Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Part 83

Author: Hakes, Harlo, 1823- ed; Aldrich, Lewis Cass. cn
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason & Co.
Number of Pages: 1180


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been a member and trustee of the Park Methodist church. In 1850 he married Julia M. Childs of Leroy, who died June 1, 1889. Their two children were George W. and Mrs. Dr. Samuel Mitchell.


Odson, Mrs. Lobelia .- Thomas Odson was born in Elmira N. Y., April 29, 1837, a son of Daniel and Margaret (Dates) Odson. They lived in Elmira, where he died when Thomas was a mere child. His wife died in Rathbone about 1865. Thomas Odson started in life for himself at the age of nine years. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. H, 161st N. Y., Vols. and served three years. He was under General Banks and was at Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Mobile, and the Red River Campaign. In 1860 Mr. Odson married Lobelia Demarnville, daughter of David and Susan (Edwards) Demarnville, natives of the Eastern States and Cortland county, N. Y., respectively. Mr. Demarnville came to Woodhull in 1852 and was killed by the fall- ing of a tree in 1868. His wife died the same year. Two brothers of Mrs. Odson, David of the 109th and William of the 86th, died in the late war. Another brother, Asa, was in the late war and was at Lee's Surrender. Mr. and Mrs. Odson had four children : Willie (deceased), Carrie, Jerome and Merton. Thomas Odson died April 3, 1880.


Baxter, Amelia,-Charles F. Baxter was born in Yates county, N. Y., son of Seth and Orpha Baxter, early settlers of Woodhull, where they lived and died. Charles F. Baxter was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He was a farmer, and came on the farm Mrs. Baxter now owns, in 1847, where he lived until his death in 1879. In 1846 he married Amelia Jacobs, a native of Chautauqua county, N. Y., daughter of Leonard and and Roxana (Butler) Jacobs, both natives of Otsego county, N. Y., who came to Woodhull in 1842, but spent the last thirty years of their life in Jasper, where he died January 3, 1888, aged eighty-three years, and she, De- cember 28, 1882, aged eighty-one years. He was a farmer and carpenter by occu- pation.


Bebout, Stephen, was born in Woodhull on the farm he now owns May 30, 1828, son of Samuel Hazon Bebout, who came from New Jersey to Yates county in 1825, the next year removing to Woodhull and settling on the farm which is now owned by Stephen, where he died September 26, 1871, aged eighty years, and Mrs. Bebout died September 4, 1863, aged sixty-two years. Stephen was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, and is a farmer by occupation. In May, 1855, he married . Mary J. Taft, daughter of Fenner and Joanna Tobias Taft, he a native of Rhode Island, and she of Chenango county. Both came to Addison when young, and he died in May, 1875, and she in November, 1863. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Bebout have had four children: Samuel, who died March 20, 1875; Emma A., who died September 1, 1870; Charles H., who married Fannie E. Brink, of Addison, N. Y , and they have five children: George H., Emily A., Mabel S., Fred S., and Jessie E., and Myron, who married Mary J. Lathrop, of Woodhull, by whom he had two children : Clarence J. and Cassie M. The grandfather of our sub ject spent his life in New Jersey. The maternal grandfather was Ezekiel Hazen, who died in New Jersey. Mrs. Bebout's paternal grandfather was Benedict Taft, who died in Addison. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Bebout was Jonathan Tobias, son of John Tobias, both of whom died in Addison, N. Y.


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Schenck, Charles, was born in Jasper, N. Y., May 3, 1830, a son of Jonathan and Sarah A. (Broadnex) Schenck. He was reared on a farm and educated in the com- mon schools. He owns a farm of ninety-five acres and carries on general farming. In 1855 he married Samantha J., daughter of Samuel Punches, of Cameron, who came to that town about fifty years ago. They have one daughter, Arlie, who was educated in the Hornellsville Park schools, then engaged in teaching for a short time. She is now a dressmaker.


