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Clark, W. T., Gouverneur, was born in Hailesborough, September 7, 1863, and was engaged in the milling business with his father for some time. He has been superin- tendent of the Agalite Fibre Co. for three years, and has been supervisor of the town of Fowler five years. He was elected when twenty-four years of age, the youngest man on the board, and is so still. Mr. Clark is a man of broad intelligence, enterpris- ing and highly popular. He is a son of Charles A. Clark, also a prominent man in Hailesborough. His grandparents came from Vermont, and were among the early set- tlers of Potsdam. Mr. Clark graduated from the Gouverneur Seminary in 1884, and taught school two years.
Chellis, J. S., Stockholm, was born in Stockholm, December 29, 1843, a son of Abraham L., son of John, whose father, Timothy Chellis, was a soldier in the Revolu- tionary War seven years. The wife of the latter was Elizabeth Stuart, a descendant of the royal family of Stuarts of Scotland. John Chellis was born in Haverhill, N. H., January 18, 1763, and married Catherine Burwell, by whom he had three sons and three daughters. In 1836 he came to Stockholm, where he died January 12, 1867, at the age of 104 years. So active in old age was he that at the age of 100 he cut a cord of wood. ' Abraham L. Chellis was born in Bridport, Vt., in 1803. He was a shoe- maker by trade, and followed that in connection with farming. His wife was Clarissa Glidden, a native of New Hampshire, born September 9, 1818. To them were born three sons and two daughters. Mr. Chellis died October 7, 1880, and his wife Decem- ber 23, 1863. J. S. Chellis was educated in the common schools. Farming has been his life occupation, and he owns fifty-seven acres of land. Mr. Chellis is a natural musician, and has taught band music for ten years, also giving instruction on the violin. He is a member of Amber Lodge, No. 305, F. & A. M., also of the P. of I., Eureka Association, No. 162, of which latter he has been president since its organiza- tion, and is at present county president of P. of I, of St. Lawrence county. April 12,
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1863, Mr. Chellis married Cinderella C. Courser, a native of Canada, by whom he has had six children : Charles A., Bertha E., Edith B., Howard D., Kate G. and Robert S.
Catlin, Chester, Hammond, was born in Litchfield, Herkimer county, September 28, 1805. He taught school several terms, and clerked for some time. He then went into farming, of which he made a great success. In 1827 he married Alvira, daughter of Moses Rising. Their children are: Dr. C. A. Catlin, of Redwood, William Catlin, of Hammond, and Mrs. Thomas Donald, of Redwood. In 1879 Mr. Catlin married his present wife, Philary, daughter of Ira Taplin. Mr. Catlin has been assessor and a jus- tice of the peace in Hammond. He has lived in this town since 1842, and is one of its most highly respected citizens.
Carey, F T., Gouverneur, was born in Edwards, St. Lawrence county, November 24, 1853, an has been in the mercantile business since seventeen years old. He came to Gouverneur in 1888, and is a member of the grocery and meat firm of Hilton & Carey. He is essentially a self-made man. In 1875 Mr. Carey married Ellen C. Randall, and they have four children. His father was Thomas G. Carey, a north of Ireland man.
Clark, George Frederick, Potsdam, was born in Morgan, Orleans county, Vt., Sep- tember 8, 1851. Amos D., father of our subject was also a native of Vermont, a farmer by occupation and reared his family and spent his days on the homestead farm, where his father, Rev. Jacob S. Clark, settled in October, 1826, and was the first pastor of the Congregational church in Morgan. Amos Clark died in 1856, aged thirty-one years. The mother of our subject, Martha Geraldine Chapman, was also a native of Vermont. They were married in 1850, and had three children : Amos D. died in Vermont at twenty -two years of age ; Harry Charles, a clerk in the store at Norwood ; and George F. Subject was educated in the common schools and lived on the farm until he was fourteen years old. In 1865 he entered a general store as a clerk and worked four years, and then returned to the farm. In the spring of 1877 he came to Norwood to take charge of the Norwood Lumber Co's store and was four years en- gaged with them. He was then eight years on the road for a Boston boot and shoe house, and in 1889 he, in partnership with Edwin Simonds, of Burlington, Vt., bought out the dry goods store of C. L. Bartlett & Co., which Mr. Clark has been the manager of since. The store carries the largest stock of any dry goods store in this place, and they do a wholesale as well as retail trade, furnishing many of the neighboring villages with their stock. They carry a full line of dry goods, boots and shoes, carpets, dra- peries, curtains, etc. Mr. Clark has always been a Republican, is the present treasurer of the village, and a member of the Congregational church in which he is deacon and trustee. He married in 1871, Anna Blake, of Derby, Vt., who died three years later. He married second, in 1876, Minnie Hatchcock, of Westfield, Vt., and they have four daughters : Effie E., Marion G., Helen M., and Florence.
