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Company; he is a director and a very im- portant factor in all these important en- terprises. Residence, 667 Madison Ave .; office, 135 Broadway, New York.
BLACKFORD, Eugene Gilbert:
Pisciculturist; born Morristown, N. J., Aug. 8, 1839; educated in public schools; entered business at age of fourteen; when twenty-five became fish-dealer in Fulton Market; improved on methods of freezing, storing and shipping fish; 1879, one of four Commissioners of Fish and Fisheries for New York State; brought about es- tablishment of hatching station for fish at Cold Spring Harbor; investigated de- crease of oysters in New York waters and published numerous papers on fish- eries; president Bedford Bank, Brooklyn; of American Writing Machine Company, New York; of Biological School, Cold Spring, N. Y .; vice-president Union Type- writer Company and Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Residence, 725 St. Marks Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
BLACKWELL, Antoinette Louisa Brown:
Author, reformer and minister; born Henrietta, Monroe County, N. Y., May 20, 1825; taught school at sixteen and preparing at Monroe County Academy, entered Oberlin, from which she gradu- ated 1847; vacations spent in teaching and studying Greek and Hebrew; after gradu- ating entered upon course of theological study at Oberlin; until the year 1850, was refused application for license to preach, but preached on her own respon- sibility; following four years given to study, preaching and lecturing on literary topics, abolition of slavery, and temper- ance; has been prominent in advocating woman's rights since her address at Woman's Rights Convention, Worcester, Mass., 1850; 1853, ordained pastor of Con- gregational Church of South Butler and Savannah, Wayne County, N. Y .; 1854, resigned, owing to ill health and doctrinal doubts; 1855, studied vice and its causes in New York City, publishing results in series of sketches entitled "Shadows of Our Social System"; 1856, married to Samuel C. Blackwell, brother of Elizabeth Blackwell; has become Unitarian, but still preaches occasional sermons; publications, "Studies in General Science" (New York, 1869), "The Market Woman," "The Is- land Neighbors" (1871), "The Sexes Throughout Nature" (1875), "The Physi- cal Basis of Immortality" (1876), "The Philosophy of Individuality, as the One and the Many" (1883), "Sea Drift" (poem, 1903). Author of the theory that each individual is both mind and matter, joint- ly; hence constitutionally immortal. Ad- dress, Elizabeth, N. J.
BLAIKIE, William:
Lawyer and author; born York, Living- ston County, N. Y., May 24, 1843; grad- uated Harvard 1866 and Harvard Law School 1868; next year went to England with Harvard crew as secretary and
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treasurer; spent one year in attorney- general's office at Washington and two years assistant in United States Attor- ney's office in New York; practiced law in New York City 1873; for eight years Commissioner of United States Court of Claims; has always taken deep interest in athletics, having written and lectured on that subject; published "How to Get Strong and How to Stay So" (New York, 1879), "Sound Bodies for Our Boys and Girls" (1884). Address, 35 Nassau St., New York, N. Y.
BLAIR, DeWitt C .:
Banker; director Lackawanna Steel Company, St. Louis and Hannibal Rail- way Company and Silver Peak Mining Company. Residence, 6 E. 61st St .; of- fice, 33 Wall St., New York.
BLAIR, James A .:
Banker; director Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway Company, St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company, New York Life Insurance Company and The Securities Company. Office, 33 Wall St., New York.
BLAKE, Joseph Augustus, M. D .:
Physician; born San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 31, 1864; studied Yale University; received degrees of B. A. from Yale, 1885; Ph. B., 1886; graduated from College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Uni- versity, 1889; attending surgeon to St. Luke's and Harlem Hospitals; member of American Surgical Association, Amer- ican Society of Clinical Surgery, New York Surgical Society, Association of American Anatomists, New York Acad- emy of Medicine, County Medical So- ciety, New York Academy of Sciences, County Medical Association, Medical As- sociation of the Greater City of New York, Yale and University Clubs; at present surgeon to the Roosevelt Hospital and professor of surgery at Columbia University. Address, 601 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y.
