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PEDRICK, William E .:
Operator of coal mines; born in the coal regions of Pennsylvania; grandparents and progenitors early colonists of Marble- head, Mass. Boyhood and early manhood a resident of Cleveland, O. A cavalry of- ficer in the civil war. Services in the In- dian country, western territories and States, and in the Tennessee and Virgin- ia armies. A miner and shipper of coal in Ohio. Removed to western frontier in 1884. Associated with an Amsterdam corpora- tion owning the Spanish Maxwell Land Grant in Colorado and New Mexico; aided in its development in the lumber and cat- tle industry; the extension of railroads, opening coal mines, erection of coke ovens, and construction of irrigating canal sys- tems. Built irrigating canals in Colo- rado and Idaho. Chairman of executive committee of State of Colorado on irriga- tion. Persistent advocate of the irriga- tion bill until its recent passage by Con- gress. For twenty years a student of the coal measures of the Rocky mountains,
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and a pioneer in the discovery and loca- tion of anthracite coal in that region. A publicist as evidenced by frequent con- tributions to the press in opposing an Isthmian canal, and with his coadjutor, the late Captain John Codman, of New York, an opposer of Senator Hanna's ship subsidy bill, believing that until the country from the 97th meridian to the Pacific coast (with which he is familiar) is more thoroughly developed by railroads, irrigation and increase of population, that no ship canal should interfere with or re- tard; that the only ship subsidy measure really desirable is that which will aid in colonizing our North Pacific coast, and that will develop the trade of the Orient with that portion of our coun- try. A director in a few corporations; retired. Resides near Tarrytown, New York. New York address, 52 Broadway.
PEET, Frederick Tomlinson:
Coal and coke merchant; was born Aug. 7, 1841, in the old family home, Brooklyn Heights; attended Churchill Military Academy, Sing Sing, N. Y. Went to the war April, 1861, day Fort Sumter was fired on. Service in Seventh New York Regiment and First U. S. Sharp- shooters (Berdan's) as lieutenant Com- pany H, from New York State, all of same year. In 1862 was commissioned second lieutenant U. S. Marine Corps. War service-Washington, Army of the Potomac, General Fitz John Porter's and General Sumner's corps. Was in battles of Yorktown, Peach Orchard, Hanover Court House, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp Bridge, Glendale or Nelson's Farm. Was severely wounded in latter battle and taken prisoner to Libby Pris- on, Richmond, Va. Later was exchanged. Was with Marine Battalion at Morris and Folley Island, Charleston, S. C., in 1863, and on the U. S. S. Niagara in European waters. Promoted to first lieutenant, 1864. Served in Washington. Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Mare Island, Cal .; resigned in 1868 or 1869. Is now engaged in coal and coke business. Member of Loyal Le- gion, G. A. R., Army and Navy Club, etc., etc. Address, Auburn, N. Y.
PELL (Miss). Ella Ferris:
Artist; born in St. Louis Jan. 18, 1846, but the latter part of her life to the pres- ent time has been spent in the eastern section of the country. In 1860 began art study at the Woman's School of the Coop- er Union and concluded under Dr. Will- iam Rimoner, of Boston, in 1867. health compelled a cessation of all study for five years. From 1872 to 1878 traveled abroad. visiting most of the art collec- tions of Europe; spent much time in. Rome and a winter in Egypt, Palestine and Constantinople, returning to Switz- erland via the Danube and Vienna; the painting of several large canvases was the result of this visit. In 1888 made a
second visit to Paris and studied two years in the Ecole des Beaux Arts des Champs Elysée under the professorships of Jean Paul Laurens, Ferdinand Hum- bert and Gaston Saint Pierre. In 1889 exhibited in the Paris Salon large paint- ing of the "Fall of Adam." The follow- ing year exhibited two pictures-"Sa- lomé" and a portrait of her sister, these later exhibited at the National Academy
of Design. Has been vice-president of the Ladies' Art Association and president of the Liberal Art League of New York. Has been an extensive exhibitor in the galleries of the country. Has also painted "Storm Gods of the Rig-Veda," and done some black and white illustrations of the "Song Celestial," by Edwin Arnold. Ad- dress, Van Dyck Studios, 939 Eighth Ave., New York.