Brundage, Smith, was born in Bath, September 16, 1869, son of Frank, grandson of Jesse, and great-grandson of Capt. Abraham Brundage, who settled in Bath in 1794, and who in 1812 recruited a rifle company and took part in the war of that date. Frank Brundage married Fannie, a daughter of John J. Smith, who was a descend- ant of Muckle Andrew Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Brundage had five children: Jennie, Jessie, Smith, Frank, and Ruby. Mr. Brundage died in 1890, aged fifty-eight years. Smith Brundage now resides on the Marengo place, so named by Captain Williamson, with his mother, brother and two sisters.


Creveling, William V., was born in Thurston, N. Y .. on the farm he now owns, December 10, 1856, son of Nelson and Almira (Emerson) Creveling, he born in New Jersey in 1808, and she in Bath in 1817, her father, Charles Emerson, being one of the first settlers of Bath, coming from Connecticut, and he once returned to his native State on foot. Mr. Creveling was a farmer and came to Babcock Hollow, in the town of Bath, with his parents, John and Elinore (Carr) Creveling, in 1816, and he died July 28, 1886, and his widow lives with her son, our subject. William V. was educated in the common schools, after which he engaged in farming, and now owns a farm of eighty acres of land. He is a Republican, and has been overseer of the poor about four terms, and commissioner three years. January 1, 1881, he married Alzora Fort, who was born in Herkimer county, N. Y., January 4, 1860, daughter of Isaac and Matilda Fort, who came to Thurston in 1869, where he died in 1880, and his widow resides with our subject. Mr. Creveling is a member of Savonia Lodge No. 755, F. & A. M.


Hoover, David E., was born in Tyrone, N. Y., March 3, 1884, son of Joseph and Julia (Taylor) Hoover, a native of Tyrone, and she of Steuben county. The grand- father, Abram Hoover, came from New Jersey to Tyrone, where he was one of the pioneer settlers, and served in the war of 1812. Joseph Hoover was reared in Tyrone, but went to Michigan in 1855, where he was one of the pioneers of Ionia county, traveling by ox team and helping build the first railroad to Iona. He was a Democrat up to Lincoln's time and is now a Republican. He owns a farm of 240 acres, and is engaged in stock raising. His wife died in 1875. David E. was reared in Michigan and educated at Iona High School. He took a course of civil engineer- ing at Ann Arbor, was graduated in 1881, after which he went to Pullman, Chicago, in the sanitary department as civil engineer, where he remained six months, and then went West, across Mexico from Vera Cruz to San Blas in the interest of the Mexican Central Railroad, and in 1883 he located in Keuka. In 1883 he married Alice, daughter of Lewis and Prudence Houck, by whom he had four children : Clyde J., Ruby, Thomas V., and D. Maxwell. Mr. Hoover has 255 acres of land in Tyrone, where he carries on general farming, also ten acres at Keuka, of vineyard and other


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fruit, he also does surveying. He is a Republican in politics, and has been justice of the peace for ten or twelve years.


Clark, Eugene K., was born in Erie county, Pa., in 1841, son of Thomas E. Clark, who was born in Amsterdam, N. Y., in 1809, one of nine children born to Nathaniel Clark, who was a farmer near Amsterdam, and who removed to the town of Bath, where he died in 1851. Thomas R. Clark, father of Eugene K., was reared on the farm, after which he was a student of Hamilton College, where he was prepared for the Baptist ministry. He preached until his health was impaired, from an injury received by a horse running against him, and returned to the town of Bath about 1849, but later sold his home and removed to Cameron, where he died in 1883. He married Harriett Ann, daughter of Philip Wardner of Andover, Steuben county, by whom he had these children: Adoniram J., Eugene K., Newel W., Dana B., William K., Harriett W., Angelia A. His wife survives him and resides in Cameron. Eugene K. was educated in Bath, and at twenty-one years of age began life as a teacher, which business he followed for nine years, after which he engaged in farm- ing in the town of Prattsburg. In 1869 he removed to the town of Wheeler, on his present farm of 140 acres, where he raised sheep for many years, and in 1888 inter- ested himself in the breeding of fine grade Jersey cattle and the dairy business, ably assisted by his wife, who as a first-class butter-maker, has established a wide reputation. Mr. Clark was twice nominated for supervisor, served as justice of the peace one term, etc., and for some years he and his wife were members of the Grange, but withdrew from the order. In 1863 he married Fannie Adelia, daughter of Israel D. Graves of Prattsburg, by whom he had eight children: Lily, wife of H. H. Brested, of Howard; Laverne D .. Mrs. Vida U., wife of M. J. Lewis, of Wheeler; Eri W., Eda E., Fannie A., Olive C., and Velma A.


