creek about one-half mile below Waverly, where the Pearce Woolen-Mills now stand. In the next year he sold a half-interest to Robert McDuffie.
H. W. Ingraham, of Rensselaer County, a soldier of the war of 1812, settled where his son Simeon now lives. Alexander lives at Zoar.
David Elliott, in 1827, bought of Stephen Rogers the tavern property in Waverly, and kept tavern for many years. Selleck St. John, a son-in-law of Mr. Elliott, was the first postmaster in Waverly, in 1830, and afterwards justice of the peace.
W. F. Elliott, in 1831, opened a store in the village of Waverly, where Truby's clothing-store now is, and dealt largely in black salts, for which cash was paid at the aver- age rate of $2.50 per hundred, and manufactured pearlash. The ashery was situated below R. Dewey's foundry. He is still living in the village, and is proprietor of a private bank.
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JOHN S. HARVEY.
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MRS. THEDEY HARVEY.
JOHN S. HARVEY.
(DECEASED.)
One of the largest landed proprietors, and a prom- inent citizen, universally esteemed and respected, resident of this town, was he of whom we write. Mr. John S. Harvey was born in the town of Mar- cellus, County of Onondaga, State of New York, in June, 1805. He emigrated to Cattaraugus County, February 11, 1827, and first settled in that portion of Little Valley now known as New Albion. Before leaving Onondaga County, however, he married (in 1827) Miss Thedey Reed, who was born in 1805.
Jonathan Reed, father of Mrs. Harvey, was a native of Massachusetts, of Puritan stock, and a descendant of Revolutionary sires illustrious in the annals of our country's history. He was born before the struggle for Independence (in 1774), and during the administration of our second President (in 1798) moved westward to New York State, taking up his pioneer residence in Onondaga County, which at that date was an unsettled wilderness. He followed farming all his life, and died in 1829, aged 55 years.
Medad Harvey, father of our subject, became a resident of Onondaga County, New York, about the year 1800. He purchased and settled upon a farm in the town of Marcellus, where his son, John S., was born, passed his youth, obtained his education, and "followed the plow" until he attained his twenty- second year, when he married and moved west to
make himself a home in Western New York, as previously mentioned. The family of Mr. J. S. Harvey numbers three sons,-Hiram R., Alfred B., and Frank J. Harvey,-all of whom are living: Hiram, in Cattaraugus village; Alfred, in the village of Randolph, this county; and F. J., about a mile from Waverly, in the town of Otto. John S. Harvey was the owner of six hundred and twenty-five acres of land in Cattaraugus County.
Politically, Mr. Harvey acted with the Democratic party, at whose hands he received several offices of honor and trust, among others that of supervisor of the town of New Albion. He was an active member of the Baptist denomination, and contributed liberally to the support of that society. He died February 1, 1871, aged sixty-six years. His remains repose in the cemetery at Waverly. His widow still sur- vives at the age of seventy-three, quite hale and hearty for a person of her years. The original home- stead is now owned by his second son, Alfred B. Harvey. To the memory of his parents, Frank J. Harvey * has caused their portraits to be here in- serted, in connection with the record of their lives, and thus handed down to future generations.
*A fine view of F. J. Harvey's residence, and portraits of himself and wife, may also be seen in this work.
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MRS FRANK J. HARVEY
RESIDENCE OF FRANK J. HARVEY, OTTO, CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NEW YORK .
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C. B. Allen came from Gowanda to Waverly in 1833. He opened a store, now occupied as a dwelling, near the Wilber Hotel, and entered into the manufacture of pearl-ash. He built an ashery in the winter of 1833-34, which is still standing on the north side of the creek. In 1840 he pur- chased a half-interest in the woolen-mill, and the next year the other half. He continued manufacturing until 1851, when D. T. Gibson entered into partnership, which was continued until December, 1867, when the mill was de- stroyed by fire. He did not again engage in the business, but sold his interest to Mr. Gibson. He represented his town as supervisor in 1837 and 1838, and is still living in Waverly.
W. H. Strickland came from Watertown in 1832, and settled 50 acres on lot 3, township 5, range 8. He was one of the constituent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Waverly. In 1843 he married Statira, daughter of Judge Allen, of Gowanda, and sister of C. B. Allen, of Waverly. He is still living on the farm he first settled.
Sayler Ross, a native of Rhode Island, located land on lot 32, township 5, range 8, and lots 4 and 5, township 6, range 8, in 1842, and with his wife, six sons, and three daughters settled on lot 32. His sons settled near : Waldo, 125 acres on lot 3; Asa, on the old homestead ; Col. C. A. Ross, near where the cheese-factory now is.
Ira Root, a soldier in the war of 1812, emigrated to this town in 1832, and settled on lot 3, township 6, range 8, where his family still reside.
Nicholas Ballard came in town in 1838, built the first wagon-shop in the town at Waverly, and is still living here.
The present town of Otto contained as land-owners, in 1819, Wm. Cook, lot 21, Mason Hicks, lot 23, and Joseph Bartlett, lot 24, all in township 5, and 7th range; Ira Waterman, lot 1, and Ephraim Brown, on lot 6, township 5, and 8th range.
From the assessment-roll of 1824, the following names are taken as land-owners at that time, and the lots on which they lotcaed :
Lot.
ship.
Christian B. Parkinson
1
5
8
Simeon Waterman.
2
5
8
Edward Farnsworth.
2
5
8
Isaac Mowry
2
5
8
William Farnsworth
2
5
8
John Beverly.
3
5
8
3
5
8
3
8
Benjamin Ballard
4
8
Stephen Ballard.
4
5
8
Isaac Ballard.
4
5
8
Otis Guile.
4
5
8
Peter Guile
4
5
8
Adam Ballard
5
5
8
Ephraim Brown
5
5
8
5
5
8
Hosea White.