PELTZ, Hamilton:
Journalist; graduated (A. B.) from Uni- versity of Rochester; was reporter on The Times, Philadelphia, Pa., 1883-85; re- porter, associate news editor, news edi- tor and managing editor of The Press, Philadelphia, Pa., 1885-93; attached to New York Herald staff as night city edi- tor and assistant city editor, New York City, 1893-96; special correspondent to Cuba, 1896; war correspondent with Ad- miral Sampson's fleet, 1898. In charge New York Herald's news and relief ser- vice, Martinique and St. Vincent, during volcanic eruptions and through Ambas- sador Cambon received thanks of French government, May-June, 1902; editor New York Evening Telegram, 1903-1904. Ad- dress, The Evening Telegram, Herald Sq., New York.
PENDLETON, J. Philip B .: .
Clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church and author of miscellaneous writ- ings; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 18, 1855; son of Robert S. and Mary A. Pendleton, formerly of Virginia. Spent three years at Rutgers College with the class of 1875, receiving the degree of B. A. in 1876. Graduated from the General Theological Seminary in 1877; ordained deacon by Bishop Scarborough, in Trinity Church, Trenton, N. J., 1877, and priest, by Bishop Howe, in Christ Cathedral, Reading, Pa., 1879. Was assistant minister in the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D. C., from 1877 to 1879; rector of St. Luke's Church, Scranton, Pa., from 1879 to 1885, and rector of St. George's Church, Schenectady, N. Y., from 1885 to the pres- ent time. Received degree of S. T. B. from the General Theological Seminary in 1880, and D. D. from Union College in 1896; secretary of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Albany; examining chaplain, deputy to the Federate Council, provisional deputy to the General Conven- tion, delegate to the Missionary Council, member of the Committee on Constitu- tion and Canons, president of the Com-
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mission on Church Work Among the Deaf and Dumb, vice-president of the Hospital Association of Schenectady and chairman of the Executive Committee. One of the vice-presidents of the Bible and Prayer Book Society of Albany and Vicinity. Married Edith Frink Hower, of Scranton, Pa., in 1880. Author of "The Church and the Ministry the Resultant of the Incar- nation," "The Early History of the Church in the Mohawk Valley,' "The Vi- cissitudes of the Civil Service," etc. Ad- dress, Schenectady, N. Y.
PENFIELD, Frederic Courtland:
Author and diplomatist; born in East Haddam, Conn., April 23, 1855; graduated at Russell's Military School, New Haven, later pursued special studies in Europe. Married, in 1892, Katharine Albert Mc- Murdo, daughter of late Albert Wells, of New York, and widow of Colonel Ed- ward McMurdo, of London. Had thor- ough schooling in journalism; several years on editorial staff of Hartford Cour- ant; appointed U. S. vice-consul-general at London in 1885, and was U. S. diplo- matic agent and consul-general (with rank of minister resident) to Egypt, 1893- 97; elected fellow Royal Geographical Society, London, 1886; officer of French Academy, 1898, and awarded "Palms d'- Academique" by French government; given grand cross of Order of Medjidieh by Sultan of Turkey, and grand comman- der degree of Order of Osmanieh by Khe- dive of Egypt, 1897; also has Legion of Honor of France, Takova Cross of Ser- via and other European decorations. Is
author of "Present-Day Egypt" and "Mah- moud Pasha of the D. P. W.," published by Century Company; for years has been frequent writer of articles on economic and international subjects in North American Review, The Forum, Century Magazine and leading English reviews; took prominent part as writer in discussing relative merits of Panama and Nicarag- uan canal routes, and in North American Review of Feb., 1902, urged government to discard Nicaraguan project and secure by purchase from Colombia the depart- ment of Panama; is recognized authority on subjects pertaining to modern Egypt, Caribbean affairs, and political and trade situations in Latin-America. Member nu- merous clubs, including Authors, New York Yacht, Manhattan and Players, of New York. Address, Manhattan Club, Madison Sq., New York ..