Whiting, Leslie D., was born in Jasper, October 26, 1859. Oliver M. Whiting, his father, was also a native of the same town, and his grandfather settled in Jasper in 1826, coming from Lyndenboro, Hillsboro county, N. H., and the family have always been identified as farmers. Oliver M. Whiting married Martha, daughter of William Prentiss. Leslie D. was educated at Jasper, and in 1881 established his business of hay, grain and produce at Canisteo, and in 1887 added a coal yard to it. In 1879 he married Brunette, daughter of Enoch Ordway, by whom he had two chil - dren, Oliver M., and Carrie. Mr. Whiting is one of the representative business men of this town, and in 1894 was elected sheriff of Steuben county.


Mathewson, Russell, was born in Otsego county in 1821. He began business life as a school teacher and afterwards learned the carpenter trade, and lived in Corning from 1842 to 1850, locating on his present farm of ninety-six acres in 1850. He makes milk dairying a specialty, keeping about twenty-five cows. In 1848 he married Emma C. Johnson, a native of Chenango county, and daughter of Dr. P. A. and Marilla L. (Burdick) Johnson, who came to Corning in 1844. Dr. Johnson practiced here till early in the sixties, and then moved to Waverly, where he still resides. In the fall of 1864 Mr. Mathewson enlisted in the 1st N. Y. Cavalry, being principally on guard duty near Charleston, W. Va., until the close of hostilities.


Swarts, Ross H., was born in the town of Starkey, Yates county, N. Y., Septem- ber 17, 1825, son of Daniel Swarts, a native of New Jersey, who was a millwright,


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and in later years lived on a farm in Canadice, Ontario county. He died December 31, 1859. The mother of Ross H. was also a native of Wantage, Sussex county, N. J. She died in the fall of 1867. Of their nine children Ross was the third son. He was educated in the common schools and remained on the farm with his parents until twenty years of age. At that time he had a sister living in the town of Hor- nellsville who was left a widow with a family of five small children and Ross came here, remained with her for twenty years conducting the farm and managing her business. In 1871 he married Mrs. Thirza Dent, daughter of Robert Sutherby, and the year following he bought the Deacon Tryon Cross farm of 130 acres on lot No. 11 in Hornellsville, where he has since made his home. He makes a specialty of dairy- ing, keeping twenty-five head of cattle and twelve horses. Mr. Swarts is a member of the Methodist church and has been one of its officers, also has been trustee of schools of District No. 3. Mrs. Swarts died July 15, 1883. Mr. Swarts bought a part of her property consisting of 100 acres on lot No. 12, which he conducts in connection with this farm. He was again married April 30, 1888, to Rose, daughter of Joshua Swan, of Canadice, Ontario county, and they have two children: Ross H., jr., born April 15, 1890, and Edwin Devillo, born May 15, 1891. In politics Mr. Swarts is a Demo- crat and in 1890 served as town auditor and has also held some of the minor offices.


