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Glendale, five niiles distant. The village has a store and blacksmith shop, and is located in the bottom of a narrow val- ley. The Methodists have a society here but no church, and worship in a hall over the store, the service being un- der the Watson charge, and at present on alternate weeks.
Watson has no other village that might properly be so called. At " Beach's Bridge," the sole point of entry from the west side, there are a hotel, (E. McCulloch,) two stores, (J. P. Owens and Frank Phillips,) and a black- smith shop, (B. F. Stillman.) A hotel and other buildings were burned here, July 8, 1870. About two miles east, is a hotel, (A. J. Passenger,) and a store, (James Glenn.)
TANNING EXTRACT WORKS.
Chase's Lake P. O .- An establishment for the manufacture of tanning extract from hemlock bark, was erected on the outlet of Chase's Lake, by Lewis, Craw- ford & Co., in 1871. Since the fall of 1875, it has been owned and run by the firm of Lewis, Crawford & Co. It has a capacity for working 4,000 cords of hemlock bark a year, and of making about 3,500 barrels of extract. It is run day and night through the year, (Sun- days excepted,) and employs about ten men in the works. The process consists in grinding, leaching, and boiling in vacuum-pans to the consistence of a syrup, weighing ten pounds to the gal- lon. In warm weather, carbolic acid is sometimes added to prevent fermenta- tion. The company have a tram-road about five miles long, and two saw-mills for cutting the peeled logs into lumber.
The principal establishments in Wat- son, not above mentioned, are a steam circular gang saw-mill owned by Wm. Glenn, and saw mills owned by John Fenton, J. A. Petrie, A. J. Passenger,
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Hiram Peak, Wm. Crum, Ralph Beach, Jr., Young & Wilson, and F. Sperry.
By an act passed at the session of 1882, the sum of $6,000 was appropriated for completing reservoirs previously be- gun under State expense upon Inde- pendence creek and Beaver river in this town, for the purpose of maintaining hydraulic power upon these streams, and upon the river below.
PROCEEDINGS AT SPECIAL TOWN MEET- INGS DURING THE WAR.
August 26, 1862 .- Bounties of $20 were offered for enlistments after July Ist, and the further sum of $50,after August 22d, of that year.
August 25, 1863 .- Bounties of $300 of- fered for each recruit, including draft- ed men and substitutes. On a vote for tax to meet these expenses the count stood 79 for, and 12 against. Peter Kir- ley, Elihu Robinson, Ralph Beach, Jr., Ira A. Stone and George Black, were appointed a committee to raise money.
December 21, 1863 .- The sum of $200 offered in addition to the county boun- ty. The committee for raising money, consisted of Peter Kirley, Ralph Beach, Jr., Ira A. Stone, M. W. Young, Elihu Robinson and Nelson J. Beach. A committee composed of George N. Beach, Ralph Beach, Jr., A. J. Passen- ger, W. Burrington, A. W. Puffer, Thomas R. Reed, Amanzo F. Ross, Wm. Glenn, Richard Shaw and Geo. Van Atta, to assist in procuring vol- unteers.
February 9, 1864 .- Voted to raise $3,- 111.79 to pay money borrowed and $3,300 more to be borrowed to pay volunteers.
March 21, 1864 .- Further provision was made to provide for paying bounties.
August 3, 1864 .- A further bounty of $100, above what was paid by the county, was offered and the commit-
tee was empowered to hire agents to get men. Geo. N. Beach was appoint- ed to procure the enrollment of the town, and present it to the town audit- ors. Elihu Robinson, and George N. Beach appointed to recruit. Ralph Beach, Jr., appointed to go to Water- town with the drafted men and was to keep an account of their expenses, not to exceed $25 to a man.
August 29, 1864 .-- At a meeting called to consider the subject of quotas, it was resolved, that so much money be raised by tax, as might be necessary, to make the bounty, including that now paid, $1,000 for filling the quota under the call of July 18, 1864.
OBITUARY DATES.
The following names were those of early settlers, or well-known citizens of this town, not elsewhere mentioned :--
Alger, Reuben L., died October 17, 1865, aged 65.