PENROSE, George H .:
Captain, U. S. Army; born in White- hall, N. Y., June 4, 1861; graduate of medical department of the University of Buffalo, N. . Y., 1886. Major, brigadier surgeon, June 16, 1898; major, surgeon, March 11, 1901; honorably discharged, April 19, 1901; captain, quartermaster, Feb. 2, 1901. Address, Constructing Quar- termaster, Port Townsend, Wash.
PEOPLE'S, William T .:
Librarian; born in Wilmington, Del., 1843; graduated from St. Mary's Col- lege, in his native town, 1862. Has been director, vice-president and corresponding secretary of the Mercantile Library, of New York, since 1872; has also been li- brarian of same; is trustee of the Essex County (N. J.) Savings Bank; has been president of New York Library Club and New York State Library Association. Residence, 200 Arlington Ave., East Or- ange, N. J .; office, Mercantile Library, New York.
PERKINS, Charles Albert:
Lawyer; born at Lawrence, Mass., Jan. 26, 1869; son of Albert C. Perkins, who was principal of Phillips Exeter Acad- emy, 1873-83, and subsequently of the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn; graduated from Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, 1886; Dartmouth College, 1890, and New York Law School, 1893. Was admitted to bar, 1893; deputy assistant district attorney of New York County, 1897 and 1902; as- sistant district attorney of New York County. 1903-1904. Address, 109 West 45th St., New York.
PERKINS, George Hamilton:
Postmaster; graduated from University of Rochester; in mercantile pursuits in Rochester. N. Y., 1872-98; postmaster, Rochester, N. Y., 1894-98. Address, Roch- ester, N. Y.
PERKINS, George W .:
Financier; born in Chicago, Ill., 1862; became connected with the New York Life Insurance Company, Chicago branch, 1877; held in turn various offices in that com- pany, becoming superintendent of the Western department, 1899; second vice- president, in charge of the New York of- fice, 1892; since 1901 has been member of the firm of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., and is also connected with variousother financial corporations. , Residence, River- dale, N. Y .; office, 23 Wall St., New York.
PERKINS, James Breck:
Republican Congressman of Rochester; was born at St. Croix Falls, Wis., Nov. 4, 1847; was educated at the Rochester common schools and graduated from the University of Rochester in 1867; was ad- mitted to the practice of the law in Dec., 1868, and has since practiced his profes- sion in Rochester; in 1874 he was elected city attorney of Rochester for a term of two years, and in 1878 was re-elected for a second term. From 1890 to 1895, Mr. Perkins lived in Paris, engaged in work on French history; in 1887 his "France Under Mazarin" was published; in 1892, "France Under the Regency;" in 1897, "France Under Louis XV," and in 1900 a "Life of Richelieu," as one of the Heroes
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of the Nation Series; in 1897 received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Rochester, and is a member of the Na- tional Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1895 Mr. Perkins returned to Rochester, and in 1898 served in the New York State Assembly from the First District of Mon- roe County; was elected to the Fifty-sev- enth Congress, and re-elected to the Fif- ty-eighth Congress. Address, Rochester, N. Y.
PERLEY, Frank Lee:
Lawyer, journalist and theatrical man- ager; descended from a distinguished New England and Irish ancestry; born in Erie, Pa., April 21, 1859; admitted to Supreme Court, Washington, D. C., and Erie County, Pa., courts; graduated from Columbian, University, law department. - Journalist on New York, Philadelphia and . Pittsburg newspapers; an expert in ad- : vertising; one of the leading amusement managers of America" and associated managerially with Madame Modjeska, Fanny Davenport, Mrs. John Drew, Ag- nes Booth, Rose Coghlan, Cora Tanner, Effie Ellsler, Marie Cahill, J. H. Stoddard, William Collier, Robert Hilliard, Jerome Sykes, the Alice Nielson Opera Company, the Conried Opera Company, Bostonians Opera Company. the Chaperons Opera Company, Frank Daniels' Opera .Com- pany. Klaw & Erlanger Opera Company, in "The Billionaire," "When Knighthood Was in Flower," the. "Bonnie Brier Bush," the "Sporting Dutchess," and Barnum & Bailey. and Ringling Bros. circuses, etc. Is a thirty-second degree mason and af- filliated with the New York Consistory and Mecca Temple. Member of the Lambs, Green Room, and other clubs. Address, 1402 Broadway, New York.
