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USA > New York > Erie County > Collins > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 32
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Their children were :
Thurston, Hiram, Eliza A., Sabra, Spencer, Thomas, Mary, Nathan and Asenath.
John Horton died in Eden about 1873. He married Mercy Carr, by whom he had children as follows :
John Jr., William, Mercy Ann, Jacob, Henry, Ira, Edwin, Annis, Maria, Lorenzo, Lafayette.
Mercy Ann married Almon Perkins.
Annis married Sterling Titus.
Maria died unmarried.
By his second wife, Mrs. Rachel Lord, he had three sons :
Orando, Elgera and John, Jr.
William Horton, son of John Horton, was born March 18. 1821, in Concord, and is by occupation a farmer. He was mar- ried March 31, 1842, to Miss Amanda M. Chase, who was born in Girard, Erie county, Pa. In 1823, with his parents, he removed to Boston and remained there twenty years. He married and lived in Concord, and after eleven years moved to Boston and settled on the old homestead where he lived seven
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teen years. March 1, 1869, removed to Concord and settled on the farm where he now resides.
Family record :
Frank W. Horton, born Dec. 16, 1843 ; married Jan. 1, 1866 ; died Sept. 17, 1878. His wife's name was Sarah A. Fuller.
Irving M. Horton, born July 16, 1850 ; married Feb. 19, 1873 : died Sept. 2, 1877. His wife's name was Amelia Underhill.
Arthur B. Horton, born Oct. 19, 1859; died Oct. 1, 1878.
Mary A. Horton, born May 4th, 1850, in Columbia county, N. Y .; married to L. G. Sweet, Dec. 24, 1874. Her husband died July 15, 1881, aged thirty-five years.
Thaddeus Hickok.
Thaddeus Hickok was born at Plymouth, Grafton county, N. H., in the year 1787, Oct. 14. He first visited the Holland Purchase in company with a brother-in-law, in 1816. That Summer he worked in a brick yard in Buffalo. Being very robust and athletic, his work was to wait upon the brick mould- ers and carry the brick to the drying ground. In this he per- formed double the work of any other hand on the yard and received pay accordingly. After the season closed he again came to Concord and he and his brother-in-law bought out James Pike, who had located 200 acres on lot thirty. Soon after he and his brother-in-law visited New Hampshire, and Mr. Hickok was married early in the new year to Miss Rhoda Pike and their bridal tour was made to their claims on the Holland Purchase, both families took up their abode in the log cabin or house built by Pike, but they soon after divided their claim. Mr. Hickok taking 100 on the south side. A few apple trees grew on the claim, and apples were so scarce and rare that the two young housekeepers counted the apples and made an equal division. After building a house and doing other work, he sold this claim and bought another, on lot thirty-eight, of a man by the name of Putnam. After living here a few years his wife was taken sick and died.
He had two children by this wife, viz. :
Jacob P., and Rhoda Alvira.
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A few years after he was married to Miss Polly Spauld- ing, and he sold his farm to Ambrose Torrey. Again he bought, this time on lot thirteen, and for about fifteen years this place was his home. Then this place was sold to George A. Moore, and he invested again in the farm just west of Ver- non Cooper's. On this place the last days of the toil-worn pioneer were passed. He died on the 20th day of February, 1875. His wife survived him only about a year.
By the last marriage three children were born, namely: Emory P., Jennette and Charlotte.
Joseph J. Hakes.
Joseph J. Hakes was born in Washington county, N. Y., May 23, 1809. His father's name was Josiah Hakes; his mother's maiden name was Betsey Gennings; they moved to Madison county, N. Y., in 1813, and in the Spring of 1824 Mr. Hakes came to this town, where he lived till the gold fever broke out in California, when he went there and remained four or five years ; he then came back and purchased a farm two miles south of Springville, upon which he resided until six years ago, when he moved into the village. Mr. Hakes was first married in 1834 to Olive Crosby, who died in 1838, leaving one son, Ira Hakes, who lives in Minnesota, where he was in the midst of the great Indian massacre there. He was married again to Mary Ann Barr, who died in 1877, leaving three chil- dren, as follows:
Seraphine, married Benjamin « Templeton ; resides in Cali- fornia.