Bowen, Asa, died January 20, 1841, aged 65.
Bowman, John, died June 18, 1868, aged 62.
Brown, Isaac, died May 7, 1873, aged 75. Burrington, Solomon, died July 16, 1875, aged 77.
Farrell, John, died February 7, 1875, aged 55.
Garmon, Joseph, died July 29, 1863, aged 57.
Harvey, Arthur, died February 20, 1847, aged 59.
Higby, Lewis, died September 29, 1864, member of 3d N. Y. Cavalry, aged 23.
Kirley, Thomas, died August 7, 1881, aged 80.
Moyer, Joseph, died September 3, 1870, aged 49.
Passenger, Andrew, died March 5, 1869, aged 75.
Phelps, Thaddeus, died April 18, 1863, aged 67.
Schultz, Samuel, died June 2, 1881, aged 81.
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Van Atter, Jacob, died March 19, 1872, aged 90.
Warmwood, Henry, died August 13, 1850, aged 66.
Wakefield, Peter, died July 13, 1855, aged 69.
Charles C. Bowman, 14th N. Y. H. A., killed in battle near Spottsylvania, May, 1864, son of John Bowman of Watson.
RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
The earliest meetings here were held by the Methodists, and in 1834, this town first appeared on the conference minutes "to be supplied." The numbers then claimed were 77. "The Plains" M. E. church was incorporated May 12, 1854, with Reuben Chase, Ira A. Stone, Eben Blakeman, Ebenezer Puffer and Adam Comstock, trustees, and the present church edifice was erected the same year. It was re-incorporated July 13, 1863, with Ralph Beach, Jr., William H. McGown, William Roberts, Aaron Com- stock and Ebenezer Keffer, as trustees. The first minister whose name appears on the minutes as assigned to this charge was the Rev. Isaac Puffer, who had spent a part of his early life in this town. Richard Lyle was stationed in 1844 ; H. O. Tilden in 1845-'46; A. S. Wight- man in 1847-'48.
The Rev. Isaac Puffer, above men- tioned, was born in Westminster, Mass., June 20, 1784, and in 1789 removed to Otsego county, and in 1800 to Lewis county. In 1809 he was received on trial in the New York conference and appointed to Otsego circuit within the newly formed Genesee conference. He continued to labor in central and north-
ern New York, until 1843, when by his own request, he was placed on the supernumerary list, and in 1848, he re- moved to Illinois. He preached occa- sionally until December, 1853, when a severe illness prevented further useful- ness. He died at Lighthouse Point, Ogle county, Ill., May 25, 1854. A striking peculiarity in his preaching, was the facility and correctness with which he quoted scripture, always nam- ing the place where found. This custom gave him the appellation of "Chapter and Verse" by which he was often known among his friends. His citations sometimes exceeded a hundred in a sermon, and had generally a close rela- tion to the argument in hand.
The Protestant and Episcopal society in this town have a small church (Grace Chapel) in the neighborhood of A. G. Passenger's hotel. It was built under the impulse given by the Rev. Mr. Allen while living in Lowville.
The Seventh Day Baptists formed a society in this town, May 2, 1841, and have a place of worship. Their first trustees were Burdick Wells, K. Green, Daniel P. Williams and Joseph B. Davis. They were legally re-organized April 21, 1861, with Joseph Stillman, George W. Davis, Daniel P. Williams, Palmer W. Green and Daniel S. Andrews as trus- tees. In 1846, they claimed 73 commu- nicants.
A union library was formed in this town July 14, 1829, with Nathan Snow, John Fox, Daniel C. Wickham, Joseph Webb, Jr., Francis B. Taylor, Hiram Crego and Lansing Benjamin, trustees. It never became successfully organized.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
mr Glenn 1
WILLIAM GLENN.
The subject of this sketch was born November 8, 1822, in Ballynochen, county Down, Ireland. His parents, William and Jane Glenn, were of Scot- tish descent. In 1833 his father moved to Ballycairn, where William remained with him until 1844, doing farm work and attending school a portion of the time.