Conroy, Rev. J. H., Ogdensburg, was born in Watertown, N. Y., November 8, 1858. He began his education in the schools of his native city, whence he proceeded to Mon- treal College. After three years spent in this noted institution, he entered St. Michael's College, Toronto, from which he was graduated with honors in June 1877. The following year he held a professorship in St. Michael's. In September 1878, he began his theo-
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logical studies, and studied under the Rev. Dr. Gabriels at Troy (now Bishop Gabriels), of Ogdensburg diocese. Ordained June 11, 1881, Father Conroy was appointed assistant to the Rev. J. P. Murphy, of Cherubusco and Ellenburgh, Clinton county. After six weeks in this position, he was appointed rector of St. Patrick's church, Rouse's Point, August 15, 1882, and the following April was transferred to the Cathe- dral at Ogdensburg, succeeding as rector Father Mackey, who had occupied this position for the previous forty years.
Clark, Silas S., Potsdam, was born in the town of Madrid on a farm, September 28, 1834. The earliest ancestry we find of the family was Abner Clark, the great-grand- father of Silas S., who was a native of Connecticut where Abner, the grandfather of our subject, was born and reared. He married Betsey Bill, of Connecticut, and they were the parents of seven children. Abner Clark, the father of our subject, was the fourth son. He was born in Connecticut, - -- , and was only a lad when his parents moved to Berkshire county, Mass., where the family lived until Abner was twenty-one years of age. They then moved into St Lawrence county and settled in the town of Madrid, where Abner, the second died - -. Abner married Cyn-
thia Skidmore, of Vermont, and they were the parents of twelve children, six of whom are living. Silas S., our subject, was the fifth son. His early life was spent in the town of Madrid where he attended the common schools, and finished his education in the old St. Lawrence Academy. When Mr. Clark had reached his majority he started out for himself by first leasing farms, and after eight years was enabled to purchase a farm of his own. In the fall of 1867, he bought a farm of 112 acres in Potsdam, where he has ever since made his home. Mr. Clark has always taken an active interest in the Republican party, and for four years held the office of road commissioner of the town. He is a member of the Methodist church and has been a trustee for over ten years. He married in 1857, Louisa K., daughter of Wilder Wills, of Potsdam, and they have seven children : Frederick Wills, a lawyer of White Plains, Westchester county ; Clara L., a teacher of the Normal School at Ypsilanti, Michigan; Mary J., a teacher in Grammer School at Ypsilanti, Michigan ; Charles M., surveyor in Westchester county, N. Y .; Horace N., undertaker; Earl B., and Robert Y., students in the Potsdam State Normal School.
Crysler, G. M., Edwardsville, was born in Canada, July 14, 1821, and came to the United States at nine years of age. He has been a manufacturer of lumber and shingles, fifty-four years, and forty years of this time at Edwardsville. Sixteen years ago he added to his business a cheese factory and provender run. He married Caroline Wilson, they had six children three of whom are living : Mrs. J. F. Tuttle, of Middle- town, N. Y .; Mrs. J. B. Denny, of Seattle, Wash., and Miss A. Crysler. Mr. Crysler's father's uncle owned the Crysler farm in Canada, where the celebrated battle of Crysler's farm was fought in 1812. His father was John Martin Crysler.