Manley, engaged in sheep raising in California.
Orlando, married Ada Cutting; resides on the old home- stead.
George Holland.
George Holland was born in Massachusetts, Sept. 27, 1805. His mother's maiden name was Clarissa Ashley; his father, Luther Holland, was a distinguished inventor; among the results of his inventive genius are : the first force pump ever brought into use and the horizontal movement in fire engines ; he died in Springville about 1850, where he had resided a few years with his son.
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George Holland was married in 1827 to Mary Ann Graves : in 1835 they came to this town and Mr. Holland purchased a large farm near what are now the corporation limits on North Buffalo street, Springville. In 1868 he sold his farm and moved to the village, where he has since resided. Mrs. Hol- land was born Feb. 5, 1804. They reared a family of ten chil- dren, viz .:
Nelson, born June 25, 1829 : married Susan B. Clark : resides in Buffalo.
Elizabeth, born Feb. 5, 1831 ; died in 1850.
Dwight G., born Dec. 3, 1832; married Anna M. Nash : resides at Saginaw, Mich.
George H., born Jan. 28. 1835 ; married Sarah Cochran : resides in Florida.
Eliza H., born June 28, 1837; married Charles J. Shuttle- worth.
Charles H., born April 2, 1839 ; married Sarah Turner ; resides at Saginaw, Mich.
Luther, born March 24, 1842 ; married Nellie Blood ; resides at Saginaw, Mich.
Margaret E., born Nov. 20. 1843 ; married Morris L. Hall.
Mary Ann Ursula, born Sept. 20, 1845.
Richard B., born April 23, 1849.
Charles House, M. D.
Dr. House was born in Madison county. N. Y., Feb. 28, 1820. He came to this town when four years of age and attended school at Griffith Institute until the age of eighteen, when he went to Washington and engaged in teaching for two years : he then commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Barrett, of Forestville, N. Y., teaching at intervals to defray expenses. After completing his studies with Dr. Barrett he entered the Albany Medical College, and graduated in the Spring of 1846. He practiced medicine in Buffalo, Warsaw and Springville, where he was also engaged in the druggist business. He was married in 1851 to Esther Cornwall. He died in Springville in 1854. He left one son :
C. Willis, born in 1852 in Springville : married in 1879 to
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Jennie Rosier ; they now reside in Holland, N. Y., where Mr. House practices dentistry.
Philip Herbold.
Philip Herbold was born in Germany, near Frankfort-on-the- Main, April 21, 1829. June 12, 1849, he embarked at the city of Havre, in France, on a sailing vessel, the Governor Marcey, and was fifty-six days crossing to New York ; he came to Buf- falo, went to Aurora and worked for Deacon Marrow six months and came to Springville July 10, 1850 ; he went to work
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for William Barclay at the cabinet business, having worked at that business in the old country ; he worked for Barclay and Barclay, Dayton & Rider eleven years, and finally bought out Dayton ; also the building they now occupy on Main street, of Hiram Barton, who had become the owner. In the year 1861 he formed a partnership with James Prior, and since that time the firm has been engaged in the manufacture and sale of household furniture, and have also carried on the business of undertakers, and in the last few years have extended their busi- ness, and manufacture doors, sash, blinds, flooring, etc. In the Spring of 1881 he dissolved partnership with Mr. Prior, and since that time has carried on the same business as before in
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his own name, and also has been quite extensively engaged as a builder, having built as many as fifty buildings in Springville. In 1863 he went as a soldier to Harrisburg, Pa., his regiment of militia having been called out by a proclamation from Governor Seymour. Mr. Herbold says that when he came to this town there were only two Germans living here, George Kopp, now of Hamburg, and Andrew Burger now of Waverly. At that time there was one German in Ashford, and all those living in this town and Ashford have come in the last thirty years. Mr. Herbold was married in 1851 to Miss Ann Mary Eggart, of Aurora, formerly of Baden, Germany.