PERRY, Thomas:
Captain, U. S. Navy; was born in New York; appointed an acting midshipman at Naval Academy, Sept., 21, 1861; grad-' uated, 1865; school-ship Sabine, 1866. Pro- moted to ensign, Dec. 1, 1866; Pensacola, North Pacific Fleet, 1867; Suwanee (third rate), Pacific Fleet, 1868; Dictator (iron- clad), N. A. Station, 1869; Miantonomah (second rate), special service, 1870. Com- missioned as lieutenant, March 26, 1869; Shenandoah, European Fleet, 1871-72; Manhattan, North Atlantic Fleet, 1873- 74; Omaha, South Pacific, 1875-77; Naval Observatory, 1878-79; Swatara, Asiatic
Station, 1879-81; Alert, Asiatic Station,
1881-82. Promoted to lieutenant-com- mander, Nov., 1881; lighthouse inspector, 1883-86; Brooklyn, Asiatic Station, 1887- 89; lighthouse duty, 1890 to Dec., 1892. Promoted to commander, Jan. 10, 1892; general inspector of the Castine, Feb., 1893; commanding Castine, 1894-96; light- house inspector, 1897 to 1898; command- ing Lancaster, flagship, base of operations,
Key West, during Spanish War, and until March, 1899; naval secretary, Lighthouse Board, from that date until March, 1901. Promoted to captain, June 11, 1899; com- mand battleship Iowa, April 1, 1901, to May 11, 1903; captain. Navy Yard, New York, May 11, 1903, which is present sta- tion.
PETERS, Rev. John Punnett, Ph.D., Sc. D., D.D .:
Protestant Episcopal clergyman (now rector of St. Michael's Church), archeolo- gist and author; born in New York, Dec. 16, 1852; son of, the late Rev. Dr. Thomas McClure Peters and Alice Clarissa Rich- mond. Married, Aug. 13, 1881, Gabriella Brooke, daughter of Thomas Forman, of Savannah, Ga. Graduated from Yale in 1873; tutor at Yale University from 1876- 79, instructing in Greek and Latin. In 1876 ordained a deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in 1877 a priest; from March, 1881, to Oct., 1882, minister in charge of St. John's American Church in Dresden; Sept. 1, 1884, accepted pro- fessorship of Old Testament languages and literature in the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School, West Philadelphia, and in 1886 became professor of Hebrew in University of Pennsylvania; director of the University of Pennsylvania; expedi- tion to Babylonia from 1888 to 1891, mak- ing important archæological discoveries. Elected assistant rector of St. Michael's Church, New York, in 1891, when he re- signed professorship in Divinity School; resigned professorship in the University of Pennsylvania in June, 1893; elected rector of St. Michael's Church in 1893 on the death of his father, being installed in Oct .. of that year. President of Inde- pendent Club and member of American Oriental Society, Society of Biblical Lit- erature and Exegesis, the Century Club, Archæological Institute of America, River- side and Morningside Heights Association, and others; is also on the executive com- mittee of numerous charitable and ben -. evolent institutions, such as the Shelter- ing Arms, Children's Fold and House of Rest for Consumptives, etc. Author of "Scriptures, Hebrew and Christian," and "The Bible for Home and School" in con- junction with Edward T. Bartlett, M. A .; "The Bible as ; Literature," in conjunc- tion with others; "Nippur, or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates," the "Diary of David McClure," "The Old Tes- tament and the New Scholarship," as well as numerous pamphlets, articles and re- views. He spent the summer of 1902 trav- eling in the East, where, in company with Dr. Herman Thiersch, discovered some important tombs and inscriptions at .._ arissa, a monograph of which, by him- self and Dr. Thiersch, is shortly to be published under the auspices of the Pal- estine Exploration Fund. Address, 227 West 99th St., New York.