Stickney, Wilson, was born on the farm which he now owns in Rathbone, May 2, 1826, son of Edmond Stickney, inventor of the Stickney reacting water wheel, and is said to be the best mechanic in the State when applied to steam and water power. He was born in New Hampshire, July 15, 1805, and came to Rathbone in 1824 and settled on the farm which is now owned by Wilson and built a mill which he contin- ued to run for forty-five years. He also had a small grist mill attached. He mar- ried Margaret Wilson, born January 18, 1815, a native of Scotland, who came to Binghamton with her parents when eight years old. Mr. and Mrs. Stickney cele- brated their golden wedding December 8, 1882. He died December 20, 1884, and she, April 13, 1892. Wilson Stickney was reared on a farm and educated in the com- mon school and Alfred and Franklin Academies. He has spent the most of his life in the lumbering business and was seventeen years in Michigan. He owns the home- stead, where he resides, also largely interested in Michigan pine lands and a block in Big Rapids, now owned by him which he built at a cost $30,000, known as the Stickney Block. June 28, 1873, Mr. Stickney married Laura M. Miles, daughter of John Miles, one of the early settlers of Rathbone, and one daughter has been born to them, Laura M., who resides in Big Rapids, Mich. Mrs. Stickney died at Big Rapids March 28, 1881, aged thirty-four years. Wilson Stickney had two brothers and one sister. Mrs. C. H. Rodgers of Hornellsville, who died at that place July 6, 1889; James W. Stickney, who was an engineer on the Erie and was killed at Adrian, November 11, 1891; and Isaac M., who was assistant superintendent of the Morris Run Coal Company, of Morris Run, Pa. He died November 30, 1870.


Walker, Frank E., was born in Springwater, N. Y., May 20, 1856. His grand- father, Ezra Walker, was a native of Vermont. William Walker, father of Frank E., was born in Vermont, in 1819, and at two years of age came with his parents to Springwater, where he died in 1876, aged fifty-five years. He was a farmer all his life. He married Mercy Gates, who was born in Gaines, Orleans county, N. Y., in . 1824, by whom he had these children; Erwin C., who was born September 15, 1843,


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and died June 3, 1864; Maria L., who was born March 23, 1845, and married Oscar Rogers; Hattie E., who was born February 1, 1847, and died March 9, 1857; John C., who was born July 22, 1849, and married Sarah Brown; Emma A., who was born June 3, 1851; William W., who was born July 11, 1853, and married Alice Snyder ; Frank E., as above; Lillian E., who was born May 21, 1858, and married Glen Abrams; Mark G., who was born June 1, 1860, and married Maggie Staley; Judson E., who was born June 29, 1863, and married Julia Bill; and Edwin L., who was born August 14, 1865, and died February 25, 1866. Frank E. has always followed farming. He is a member of the Wayland Ledge, No. 176, I. O. O. F. At Dans- ville, N. Y., May 20, 1877, he married Ella Hayward, who was born in Wayland, in 1825, and resides in South Dansville. He married Margaret Campbell, who was born in Scotland, by whom he had four children: Anna, deceased, marrried John Avery of Wayland, N. Y .: Alma, who married Wallace Wagoner, and resides in Cohocton; Ella, as above; and Murray, who married Lunette McFarland, and re- sides in Wayland.


McNett, Dr. George C., was born in Buffalo, N. Y., July 11, 1867. Gen. A. J. McNett, his father, was a native of Sackett's Harbor, and a prominent lawyer of Buffalo, who took a prominent part through the war. Was retired as colonel U. S. A. in 1892, died March 8, 1895. His grandfather was in charge of Sackett's Harbor defenses and lighthouses in the war of 1812. Dr. George C. McNett was educated at Belmont, St. Joseph's College, Buffalo, Alfred University, and University of the City of New York, and then began his practice at Belmont. In 1886 he was ap- pointed as surgeon to the Soldiers' Home, and came to Bath, remaining until 1889, since which time he has been engaged in private practice, and is one of the leading men of his profession, making a specialty of surgery. In 1882 he married Agnes, daughter of E. S. Stewart, by whom he had one child, Celia.


Ellison, Curtis B., was born at Homer, N. Y., in 1831, and at nine years of age came to Tioga county with his parents, Samuel and Susan Ellison, who died in 1885 and 1891 respectively. When eighteen years of age Mr. Ellison came to Corning and has since been more or less engaged in the lumber business, spending four years in Michigan. He has 200 acres of land where he lives which he has owned since 1856, and makes a specialty of milk dairying. In 1852 he married Mary Jane Coun- terman of Tompkins county.