Their children were :
Charles, who died Nov. 29, 1861, aged 9 years and 2 months. Julius, who died Nov. 8, 1864, aged II years and 4 months. Cora, who died Nov. 8, 1866, aged 3 years and 4 months.
Margaret M., now living with her parents in Springville.
Clinton Hammond.
Mr. Hammond's father, Joseph Hammond, came from near the Susquehanna river, in Northern Pennsylvania, to Concord in 1818, and located near the "Big Spring," north of Spring- ville. He died in Kane county, Ill.
He married Sarah Middaugh. They had a family of eleven children, viz .:
John, Samuel, Betsy, Joseph, Abram, Robert, Clinton, Wash- ington, Napoleon, Louise and Cordelia, four of whom are dead, viz .;
John died in Kane county, Ill.
Robert died in Iowa.
Betsy married first, Michael Oyrer ; second, John Morrer : she died in Ashford, N. Y.
Cordelia married William White and died in Collins, N. Y.
Clinton Hammond was born in Concord, April 2, 1819. His occupation has been hotel-keeper, farmer and drover. He en- listed in August, 1862, as Second Lieutenant of company F, One Hundred and Sixteenth New York volunteers, and on account of ill-health, resigned the following December. He married Sophia Ballou. They have five children living and two dead, viz .:
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Ursula, born April 6, 1844; married Norman Crandell.
Josephine, born May 30, 1846; married Henry Deet and since died.
Eunice, born Nov. 2, 1848 ; married Frank Chase.
Ella, born Dec. 13, 1815 ; married Charles Odell.
Clinton, Jr., born July 1853 ; dead.
William, born Aug. 5, 1856.
Agnes, born Nov. 1, 1858.
Joel Holman.
Joel Holman came to Springville. N. Y., from Brandon, Ver- mont, in 1836. His father, Samuel Holman, a Revolutionary soldier, came to Springville the same year, where he resided until his death, in 1840.
Joel Holman, upon locating in Springville engaged in blacksmithing, which he followed successfully for about thirty- five years. In 1869, he bought a half interest in the Pike, Wy- oming county, flouring mills, which he held about four years. He died in Springville, June 16, 1878.
Mr. Holman was one of Springville's most substantial citizens. Although frequently offered office by his townsmen, he declined. Although not a member of the church, he contributed liber- ally both of money and efforts in building the First Presbyterian Church of Springville, and was one of the building committee. Mr. Holman was married in Vermont to Mrs. Amelia Farring_ ton, by whom he had seven children-two died infants-as fol- lows :
Frank, born in 1836; he was one of the well-known firm of Richmond & Holman, in Springville. He died in Springville, in 1865.
Charles, born in 1839, died in Buffalo in 1880.
Charlotte, born in 1844, died in 1866.
Ella, born in 1847, died 1872.
Alfred L., born in 1849, has always been a resident of Spring- ville, where, in 1877, he engaged in the boot and shoe trade, which he pursues up to this date. In 1879, he was elected Jus- tice of the Peace. Mr. Holman was married in 1874, to Addie J. Mayo. They have one son, Mark, born in 1876.
Mrs. Amelia L. Holman, wife of Joel D. Holman, died May 27, 1880, aged seventy years.
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Peter Hein.
Peter Hein was born in Luxemburg, Germany, in the year 1847. His father's name was Peter Hein, and his mother's maiden name was Barbara Wagner. His grandfather's name was John P. Hein, and his grandmother's name was Petronell Gebell. He started to come to this country Feb. 14, 1868 ; came to England, and from England to New York, and from New York to Springville, where he arrived April 22, 1868. He is a merchant tailor, and his place of business is Nos. 127 and 129 Main street, Springville.
He was married Dec. 24, 1863, to Miss Elizabeth M. Kneip, from Luxemburg. Their children were :
Elise M., Adolph N., who died April 12, 1878, aged two years, and Susan J.
