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P. H. HISEY, farmer, P. O. Yelverton, Ohio, was born in Monroe County, W. Va., December 31, 1826. His parents, John and Priscilla Hisey nee Hutchison, were from Pennsylvania, and were married in Virginia in 1824. John Hisey died in the same place in 1827. His widow then came to Law- rence County, Ohio, in 1830, and married Daniel S. Vermillion; thence moved to this county, in 1834, and settled on the farm they now occupy in
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December of the same year. It was then a dense forest, not a stick cut, ex- cepting what were required to build a small log cabin, the floor of which was made of lynn puncheons, or slabs hewn out of logs. Not a crack in the house was plastered, and they had to resort to the woods for their meat and go to Logan County for their corn-meal, as flour was so scarce they could not afford to buy it. Corn bread, spicewood tea, and wild game was their living the first year. Our subject was brought up on a farm and re- ceived what education he has at the Canaan Schoolhouse, which was built of logs, finished inside with a large fire-place, and benches to sit on, made of rails or slabs from a saw mill, with bench legs in them, and writing desks were made with pins in the wall and boards laid on them. Mr. Hisey aided in clearing and making the improvements on the home farm, and, in 1848, he engaged in working by the day at from 50 to 62 cents per day, and by the month afterward, until 1857, at wages from $28 to $33 per month. In 1852, he bought sixty acres of land in Lynn Township, for which he paid $337, and this he sold in the following year to Siford Rainsburg for $500. In April of 1857, he and Edward A. Clark, under the firm name of Clark & Hisey, engaged in mercantile business in the village of Patterson, Hardin County, Ohio, and, in May of the following year, they removed their stock of goods to Yelverton, Ohio, Mr. Clark continuing in the business for one year; then Mr. Hisey bought him out, with a debt of $2,500 over the firm, which he had to assume, and has since pursued the same business. He has a good trade and a stock of about $1,000, the annual sales amounting to about $3,000. Mr. Hisey was married, June 5, 1851, to Miss Mary E., daughter of Amos Piper. She was born in Wentworth. Grafton Co., N. H., March 11, 1833. Mr. and Mrs. Hisey are the parents of three children, viz., May E., born May 23, 1852, died July 12, 1852; Ira A., born April 27, 1854, and Iva Myrtle, born March 20, 1874. Ira A. was married to Miss Jennie S. Fuls, and they had three children, the eldest of whom died at birth. Hattie E. and Gracie M. are the grand-children. The family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Silver Creek. Mr. Hisey is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and, in politics, is a Republican. He has served as Justice of the Peace three years, Township Trustee one year and Postmaster twenty-one years, and owns 444 acres of land, well im- proved, in Taylor Creek Township. He started out in life with home-man- ufactured clothes as his best suit, without a cent of money and with a bor- rowed ax, but, by his energy and industry, he has secured all he has. In 1875, he lost $6,100 through the failure of the bank of Cary & Son, and his store has been burglariously entered four times. Two of the burglars were caught and sent to the penitentiary, one for five years and the other for one year.
ROBERT K. LANE, blacksmith, Yelverton, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, July 4, 1883. He is a son of John B. and Sarah C. (Kil- grove) Lane, natives of New York State. His father died when he was eight years old and his mother in the year 1863. He is the fourth son and fifth child. Soon after his father's death, in 1846 or 1847, his mother re- moved to Newark, where he remained until he was twenty years of age. He had learned the blacksmith's trade when he was sixteen years old, fol- lowing it until the war broke out. He enlisted July 22, 1862, in the Nine- ty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company B, and was subse- quently transferred to the One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment. He served in the Twenty-third Army Corps and fought at Knoxville and ac- companied Sherman to Atlanta, being with his regiment in the capacity of
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blacksmith. He then returned to the troops of Gen. Thomas and fought at Franklin and' Nashville, thence was sent to Goldsboro, Raleigh, and to Salisbury, N. C., and received his discharge July 10, 1865, at Cleveland, Ohio. He returned to Yelverton, where he had located in April, 1861, and has since been pursuing his trade. On February 19, 1861, he was married to Mrs. Anna Nixon, widow of John Nixon, and daughter of Andrew Hemphill, of Hardin County. She was born in McDonald Township, Hardin County, January 15, 1838, and had two children by her former hus- band, viz., William M., and Mary S., wife of John Irving, now of Logan County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Lane were the parents of seven children, four living, viz., Charles H., John C., Maggie E. and Arthur. Mrs. Lane is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Lane belongs to the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows, and owns twenty acres of land adjoining the village.
ISAAC PHILLIPS, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Yelverton, was born in Cantfield County, Ohio, September 14, 1825. He is a son of Samuel and Mary (Cline). Phillips, of German and Welsh descent. Our subject married, October 10, 1847, Martha daughter of Joseph and Eliza (Leech) McKee. She was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, May 15, 1831. Mr. Phillips and his wife are the parents of twelve children, eight daugh- ters and four sons six of whom are married, viz., Eliza E., wife of Daniel Beltz; Mary E., wife of William P. Stevenson; Joseph, married to Laura Schocky; Huldah, wife of Lemuel S. Liles; Uriah B. at home; Louisa, wife of John Pires; Melicca J., wife of E. MoLain; Isaac, at home; Martha B. at home; Jacqueline, at home; William H. and May. Mr. Phillips owns sixty-six and one-half acres of land and has lived on his farm for sixteen years, and been a resident of Hardin County for nineteen years.