6
5
8
Wadsworth Foster
6
5
6
5
8
7
5
Benjamin Austin
7
5
Asa Bates.
7
5
Moses W. Boon.
8
5
9
5
Henry Willets.
10
5
Daniel H. Grinds.
5
Ira Lapham
11
5
8
Job Milk.
12
5
Mina Hitchcock
12
5
Davis Benedict
13
5
8
Abel M. Butler, Supervisor; Tyler M. Beach, Town
37
Lot. Town- ship.
ยท Range.
Thomas Wilson ..
14
5
8
Edward W. Austin.
14
5
8
David Beverly.
14
5
8
Alexander Little.
15
5
8
Joshua Boutwell.
16
5
8
Jehial Hill.
16
5
8
Henry Willets
18
5
8
Claudius Brown.
19
5
8
Ira Lapham
20
5
8
Henry Willets.
21
5
8
Harvey Butler.
22
5
8
Abel M. Butler.
22
5
8
Alpheus Harwood
22
5
8
Ephraim Green.
23
5
8
Hugh Mckinney.
23
5
8
John Beverly
23
5
8
John D. Beverly
24
5
8
Thomas Beverly
24
5
8
Ephraim Green ..
24
5
8
John D. Davenport
26
5
8
Thorndike Coming.
27
5
8
Thomson Davenport.
26
5
8
Cyrus Green ..
27
5
8
Ichabod Harding
28
5
8
5
8
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29
5
8
Alpheus Harwood.
30
5
8
John Lapham
30
5
8
5
"
32
Ira Waterman
1
Asahel Hill.
1
6
8
Solomon Kenton
2
6
8
John Ferris
65
5
7
Shedrick Herrick
66
7
Edwin Farnsworth
66
Benjamin Ballard
68
Otis Guile ..
69
W. C. McGraw
68
5
7
Thomas L. Butterfield
70
5
7
Wadsworth Foster.
70
5
7
John Boutwell.
5
7
Joshua Eaton.
49
5
7
Oliver Tripp
50
5
7
Russel D. Gibson
51
5
7
51
5
7
Hosea Merrithew
51
7
Bela Tarbox.
5
7
William Blaisdell
5
7
David Peters.
58
5
7
Joseph Allen ..
58
5
7
Phineas Spencer
61
5
7
Stephen Williams
20
6
7
William Cook
21
6
7
Esek Cook.
21
6
7
Silas Cook
20
6
7
Willis Boutwell
23
6
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ORGANIZATION OF TOWN.
Otto, named in honor of Jacob S. Otto, was erected from Perrysburg by act of Jan. 29, 1823, which pro- vided, " that from and after the 2d Monday in February next all that part of the town of Perrysburg comprising township No. 5 in 7th and 8th ranges of Holland Land Company, and so much of the 6th township in the 7th range and 6th township in 8th range as lays on south side of Cattaraugus Creek and east of south branch of said creek, shall be erected into a separate town by the name of Otto, and that the first town-meeting to be held therein shall be held at the house of Ephraim Brown, on the second Tues- day of February next." It embraced all the present town 8 8 8 of Persia except that portion lying in the 6th township, 8th range. April 12 of the same year, " all that part of 8 Otto lying west of the south branch of Cattaraugus Creek, 8 in the 5th township, 8th range," was by act, annexed to 8 8 Perrysburg. The first town-meeting was held at the time 8 and place specified in the act, and the organization was effected by the election of the following officers : 8
10 John Camp.
11
5
8
James Barber. 12
5
8
6
5
8
8 Joseph Foster
5
51
5
7
5
7
5
7
70
5
7
John Packard
31
8
8
5 6
8
5
Isaac W. Skinner.
28
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James C. Beverly
Robert C. McDuffie
5 5
Luther Town.
Charles Boutwell
Alvin P. Plumb
57
71
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Clerk ; Ira Waterman, Luther Town, and Asaph Silsby, As- sessors ; Benjamin Austin and Samuel Tuthill, Overseers of the Poor; Jabez Hull, Willis Boutwell, Harvey Butler, and Ira Waterman, Commissioners of Common Schools ; Joseph Foster and Samuel Tuthill, Inspectors of Common Schools ; Justus Bartholomew, Davis Benedict, and Ira Waterman, Commissioners of Highways.
At this meeting it was resolved to meet at the dwelling- house of Benjamin Ballard the first Tuesday in March. At this special meeting Joseph Allen was chosen collector, and Ichabod Harding, John Campen, Alexander Little, Luther Town, Willis Boutwell, Isaiah Truman, Horace Wells, Josiah Baker, and Elijah Parmenter were chosen overseers of districts from No. 1 to 9 respectively. It was voted that $250 be raised for highways.
The following is a list of supervisors, town clerks, and justices of the peace to the present time :
SUPERVISORS.
1824-27. Abel M. Butler.
1828-29. John T. Ferris. 1830. Joseph Allen. 1831. Elijah A. Rice. 1832-35. Nelson Green. 1837-38. Constant B. Allen. 1839-44. Nelson Green.
1845-47. John P. Darling.
1848-50. John Laing.
1851-52. James C. Green.
1875-77. Simeon V. Pool.
1853-55. William T. Elliott.
1878. Asa Ross.
TOWN CLERKS.
1824-25. Tyler M. Beach. 1826-37. Vine Plumb. 1838. Elijah Dresser.
1852-54. S. B. Thompson. 1855. William E. Hunt.
1856. J. B. Maltby.
1839-41. John P. Darling. 1842. Elijah Dresser.
1857-58. Carlton H. Cotreal. 1859. Ephraim C. Elliott. 1860-67. Thomas L. Rogers.
1843. John P. Darling. 1844-48. John C. Carpenter.
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