Church, Harvey, Ogdensburg, son offSamuel and"Mary (Jones) Church, and subject of this sketch, was born October 26, 1788, in Bethlehem, Conn., and died November 30, 1865, in the city of Ogdensburg, N. Y. He settled in Ogdensburg in 1808, from Connecticut, engaged in the transportation business, and in 1813 moved to Schenectady
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and carried on the same line of business on the Mohawk river. In 1815 he returned to Ogdensburg and built six Durham boats and ran them between Ogdensburg and Montreal. In 1826 he established the first hardware store in Ogdensburg. Later, in 1832-36, he owned and ran the steamer " Blackhawk," from Ogdensburg to Dickinson's Landing. His wife was Catharine, daughter of Richard and Hannah Freeman, of the city of Schenectady, N. Y., and was born January 25, 1790, and died in the city of Ogdensburg, N. Y., November 10, 1867. James F. Church was born in the city of Schenectedy, N. Y., in 1814 and died in Ogdensburg in 1887. Richard F. Church was born in '1816; the other children of Harvey Church are: Henry, born in 1824, and Mrs. Sarah E. Whitney, born in 1830.
Crowley, P. M., Gouverneur, was born in Mt. Holly, Rutland county, Vt., April 23, 1822, and came to Rossie in 1853. He was a harnessmaker by trade, but embarked in carriage making at Somerville where he still resides. In 1844, he married Martha L., daughter of David Farle and a sister of Gardiner Earle. They have two children : George G., who lives in Poughkeepsie, and Mrs. Foster, who lives in Michigan. Mr. Crowley has been postmaster for twelve years, and is a justice of the peace. He spent several years of his young days as a Methodist minister.
Chambers, W. O., Edwardsville, was born in De Peyster, March 22, 1867. He spent six years clerking and then bought out I. E. De Mott's store at Edwardsville, where he is conducting a successful business of general merchandise, furniture and harness and in exchange takes farmer's produce. Mr. Chambers's father is John Chambers. His mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Scott, both of Canada.
Daggett, Henry L., Parishville, was born in Stockholm, April 28, 1842. His father, David, was a native of Cornwall, Vt., born August 9, 1809, a son of Henry and Pame- lia Daggett, natives of Attleborough, Mass., and of Cornwall, Vt., respectively. In 1817 they came to Stockholm and at this town both died, Henry at the age of seventy-four and his wife July 7, 1862. David was reared on a farm and spent three years as clerk. Nearly all of his subsequent life was spent in the mercantile business in Hopkinton, Stockholm and Parishville. He went to the latter place in 1849 and there carried on a very successful business until 1866, when his son, Herbert M., took charge of the busi- ness and continued it until 1880. David married Meribah C. Greene of Cornwall, Vt., born January 2, 1838. They had four children : Clarinda G., wife of John A. Vance ; Henry L., Mary E. and Herbert M., the latter of the Elmira Portrait Company. Mr. Daggett was justice of the peace in Parishville twenty years, and died May 23, 1891. His wife survives him. Henry L. was reared in Parishville and educated in the com- mon schools. With the exception of four years spent on a farm, he has always followed the mercantile business. From 1862 to 1868 he lived in Springfield, Ill., but returned to make his home again in Parishville. In 1880 he, in partnership with R. W. Bar- rows, took charge of the business previously conducted by Herbert M. Daggett, and continued for one year. He then went into partnership with S. L. Clark for two and a half years and then with his brother, Herbert M., until 1890, since which time he has been alone. In 1869 Mr. Daggett married Marion A. Church, a native of South Can- ton, N. Y., and daughter of C. C. and Elizabeth (Follett) Church, both of whom died in Brooklyn. Mr. and Mrs. Daggett have had two children : Arthur D. and Grace E.
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Mr. Daggett is a Republican and has been justice of the peace for sixteen years. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Excelsior Lodge No. 548 of Potsdam, and he and his fam- ily attend the Congregational church at Parishville.
Darrow, George F., Oswegatchie, was born in West Eaton, Madison county, June 18, 1854. He was educated in Cazenovia Seminary and Syracuse University, and graduated in 1876. He then spent a year in the west, returning to Ogdensburg in 1877, where he purchased the Advance and has been proprietor ever since. In 1879 he married Mary L., daughter of Hon. Charles G. Myers, who died in 1881. They have one daughter, Georgiana Frances. Mr. Darrow has held several important public offices and is at present secretary of the board of managers of the State Hospital.