At the age of eighteen years he united with the Presbyterian church, of Bally- cairn, of which his father was deacon
many years. In 1844 he left Ireland and went to Canada West, to the town of Amsley. In 1845 he removed to Greene county, N. Y., where he remained one year, and then removed to the town of Watson, Lewis county. Having in his possession about one hundred and fifty dollars, he invested one hundred of that sum in land near Crystal lake, and spent the winter in chopping and clear- ing some twenty-five acres. On the 8th of December, 1848, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Marga- ret VanAtta, who was born in the town
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of Lowville, Lewis county. For about three years he was engaged in farming and jobbing, furnishing material for Beach bridge across Black river, and other improvements, under construction at this time. From 1849 to 1859 he worked the farm of N. J. Beach upon shares, then purchasing a farm three miles up the river he settled there, where he has since remained. In the year 1864 he paid a visit to his father in Ireland, who was then alive. Returning from there he built and run an ashery for two years. He then engaged in the lumbering business in a small way, enlarging gradually to a heavy business, handling the lumber from five or six mills, and owning three at one time. He is an extensive land owner in the Town of Watson, Martinsburgh, and Montague, having in his possession some seven thousand acres. A steam saw-mill in Watson and another in Montague, owned by him, gives employment to from forty to seventy-five men most of the time.
His life has been one of great physical as well as mental labor, a man of earnest- ness and energy in whatever undertak- ing he engaged, and of strict integrity of character, he is held in high esteem by all with whom he has dealing. His last ambition in a business way was to make a success of the manufacture of spruce lumber, and get it placed on the market from the town of Montagne, which has been fully realized and is at present being carried out to his satisfaction.
His children are Eliza Amelia, born August, 1850, and Mary Elizabeth, born in September, 1851. The former mar-
ried in September 1869, Samuel Studer, of Watson, who remains in business with the father. The latter married Lester B. Parker, in February, 1877. The father and the two sons-in-law compose the firm of William Glenn & Co., now en- gaged in farming and lumbering.
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CHAPTER XXXVIII.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF WEST TURIN.
1 THIS town was formed from Turin, March 25, 1830, including besides its present boundaries the towns of Mon- tague, Osceola, High Market and all of Lewis except the portion taken from Inman's Triangle. While the plan of a division of Turin was in prospect, the old town was offered townships 3, 8 and 9 by the parties desiring to be set off, and a committee was sent to Albany with a map upon which was marked the course of the hills and the extent of settlement. The county was then repre_ sented by a citizen of Turin village who regarded the wild lands then attached to the town as poor ; and reasoning upon the principle that poor lands make poor settlers, and that the poor tax of the town would be proportioned accord- ingly, he refused to listen to any plan which left these lands with the old town. The parties asking for a division yielded without a struggle, the point which secured to them over $350 in non-resi- dent taxes annually, and the old town's people displayed a black flag at half mast and evinced other signs of dis- pleasure upon receiving news of the divis- ion. Their displeasure fell especially upon their townsman Joseph O. Mott, then in Assembly, who had allowed the town to be surrounded, and as it was
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said at the time, chiefly through the management of Colonel Seth Miller, of Constableville.
The lands rated as poor had not then seen the peep of day, for the dairying interest had not begun to be developed, and tracts which as yet, from their ele- vated location, had failed to succeed in grain, might have been well regarded as destined to afford a meagre profit to the farmer. These very lands, although liable to deep snows in winter, are now found admirably adapted to grazing, and less liable to drouth than the lower and otherwise more favored tracts that were the earliest taken up by settlers.