Cole, John S., was born in Rathbone, August 25, 1825, son of C. H. and Phebe (Sellick) Cole, he born in Columbia county, N. Y., October 2, 1808, and she in Howard, N. Y., in 1814, daughter of Zeno Sellick. The grandfather of John S. was Jacob Cole, who was born in Rensselaer county, N. Y., a son of Jacob Cole, who died in Columbia county, at the age of one hundred and twenty-six years. He came to Big Flats in 1814, and to Rathbone in 1816, where he died in 1852. The father of John S. was a farmer and lumberman. He was a Whig and Republican, and the second supervisor of the town of Rathbone, and justice of the peace twenty-eight years. He died No- vember 27, 1886. John S. Cole was educated in Alfred University, and was a farmer and lumberman by occupation, and owns 176 acres of land. He was in the Rocky Mountains three years. In 1862 he enlisted in the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry and served three months. In January, 1867, he married Alice Burlingame of Belfast,


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Allegany county, N. Y., and they have four children: Guy, born September 3, 1869, who has been engaged in lumbering with his father; Clyde, boon February 3, 1871; Roy, born August 9, 1872; and Ray, born December 25, 1880.


Stamp, B. F., was born in Reading, Schuyler county, N. Y., November 22, 1830, son of Abner and Betsey (Caandall) Stamp, who was born in Orange county and Waterloo. Mr. Stamp went to Reading at an early date, and in 1857 went West, re- turning in 1861 and locating in Thurston, and two years later removing to Schuyler county, where they lived until a few months before his death, which occurred Febru- ary 28, 1886. Mrs. Stamp died in 1852. The grandfather of our subject, John Stamp, was born in Holland, came to this country and participated in the war of 1812, and died in Kentucky. B. F. Stamp was educated in the common schools, and engaged in farming and lumbering, now owning a farm of sixty-six acres. In poli- tics he is a Republican and has been collector. December 19, 1863, he enlisted in Co. K, 3d N. Y. Light Artillery, and was in the battles during the campaign of 1864 and '65, from City Point to Petersburg and Richmond. He is a member of the Loga Post, No. 469, G. A. R., of which he is, at present, commander. August 30, 1856, he married Elizabeth Benham of Schuyler county, by whom he has had ten children: A. Farley, Nettie L., deceased, George E., B. Frank, Charles E., William A., Marion E., E. Ida, John A., and Grace E. Mr. Stamp had seven brothers in the late war, one of whom was killed at South Mountain.


Chapell, F. S., born in Prattsburg, N. Y., July 5, 1828, is the first son of seven chil . dren born to Lyman and Elma S. Chapell. He was a native of Chenango, and came to Prattsburg in 1812 with Neamiah Noble, being then a boy about twelve years of age, with whom he lived until he married. He followed farming as an occupation. Francis Sweet, father of Mrs. Chapell, was a pioneer of North Prattsburg, where he lived and died. Francis S. Chapell learned the shoemaker's trade when a young man. In 1848 he went to Branchport, Yates county, where he remained until 1868, when he located in Rathbone on the farm he now owns. In 1851 he married Emily Donaldson, by whom he had five children: Elizabeth, William, Frederick O., Frank H., and Collin P. In politics Mr. Chapell is a Republican and has been assessor for five years in succession.


Clark, Eleazer, was born in Elkland, Tioga county, Pa., October 2, 1824, son of Eleazer and Abigail (Armstrong) Clark, both natives of Rhode Island, born about 1788, who came to Tioga county, Pa., where they lived and died. The grandfather, Eleazer Clark, was born in England and died in Rhode Island. Eleazer Clark, our subject, lived in Tioga county, Pa., until 1863, when he came on the farm of 113 acres which he now owns. December 1, 1852, he married Julia A. Johnson, who was born in Elkland, Pa., January 10, 1831, daughter of Asaph and Polly (Mack) Johnson. Mr. Johnson was killed in Elkland in 1839 by the falling of a tree, and his wife died in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have five children: Prudence, who was born June 23, 1854, wife of Herman Tubbs; Charles F., who was born September 14, 1856, a farmer, and a graduate of Allen's Business College. He died November 29, 1893; William H., who was born February 14, 1864, a farmer of Tioga county, Pa. ; and Erastus E., who was born May 15, 1866, a graduate from Baltimore Medical College, also of Starkey College, and is now a successful physician of Osceola, Pa.