ROBERT RICE, farmer, P. O. Silver Creek, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, February 18, 1833. The following summer, he was brought by his parents, John and Eliza Rice, to Hardin County, settling in 'Taylor Creek Township. Robert is the second son and child of a family of nine children. He was reared chiefly in Lynn Township. He aided in the clearing of the homestead, remaining on it until the spring of 1861. He purchased thirty acres in Lynn Township, living on it until 1870, and, in March of 1872, came to Taylor Creek Township and bought sixty acres of his present farm. He is engaged in farming and stock-raising. On March 14. 1861, he was married to Mary A., daughter of William and Martha Koons. She was born in Logan County, Ohio, July 2, 1839, and has had a family of three children, vìz., Adaline Virginia, born February 9, 1862, wife of Robert Sloan; Clara May, born November 14, 1867, and Roy Clif- ton, born August 22, 1877. Mr. Rice and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics, he is a Democrat.
JOHN S. RICE, merchant, Silver Creek, was born in Taylor Creek Township October 20, 1838, and is a son of John and Eliza (Seaton) Rice, both of Muskingum County, Ohio. ' Clement Rice, his grandfather, bought 320 acres of land in this township, which was then a wilderness. Our subject's mother was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, February 8, 1812. Her parents were Robert and Nancy Seaton, who came from Pennsylvania to Muskingum County before the war of 1812, and Mr. Seaton was a soldier in this war. He died in Lee County, Iowa; his wife in Guernsey County, Ohio. Our subject's father was for many years a Justice of the Peace, and was also County Assessor. In the early settlement of the county, he was a candidate on the Whig ticket for Probate Judge, but was
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defeated. He died December 20, 1861. Of the nine children he had, six are living, viz., Robert; Rebecca, wife of H. W. Norman; John S., our subject; Thomas; Nancy J., wife of Davis J. Derr; Adam W. and Martha A. John S. was reared on a farm and educated at the common schools and Kenton Union Schools. On June 3, 1861, he enlisted, in answer to the first call of President Lincoln for the "three years' men," commencing as a private in Company G, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and serving in the Army of the Potomac. He fought at Romney, Chancellorsville, second Bull Run, Gettysburg and Wilderness. In the last-named battle he was taken prisoner, and confined in the Andersonville Prison from May 23 to September 13, 1864. He then made an escape with four others, was re-capt- ured eighteen days after and transferred to Salisbury Prison, where he was kept until March, 1865, when he was exchanged at Wilmington, N. C. He was mustered out on June 2, 1865, after four years' service. He had been commissioned Sergeant in 1863, serving as such to the close of the war. On his return to Ohio, he went to Columbus and was engaged in the book business for two years. He then came home and taught school for one term. (He had taught for two years before entering the army.) In July, 1867, he embarked in general merchandise, and has since been engaged in the business of buying and shipping grain to the extent of from 25,000 to 30,000 bushels annually. He has carried on farming extensively, and is also engaged in rearing stock, and owns 530 acres of well-improved and cultivated land. He married, in 1869, Mrs. Catherine Rice, widow of Robert Rice and daughter of Caleb Hill. Three children were born to this union-Warren A., Ida F. and Cora E. Mrs. Rice had one son by her former husband-Phillip H. She died May 4, 1882. Mr. Rice is a Re- publican in politics, and has filled the office of Justice of the Peace for twelve years, and was Township Assessor of Lynn for two years before the war, and since then two years Assessor of this township. He is Vice Presi- dent of the First National Bank of Kenton, of which he was one of the organizers, and formerly a Director of the Hardin Savings Bank until it changed to the First National.
JAMES Y. ROSS, farmer, P. O. Silver Creek, was born in Highland County, Ohio, January 31, 1826. He is a son of David and Elizabeth (Leiftfritz) Ross, natives of Cumberland County, Penn. They were mar- ried in 1815, and removed to Highland County, Ohio, in 1816, being among the early pioneers. Our subject's grandfather, Hugh Ross, came from Scot- land, and served in the Revolution. He afterward settled in Cumberland County, Penn., where he died; his wife died in Highland County, Ohio, in 1829. Our subject's parents came to Hardin County, March 6, 1835, set- tling in Buck Township. Mr. Ross bought 200 acres of land, paying $100, but the title proved void, and he afterward bought forty acres of the same farm; he also owned five lots in Kenton. He died March 29, 1845, and was followed by his wife November 27, 1852. They had seven children, of whom our subject is the fifth. He was reared on a farm and educated at the common schools. He was married, December 25, 1851, to Cynthia A., daughter of Thomas and Mary Doods. She was born in Champaign Coun- ty, Ohio, October 6, 1831, and has had two children -- French O. and Martha A. Mr. Ross settled on the farm of C. A. Stevenson, in Buck Township, in 1860, residing there until 1877, when he removed to his present location. He owns eighty-one and a half acres of well-improved land, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising, keeping a good grade of stock. He and his family are members of the United Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Ross was a
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school teacher for five years, and taught in ths first school in District No. 5, of Buck Township. In politics, Mr. Ross is a Republican, and has filled the office of Township Clerk for some years, besides several minor offices. He assisted in the making of the first pike road of the county, and has since aided in several others. He enlisted, November 30, 1861, in Com - pany B, Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served and veteran- ized January 1, 1864, and re-enlisted in the same company. He fought at McDowell, second Bull Run, Rappahannock. Wilderness, Gettysburg, Chattanooga, Resaca, Peach Tree Creek and Dallas Station. He was con- fined to the hospital on account of sore eyes, at Dallas Station, and was honorably discharged from Covington, Ky., May 30, 1865. He had been appointed Quartermaster Sergeant on March 1, 1863, serving in that capacity till the close of the war. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ross' parents are asleep in the old cemetery at Kenton. Mr. Ross is a member of the Pioneer So- ciety of Hardin County.
