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MCINTYRE, Thomas Alexander:
Banker; born in New York. Oct. 19, 1855; educated in the local schools of this city. He began business career in a clerk -.
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ship in the grain and produce house of David Bingham; afterward entered the employment of David Dows, in the same line of business; 1878, engaged in grain business on his own account, as the head of the firm of McIntyre & Bingham. May 1, 1879, he formed partnership with Hen- ry L. Wardwell, under firm name of Mc- Intyre & Wardwell, which firm has been for years reputed to be the largest deal- ers in grain in the United States, having long purchased all the grain used by the Hecker-Jones-Jewell Milling Company of New York. He is one of the organizers and treasurer of that company, also the organizer and 'vice-president and chair- man of the executive committee of the great Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company, which controls the bulk of the water-front facilities of that part of the metropolis; is a director of the Corn Ex- change Bank; vice-president of the Hud- son River Bank; vice-president and trus- tee of Produce Exchange Trust Company; a leading director of the International Elevating Company; director of Cuban and Pan-American Express Company, also a director of the State Trust Company, and a member of the committee of man- agement of the Royal Insurance Company. He owns a large tract of pine forest in North Carolina, where he has established, besides his mills and other works, a winter home; has held no political office, but he has long taken a keen interest in public affairs. Generally he has been identified with the Democratic party, but in the National campaign of 1896 he sup- ported the Republican ticket on the Sound Money issue. Is one of the foremost mem- bers of the Produce Exchange, and of the Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Metropolitan, Manhattan, Colonial. Reform, Lawyers, Down Town, New York Athletic, New York Yacht, Suburban. Riding and Driving, and other clubs. Was married, in 1879, to Miss Anna Knox, daughter of Henry Knox, of the New York Bar. Address, 1 West 75th St., New York.
MCINTYRE, W. H .:
Fourth vice-president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York; born in New York City, Jan. 7, 1865; received his education in the public schools of that city, and since leaving school has devoted his time to the Equitable Life Assurance Company. Address, 120 Broadway, New York.
MACK, Norman Edward:
Editor and publisher; was born in West Williams, Ontario, July 24, 1855; edu- cated in the schools near his home. In 1879 he started the Sunday Times; during the campaigns of 1884, 1888 and 1892, he and his paper gave generous support to the candidacy of Grover Cleveland. In 1892 he was alternate delegate to the Chi-
cago Convention and later the represen- tative from New York State to notify Mr. Cleveland of his nomination. He is known as the head of the greatest newspaper establishment in the western part of New York State. Residence, 1100 Delaware Ave .; office, 193 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y.
MACKAY, Clarence H .:
Capitalist; son of the late John W. Mackay, one of the founders of the Mac- kay-Bennett Commercial Cable Company. Is president of the Commercial Cable and Telegraph Company, Postal Telegraph Cable Company, Pacific Cable Company, American Forcite Powder Manufacturing Company, Commercial Cable Company of Cuba. He is a member of the New York Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, Union, Lawyers, Metropolitan, and other clubs of New York. Residence, Hempstead, L. I .; of- fice, 253 Broadway, New York.
McKELWAY, St. Clair:
Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle; born in Missouri, March 15, 1845; in 1853 his par- ents removed to New Jersey; educated at Blackwood Academy and by private tu- tors. In 1863 he became city editor of the Trenton Monitor; 1864, began the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1866; 1867, became assistant editor of the New York World; 1869, became as- sociated with the Brooklyn Eagle; 1878, became chief editor of the Albany Argus; 1885, was called to the same position on the Eagle; was elected as regent of the State University in 1883. He has given many public addresses among which are "The Press and the Pulpit," "Need of Reform in Expert Testimony," " "The Law- yer and the Times," and "Plea for Old- Fashioned Preachers." Is a member of Long Island Historical Society, Suffolk County Historical Society, Society of Med- ical Jurisprudence, and of the Board of Regents of the State of New York. He has been honored with doctorates from Union, Syracuse and St. Lawrence Uni- versities. Residence, 21 Monroe Place; office, Eagle Office, Brooklyn, N. Y.