A. E. Hadley.
A. E. Hadley was born in this town in June, 1845. In 1846. his parents moved to the Town of Alexander, Genesee county. where his boyhood days were passed. His father's name is Clark M. Hadley ; his mother's maiden name was Alvira Love- lace. In 1865, he was employed by J. Chafee & Son as clerk and salesman in their hardware store in Springville. At one time he, in company with B. J. Davis, ran the American hotel and a stage line from Springville to Holland. He was at one time conductor on the Springville & Sardinia R. R., and is at present engaged in the grocery business with his father in Springville.
He was married in 1868 to Miss Ella Wilson. They have one child-Lottie.
Morris L. Hall.
Mr. Hall was born in Java, Wyoming county, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1845. Became a clerk in the dry goods store of J. N. Richmond, in Springville, in May, 1861, and remained there five years, when he engaged in the drug trade in Springville. in company with Henry Eaton, The partnership lasted two years, after which MI. Hall ontinued the business alone until January, 1874. Since which time he has been engaged in building and real estate business. In 1876 he built a fine structure on Main street, Springville, known as Hall's Opera
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House, which was burned in 1879. In 1880, in company with I. B. Childs, he re-modeled the old Universalist Church in Springville, into a commodious Opera House.
Mr. Hall was married in 1868, to Ella M. Holland, daughter of George Holland, of Springville.
Joseph H. Holt.
Mr. Holt's grandfather, Joseph Holt, and Judge Cooper, were the first settlers of Cooperstown, N. Y. His father, Ben- jamin C., was born Jan. 14, 1793, and was the second child born in Cooperstown. He married Betsy Graham and came to Con- cord in 1820. His occupation was that of a carpenter and joiner.
Joseph H. Holt was born in Concord, May 22, 1833, where he has since resided. He is unmarried and lives with his cousin, Abbie Graham. When eleven years of age he met with a sad misfortune, by which he received injuries from which he never recovered. In attempting to catch a ride on a land-roller he fell off in front, the roller passing over him.
John House.
John House came to Townsend Hill in 1826, where he lived about twenty-eight years. He lived in Yorkshire a short time and then removed to Iowa, where he died. His children were :
John G., who was a physician and practiced medicine in Springville and Buffalo, and also in Iowa, where he died.
Milton is a farmer and lives near Independence, Iowa.
Charles was a physician and practiced medicine in Spring- ville and Buffalo and died in Springville.
Mrs. John House died Sept. 16, 1860, aged seventy-eight years.
E. L. Hoopes.
E. L. Hoopes was born in 1847, in the town of Bethany, Genesee county, N. Y .; came to Springville in the year 1880 ; was married in the year 1868, to Mary E. Roberts. who was born in Trenton, Oneida county, N. Y. His father's name was Lewis Hoopes, who was a native of Delaware ; his mother's maiden name was Clara S. Slayton. His occupation is that of a miller. Served in the war of the rebellion in the Army of
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the Potomac, in Hancock's Corps. Went through the penin- sular campaign. Was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, and was present at Lee's surrender. Family record :
Charles L. Hoopes, born at Lima, Livingston county, N. Y., March 3, 1869.
Florence E. Hoopes, born at Akron, Erie county, N. Y,, Nov. 19, 1877 ; died Nov. 1, 1881.
Deacon Rufus Ingalls.
Deacon Rufus Ingalls came from Worcester, Otsego county, N. Y., and settled in the valley of the Eighteen-mile creek, in the north part of Concord at a very early day. Here he after- wards lived and died. He had six children.
Betsey married William Dye.
Polly married Joel Gilbert, and died many years ago.
Jared died when a young man.
Sally married Martin Winslow.
Henry married Mary Bisby, and both died in Minnesota.
Sibyl married Elam Booth, and died in this town in 1872.
Zimri Ingalls.