Supervisors .- 1830, Martin Hart ; 1831, James McVickar ; 1832, Aaron Foster ; 1833-'34, PeterRea ; 1835-'36, Anthony W. Collins; 1837, David A. Stiles ; 1838, Seth Miller; 1839-'40, Horace Johnson ; 1841-'42, Edmund Baldwin ; 1843, Owen J. Owens; 1844, S. Miller ; 1845-'46, Wm. R.Wadsworth ; 1847-'48, S. Miller ; 1849 -'50, Jonathan C. Collins; 1851, Seth Miller; 1852-'54, Van Rensselaer Waters; 1855, W. R. Wadsworth; 1856, Homer Collins; 1857, Hiram T. Felshaw ; 1858, Riley Parsons ; 1859-'60, Schuyler C. Thompson ; 1861, Benjamin F. Potter ; 1862, Levi Crofoot ; 1863, Horace John- son ; 1864, Edwin Woolworth ; 1865-'66, R. Sanford Miller ; 1867, L. Crofoot ; 1868-'70, Leonard E.Cone ; 1871-'72, San- ford Coe; 1873-'74, John Clover ; 1875, L. Crofoot ; 1876-'78, Gottlieb Miller ; 1879, John Crofoot; 1880, Henry Mc- Vickar ; 1881-'82, Charles M. Allen.
Clerks. -- 1830, Seth Miller, Jr. (re- signed), Win. R. Wadsworth appointed and continued till 1844; 1845, Ela G. Stoddard; 1846, Robert W. Bennett; 1847, V. R. Waters; 1848, Charles M. Goff ; 1849, Wm. R. Wadsworth ; 1850, C. M. Goff; 1851, V. R. Waters ; 1852, Luman L. Fairchild ; 1853-'54, W. R. Wadsworth; 1855, C. M. Goff; 1856, John C. Stiles ; 1857-'59, Wm. R. Wads-
worth ; 1860, Franklin Felshaw ; 1861, Charles Bennett; 1862, R. Sanford Mil- ler : 1863-'65, Wm. R. Wadsworth : 1866, Nelson B. Felshaw ; 1867, Ebenezer F. Jones ; 1868-'70, Wm. R. Wadsworth ; 1871 -'72, Walter H. Millard ; 1873, James Doyle; 1874-'82, Wm. R. Wads- worth.
West Turin now includes parts of townships 2 and 4, or Flora and Pomona of Constable's Four Towns. Of these the former belongs to the Pierrepont estate, and its settlement is modern as compared with the latter, upon which Nathaniel Shaler commenced settlement in 1796. In the summer of 1795, Shaler sent a man to explore these lands, and late in that year he concluded the pur- chase noticed in the history of Turin. The Stows were his competitors for the tract, but Shaler at length secured it and at once took active measures for establishing a settlement.
Mr. Shaler under whom the settlement of this town began, was a prominent merchant of Middletown, Conn., and towards the close of the last century, was residing in New York, and con- cerned in the West India trade. He there became aquainted with Mr. Con- stable and purchased one-half of town- ships 3 and 4 of Constable's Four Towns, and became his agent for the undivided remainder. He was accustomed to spend his summers here during several years, but never removed his family. He soon after undertook the settlement of lands on the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, where he owned the towns of Shalersville, Middletown, Bazetta and a part of Medina. He died at Middle- town, Ct., May 1816.
A daughter of Mr. Shaler married Commodore McDonough, the hero of Plattsburgh.
His son, William Denning Shaler, resided many years in this town and died in New York, May 18, 1842. His
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widow has resided many years in Low- ville village.
In settling this as well as other towns, the pioneers were obliged to give mortgages for a part of the purchase money, to be paid when means could be raised. Some of these first beginners proved to be among the most thrifty and prosperous, and their descendants in some cases still own the property first taken up. It may prove of interest to the present and a future generation, to know the names of these settlers, and the lots on which they first located. From a list of mortgages upon Town- ship 4, in the present Town of Turin and West Turin, we take the following :-
Lot. Acres.