BLAKE, Lillie Devereux:
Reformer; born Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 12, 1835; after death of father she was taken to New Haven, where she was ed- ucated at Mrs. Apthorp's School and privately tutored in Yale course; she became a noted belle; interested in wom- an's enfranchisement, and since 1869 has lectured on subject; 1876, one of delegates from National Association that presented woman's declaration of rights in Philadel- phia, July 4, 1876; president of New York State Woman's Suffrage Association 1879-90, and first to ask admittance for women at Columbia College; fourteen years president of New York City Wom- and's Suffrage League; founder and hon- orary president of Society for Political Study; president of National Legislation League since its foundation in 1900; also of New York City Branch; president of Point of Woods Improve- ment Society; vice-president of New York
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City Mothers' Club; twice married; 1855, to Frank G. Quay Umsted, who died 1859, and 1866 to Grenfill Blake, of New York, who died 1896; Mrs. Blake has written many stories, letters and sketches for periodicals such as Atlantic Monthly, North American Review; publications, "Southhold" (New York, 1859), "Rock- ford, or Sunshine and Storm" (1863),
"Fettered for Life" (1873), "Woman's Place of To-day" lectures in answer to Dr. Morgan Dix's Sermons (1883) on "Calling of a Christian Woman," "A Daring Experiment" (1894); has contrib- uted to the press and given the prin- cipal efforts of
her life to secure legislation for the benefit of women, in the nation and in the State; she was largely instrumental in securing the ad- mission of women to the civil service and to the bar, their employment as enumer- ators of the census, the establishment of police matrons, and the granting of pen- sions to war nurses; in this State she se- cured statutes granting school suffrage to women, providing that there shall be seats for saleswomen, making mother and father equal guardians of the children, and many other reforms of importance; made many addresses on woman's rights. Address, 100 Lexington Ave., New York.
BLAKE, William Phipps:
Mineralogist; born New York City, 1826; graduated Yale, 1852 S. Ph.B; hon- orary A.M., Dartmouth; in 1853; geologist and mineralogist for U. S. Pacific Rail- way explorations and surveys; 1856-60, editor Mining Magazine and Journal Ge- ology; 1860, exploration of Comstock lode; appointed mining engineer Japanese Gov- ernment; 1863, explorations in China and Alaska; 1864, professor of geology and mining, College of California; organized School of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts for College of California; from 1896 to 1904, prof. of geology and mining, Univer- sity of Arizona; director of Arizona School of Mines and Geologist of the territory; connected officially with the great international expsitions, 1853 to 1904. Author of work and contributions to journals on geology, mining and met- allurgy; inventor of roasting furnace. Member various scientific societies; presi- dent Cosmos Club (science), Tuscon. Residence in summer, New Haven, Conn.
BLAKESLEE, Francis Durbin:
Clergyman of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, Central New York Confer- ence, and president of Cazenovia Semi- nary; he was born at Vestal, Broome County, N. Y .. Feb. 1, 1846; he prepared for college at Wyoming Seminary, Kings- ton. Pa., and was graduated in the first class from Syracuse University in 1872; he received the degree of A. M. from that institution in 1875 and the degree of S. T. D. from Wesleyan University, Connecti- cut, in 1889; Sept. 9, 1869, he was mar- ried to Augusta M. Hubbard, daughter
of the Hon. S. Hubbard, of Geneseo, N. Y .; he has three children, George Hub- bard, a member of the faculty of Clark University, Worcester, Mass .; Albert Francis, and Theodora Louise; he began teaching in the public schools of Penn- sylvania in 1863; was quartermaster's clerk of the Fifteenth New York Engin- eers, Rapahannock Station, Va., during the winter of 1863-64, and clerk in the office of quartermaster general, Wash- ington, D. C., from Feb., 1864, to July, 1865; he was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Canisteo, Steuben County, N. Y., from Jan. to Aug., 1868; was principal of the union school at Whitney's Point, N. Y., in 1869-70; was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at East Groveland, N. Y., from Aug., 1871, to Aug., 1873; was the principal of the East Greenwich Academy, Rhode Is- land, from 1873 to 1884, when he resigned and spent nearly a year in European travel; in the spring of 1886 he was ap- pointed pastor of the Thames St. Meth- odist Episcopal Church of Newport, R. I., where after one year of pastoral service, he was recalled to the principalship of the East Greenwich Academy, which po- sition he held from 1887 to 1889, when he was elected president of the Iowa Wes- leyan University at Mount Pleasant, Ia., where after one year's service he was called in 1900 to his present position at Cazenovia, N. Y.