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Labour, Jacob, was born in Northumberland county, Pa., July 8, 1806. The first of the family to come to this country was the grandfather of Jacob. He was from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania. His son, Peter Labour, was born in Penn- sylvania and was one of the first settlers of Pennsylvania Hill, coming here in 1838, buying a farm on lot 28. Jacob was educated in the common schools and moved to Livingston county, where he married Zada, daughter of George H. Jones, March 18, 1831. He returned to Steuben county in April, 1863, and bought a farm of ninety- seven acres on lot 27, and there spent the balance of his days. He died March 20, 1880. Mrs. Labour died March 13, 1885. The beautiful house was erected in 1878. Of his eight children Catherine Elizabeth is the wife of Henry Cox, a farmer of Alle- gany county ; Mary C. is the widow of James P. Emery, and lives in Arkport; Jane N. died January 6, 1875, at thirty-nine years of age, wife of William Burt; William J. Labour was a soldier of the 3d Ills. Cavalry, died in Arkansas June 9, 1862, an officer of the Cavalry; George W. died November 5, 1894, in Grand Rapids, Mich. ; Julia S. is the wife of Miles L. Forsyth, a machinist of Syracuse, N. Y .; Miss Sarah E. conducts the old homestead farm, and James Watson died September 16, 1866, eighteen years of age.


Husted, Jerome C., was born in Woodhull, August 27, 1857, son of William and Caroline (Covell) Husted. Mr. Husted was born in Chenango county, N. Y., in 1825, and Mrs. Husted was born in Bradford county, Pa., April 9, 1828. Abraham, grand- father of Jerome C., was a native of Chenango county, but his father came from England at a very early date and was in the Revolutionary war. Abraham was a farmer and carpenter and came to Woodhull at an early date, settling on a farm. He spent the last ten years of his life in the village of Woodhull. He and his wife, Amy Rathbone, were members of the Baptist church, of which he was a clerk, also deacon for a number of years. Mr. Husted, father of Jerome C., is now engaged in farming in that town. Jerome C. was reared on the farm and educated in the Wood- hull Academy and followed teaching several years. In 1884, he engaged in the drug business and has since conducted a successful business. His building is 20 by 60 feet, ard he carries a line of drugs, books, stationery, paints, oils, etc. He was town clerk in 1892-3 and elected supervisor in 1894. He is a member of Restoration Lodge No. 777, F. & A. M., also Addison Chapter No. 146, R. A. M. He is also a member of Woodhull Tent No. 174, K. O T. M. September 29, 1887, he married Lydia, daughter of William and Marion (Pease) Carpenter, a native of Woodhull. They have one son: Carl, born March 11, 1894.


Strong, Munson J., was born in Tioga county, N. Y., November 9, 1839, a son of Joel C. Strong. His native home was Schenectady, N. Y., and came to Tioga when a young man; married Olive Lake, settled on a new farm, where he lived and died. The grandfather was in the war of 1812, and was wounded in the leg; he died in Schenectady. Joel C. Strong died November 14, 1880, and his wife Olive in 1844. Munson J. Strong was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools at Candor, Tioga county, N. Y. In 1864 he came to Thurston, Steuben county, and settled on a farm of fifty acres he now owns, and erected good buildings. January 5, 1864, he married Mary Coston, who was born in Bath, September 29, 1841, daugh- ter of Christopher C. Coston, by whom he had five children: Charles C., who was born December 28, 1864, was educated in the common schools, and is a druggist of


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Owego, N.Y .; Nancy C., who was born July 14, 1866, wife of Burrett Woodward of Broome county, N. Y., and have one child, Iva; Fred Jay, born May 17, 1866, and works on a fruit farm in Yates county, N. Y .; Christopher W., born August 15, 1871, was educated in the common school, and is engaged in farming at home; and Inez I., who lives at home. In August, 1861, Munson Strong enlisted in Co. A, 89th N. Y. Vols., and served two years. He was at Roanoke Island, Newbern, Frederick City, South Mountain, and Antietam, where he was wounded in the left leg.




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