E. s.
Oliver and Keturah Allis,
62
62
111.00
Thomas and Pheba Hoskins,
23
50
52.10
Levi and Esther Hart,
38
1843
102.00
Benjamin and Hannah Higby,
93
100
75. 6
Jonathan Hawkins,
108
542 87. 3
Salmon and Lanreney Hall, 36
48
109.19
Levi and Hannah Smith,
84.85 170%
262.10
Heman and Anne Merwin,
108
109
68.1I
William and Huldah Halladay, 74 100
50
69. 15
John and Jerusha Markham,
108
542 87. 3
Nathaniel and Irene Moore,
64
70
123.15
Seth and Mary Miller,
95
1823
155.II
Levy and Fanny Ives,
III
228 376.16
Jesse and Sarah Dodge,
107
100
153. 3.9
John and Betsy Wilkinson,
20 48
50
102.15
Lemnel and Sarah Scovil, 102
50 105.00
Beekman and Elizabeth Sabin, 16
1124
108.15
William and Elizabeth Rice,
48
1028
219. 10.9
Elias and Elizabeth Sage,
23
100
218. 2
Abner and Lois Rice, Jr.,
57
1044
160.16
Luman Simons,
107
50
71.17
Elisha and Rachael Crofoot, 102
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William and Hopefull Coleman, 41
50
107.00
Eliphalet and Abigal Hubbard, 110
100
174.00
Levi and Mary Benedict, 15
50
58.12
Daniel and Margaret Higby,
IOI
198}
135.18
Amos and Elizabeth Barnes,
28
225
346.13
These mortgages were all given in 1801 except the last two, which date in 1805, and they were generally paid up in three or four years. The money used in accounts was New York currency, in which f1 equals $2.50 Federal money.
A road was run from Fort Stanwix, and early in 1796, Major John Ives, the pioneer settler, came on with his family and built his first rude bark shelter by the side of a large elm tree, which was
felled late in the evening of their arrival. This formed their dwelling for a few days, until a regular log cabin could be built. In reaching this spot the family was compelled to cross swollen streams upon the trunks of fallen timber, and carry their goods across these treach- erous bridges at great peril. The fami- ly had tarried in Leyden a few days, while Mr. Ives went forward and ex- plored the town for a location of four hundred acres which he was allowed to select from the whole tract. The final removal of the household did not take place till April.
Mr Ives removed a few years after- wards, from his first location at Con- stableville, to a farm two miles and a half north of Turin village on the State road, the land of this farm extending east up the hill, and out across the plain below. He died of cancer, March 13, 1828, in his 66th year. His wife sur- vived until February 12, 1841. Major Ives was a native of Meriden Conn., and resided at New Hartford, Oneida county, a year before his removal to this town. He held the office of Sheriff, in 1810, and was a prominent citizen in town and county affairs, and highly esteemed in the various relations of life. Sys_ tematic and successful in business, he acquired a comfortable estate, which is still held by hisfamily. The homestead passed into the hands of his son Selden Ives, and is now occupied by his grand- son Mather S. Ives, present Supervisor of Turin. Another son, George Ives, who formerly lived adjacent, removed to Chicago. John Ives, his oldest son, settled in the east part of the town, from whence he removed to Martins- burgh, and then to Rochester, finally, he was induced to join the wild emigra- tion to California, in the early days of the "gold fever" and died there.
Returning from this digression con- cerning the first pioneer and his family,
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120. 9
Gideon and Eunice Shepard,
207
333- 3
James and Clarinda Miller,
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we will resume our account of the settle- ment.
During the summer of 1796, about twenty young men were hired by Mr. Shaler to put up a saw-mill, which was got in operation in the fall. At the raising of this mill every settler was present, including three women, viz : Mrs. Ives, Mrs. Hubbard and Mrs. Brainerd Coe, who cooked supper for the party. During the same summer great numbers from Middletown, Mer- iden, and towns adjacent came in and selected farms. Among these were Joshua Rockwell, Levi Ives, Nathan Coe, Elisha Scovill, Daniel Higby, Levi Hough, William Hubbard, James Mil- ler, Ebenezer Allen, and perhaps others, the most of whom began clearings and made preparations for their families but returned back to Connecticut in the fall. But two families spent the long dreary winter in the town, a winter which has had few equals in intensity of cold and depth of snow. Mr. Ives had occasion to go to Connecticut and left his family with a large supply of wood and a stock of provisions, sufficient to last till his return. He was absent six weeks, and in the mean time the snow fell five feet deep, cutting off all communication with the world. At length a young man named Caleb Rockwell reached the cabin on snow shoes, to see whether the family were alive and well, and a few days after he returned with his sis- ter, and the tedious solitude was soon after relieved by the return of the hus- band, and with him several new settlers. Soon ofter this, the roof of the cabin was crushed in by the snow, and had not the beams of the garret floor been strong, the whole family would have been buried in the ruin.
