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HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY.
Edgar W. Dennis, a native of Canandaigua, was educated at the academy there, read law and was admitted to practice, and enlisted in the military service of the United States in the war of 1861-'65. After the close of the war he removed to Topeka, Kansas, was the counsel of important railroad corporations in that State, and died at Topeka in the prime of life, but not before he had attained distinction in his profession.
In the same connection also may be recalled the name of Oliver Phelps, the grandson of the proprietor, who was a member of the old bar, and as such entitled to notice in this chapter.
In the present connection we may also appropriately mention the name of Samuel A. Foot, who for a number of years was a member of the Ontario county bar, although his professional life had its beginning in the eastern part of the State. Judge Foot came to Geneva from New York city. On the 11th of April, 1851, he was appointed to a vacancy on the Court of Appeals bench, and in 1856 and 1857 he represented Ontario county in the Assembly. Judge Foot died in Geneva.
Henry H. Van Rensselaer was the first lawyer in Geneva, but re- mained here only a few years.
Herman H. Bogert, born October 13, 1768, began the practice of law in Geneva in 1797. He was also largely interested in real estate in this county ; was one of the incorporators of the Bank of Geneva, and the founder of the village of Dresden. He died in June, 1851.
David Hudson was born in 1782, and practiced law at Geneva at a very early day. He achieved some political fame, and was State canal commissioner from 1840 to 1842. He died in 1860.
Daniel W. Lewis was a member of the old Geneva bar, but moved to Buffalo, where he died.
Lansing B. Mizner was another of the older Geneva lawyers, and an active participant in public affairs. He afterwards moved to Detroit.
Also among the early lawyers of Geneva there may be mentioned the names of Robert W. Stoddard, Mott, Nathan Parke, Godfrey J. Grosve- ner, William E. Sill, John M. Bradford, Peter M. Dox, and James H. Woods. Some recollections of these lawyers are still preserved in the public records. Nathan Parke represented Ontario county in the As- sembly in 1827, and was district attorney from August 16, 1836, to May 23, 1840, and is remembered as a lawyer of ability and worth.
Chang. Folgen
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Godfrey J. Grosvener was also a lawyer of prominence, and held the of- fice of postmaster at Geneva for a number of years. John M. Bradford held the position of county judge by appointment, in place of Peter M. Dox, resigned. Judge Dox was elected to office in November, 1855, and served till March following. Mr. Dox represented Ontario county in the Assembly in 1842. Upon his resignation he went to Alabama, and was afterward elected to Congress from that State.
The most distinguished lawyer, however, who made his home in Geneva, was the late Charles J. Folger ; and without exception the bar of the entire county will freely coneur in according to Judge Folger the honorable mention made above. Charles J. Folger was born in Nan- tucket, Massachusetts, April 16, 1818, and came with his parents to Geneva about the year 1830. He was graduated from Hobart College in 1836, and afterward read law in the office of Sibley & Worden, of Canandaigua; in 1839 Mr. Folger was admitted to practice. His life as an active lawyer was marked by a display of intelligence rarely found in a young man, and he naturally soon became a candidate for political preferment. In 1844 he was appointed county judge, and served con- tinuously until 1855. In November, 1851, he was elected to the same office and served four years more. During the legislative sessions of 1862 and '63, and thence continuously until 1869, Mr. Folger repre- sented Ontario county in the State Senate, and during the year 1867, also, he was one of the delegates at large to the Constitutional Conven- tion. On May 17, 1870, he was elected judge of the Court of Appeals, and ten years later, May 20, 1880, was elected chief judge of the same court. In 1881, on the 27th of October, Judge Folger was appointed by President Arthur to the cabinet office of secretary of the treasury, consequently he resigned from the Court of Appeals bench on Novem- ber 14 following. In 1882 he became the candidate of the Republican party for the office of governor of New York State, but on account of a widespread feeling of discontent then existing in the party, and in which Judge Folger was neither directly or indirectly concerned, he was over- whelmingly defeated at the polls, but not one whit did this disaster re- flect adversely upon the character, standing, popularity or worth of its victim. After the campaign Judge Folger returned to his cabinet posi- tion. However, he lived only a short time afterward, and died the 4th day of September, 1884, at his old home in Geneva.