Davis, H. K., Stockholm, was born in Crown Point, Essex county, N. Y., January 28, 1820. He is a son of Darias H., son of Ezra Davis, who was one of eleven children born to Amos and Sarah (Metcalf) Davis. Amos Davis was born September 2, 1732, and his wife June 5, 1737. The date of their marriage was April 14, 1757. Darias H. was a native of Chesterfield, N. H., born November 6, 1785. In 1805 he married Lois Smith, a native of the same place, born in 1785. They had six children who grew to maturity. Mr. Davis and family went from Vermont to Crown Point, where they re- sided a short time. In 1839 they went to Parishville, and there he built a tannery, which now stands, and followed the business of tanner until his death, April 8, 1854. His wife died August 10, 1869. H. K. Davis was educated in the common schools and reared a tanner. He was nineteen years of age when he came with his parents to Parishville, and then worked with his father until his marriage, which occurred Novem- ber 26, 1846. His wife is H. L. Burnap, a native of Malone, Franklin county, born August 7, 1826. Since his marriage Mr. Davis has followed general farming and dairy - ing. He owns 200 acres of land, keeps twenty cows, and for several years has made a specialty of breeding fine horses. Mr. Davis has been a resident of Stockholm about twenty-six years, and at present resides on the farm known as the S. W. Holmes farm. He is a Democrat, has held the office of assessor six years, and he and his family are members of the P. of H. No. 538, Stockholm Depot Grange. Mr. Davis and wife have had four children : H. B., born March 14, 1848, married Jennie E. Church of Barring- ton, Ill., and they have one child, Leon L., born February 19, 1880; resides in Hebron, Thayer county, Neb. Fannie E., born January 31, 1850, died February 4, 1859, aged nine years. Bliss N., born July 19, 1860, died March 2, 1882, aged twenty-one years. Herbert L., born July 12, 1862, married Myra N. Page, December 2, 1885. She is a native of Stockholm, born April 3, 1861, and daughter of Philetus Page, a son of Jo- seph Page, one of the early settlers of Stockholm. Herbert L. and wife have two chil- dren : Bliss N. and Warren G. Mr. Davis is a member of I. O. O. F. No. 620, Win- throp lodge. The parents of Mrs. H. K. Davis were Rev. Bliss and Hannah (Newton) Burnap, he a native of Brattleboro, Vt., born January 13, 1802, and she of Newfane, Vt., born September 18, 1799. They had two children who grew to maturity.' Rev. Burnap was a Presbyterian minister, who in 1824 came to Malone, N. Y. About 1830 he moved to Bangor, thence to Parishville in 1844, and afterwards spent a few years in Massena. His last days were spent in Moira. Hannah (Newton) Burnap died April 15, 1869. She was a daughter of Marshall and Lydia Newton. He was a native of
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Massachusetts, but spent most of his life in Newfane, Vt. He was a blacksmith and died December 15, 1833. Mrs. Newton was born August 5, 1785, and died May 16 1839. Bliss Burnap was the son of Asa W. Burnap, who was one of twelve children, born to Ebenezer and Mary (Wyman) Burnap, he (Ebenezer) was born June 21, 1725, in Redding, Mass ; she (Mary Wyman) was born September 7, 1728. They were mar- ried September 28, 1749. Ebenezer died Apr. 12, 1804 and his wife, Oct. 25, 1793. Asa W., father of Bliss Burnap, was born June 2, 1768, was married to Elizabeth Bliss in June, 1799. He died May 21, 1813, and his wife, March 21, 1867, aged ninety-four years, five months and six days.