BLANCHARD, James Armstrong:
Justice of the New York Supreme Court; was born in the village of Hen- derson, Jefferson County, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1845; he was the youngest of the six children of Philip and Catharine Drum- mond Blanchard, the former of whose ancestors were English, with a strain of French Huguenot-a people who have contributed much to maintaining a high standard of intellectual culture in this country; when nine years of age, young Blanchard's parents removed to Fond du Lac County, Wis., where they settled on a farm; but the father died when James was but fifteen years old, and the lad was thrown entirely upon his own re- sources; for several years following the death of his father, he worked on his mother's farm, and spent his spare hours in studying, and during the winter at- tending the district school; but when the Civil War began, enlisted in the army and served in Company I, of the Second Wis- consin Regiment, until close of the war; he entered himself for a course in Ripon College, soon after leaving the military service, and diligently pursued the clas- sical course in that institution, gradu- ating in 1871; he then removed to New York City, and matriculated at Columbia Law School, graduated in 1873, and was, the same year, admitted to practice in the courts of the State; justice of the Supreme Court of New York, 1900, term expiring,1915; is a member of the Bar
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Association, of Lafayette Post, Grand Army of the Republic; Kane Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; the Union League Club of New York, and the Republican Club, of the latter of which he has been honored with the presidency; and he was elected for five successive years to repre- sent the State of New York on the ex- ecutive committee of the Republican Na- tional League; in the councils of local and city politics he has taken a prominent position; he was a member of the Com- mittee of Thirty that organized the Re- publican party in New York County some years since, and was a member of the Committee of Seventy that organized and accomplished the defeat of Tammany Hall in 1894; he is universally recognized as one of the most sterling and stalwart members of the party organization, which owes not a little of its success in past campaigns in State and Nation to his counsel and guidance. Residenc, 17 East 80th St .; office, Court House, New York.
BLANCHARD, Rev. Joseph N., D. D .:
Clergyman; born Albany, N. Y .; gradu- ated from Amherst College, 1871; from Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn., 1874; M. A., Amherst, 1874; D. D., Amherst, 1895; rector St. James', Ford- ham, New York City, 1875 to 1885; St. John's, Detroit, Mich., 1885-90; St. James', Philadelphia, 1890-1900; deputy to General Convention Episcopal Church, 1886, 1889, 1892, 1895; delegate to Missionary Coun- cil since 1895 for Pennsylvania; mem- ber Standing Committee, Diocese of Mich- igan, 1885 to 1890; president Detroit Con- vocation, 1889-90; president Northwest Convocation, Philadelphia, 1899 to 1901 member Alpha Delta Phi Club, New York Loyal Legion. Address, 328 West 57th St., New York.