MACKENZIE, Rev. James Cameron, A. B., Ph.D .:
Teacher and clergyman; was born in + Scotland; educated in Phillips Exeter Academy, Lafayette College, Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the founder of Harry Hillman Academy (incorpor- ated); organizer and for eighteen years (1882-99) head master of Lawrenceville School; reorganized Tone Institute, Port Deposit. Md .. of which he was director, 1899-1901; planned and directed new grounds and buildings costing $800,000; since 1901 director of the Mackenzie School. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. One of the three founders of the Head Masters' As- sociation. of which he has been secretary and president; president of the Associa-
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tion of Schools and Colleges of the Mid- dle States and Maryland. Member of the Committee of Ten, National Arts and Century Clubs; president of the Interna- tional Congress of Secondary Schools at the World's Fair, Chicago, 1893. Address, Dobbs Ferry-on-Hudson, N. Y.
MACKENZIE, Morris R. S .:
Captain, U. S. Navy; was born in New York; appointed to Naval Academy, Sept. 27, 1862; graduated, 1866; N. A. Station, 1867; promoted to ensign, April, 1868; ord- nance duty, Portsmouth, N. H., 1868; Guard, storeship, European Fleet, 1868-69; promoted to master, March 26, 1869; Franklin, flagship, European Fleet, 1869- 71; commissioned as lieutenant, March 21, 1870; Naval Academy, 1873-74; Pensacola, flagship, North Pacific Station, 1875-78; Naval Academy, 1877-80; Essex, Asiatic Station, 1882-84; promoted to lieutenant commander, Dec., 1884; lighthouse duty, 1884-89; Chicago, European Station, 1889 to July, 1891; commanding U. S. S. Petrel, Asiatic Station, July, 1891, to Feb., 1893; lighthouse inspector, June, 1893, to June, 1896; promoted to commander, April 16, 1891; waiting orders, June 28, 1896, to Sept., 1896; commanding U. S. S. Machias, Sept. 22, 1896, to April, 1897; sick leave, April 28, 1897, to April, 1898; commanding U. S. S. Mayflower, March, 1898; com- manding Prairie, March 24, 1898, to 1900; promoted to captain, July 1, 1900; com- manding New York, Feb. 16, 1901, to 1903; captain, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, May 7, 1903, which is his present station.
McKIM, Robert Vanderburgh:
Brigade surgeon New York National Guard; born at Rhinebeck, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1841; son of Robert McKim, of Baltimore, Md., and Charlotte Vanderburgh McKim, daughter of Dr. Federal Vanderburgh, of New York; educated in Baltimore and New York, and was graduated (M. D.) from the New York Medical College. Mar- ried, Dec. 28, 1858, to Mary Schroeder Al- bert, daughter of Jacob Albert, of Balti- more, Md. He was commissioned assist- ant surgeon, Fifty-seventh Regiment, New York Volunteers, Oct., 1861; promoted to be surgeon with rank of major, Feb., 1862; served in Army of the Potomac; in action at Fair Oaks and through campaign of the Peninsula, at second battle of Bull Run and at Antietam, later acting brig- ade surgeon and in charge of division hos- pital at Harpers Ferry, Va .; March 5, 1883, was commissioned brigade surgeon with rank of major, N. G. N. Y .; on staff of General Louis Fitzgerald and served nearly fifteen years; resigned and honor- ably discharged, Jan., 1898. Member of Union and Metropolitan Clubs, Military Order of the Loyal Legion and Colonial Order. Address, 32 West 58th St., New York.