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In point of numbers Geneva has been hardly less productive of law- yers than the county seat. Through the courtesy of counselor John E. Bean, of Geneva, we are enabled to reproduce a nearly complete list of the lawyers who in the past have practiced in the village, but who have either moved to other places or are now dead. The list referred to is as follows :
Judge' Gordon, Bowen Whiting, Judge Sutherland, Charles J. Folger, George M. Horton, Edgar H. Hurd, Silas Walker, Calvin Walker, Calvin Walker, jr., John M. Bradford, Wm. E. Sill, Theodore Sill, John M. Whiting, John Sutherland, Gideon Mundy, George R. Parburt, Nathan B. Kidder, James H. Woods, John C. Strong, James C. Brown, David and Joseph Herron, Henry V. R. Schemerhorne, Samuel Miles Hopkins, Samuel A. Foote, Wilbur F. Diefendorf, George Proudfit, George E. Pritch- ett, Peter M. Baum, De Witt C. Gage, - Stryker, Marvin D. Reed, Harvey Henry, Anthony C. Simpson, Barzillai Slosson, Geo. B. Dusinberre, Angus McDonald, Robert W. Stoddard, Elias R. Stoddard, Godfrey J. Grosvener, Nathan Parke, Herman H. Bo- gart, George E. Dodge, Peter M. Dox, John N. Dox, John Mitchell, James Bishop, David Hudson, E. Fitch Smith, Hatley W. Hemiup, Silas C. Tease, John H. Bissell, - Green, John Raines, Frank Rice, Wm. H. Higbie, --- Moran, W R. Linson.
The town of Naples has furnished a small numerical contingent to the county bar, among whom we can recall the name of Josiah Ward, a good lawyer, and who was in practice between 1820 and 1830, but about the latter year he left the county and became a citizen of Michi- gan.
Robert Flint was also in practice at Naples about 1830, but he too soon left the town and settled in Allegany county.
Edward P. Babcock was a native of Naples, and lived and practiced in that town for many years, except during such times as his duties as surrogate required his continual presence at the county seat. He was elected to that office in 1879. He was elected member of assembly in 1886 and 1887. Mr. Babcock died in Naples in October, 1892.
Emory B. Pottle, of Naples, is one remembered by the present bar of the county, he having engaged actively in professional work until about the time of his death. Mr. Pottle was a man of worth and ex- cellent standing, and hence was honored by the people of the county in advancement to positions of trust. In 1847 he was elected to the As- sembly, and in the Thirty- fifth and Thirty - sixth sessions of Congress he represented the Twenty-sixth District, the years of his service being 1857-59 and 1859-61.
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In the town of Phelps one of the earliest legal practitioners was Thomas Smith, father of Judge James C. Smith, late justice of the Su- preme Court. Mr. Smith was a lawyer of quiet tastes and conservative habits. For nearly a quarter of a century he was continued in the office of justice of the peace by the votes of his townsmen, and is remembered as a sound and upright magistrate and an honest man. He died in Phelps in 1863.
William Marvin was also a lawyer residing in Phelps, and was for a time the law partner of Mr. Smith. He afterward became United States district judge, and lived in Florida, at Key West. He achieved promi- nence in the South during the reconstruction period, he having been ap- pointed provisional governor of Florida. He is yet living at Skaneateles.
George R. Parkhurst and - Johnson also practiced in Phelps at a comparatively early day, the former, however, afterward emigrating to California.
Dolphin Stephenson, Charles E. Hobby, and Robert W. Lansing may also be mentioned as lawyers of the town of Phelps, and members of the old bar.
John Dickson was a lawyer of note in the town of Bloomfield, and also gained prominence in the Assembly (1830) and in Congress, he serving in the latter body during the Twenty-second and Twenth-third Congressional sessions.
Spencer Cole and Isaac Marsh were also early lawyers in practice in Bloomfield, both of them before 1810.