Dezell, Kenneth R., Potsdam, was born in Lisbon, October 19, 1866, a son of Alex- ander, a farmer of that town, who died in 1869, and after whose death the family removed to Potsdam. This consisted of the widow (whose maiden name was Mar- garet Charter) and twelve children, of whom our subject was the youngest son. He was educated in the common schools and at the Potsdam State Normal School, and after finishing his education spent a year with Bicknell & Felton in their grocery. He was one year with Felton & Senter and with L. D. Wetherbee nearly two years. In 1888 he went to work in the store of George Dayton and continued in this same lo- cation until 1890, when he bought the stock of goods and went in business for himself. He has built up an enviable reputation as a business man and controls a good propor- tion of the grocery and crockery trade of Potsdam. The store is located in the La- mere block on the east side of Market street, where he has about twenty-six feet front and seventy feet in depth. Mr. Dezell is a member of the Baptist church. He married December 6, 1892, Henrietta, daughter of John Thomas of St. Regis Falls.
Dutton, Ira, Stockholm, was born in Moriah, Essex county, March 23, 1840, His father was Willard Dutton, a son of Parley Dutton, who was a native of Rockingham, Vt. Here he grew to manhood and married Rhoda Loveland, by whom he had six children. In an early day Mr. Dutton came to Essex county, and there spent the re- mainder of his days, dying at the age of seventy-five years and his wife at eighty. Willard Dutton was born in Rockingham, Vt., reared on a farm and edu- cated in the common schools. He was eighteen years of age when he went to Essex county. . In 1841 he went to Parishville, N. Y., and after one year came to Stockholm and settled. Here he lived and died. His wife was Rebecca Fish, a native of Rockingham, Vt. To Mr. Dutton and wife were born four sons, three of whom survive. Early in life 'Mr. Dutton was a Whig, but became a Republican after Lin- coln's time. He and wife were Universalists. He died February 16, 1880, and his wife December 16, 1881. Ira Dutton was reared on a farm. His life occupation has been general farming and dairying. He owns 175 acres of land, and keeps eighteen cows. Dutton has made a specialty of breeding Phil Sheridan stock of horses, and at present also breeds the Wilkes strain of Hambletonian stock. He owns the "Stock- holm or Dutton " horse sired by "Phil Sheridan," also "Defendant Wilkes" sired by "Onward." Mr. Dutton is a Republican, a member of Potsdam Lodge, No. - , F. & A. M., P. of I. Eureka Lodge, No. 162, and P. of H. of Winthrop, No. 538, Captain Gibson Post G. A. R., No. 421. The wife of Mr. Dutton is Laura A. Peck, a native of
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Stockholm, by whom he has four children : Lillie, wife of Linden Seaver, a farmer of Stockholm; Deland E., Willie L., and Lora M. Mr. Dutton and wife attend and sup- port the Universalist church.
Dewey, Frederick, L., A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Potsdam, was born in the town of Otego, Otsego county, May 14, 1860, son of William A., a merchant and farmer. Frederick L. was only two years old when his parents moved to Franklin, Delaware county, where the boyhood of our subject was spent. He prepared for college at the Delaware Literary Institute, and in 1878, entered Hamilton College at Clinton, Oneida county, graduating with the class of 1882, with the degree of A. B. He went back to the Delaware Institute as a teacher of classics, where he remained three years and in 1885 came to Potsdam, where he was given entire charge of the Classical department of the State Normal School. His classes now are the Latin and Greek, and besides gives lectures on method work in teaching the above studies. While in college our sub- ject was the recipient of the Hawley prize in Latin and Greek, Tompkins's Mathe- matical scholarship, appointment as Clark prize orator ; the Mckinney prize debates and the Valedictory. Hc received the degree of A. M. two years after graduation. The degree of Ph. D. was given him in 1892, by Hamilton "Honorary." Professor Dewey has sent five valedictorians to Hamilton since he left there and in his professional work in 1886, he was the secretary of New York Teachers' Association. Mr. Dewey married in 1887, Jessie M., daughter of William Y. Henry, teller of the First National Bank of Potsdam. They have one child, Lewis Dayton, now in his fourth year.
Dunkelberg, C. C., Gouverneur, was born in Canton, St. Lawrence county, February 25. 1862. His father, Samuel, was a marble cutter, and with him C. C. Dunkelberg learned his trade. He came to Gouverneur in 1889, and established his business here. His trade is large and he ships to all parts of the country. In 1886 he married Mamie Sabin, daughter of Joel Sabin of Canton, and they have one son, Charles. Mr. Dunkelberg also owns a business in Ogdensburg.