MACLAY, Isaac Walker:
President of the Maclay & Davies Real Estate Company; was born in New York City; undergraduate of the University of the City of New York, 1856-60; entered the U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1860, and graduated June 13, 1864, when he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the First Artillery, U. S. Army. Served dur- ing the Civil War, 1864-66, as instructor of artillery to the Sixty-ninth New York Volunteers, at Fort Wadsworth, N. Y., July 18 to Sept. 17, 1864, when he was transferred to the Ordnance Corps, U. S. Army, as assistant ordnance officer at Washington Arsenal, Washington, D. C., Oct. 3, 1864, to Aug. 28, 1866; at Water- town Arsenal, Watertown, Mass., Sept. 1, 1866, to Sept. 25, 1867; promoted, June, 1867, to first lieutenant, Ordnance Corps, U. S. Army; at Springfield Armory, Springfield, Mass., as assistant superin- tendent, from Sept. 25, 1867, until Oct. 20, 1868; as chief ordnance officer, De- partment of the Platte, on the staff of Major General C. C. Auger, Nov. 30, 1868, to Oct. 1, 1869; as assistant ordnance of- ficer at Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, N. Y., Oct. 1. 1869, to Aug. 6, 1873; as a member of board to appraise the value of TJ. S. arsenals at Rome, N. Y., Vergennes, Vt., and Fayetteville, N. C., in accordance with act of Congress, April 29 to May 15, 1873; at Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Ill., to Nov. 15, 1873, when he resigned. Appointed, Oct. 27, 1873, assistant topo- graphical engineer of the Department of Public Parks, New York City, and sub- sequently became principal assistant civil and topographical engineer of same de- partment. Engaged in the surveying and laying out and monumenting streets, roads and avenues north of 155th Street on Man- hattan Island, and also in the Twenty- third and Twenty-fourth Wards after an- nexation of those wards to the city, which position he resigned to accept that of chief engineer of the Long Island Railroad. He was city surveyor and civil engineer in New York City, and established, in 1876, the firm of Maclay & Davies in connec- tion with Mr. William E. Davies, which firm subsequently engaged in real estate business, and has continued for over a quarter of a century. He was elected a trustee of the University of Chicago, June 26, 1900, and re-elected in June, 1902; and was one of the incorporators and charter members of the New York Zoological So- ciety, the Maryland Society of New York, and the Underwriters' Club, of this city; president of the Yonkers Wharf & Ware- house Company and vice-president of the Pelhamdale Land Company. He is a member of the following organizations: Museum of Natural History, American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, Municipal Art Society of New York, As- sociation for the Preservation of the Adi- rondacks, Saint Andrews Society of the
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State of New York, Veteran Corps of Ar- tillery and Military Society of the War of 1812, Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, Delta Phi So- ciety, Road Drivers' Association of New York, Westchester County Historical So- ciety, Yonkers Library and Historical So- ciety; is a trustee of the Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va .; the West- chester Trust Company, and of the War- burton Avenue Baptist Church, Yonkers; life member of the New York Historical Society, American Baptist Historical So- ciety, Association of the Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy, Yonkers So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; also one of the managers of the American Baptist Home Mission So- ciety. Author of "Henry Sater," 1897; "Life of the Rev. Archibald Maclay, D. D.," 1902. Address, 67 and 69 Wall St., New York.
MCLAUGHLIN, George:
Lawyer; born at Roscoe, O., March 27, 1841; educated at Willoughby Institute, Ohio and Allegheny College,, Pennsylva- nia, graduating from the latter in 1864; afterwards taught school, and then took up the study of law. In 1870 he married Miss Alice E. Brown, of Winterton, N. Y .; in 1873 began the practice of law at Mon- ticello. Became active in politics, and was chairman of the Republican County Committee of Sullivan for several years. Was elected to the Assembly of 1897, and served on the following committees: Codes, Insurance and Federal Relations; was re-elected to the Assembly in 1898, and served during that session on the following committees: Judiciary, Public Lands and Forestry, and was chairman of the committee on Privileges and Election. On Jan. 1, 1899, he was elected secretary of the New York State Commission of Prisons, which position he still holds. Address, Monticello, N. Y.
McLANE, James. W., M. D .:
Born in Brooklyn; received the degree of A. B. from Yale, 1861; M. D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1864; dean and professor of obstetrics at College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1879-99; con- sulting physician Sloane Maternity Hos- pital, New York Hospital and Nursery and Child's Hospital. Member Academy of Medicine, Medical and Surgical Soci- eties, and Union League Club. Address, 51 West 38th St., New York.