BLANCHET, John Baptiste:
Clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church; author and hymn-writer; son of Alexis and Leocade Oulette Blanchet; born in Ste. Anne, Illinois, June 23rd, 1856; was educated at the Kankakee (Ill.) High School; graduated at Hobart Col- lege with honors in 1882; attended lec- tures at Harvard University and the Epis- copal Theological School at Cambridge, 1883, graduated at the General Theological Seminary, New York, 1885; ordained dea- con in the Church of the Transfiguration, New York. by Bishop Seymour, May 29th, 1885; degree of Master of Arts conferred by Hobart College, in course, June, 1885; appointed curate at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Chicago, 1885; ordained priest in All Saints' Cathedral, Albany, N. Y., by Bishop Doane, Nov. 18th, 1885; and has since served continu- ously at the church's altar; in 1897 St. John's College (Md.) conferred upon him the degree of Doctor in Divinity for ad- vanced and independent research in Chris- tian evidences, church history, canon law and sociology; he is a member of the
Academy of Social and Political Science, of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, of the Masonic and Odd Fellow's Orders, and takes deep interest in all civic, economic and social questions of the day. Author of "For His Sake," dedicated to the Y. M. C. A., "The Crucifixion, Good Fri- day Three-hour Service," "Life and Poems of William Cullen Bryant," "The Sacred Wreath," addresses, lectures, hymns and poems, etc .; Dr. Blanchet belongs to an old distinguished French family which has given abbots, bishops and archbishops to the Church, besides authors, play- wrights, generals and senators, etc .; he was married to Miss Mary Lucretia, sec- ond daughter of the late Robert R. Cross, Esq., of Geneva, N. Y., June 2, 1884, whom he survives. Address, 175 West 102d St., New York.
BLASHFIELD, Edwin Howland:
Painter; born New York City, Dec. 15, 1848; educated Boston Latin. School and Harvard; 1867, sent abroad to study art, and worked ten years under Leon Bon- nat in Paris; made visits to Italy, Switz- erland, Germany and Belgium; returned to United States 1881; is artistic decorator of inside of buildings and houses; mem- ber and president of Society of American Artists, Association of the National Acad- emy, 1888; member of Water Color and Pastel Societies; has lectured art at Co- lumbia, Harvard and Yale; works, "A Poet" (Paris Salon, 1876), "Toreador" and "Monseigneur" 1877, "The Augur" 1878, "A Roman Emperor" 1879, "A Fencing Lesson, Roman Ladies" 1880, "The Be- sieged (exhibited at Royal Academies of London and Edinburgh, Liverpool, Man- chester, Bristol and Glasgow. Author (with wife) of "Italian Cities"; co-editor (with wife and A. A. Hopkins) Vasari's "Lives of the Painters." Address, Car- negie Building, New York.
BLEECKER, John Van Benthuysen:
Captain, United States Navy; born New York; entered Naval Academy Oct. 9, 1863; graduated 1867; Minnesota, special cruise, 1867-68; promoted to ensign 1868; Congress, North Atlantic Fleet, 1869-72; promoted to Master 1870; commissioned as lieutenant, 1871; torpedo service, 1873; Colorado, North Atlantic Station, 1873-74; Frolic, South Atlantic Station, 1875-77 Navy Yard, Washington, 1877-78; Naval Academy, 1878-81; training-ship Minne- sota, 1881; training-ship, New Hampshire, 1881-82; Kearsarge, North Atlantic Sta- tion, 1882-83; training-ship Minnesota, 1883-84; Hartford, Pacific Station, 1884- 87; Inspector of Steel, new cruisers, 1878- 88; receiving-ship New Hampshire, 1888- 89; Torpedo Station, 1889-90; Essex, South Atlantic Station, April, 1890, to August, 1893; promoted lieutenant commander, June 30, 1891; Navy Yard, Boston, Aug., 1893-94; ordered to Naval War College, June, 1894-96; ordered to the San Francis- co, June, 1896-97; commissioned as Com-
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mander, Dec., 1897; commanding U. S. S. Bancroft, Jan., 1898, to April, 1898; duty with Isla de Luzon, Nov. 27, 1899; com- manding Marietta, Jan. 31, 1900 to Oct., 1901; commissioned captain, June 3, 1902; captain of yard, also inspector of ord- nance, Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Wash.
BLEISTEIN, George:
The head of the Courier Printing Company, known as the largest show printing house in the world; at the age of fourteen he left public school which he had been attending and became an office boy in the office of the great con- cern which he now controls; at the age of nineteen years he was the superintend- ent of the concern, and, three years later, on the death of C. W. McCune, the then president, Mr. Bleistein was chosen for that position; in 1893 he was chosen chairman of the Erie County Home Rule Democracy; as editor and proprietor of the Morning Courier for some years. he was also the president of the New York State Press Association for two terms. Address, Buffalo, N. Y.