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PETERSON, Frederick, M.D .:
Physician; was born in Faribault, Minn., March 1, 1859, and was educated by pri- vate tutors and in the Universities of Buffalo, Vienna, Göttingen and Strass- burg; received degrees of Ph.D., Niagara University; M. D., medical department of University of Buffalo, 1879. Professor of pathology University of Buffalo, 1882-84; first assistant physician Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane, 1884-88; chief of clinic, department for nervous diseases, Columbia University, 1888-1903; professor of nervous and mental diseases, University of Vermont, 1892-93. Presi- dent of the New York Neurological So- ciety, 1893-1900; one of the founders and president of the board of managers of the Craig Colony for Epileptics, 1892- 1901; instructor in nervous diseases at Columbia University, 1898-1903; consult- ing physician to the Manhattan State Hospitals for the Insane; consulting neur- ologist to the Randall's Island institu- tions; ex-visiting neurologist to the City Hospital, Blackwell's Island. Since May, 1901, and at the present time, president of the New York State Commission of Lunacy; professor of psychiatry Colum- bia University, 1903. Author of numerous articles on nervous and mental diseases in medical periodicals and books; joint author with Dr. Church of a work on "Nervous and Mental Diseases," published by Saunders & Co., Philadelphia, now in its fourth edition; joint author with Pro- fessor Haines of "Peterson and Haines' American Text-book of Legal Medicine and Toxicology " in two volumes; editor of Von Hoffmann's Hand Atlas of Legal Medicine; author of "Poems and Swedish Translations," Peter Paul & Bro., Buffa- lo, 1883, and of "In the Shade of Ygdrasil," G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. Member of the following clubs: Century, Authors', Lotos, National Arts, Barnard and New York Athletic. Residence, 4 West 50th St., New York.
PETTIT, George A .:
President of Fordham College since 1900; was born in Dunmore, Ireland, Sept. 15, 1858; educated by private tutors in New York City, and completed philosophical and divinity studies at Woodstock College, Woodstock, Md. Entered the Society of Jesus, July 30, 1880; after the seven years of preparatory training customary with the Jesuits, he taught English and class- ics at Gonzaga College, Washington, D. C., from 1887 to 1890, and in Fordham College from 1890 to 1892. Returning to Woodstock Theological Seminary, he was there ordained to the priesthood in 1895 by Archbishop Satolli; one year later again transferred to Fordham College, for two years he performed the duties of the prefect of discipline and vice-president. During 1898 his third year of noviceship was spent in Frederick, Md .; reappointed in 1899 to the office of vice-president and
prefect of studies at Fordham; on Aug. 20, 1900, he succeeded the Rev. Thomas J. Campbell as president of the college. Address, St. John's College, Fordham, New York City.
PHELAN, James J .:
Contractor; born in old Ninth Ward, New York; educated in the public schools and St. Francis Xavier's College. At the age of eighteen was engaged in whole- sale and retail grocery business at Ford- ham, N. Y .; subsequently formed the firm of Phelan & Duval, importers, at 22 South William St., New York City; 1884, be- came secretary and treasurer of the Am- erican Contracting & Dredging Company, which company built fifteen miles of the Panama Canal; 1891 was appointed treas- urer of Department of Docks, which posi- tion he held for four years; treasurer of Manhattan Refrigerating Company, New York, Kings County Refrigerating Com- pany, Brooklyn, Astoria Cordage Com- pany, Pontiac Building Company; director Stuyvesant Insurance Company, treasurer of the Catholic Club of New York; mem- ber Democratic, Tilden, Manhattan Clubs; Friendly Sons St. Patrick, Catholic Benev- olent Legion. Address, 16 Exchange Pl., New York.
PHELPS, Charles, M.D .:
Born Vermont, Dec. 12, 1834. A. B., Brown, 1855; M. D., Physicians and Sur- geons, 1858. Demonstrator of Anatomy, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1861- 63; visiting surgeon, St. Vincent's Hospi- tal since 1870; Bellevue Hospital since 1878; consulting surgeon Gouverneur Hos- pital. Late president Society of the Al- umni of Bellevue Hospital. Address, 114 West 55th St., New York.