Throughout this chapter reference is frequently made to the names of lawyers who have at various times filled the offices of county judge, surrogate and district attorney ; wherefore, in the present connection it becomes proper that we here furnish the succession of persons appointed or elected to the offices named. However, no dates of incumbency are here given, and should the reader desire to be fully informed in that respect, his attention is directed to the county civil list in a preceding chapter of this work.
Succession of County Judges - Oliver Phelps, Timothy Hosmer, John Nicholas, Na- thaniel W. Howell, Oliver Phelps, Bowen Whiting, Charles J. Folger, E. Fitch Smith, Mark H. Sibley, Charles J. Folger, Peter M. Dox, John M. Bradford, Henry W. Tay- lor, George B. Dusinberre, William H. Smith, Francis O. Mason, William H. Smith, Frank Rice, J. Henry Metcalf.
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Surrogates - John Cooper, Samuel Mellish, Israel Chapin, jr., Amos Hall, Dudley Saltonstall, Reuben Hart, Eliphalet Taylor, Reuben Hart, Stephen Phelps, Ira Selby, Jared Wilcox, Jared Willson, Orson Benjamin, George R. Parburt, George Wilson 2d, O. Benjamin, Samuel Salisbury, John N. Whiting, O. Benjamin, Elihu M. Morse, Isaac R. Parcell, Charles A. Richardson, Edward P. Babcock, David G. Lapham, Oliver C. Arm- strong, John Colmey, David G. Lapham.
District Attorneys-John C. Spencer, Abraham P. Vosburgh, Bowen Whiting, Henry F. Penfield, George W. Clinton, Nathan Parke, Thomas M. Howell, Barzillai Slosson, James C. Brown, Stephen V. R. Mallory, Jacob P. Faurot, Thos. O. Perkins, Edwin Hicks. William H. Smith, Edwin Hicks, Frank Rice, Oliver C. Armstrong, Maynard M. Clement.
THE PRESENT BAR.
The present Ontario county bar is the worthy successor to the old bar, the members of which have been fully referred to in a preceding portion of this chapter. It is a recognized fact, and one frequently mentioned both in and outside the county, that the early bar of Ontario ranked well with almost any in the State, and stood at the front of the profession in Western New York ; and it has been said, too, that the influences of the early bar have reached even to the present representa- tives of the profession and inspired them also with high purposes and with a commendable ambition to maintain the standard established by the old members. In fine the influence of the old bar has been so salutary and pervading that the present profession has inherited much of its spirit and has maintained a freedom from all unworthy methods.
However interesting might be a brief reference to the professional life of each of the present legal practitioners of the county, such has been deemed inadvisable from the fact that many of the bar are still young men and although worthy of anything we might feel inclined to say of them, have yet their records to complete, and in view of this prefer that no men- tion be made of the personnel of the bar except as is disclosed by the record of their names taken from the court calendar, which is as follows :
CANANDAIGUA.
Jno. S. Andrews, Thomas H. Bennett, Jean L. Burnett, Maynard N. Clement, John S. Coe, John Colmey, Frank A. Christian, George B. Cooley, Leander M. Drury, Henry M. Field,
Jacob P. Faurot, Elisha W. Gardner, Jno. Gillette, Spencer Gooding, Lorenzo C. Hall, Frank H. Hamlin, Edwin Hicks,
Walter S. Hubbell, Avery Hemenway, Herbert Huntington,
Walter H. Knapp, Charles B. Lapham, David G. Lapham, Hiram Metcalf, J. Henry Metcalf, Elihu M. Morse, Mark T. Powell, Chas. A. Richardson, James A. Robson,
Homer J. Reed, John Raines, Frank Rice, Samuel H. Torrey, William H. Smith, James C. Smith, Royal R. Scott, Bradley Wynkoop, Jacob A. Wader.
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GENEVA.
Geo. L. Bachman,
Charles D. Bean,
S. H. Hammond,
William S. Moore,
Samuel Baldwin,
Geo. F. Ditmars,
Lewis W. Keyes,
Geo. W. Nicholas,
Arthur Baldwin,
John G. Farwell,
Chas. N. Hemiup,
Philip N. Nicholas,
D. B. Backenstose, John E. Bean,
Charles A. Hawley,
Henry Ludlow,
Arthur P. Rose,
Lansing G. Hoskins,
Francis O. Mason,
Geo. W. Bostwick.