During the second summer, Jonathan Collins, Seth Miller, Reuben Scovil, Aaron Parsons, Willard Allen, Elisha Crofoot, James T. Ward, Philemon
Hoadley, William and Abner Rice, Elder Stephen Parsons, Jesse Miller, William Daniels, Ebenezer and Elijah Wadsworth, and others. During the second season Mr. Shaler completed the first grist mill erected in the country. It stood upon Sugar river not far from the place where it issues from the hills.
Within the next three years the whole town below the hill, and an extensive tract west of Constableville was taken up by settlers. Among these pioneers were Aaron Foster, Ebenezer Baldwin, Cephas Clark, James and Levi Miller, Elisha Cone, Dr. Horatio G. Hough, Roswell Woodruff, Richard Coxe, Wm. Coleman, [or Coolman,] and Josiah P. Raymond.
We will briefly notice such of the set- tlers above named as our information enables us to do, in the order in which they have been mentioned. In some cases it will be only an obituary date.
Joshua Rockwell, from Middletown, Conn., died March 2, 1825, aged 83 years. He resided on the old Turin and Leyden turnpike road, where he was burned out and narrowly escaped with life, in an early period of the settlement.
Levi Ives was a brother of Major John Ives, and the father of Levi Silliman Ives, whose versatile religious career has attracted public notice. The father became despondent because he did not prosper in business and drowned him- sell in Bear creek near Black river, June 19, 1815. The son began his career as a Presbyterian theological student, and is remembered as one of the strictest of the faith, when a young man. He then became Protestant Episcopal ; married a daughter of Bishop Hobart, and was chosen Bishop of North Carolina. From this he changed to Roman Catholic, and entered with great zeal upon the defense of the doctrines of that church.
Nathan Cole was from Middlefield,
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Conn., and died in this town February 27, 1845, aged 76 years.
Elisha Scovill came from Meriden, Conn. He had several children, who settled in this town and became heads of families. Hezekiah and Elisha Sco- vill were two of his family. Hezekiah Scovill died October 12, 1856, aged 75 years.
Daniel Higby was from Middletown, Conn. His children were Benjamin, Daniel 2d, and Moses. They lived on " Crofoot Hill," about half a mile east of the present Ebenezer church. The last named removed West.
Levi Hough, son of Phineas Hough, was born in Meriden, Conn., May 2, 1773. He removed to this town in 1798, and in 1814 exchanged land for a farm upon the river flats east of the village of Martinsburgh, then in the town of Turin, where he made notable improvements, and where he died August 23, 1853. His son, Phineas Hough, was the father of Levi R. Hough, a merchant in Martins- burgh. Another son, Oliver Hough, removed to Cleveland, O., where he died December 28, 1861, aged 65 years. Another son, Alfred Hough, became a Presbyterian clergyman, and settled in Oneida county, but died still a young man, while attending the sessions of a Presbytery at Philadelphia.
William Hubbard was said to have been the first to build a framed house in this town.
James Miller was the second son of Richard Miller. He came into town April 29, 1796, when eighteen years old, and died upon the farm he had cleared and cultivated, October 6, 1863, aged 83 years. Richard Miller died in Middle- town, from the cutting of his foot by an adze, which caused a hemorrhage be- yond control.
Ebenezer Allen was born in Middle- town, Conn., February 15, 1769, and was a brother of Ichabod and of Willard Allen.
His sons were Emory, William and James Allen, of whom the first only now resides in this town. He had four daughters. The sons of Willard Allen were Alphon- son (who went to Louisiana), Zenas, Olney, Libanus and Hamilton. He had one daughter. Ebenezer Allen, the settler, died in this town March 1, 1829, aged 60 years. Willard Allen was a surveyor and a farmer, and died September 18, 1850, aged 77 years. Zenas Allen, his son, died November 26, 1869, aged 65 years.
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