Zimri Ingalls was born in Otsego county, N. Y., in 1802. He came from there to this town in 1825, and purchased land of the Holland Company, two miles northwest of Springville, which he always owned and occupied up to his death in 1872. He was married to Patty Sprague, by whom he had four chil- dren, viz .:
David S.
Hannah.
Ann married Edwin E. Smith ; resides at East Otto, N. Y. Helen married Rev. Smith Williams, first husband ; Joseph Chaddock, hardware merchant, at Allegan, Mich., second.
David S. Ingalls.
David S. Ingalls was born in this town in 1828. After reaching his majority, Mr. Ingalls went to Buffalo and engaged in mer- cantile pursuits, which he continued until 1862, when he retired from business. He now resides in Concord, and is at
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present a capitalist and real estate owner. He was never mar- ried. His mother, Mrs. Patty Ingalls, died Oct. 25, 1882, aged seventy-eight years, three months and seventeen days.
Daniel Ingals.
Daniel Ingals was a very early settler in this town. He was a physician and practiced here several years and then moved away. He lived in the first frame house ever built in this vil- lage, it stood just south of where the Presbyterian church now stands. He died a few years after he moved away and was brought back to Springville for burial.
Dr. Varney Ingals.
Dr. Ingals was also a very early settler here. He practiced medicine here in early times and also kept a store where the Free Baptist church now stands, and acquired considerable property. He had three children :
Eunice, married Edwin E. Williams.
Selena, married C. C. Severance, and died June 7, 1856.
Marinda, married Moses Lane and lives in Milwaukee. Dr. Ingals died Nov. 20, 1843 ; aged forty-nine years.
William H. Jackson, M. D.
Dr. Jackson was born Aug. 26, 1841, in Clarkson, Monroe county, N. Y. His father, William Jackson. was born in Her- kimer county, N. Y., in 1810. His mother, Elizabeth Cornes, was born at Kent, England, in 1816. The Doctor graduated at the Albany State Normal school in 1861 ; at Eastman's Busi- ness college in 1862, and at the medical department of the Uni- versity of South Carolina, at Columbia in 1873, after which he taught in the university and practiced in the city until 1877 when he came north. In 1878, he began the practice of medi- cine in Springville. He was married in 1863 to Mary Hyde, who died in 1870.
Their children were : Mabel, Willis H., and Lucien C.
Dr. Jackson was married again in 1877 to Frances Rockwell, they have one child.
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Hiram Jefferson.
Hiram Jefferson was born June 18, 1807, in the town of Douglass. Worcester county. Mass., and came to the town of Concord in the year 1825. his occupation is farming. He was married in 1832 to Matilda Hinman, who was born in Manlius. Onondaga county. N Y., and died May 22, 1842. He was married to Deborah Grover, in the year 1844, who died April 21, 1857. He was married to Clarinda Seward, March, 1858. who died in October, 1861. His fourth wife was Sarah Ann Bishop, 1863, who died Oct. 31, 1874. Mr. Jefferson came to Concord in 1825, and has lived within half a mile of where he now lives fifty-seven years. The entire country around was al- most an unbroken wilderness. He could hear the wolves howl nights as they killed his neighbor's sheep, and bears and deer were plenty. They had no roads nor wagons, and they went to mill and to meetings with ox sleds, and often went to mill several miles carrying the grist on their backs.
Mary, born Feb. 11, 1834 ; married to Abel Sweet.
Willis, born Feb. 7, 1838 ; married to Lydia Ann Hulburt. Welcome, born July 4, 1846 ; died Sept. 8, 1862. Sylvia, and Matilda, twins, born Feb. 27, 1850. Sylvia died Aug. 26, 1862 ; Matilda died Sept. 18, 1862.
Hiram, born July 9, 1852 : died Sept. 18, 1862.
Henry, born July 27, 1859.
John Jackson's Statement.
The first grist mill in Concord was built by Benjamin Gardner, in the year 1814 He died three or four years afterwards.
The first saw mill was built by Rufus Eaton.
The first distillery was built by Frederick Richmond, near where Franklin street crosses Spring Brook.