PHELPS, Edward Bunnell:
Editor, author; born at New Haven, Conn., July 26, 1863; son of Alfred W. and Mary A. (Bunnell) Phelps; prepared for Yale at Hillhouse High School, and was graduated in the class of 1885, receiv- ing the degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1902. While in college he wrote for various newspapers; was employed on the New Haven Palladium for about one year after graduation, and acted as cor- respondent for many newspapers in all sections of the country, and in 1886 re- moved to New York City, and there served in various capacities for several years on staffs of the New York World, Times, Herald. and Mail and Express, incidental- ly acting as night editor of the local bureau of the Associated Press for about one year, extensively contributing to vari- ous syndicates, and for several months being associated with the well known artist, the late C. De Grimm, as editor of the De Grimm Syndicate. Was financial secretary and a trustee of the New York Press Club in 1889-91, and in 1892 was a delegate to the annual convention of the
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International League of Press Clubs at San Francisco. In 1890 resigned from the Mail and Express staff in order to inaug- urate a syndicate service of "Club News and Gossip" in all the New York Sunday newspapers; for two years devoted his entire time to that specialty, and con- tributed articles on club subjects to vari- ous newspapers and magazines. In 1894 founded the monthly insurance journal, originally known as Thrift, but latterly published under the name of The Ameri- can Underwriter, and has since edited and published that paper, becoming president of the Thrift Publishing Company in 1899. In 1898 compiled and published the first study of "War Risks" ever published in this country, and in 1901 supplemented that work with one issued under title of "Tropical Hazards." In 1899 began com- pilation of an international cyclopædia on the subject of the best clubs of the civil- ized world, and has since labored on those lines. The work in question is in press at this writing, and will be published in the early months of 1904 in two imperial quarto volumes under the title of "Phelps' Universal Club-Book," and in addition to complete sketches of the history and distinctive character of each of the seven hundred leading clubs of the world and views of about one hundred of these clubs specially taken for the purpose, will con- tain the first exhaustive sociological study of "The Origin and Evolution of the Mod- ern Club" ever attempted on either side of the Atlantic. In 1897, Mr. Phelps was married to Blanche Louise Lewis Dey; was master of Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 610, F. & A. M., in 1903; is a fellow of the American Statistical Association; a mem- ber of the Sons of the American Revolu- tion-both his grandfather and great- grandfather having been Revolutionary soldiers-and is a member of the Lotos, Yale and Underwriters' Clubs, of New York City, and an associate member of the Life Underwriters Association of New York. Residence, 17 West 84th St .; office, 141 Broadway, New York.
PHELPS, John Jay:
Capitalist; born Sept. 27, 1861, Paris, France; son of Hon William Walter Phelps and Ellen Sheffield. President Strong & Trowbridge Company, Swan Electric Manufacturing Company; vice- president Gas & Electric Company, Ber- gen County. Served through Spanish- American War as ensign, U. S. Navy; was first American to circumnavigate world in his own yacht (1885-1887) ; holds record for four-in-hand long coaching drive, 1,515 miles (1900). Graduated from Yale, 1883. Member Union League, University, Yale, New York Yacht, Seawanhaka Yacht, of New York; Sachems Head Yacht, of Guil- ford, Conn .; Oritani Field, Hackensack Golf, Hackensack Wheelmen, of Hacken- sack, N. J .; Englewood Field, Hamilton Club, Paterson; Graduates Club, New Ha- ven; Wantage Outing, Sussex, N. J .; New
England, Founders and Patriots, Sons of Revolution, Spanish War Veterans, Am- erican Geographical Society. Director of U. S. Trust Company, Cayuga & Susque- hanna Railroad, American Graphophone Company, New York & Texas Land Com- pany, Hackensack National Bank, Engle- wood Sewerage Company; Hackensack Trust Company. Interested in local poli- tics, yachting, and coaching. Holds mas- ter's certificate and pilot's license from U. S. government. Residence, Red Tow- ers, Teaneck, Hackensack, N. J .; address, 100 Broadway, New York.
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