NAPLES.
Nelson W. Clark,
Cyrillo S. Lincoln, William L. Pottle,
Isaac A. Seamans.
PHELPS.
Samuel S. Partridge, Rockwell Brown.
SHORTSVILLE.
Francis L. Brown.
Seward French - Miller Corners, East Bloomfield and Victor.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN ONTARIO COUNTY.
T HE medical profession of Ontario county has preserved but little of its early history, and while there are a few meager records from which we may learn the proceedings of the general and local societies that have been formed, there are no data upon which can be based a faithful history of the developments of the profession. Added to this the county Medical Society has to acknowledge the loss of its earliest record books, and such facts as are gleaned of its early mem- bership rest largely upon the uncertain memory of man, and still less reliable tradition. However, there has been incidentally preserved a list of the pioneer physicians of the county, while the records from 1842 to the present time are in existence.
The medical science which now sheds its light throughout the world and does so much to ameliorate suffering, began with Hippocrates nearly twenty-three hundred years ago, and he first treated of medicine with the simplest remedies, relying chiefly on the healing powers of nature. He wrote extensively, and some of his works have been trans- lated and served as a foundation for the succeeding literature of the
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profession. But it must be said that the greatest advance in medical science has been made during the last one hundred years, and chiefly during the last half century.
Botanists are now acquainted with 150,000 plants, of which a large proportion are being constantly added to the already appalling list of new remedies. Many of the latter possess little if any virtue, yet by liberal advertising they hold a place in nearly every drug store. The ancients were not so well supplied with drugs, and hence they resorted to other methods. For instance, it is said that the Babylonians ex- posed their sick to the view of passers-by in order to learn of them whether they had been afflicted with a like distemper, and by what remedies they had been cured. It was also a custom of those days for all persons who had been sick to put up a tablet in the temple of Escu- lapius, whereon they gave an account of the remedies by which they had been restored. Prior to Hippocrates all medicines were adminis- tered by priests and were associated with numerous superstitions, such as charms, amulets and incantations; sympathetic ointments were applied to the weapon with which a wound was made; human or horse- flesh was used for the cure of epilepsy, and convulsions were treated with human brains. It may be added that the credulous superstitions of early ages has not been fully wiped out, even by the advanced medical education of the present day. One of the latest appeals to the credulity of the masses is an invention to relieve the unfortunate sick, and known as " Christian Science " and " Faith Cure," but so long as filth brings fever, prayer will not avail, and those who advocate any such method of cure are either self deceived or are deceiving others.
It is not, however, the purpose of this chapter to treat of ancient or even modern medical history, and though a review of the progress of this science from the time of the Egyptian medical deities, or the Greek or Roman medical mythology, would be very interesting as well as in- structive, it is not pertinent to the medical history of Ontario county, and the foregoing introductory observations are merely to suggest to the reader the difference between the ancient and modern means of healing.
The settlement of the region now included in Ontario county began about the year 1790, and thereafter progressed very rapidly for more than a quarter of a century. At that time, and indeed for a number of
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years afterward, the facilities for obtaining a medical education were very limited. The State of New York, quite unlike New England and and Pennsylvania, had done very little to encourage science, and there were no schools of medicine worthy of the name nearer than Boston or Philadelphia ; and few young men could afford to go so far to qualify themselves for a profession which then offered but little pecuniary in- ducement, hence the prevailing custom was for the medical aspirant to enter the office of some neighboring physician and read for two or three years, at the same time accompanying his tutor in his pro- fessional visits and learned his methods of treatment. At the end of the term the young doctor would seek some promising field and begin practice.