MCLAUGHLIN, Hugh:
Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 2, 1827; educated in public schools. He is promi- nent in Brooklyn politics and long the leader of the Democratic party; was for three terms register of Kings County; ac- tive in promotion of Brooklyn Bridge,
Prospect Park, and other public works of Brooklyn. Address, 163 Remsen St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
MAC LEAN, Charles F .:
Jurist; born in New York, 1847; studied at Yale and the University of Berlin. He has held the public offices of police com- missioner, 1879-80, and 1888-94; park com- missioner, 1880-83; health commissioner, 1889-90; became justice of the Supreme Court, 1896, and holds the position until the expiration of the term, 1909. Mem- ber of Democratic, Lawyers, Manhattan, Lotos, and other clubs of New York. Ad- dress, 2122 Fifth Ave., New York.
McLEAN, John Emery:
Late associate editor of The Arena and chief editor of Mind; born in Alton, On- tario, Can., 1865. Early apprenticed to printer; subsequently removed to United States; became head proofreader Ameri- can Bible Society, New York; later as- sociate editor New York Financier; after- ward managing editor of The Metaphysi- cal Magazine for two and one-half years. Married, 1898, the Countess Norraikow, writer and metaphysician. At present correspondent, with Brentano's. Resi- dence, "The Stanley," 124 West 47th St .; office, 5 Union Square, New York.
McLEAN, Thomas Chalmers:
Captain, U. S. Navy; born in New York; appointed midshipman, Sept. 21, 1864; graduated from Naval Academy, June, 1868, taking the prize flag for the best drilled company in the battalion; Tusca- rora, South Pacific and West Indies, 1868- 69; promoted to ensign, April, 1869; Beni- cia and Idaho, Asiatic Fleet, 1869-72; pro- moted to master, July, 1870; commanded the sailor infantry of the Benicia in the Corean Expedition, and was commended for gallant conduct in the assault on Fort du Coude, having the left of the line next to the company of Lieutenant McKee, in memory of whom the fort was re-named by the captors. Ordnance duty, Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, 1872; also at experimental battery, Annapolis, 1873-74; flagship Tennessee, Asiatic Station, 1875; ordnance duty, Torpedo Station, 1876-77; also at the Washington Navy Yard, 1878; inspector of ordnance in charge Experi- mental Battery. 1879; flagship Trenton, European Station, 1879-81. Member of the United States government delegation to the International Electrical Congress and of the commission to the Electrical Exhibition, Paris, 1881; elected secretary to a section of the Congress; vice-presi- dent of jury of awards, Group V., instru- ments of precision, etc., at the exhibition; special duty in Germany, France, Russia and England; naval attaché, Vienna, 1883, and government representative at Vienna Electrical Exhibition; ordnance duty, Tor- pedo Station, 1884; steamer Brooklyn,
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1885; navigating officer, Dolphin, 1885-88; ordnance duty. Torpedo Station, 1889, to March, 1893; executive officer of the De- troit, 1893; promoted to lieutenant com- mander. Oct., 1893; executive officer, flag- ship San Francisco, 1894-96; detail officer, Bureau of Navigation, 1896; inspector of ordnance, in charge Torpedo Station, 1897 to 1899; promoted commander, March 3, 1899; commanding the Don Juan de Aus- tria and the Castine, in the Philippines and China, 1900-01; commanding the Cin- cinnati, 1904, taking part in the official reception of Prince Henry at New York; assisting in Martinique after the Mont Peleé disaster; protecting American inter- ests during revolutions in San Domingo, Hayti, Venezuela and Panama. Received the thanks of the British government for effecting release of a British subject held in military service by insurgents in Ven- ezuela. In Sept., 1902, landed sailors and battalion of marines, removed obstruc- tions from Panama railway tracks, pre- vented fighting on the line of transit, and safe-guarded world's traffic across the Isthmus. Promoted to captain, Sept. 23, 1903; captain of the Navy Yard. League Island, Pa., which is present station.