BLEYTHING, George Dacre, M. D .:
Born Morris County, N. J., Oct. 17, 1842; educated private tutor and Acad- emy, Trenton, N. J., and Columbia Col- lege; served as interne at St. Luke's Hos- pital, New York City, for some time; member Pathological Society, County Medical Society, Lenox Medical Society, Alumni St. Luke's Hospital and Physi- cian's Mutual Aid Society. Address, 1072 Madison Ave., New York.
BLISS, Cornelius Newton:
Merchant; born Fall River, Mass., Jan. 26, 1833; educated in public schools and academy of native town, and subsequently High School of New Orleans; entered office of step-father at latter place, later going to Boston and being engaged in dry goods house of James M. Bebee & Co .; that year partner of commission firm John S. & Eben Wright & Co .; subsequently head of branch house opened in New York City under name of Wright, Bliss & Fab- yan, firm later being reorganized to Bliss, Fabyan & Co .; active in politics as Repub- lican; delegate to several State and Na- tional Republican Conventions; 1884, chairman of committee of 100 to urge the nomination of Arthur for Presidency at National Convention; 1887-97. president of Protective Tariff League; treasurer of Na- tional Republican Committee, 1892, 1896, 1900; 1897-98, Secretary of Interior in the cabinet of President Mckinley; sub- sequently resigned; member of Interna- tional Conference, Washington, 1889; di- rector of Fourth National Bank, of Equitable Life Assurance Company, Home Insurance Company; trustee Cen- tral Trust Company and American Surety Company; president of Union League Club, 1902-03; member of Metropolitan, Century, Lotos, Republican, Lawyers
Clubs, New York, and Metropolitan, Washington: also has been president of New England Society: member and vice- president of Chamber of Commerce; pres- ident of New York Hospital. Residence, 198 Madison Ave .; address, 117 Duane St., New York.
BLISS, Eliphalet W .:
President of the United States Projec- tile Company, and inventor of special ma- chinery; was born at Cooperstown, Ot- sego County, New York State, in 1836, and was educated at the public schools; at age of sixteen he was apprenticed to Metcalf & Livingston, who ran large ma- chine shops near Cooperstown, N. Y .; ultimately became a journeyman ma- chinist to the New York Central & Hud- son River Railroad, at Syracuse, and afterwards held the same position at the large metal works of the Charles Parker Gun Company, at Meriden, Conn .; at twenty-three he was manager of the gun company, and left it to go to fight for the Union; he joined Company I, of the Third Connecticut Regiment, and he was honorably discharged at the end of his term of service; after the war again man- aged the gun works; subsequently he . joined Andrew Campbell, the inventor of the Campbell Printing Press. and worked with him for one year; then he started for himself, in a modest way, in the City of Brooklyn, as a manufacturer of special machinery for sheet metal goods; he made special machinery for stamping out cans for oil paint; to-day he is at the head of a corporation controlling a capital of over $2,500,000, and employing one thou- sand skilled mechanics; he controls the patents of the Whitehead Torpedoes and is president of the United States Pro- jectile Company; in 1886 married, at Coop- erstown, a daughter of one of his former employers; for many years he has been a large holder of Brooklyn real esate, and owns a beautiful residence, observatory and park at Bay Ridge, which overlooks New York Bay. He is a member of Union League, Metropolitan and Brooklyn Clubs, and the New York, Atlantic, American, Larchmont and Eastern Yacht Clubs. Residence, 4 East 61st St., New York; of- fice, 17 Adams St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
BLISS, Robert Woods:
U. S. Consul; was born Aug. 5, 1875, at St. Louis, Mo .; resident of New York City; graduated from Harvard University; clerk in office of secretary of Porto Rico; later appointed private secretary of Porto Rico; later appointed private secretary to Governor Hunt of Porto Rico; appoint- ed consul at Venice, Italy, June 18, 1903. Address, Venice, Italy.