The first merchants were Stanard & Jenks, their first store, a hewed log building, stood north of the Opera House.
The first tannery, built by Jacob Rushm, a frame building; stood where Hugh McAleese house and shop is.
First blacksmith, Elijah Perigo, 1814, log building where Orville Smith's house is.
First shoemaker, Ira Eddy. He kept shop part of the time,
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part of the time took his kit and went among the farmers and did their work.
William Earle brought the mail to Springville from Buffalo before there was a postoffice, and distributed it to whom it belonged.
Rufus C. Eaton was the first Postmaster.
William and George Shultus built the second saw mill in Springville on the site where the Bloomfield mill stands.
Mrs. George Shultus was the first Sabbath School teacher in Springville.
Wales Emmons was the first cabinet maker; his shop stood where the Baptist church now stands.
The first woolen factory was erected by Samuel Bradley.
The first tailor's name was Thompson.
Thomas T. Sherwood was the first lawyer ; came about 1823 or 1824.
David Leroy and David Bensley were the first fiddlers that played at " Fiddler's Green."
Ichabod Brown had the first cooper shop.
Abel Holman was the first axe-maker.
The first local preacher's name was Ingalls, a Presbyterian.
William Shultus, Peter Sampson and Urial Torry ran the first stage to Buffalo ; coach and four horses.
Frederick Crary was the first showman ; men, women and children came on foot for miles around to see his elephant came, 1823.
The first hatter's name was Herrick ; he lived and kept shop about where the post office is.
The first harness-maker's name was Tibbitts; shop stood north of the park.
The first trip-hammer shop, erected by David Kenedy, stood opposite Ransom's Hill.
The first dentist's name was Gates.
Joel White was the first wagon-maker.
Samuel Lake the first insurance agent.
A. G. Elliott the first cattle drover.
Francis White built the first cider-mill.
Robert Augur manufactured linseed oil ; commenced about 1821 or 1822. Also owned and run a saw-mill.
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Stary King's Statement.
My father and his family came from Rhode Island to this town in the fall of 1814. He came through with two span of horses and located on the Steele place on lot twenty-six, town- ship seven, range six, on the east side of the road. Our shanty stood back by the orchard ; it was built without boards and without nails ; there were no glass windows and no door ; the roof was of split logs hollowed out. The next year we built a log-house on the west side of the road. At that time there were no settlers in the north-east part of this town north of us. There was no road cut out or laid out on Vaughan street and the Genesee road was not cut out. William Wright lived on the Bloodgood place and Hale Matthewson had put up a log-house on the Horton place. Douglas lived on the corner and old Mr. Matthewson lived on the Byron Wells place. James Henman lived where Harrison Pingry does and Deacon Jennings lived on the William McMillan place. In Springville David Stickney kept tavern in a small log-house near where the Opera House stands now. Benjamin Gordon's grist-mill was built before we came. Besides Stickney and Gardner there were the Eaton family, Stanard and Jenks, David Leroy, Dr. Daniel Ingals, Samuel Cochran, Joseph Yaw, General Knox, and Samuel Burgess. Deacon Russell lived a mile out Frank- lin street. John Albro and Giles Churchill lived three-fourths of a mile north. Father lived two years on the Steele place and then sold out to Nathan Godard. We sold because our crops were destroyed by the frosts. We then located on the Cattar- augus side of the creek by the Hake's bridge ; remained there four years and then bought Captain Wells' place on Vaughan street.
After two years father sold out on Vaughan street and located on the south-east part of lot fifty-one, since known as a part of the Stanbro farm. Afterwards removed to lot forty-four on Sharp street, and then to lot sixty-one, on the Boston road, where he died.
When we lived on the Steele place the cold seasons occurred and our crops were destroyed by the frosts and there was little or no grain to be bought here, and father went out to Geneseo and paid five dollars for two bushels of corn and brought it
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home from there on horse-back. The corn was of poor quality but, under the circumstances, it relished well and helped us to live through.
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