The legislation which then regulated the admission and practice of physicians was so defective as to be really worthless. However, in 1806 an act was passed repealing all former laws governing the pro- fession, and at the same time authorizing a general "State Medical Society," and also county societies. The Ontario County Medical Society was organized in 1806 in accordance with the provisions of the act above referred to, but the profession of the present day has to lament the loss of the early records of the society, a fact which deprives us of much interesting and valuable information. However, the society was organized upon the general plan laid down in the act of 1806, and was given the power to regulate the practice and the admission of physicians in the county. Its first officers, or indeed any record of its proceedings prior to 1842, are not obtainable, it being understood that the minute book was destroyed by fire. Notwithstanding this loss, a stray leaf from an old record is found, from which we learn the names of the early physicians of the county, but there is nothing by which can be determined the date of the entry. For the purpose, therefore, of bringing to the attention of the reader the names of as many as possible of the older physicians of the county, the names on the leaf are copied in full. " List of those who do now or have belonged to the Ontario County Medical Society : Moses Atwater, Richard Wells, Nathan Raymond, Jared Dyer, Joel Prescott, Daniel Goodwin, John Dorman, Reuben Hart, Buffum Harkness, Jeremiah Atwater, Thomas Vincent, Silas Newcomb, James Carter, Robert W. Ashley, Joshua Lee, Stephen Aldrich, Seth Tucker, Hubbard Crittenden, Richard Taylor, William
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White, Jonas Wyman, Benjamin A. Parsons, Gain Robinson, Cyrus Chipman, John Ray, Justus Smith, Daniel Arms, David Fairchild, Samuel Stevens, Ralph Wilcox, Charles Bingham, Isaac M. Morgan, E. B. Woodworth, John Campbell, Eli Hill, Charles Little, William S. Richards, Jason Angel, Isaac Balcom, Henry P. Hecock, Orin Lee, Jonah D. Simonds, Lyman N. Cook, Isaac Smith, Jonathan Griffin, W. L. Newcomb, William Brown, James White, Calvin Fargo, Oliver Butrick, Thomas Beach, Daniel Brainerd, Nathaniel Jacob, Benjamin Tucker, John Delamater, Joseph Mallory, Joseph Loomer, Samuel B. Bradley, Philetus Sprague, Samuel Dungan, David Sprague, Willis F. Clark, Alexander Kelsey, James Thayer, Augustus Torrey, Otis Hig- gins, Augustus Frank, Berkley Gillett, A. Woolcott, Hartwell Carver, Josiah Lane, William R. Ellis, A. G. Smith, C. C. Coon, Pliny Hayes, William A. Williams, Harvey Pettibone, Andrew Huntington, Chauncey Beadle, Ezekiel Webb, Jonathan Guernsey, Samuel Hamilton, Lewis Hodges, W. A. Cowdry, F. Vanderberg, Enoch Cheney, Samuel Daniels, Ira Bryant, Adolphus Allen, Janna Holton, Henry P. Sartwell, Jonathan Hurlbut, Linus Stevens, Alex. McIntyre, Elisha Brown, Silas Dunham, Oliver Reynolds, Thomas Williams, Benjamin Bemis, Archi- bald Burnett, Ephraim W. Cheney, Andrew Wood, William Frisbie, Cyrus Button, James Lakey, Jesse Wood, Joel Amsden, Jacob Gillett, jr., Henry C. Hickok, Josiah Bennett, Isaac Beers, Martyn Paine, Elisha Warner, Samuel Borrowe, jr., Wynans Bush, Francis Dean, Jedediah Smith, Philip N. Draper, Edwin Angel, Gardner Wheeler, Edson Carr, Benjamin F. Post, John Gilbert, Elijah Sedgwick, Asahel Beach, William A. Townsend, Elias W. Frisbie, William C. Gooding, Daniel A. Robinson, James Stewart, Caleb Bannister, Jonathan Pratt, George Burch, Samuel Chipman, Enoch Peck, Ira S. Barber, Stillman Ralph, James Davis, Willard Doolittle, Albert G. Bristol, Lester Jew- ett, Wm. H. Hall, Harvey Jewett, S. V. R. Bogart, Daniel Hudson, William F. Sheldon, Joel Gray, William Holland, Lucius W. Crittenden, Phineas A. Royce, Thaddeus Garlick, F. C. Bateman, Erasmus D. Post, Luther Hecock, Royal Gurley, G. L. Rose, N. J. Smith, Booth North - rup, Edward Cutbush, John Staats, C. F. Brower, John Currie, Daniel D. Dayton, Jonathan Burt, E. W. Simmons.