BLISS, William Henry:
Lawyer; born in Cuyahoga Falls, O., Oct. 27, 1844; married. Was assistant and afterwards United States district attorney at St. Louis, Mo., 1872-87; later vice-
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president and general solicitor St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company, and then associate counsel Northern Pacific Rail- road Company. Member Union League, Metropolitan, Grolier, Players, Barnard and Riding Clubs; also the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Down Town Association, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Municipal Art Society, Metropolitan Club of Washington, and St. Botolph Club of Boston. Address, 6 East 65th St., New York.
BLOEDE, Gertrude:
Poet; born in Dresden, Germany, Aug. 10, 1845; daughter of Dr. Gustavus Bloede, prominent as Liberal in revolution of 1848; early came with family to United States, residing in Brooklyn; began to contribute verses to magazines; 1875, pub- lished volume of "Poems," favorably crit- icised by Richard Grant White in New York Times; for this criticism the poem "Angelo" was dedicated to him, and, be- ing published, went through twenty-three editions, 1877-96; published also "Giorgio," 1881; "Beyond the Shadow and Other Poems," 1888; "Piero da Castiglione," 1893. Address, 34 Greene Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
BLOSSOM, Benjamin:
Merchant; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 20, 1858; son of Charles W. and Mary W. (Cooke) Blossom; educated at private schools and Columbia College School of Mines. He was a partner of the firms of E. Nelson Tibbals & Co. and of Horace Dickerman, New York; director of Bleek- er Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad Com- pany, New York. Member of the Union League Club of New York, New York Riding, New York Yacht, Nassau County, and Tuscarora Clubs; also of Sons of Am- erican Revolution, American Museum of Natural History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Veteran Association, Twenty-third Regiment, and Company A, Twenty-third Regiment; honorary member of Company A and Company I, Twenty-third Regi- ment, N. G. N. Y. Married, first, Sarah B. Smith, Oct. 7. 1886; second, Minnie Pettigrew Cole, Nov. 1. 1898. Address, 844 Fifth Ave., New York.
BLOOMINGDALE, Emanuel ' Watson:
Merchant; born in Rome, N. Y., Nov. 25, 1852; graduated from Columbia with de- gree of LL.B .; owner of large department store. In 1900 he was Republican Presi- dential elector; director of Jewish Prison- ers' Aid Association, of Jewish Juvenile Asylum, of Lotos, Harmonie, and other clubs. Residence, 42 West 69th St., New York.
BLOOMINGDALE, Lyman C .:
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Merchant; one of the proprietors of Bloomingdale Brothers' department store; director of Arcade Realty Company, Con- solidated National Bank and Hudson Oil Company. Residence, 21 East 63d St., New York.
BLOOR, A. J .:
Consulting architect in building cases needing abitration; many years trustee and secretary American Institute Archi- tects and its New York Chapter; a found- er and life member Metropolitan Museum of Art; member Willard Architectural Commission, supplying museum with large models of famous buildings; life member American Numismatic and Archeological Society; member various art societies, American and foreign; mem- ber New York Century Club. Author of many monographs on diverse subjects; translator from most European languages; assistant secretary U. S. Sanitary Com- mission during Civil War. Address, Cen- tury Club, New York.
BLUMENTHAL, Maurice B .:
Lawyer; born in this city in 1870, and educated in the public schools. the College of the City of New York, and the Uni- versity of the City of New York; during the period of his attendance at college he supported himself, and paid the expenses of his education through his earnings as a newspaper reporter and contributor to literary magazines. He was for several years editor of the Literary Review; ad- mitted to the bar in 1891. He is the son of School Inspector Benjamin Blumenthal, and the grandson of the late Rev. Simon Blumenthal, who was the first rabbi of the present Congregation Rodeph Sholom, at 63d St. and Lexington Ave. Upon the reorganization of Tammany Hall, in 1895, was assigned to organize a speakers' Bur- eau, which he established as a permanent auxiliary of the Tammany Hall Executive Committee; continued at the head of this committee ever since. He has repeatedly been selected as delegate to county and State conventions of the Democratic party; in 1896 he
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