Dodd, Henry, Ogdensburg, was born in Canada, near the village of Toledo, Ontario, November 28, 1845. While very young he partly learned the shoe-maker's trade there. In 1860 he came to this country, and perfected himself in his chosen occupation. He was for fourteen years located in Adams, Jefferson county, and in 1874 became a citizen of this country. He came to Ogdensburg in the year 1880, and has since been a resident of that city. He conducts a boot and shoe store on Main street, west side, and does a general repair and manufacturing trade. His boot and shoes are most creditable productions, and he guarantees satisfaction or refunds the money. Mr Dodd was married twenty-three years ago, to Miss Eliza A. Wright, daughter of the Hon. David H. Wright, of Black Lake. They have six children living. He is a member of Acacian Lodge of Masons, No. 705.
Draper, W. H., Gouverneur, was born in Carthage, N. Y., September 9, 1864. He came to Gouverneur with his parents early in life and has been in the book and stationery business for several years. In September, 1886, he established his present business, which is the leading one in its line in Gouverneur, and has conducted it most successfully since. In June, 1891, Mr. Draper married Stella Matteson. His father, George Draper, was a resident of Gouverneur.
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Duff, William, Potsdam, was born in Watertown, Jefferson county, May 15, 1823, a son of William Duff of Scotch Irish extraction. The maternal ancestors were of the family of MacMasters, and the Baird family also are relatives, Captain M. Baird, marine adjuster, being a cousin of our subject. The first occupation of the latter was as a farmer being then only a lad. When sixteen years of age he went into the tannery of Jason Fairbanks, Watertown, N. Y., under whom he learned the tanner's trade. He spent four years with Fairbanks and followed the trade in different places ever since. He was at one time superintendent for E. R. Swasey & Co., tannery, for several years and was engaged in business in Copenhagen two years and in Antwerp. Duff & Fuller conducted a tannery two years. He was at the Ox Bow alone two years and in 1857 came to Potsdam, where a history of his business interests are found in another chapter. Mr. Duff has always been an active Republican, and has held the office of village trustee for a number of terms. Mr. Duff has for fourteen years been interested in Thousand Island Park; was trustee and director, and has been chairman of the Executive Committee which has the whole management. He has a beautiful cottage at the park where he and his family spend the summer months. Mr. Duff married in 1849 Henrietta Stimson of Antwerp, Jefferson county, daughter of Deacon Jeremy Stimson of that town, and they have two daughters. The death of Mrs. Duff occurred January 18, 1893.
Dardis, James Doran, Potsdam, was born in County Maith, Ireland, April 11, 1832, and came to this country with his parents in 1842. Thomas, father of our subject, first settled on a farm in the town of Canton where he spent the balance of his days, and died May 10, 1859, aged sixty-one years. The mother of our subject, Mary Doran, was also a native of County Maith, Ireland. They had eleven children, five of whom are living: Thomas, sheriff of Outtagama county, Wis .; Patrick H., a horse dealer of Bos- ton, Mass. ; William, also in Boston ; Mrs. Anna Lay, widow of Colonel Lay of New York city ; and James D. Mrs. Dardis died in 1886, aged eighty-nine years. James was only eighteen years of age when he became an apprentice to blacksmith L. V. Sherman of Canton, with whom he learned the trade and followed it for eleven years, nine years of that time in Madrid. September 1, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and served with this regiment until January 18, 1863, when he resigned on account of disability. He returned to Madrid and worked at his trade until 1867, when he became a stock drover, buying in St. Lawrence county and Canada, and shipping to Boston. During the six years he was engaged in the business he did over $10,000 worth of busi- ness per year. In 1873 he bought the Peter White farm of 165 acres in Potsdam, where he has since conducted a dairy farm of thirty-two cows, the milk being sent to the butter factory. Mr. Dardis is a Democrat. He married, November 16, 1858, Teresa, daughter of Jonas S. Fay of Madrid, and they have four children: Emmett F., Eliza- beth, a teacher of Tonawanda, N. Y., Helen, who lives at home, and James.
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