McLENNAN, Peter Baillie:
Jurist; born in Lynden, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., 1850; graduated from Al- fred University, 1873; after study of law was admitted to the bar in 1876; elected justice of the Supreme Court, New York, 1892; assigned to Appellate Division, 1898; designated as presiding justice by Gover- nor Odell in 1903. Address, Syracuse, N. Y.
McLOUTH, Lawrence Amos:
Educator; born in Ontonagon, Mich., Jan. 19. 1863; son of Dr. Lewis McLouth and Sarah Doty McLouth; common school education received at home and in the public schools of Ypsilanti, Mich., where his father was professor of natural and physical sciences in the State Normal School; prepared for college in this school; graduated from the University of Michi- gan with the degree of A. B. in June, 1887. Then became principal of the Dan- ville. Ill., High School; later he studied Germanic philology and literatures at the Universities of Leipsic, Heidelberg and Munich. He was instructor in German at the University of Michigan for three years and then was called to the chair of Germanic languages and literatures at New York University, which position he has held since 1895. In 1888 married Mar- tha Linne Robinson. Was chairman of the section for philology, and a member of the council. of the New York Academy of Sciences. Member of the Modern Lan- guage Association of America, also of the Zeta Psi Fraternity. Address, University Heights, N. Y.
McMAHON, Martin T .:
Brevet major general, U. S. Volunteers; born in Canada in 1838; graduated at St. John's College, Fordham, N. Y., at the age of seventeen; subsequently received from the same college the degree of LL.D .; studied law in Buffalo in the office of Hon. Eli Cook. at that time mayor of the city. While still under age he was ap- pointed to succeed his elder brother as corresponding clerk in the appointment office of the Post Office Department at Washington, and in the last year of Buch- anan's administration he was sent as special agent of the post office depart- ment for the Pacific coast to California, where he remained until the outbreak of the war. Upon the first call for troops he entered the service, and was elected captain of the first company of cavalry organized on the Pacific coast. He was not mustered in, however, as orders had been received from Washington to re- tain the California volunteers within that State to relieve the regular troops on duty there. He thereupon resigned his com- mand, and shortly afterwards was ap- pointed captain in the U. S. Army and ad- ditional aide-de-camp on the staff of Ma- jor-General George B. McClellan, at Washington; served with the Army of the Potomac and was present in every en- gagement in which that army took part. During the Seven Days' fight on the Pen- insula was assigned to the staff of Major- General William B. Franklin, command- ing the Sixth Army Corps; was subse- quently promoted to be major and aide- de-camp, and afterwards lieutenant-colo- nel and assistant adjutant-general of the Left Grand Division, Army of the Poto- mac. When that division was discon- tinued after Burnside's failure at Fred- ericksburg he was re-assigned as adjutant- general to the Sixth Army Corps, and served as chief of staff to General Sedg- wick until that officer's death at Spottsyl- vania; was continued in the same ca- pacity under General Wright until the end of 1864, when he was assigned to temporary duty in New York, on the staff of Major-General Dix, commanding the Department of the East. Has held sev- eral important positions in civil life; was corporation attorney of the City of New York in 1866-67, U. S. minister to Para- guay during President Johnson's admin- istration, and for many years receiver of taxes in the City of New York; was U. S. marshal for the Southern District of New York during President Cleveland's administration; was elected to the AS- sembly as a Democrat in 1890; elected to the State Senate, and was chairman of the committee on General Laws, and that on Military Affairs. He received the Con- gressional medal of honor for "distin- guished bravery at the battle of White Oak Swamp." General McMahon is a law- yer in good practice in the City of New
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York; is also one of the managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and was four times elected by Congress to that important position, 1880, 1886, 1892 and 1898; judge of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, New York County, Jan. 1, 1896; term expires, Dec. 3, 1909. Residence, Grosvenor Hotel; of- fice, Criminal Court Building, New York.