In 1852 the society was substantially reorganized, and new by-laws were adopted at that time. However, about that period certain dissen-
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sions arose among the members, said to have been the result of un- favorable legislation, and no meetings were held thereafter until 1857. At the latter date the society was revived, and the members subscribed to the by-laws adopted prior to the disruption. The following is a list of the physicians who signed the roll, but in explanation it must be said that many names were added as applicants became members of the society. Therefore the membership under the constitution and by laws of 1852 was about as follows: E. W. Cheney, Edson Carr, Harvey Jewett, John Stafford, J. Richmond Pratt, Daniel T. Webster, Hazard A. Potter, Elon G. Carpenter, C. H. Carpenter, Daniel Durgan, M. C. K. Crooks, J. W. Palmer, Charles N. Hewett, T. O. Bannister, H. Hamilton, Z. Paul, Thomas A. Brown, W. Scott Hicks, B. Monahan, David J. Mallory, Charles C. Murphy, P. D. Pettier, H. N Eastman, F. Glauner, Mitchell H. Picot, Byron T. Wheeler, H. Fay Bennett, R. A. Carncross, John O. Palmer, M. W. Archer, E. W. Simmons, John Q. Howe, Joseph T. Smith, Edwin R. Maxson, L. F. Wilbur, George Cook, F. G. Bentley, William T. Swart, A. G. Crittenden, F. B. Seelye, James H. Allen, M. N. Carson, I. Ackley Gray, D. D. Dayton, L. Sprague, George N. Dox, J. T. Rogers, A. B. Snow, J. B. Hayes, C. H. Wood, John B. Chapin, J. I. Denman, James Parmely, jr., W. Fitch Cheney, L B. Lester, L. Y. Phinney, W. A. Carson, D. G. Weare, J. P. Avery, A. R. Shank, F. D. Vanderhoof, S. W. West, H. K. Clark, M. D. Skinner, H. C. Gorham, Charles C. Eastman, G. H. Wheelock, Flood, Charles Mudge, E. A. Hollister, G. H. Van Deusen, Fred. T. Webster, G. S. Gallagher, James F. Draper, Charles R. Dryer, F. W. Mailler, Ellis B. Sayre, Le Roy Lewis, Herbert M. Eddy, John H. Jewett, Dwight R. Burrell, J. Henry Budd, Alfred M. Mead, O. J. Hallenbeck, C. O. Jackson, W. F. Edington, A. D. Allen, T. D. Rupert, George E. Flood, N L. Keith, John Hutchins, W. A. Hubbard, Frank L. Willson, Albert L. Beahan, George W. Sargent, J. B. Burroughs, Frank H. Ingram, J. Pope De Laney, John J. McNulty, James H. Haslett, Horace B. Gee, R. W. Walmsley, C. R. Marshall, John A. Robson, S. R. Wheeler, Bradford C. Loveland, G. W. McClellan, Wm. A. Howe, C. D. McCarthy, J. B. Finucan, John H. Pratt, C. R. Keyes, F. E. McClellan, Robert L. Carson, Charles A. Van Der Beck, Frank R. Pratt, Edgar O. Crossman, C. C. Thayer, Harry C. Buell, F. B. Rasback.
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As has been stated the society held no regular meetings between 1852 and 1857, but in the last mentioned year the " Medical Profession of Ontario County " held a meeting for the purpose of reorganizing the virtually defunct society. From that time until the present, regular meetings have been held, and the society has enjoyed a reasonably prosperous existence. The present membership numbers about fifty regular practicing physicians of the county, as follows :
A. D. Allen, Gorham.
J. H. Allen, 66
D. S. Allen,
Albert L. Beahan, Canandaigua.
F. P. Bell, Naples.
D. R. Burrell, Canandaigua.
J. B. Burroughs, Shortsville.
H. C. Buell, Canandaigua.
M. R. Carson,
Robert L. Carson, Canandaigua.
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