McMILLAN, Emerson:
Banker; born at Ewington, O., April 16, 1844: served in the Union army during the Civil War; subsequently became con- nected with a firm building gas works at Ironton, O., and after the comple- tion of these, was made their manager. After a residence of thirteen years at Columbus, O., went to New York City, where he established the banking firm of Emerson McMillan & Co .; is president and director of the Binghamton (N. Y.) Gas Works; Consolidated Gas Company (New Jersey): Columbus (O.), Edison Company, Detroit City Gas Works, South- ern Light & Traction Company; is vice- president and director of the Jackson (Mich.) Gas Company and the Welsbach Commercial Company; is also director of the Trust Company of America and nu- merous gas companies throughout the United States. He is a member of the Lotos, Union League, Lawyers, Army and Navy, and Engineers Clubs of New York. Residence. 310 Riverside Ave .; office, 40 Wall St., New York.
McNAIR, Eben O .:
Banker; was born in 1850; entered bank- ing house of Jay Cooke & Co., Washing- ton, D. C .. in 1865; became cashier of Bank of Warsaw, Warsaw. N. Y., in 1872, and afterwards president; removed to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1898. and engaged in private banking. Became president of the Commonwealth Trust Company, Buf- falo. upon its organization in 1903. Mem- ber Society Colonial Wars; vice-president Buffalo Chanter Sons of American Revo- lution; rresident Independent Club: mem- ber Buffalo Historical Society, National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C .. and Buffalo and other local clubs. Ad- dress. Commonwealth Trust Company, Buffalo, N. Y.
McNEIL, Clarence H .:
Captain. U. S. Army: born in and an- pointed from New York. Cadet at the Military Academy. June, 1892; graduated and promoted in the army to additional second lieutenant of artillery. June. 1896. Served on garrison duty at Fort Slocum, N. Y., Sept. to Oct .. 1896; Oct., 1896. to June, 1897 at Key West Barracks, Fla., promoted second lieutenant April. 1897; at Fort Hamilton. New York. June. 1897. to Feb., 1898; in Florida. April to Avo .. 1898; at Washington Rarracks D. C .. Aug., 1898. to May. 1899; promoted to
first lieutenant, March, 1899; at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, May to Aug., 1899; instructor of mathematics at the Military Academy, West Point, Aug. 21, 1899, to Jan. 26, 1903; assistant, Field Artillery School, Fort Riley, Kan., Feb. 3, 1903, to date. Captain Artillery Corps, Aug. 1, 1901. Address, Fort Riley, Kan.
McNEIL, Nelson A .:
Fire underwriter; was born at Salis- bury, Conn., July 9, 1852. His education up to his fourteenth year was received in the district schools, after which he was given a clerkship in a mining office. He engaged as a local agent in the insurance business in 1874, and at one time had agencies at Bridgeport, New Haven, and Lime Rock, which latter he still retains. He was for three years special agent of the Washington and Fire Marine of Bos- ton, and six years of the Niagara Fire. He is assistant U. S. manager of the Cale- donian Insurance Company of Scotland, and vice-president of the Caledonian Am- erican Insurance Company of New York. Address, 50 Pine St., New York.
McSPADDEN, Joseph Walker:
Editor and author; born at Knoxville, Tenn., May 13 1874. Son of Walker L. and Margaret J. (Porter) McSpadden. He graduated at the University of Tennessee in 1897, and came to New York the fol- lowing year to engage in literary work. Since then he has written "Shaksperian Synopses." "Stories of Robin Hood," and "Synopses of Dickens's Novels." all pub- lished by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co .; has edited Dumas's Works and Æsop's Fa- bles. published by the same firm, and Balzac's Works, published by John D. Avil & Co .. of Philadelphia. He also served as associate editor. under Thomas B. Reed, in the compilation of "Modern Eloquence," published by John D. Mor- ris & Co., of Philadelphia. He is a mem- ber of the Southern Society. and the Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Gamma Delta fra- ternities. and resident secretary of the University of Tennessee Club. Resi- dence. 342 Manhattan Ave .; office, 426 West Broadway, New York.
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