R. G. SAVAGE, farmer, P. O. Belle Centre, was born in Marion Coun- ty, Ohio, December 10, 1831, and is a son of S. A. Savage. He was reared in Union and Champaign Counties, Ohio. In 1853, he was married to Annett, daughter of David Holycrop, and a native of Madison County, Ohio. This union has resulted in five children, four of whom are living. Mr. Savage served sixteen months in the army, as a member of the Thirteenth Ohio Battery. He follows farming pursuits and owns 124 acres of land.
PAUL K. SIEG, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Augusta County, Va., June 5, 1818. He is a son of Jacob and Lydia (Haines) Seig, natives of Pennsylvania and of Rockingham County, Va., respectively. His father was born May 19, 1774, . his mother January 8, 1793. They resided in Augusta County, Va., until September, 1828, when they removed to near West Liberty. Logan Co., Ohio, remaining there until March of 1839, com- ing thence to Taylor Creek Township, locating on the farm occupied by our subject. This farm Mr. Sieg, the father of our subject, had bought, in 1834, erecting a log cabin on it, in 1836. It consisted of 130 acres of woodland. Mr. Jacob Sieg died January 5, 1855; h's widow died January 15, 1879. They were associated with the Presbyterian Church of Kenton, and after Mr. Sieg's death his wife joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject is the second son and fifth child of seven children; five are now living. He was reared on a farm and given a common school education. On October 10, 1841, he was married to Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Van- meter. She was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, in October, 1816, and died in October, 1852, leaving a family of four children, three now living -Lydia C., wife of Charles Baker; Adelia C. (deceased), late wife of A. J. Sponsler; Rosa B., wife of J. M. Carr, and Lavinia A. Our subject was again married, April 7, 1854, to Mrs. Margaret Robinson, née McBeth, widow of Henry Robinson. She died December 5, 1857, leaving one child -Laura, who died in March, 1858. His third marriage occurred March 27, 1859, with Margaret, daughter of David and Levina Evans. By this union there have been eight children, viz., Henry K., Robert E., Lovina, Jacob, David, Mary, Paul K. and Jonathan B. Mr. Sieg has always resided on the homestead which he inherited from his parents. He owns 260 acres, which he has cleared and improved. He is engaged in farming and stock- raising. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has been Steward since 1856. He is a member of a Masonic order, and in politics is a Republican. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1842, and has filled the office of Township Trustee for six years, and is
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in his twenty-seventh term as Township Treasurer. He was a member of the Agricultural Board at its organization.
THOMAS SLOAN (deceased) was born in County Monahan, Ireland, in June, 1820. When he was thirteen years of age, his parents, John and Sarah (McClellan) Sloan, of the same county, came to America and settled in Taylor Creek Township, where his father bought 123 acres of woodland, on which farm he died in April, 1866. His wife had preceded him some years before. They had thirteen children, eleven of whom they reared to maturity. Three are now living-James, David and Eliza. Our subject. was the eighth child and sixth son. He was partially reared in his native place, the rest of his minority being spent in Taylor Creek Township. He was educated in the schools of Ireland. Soon after he was of age, he en- gaged on a boat on Lake Erie, working on it for three years; he then re- turned to this county and worked on the O. B. & W. Railroad, pursuing it for several years, and constructed the road from Kenton to Huntsville. In 1851, he went to Ireland, where he was married, returning in March, 1852, and settled on the farm now occupied by his widow. This farm consists of 123 acres, which was nearly all in the woods. He had previously purchased 183 acres of land, but never settled on it. He aided in making many of the roads of the township, and also helped build the Reformed Presbyterian Church at Silver Creek. He was an active member in the Reformed Church of Richland Township, Logan County. He united with the United Presbyterian Church about six years before his death. He was married, March 22, 1852, to Eliza Sloan, daughter of John and Eliza Sloan, of Ire land. She was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, in May of 1835. Her father died there February 17, 1875; her mother still resides there in her eighty-fifth year. Mr. and Mrs. Sloan have had eleven children, viz., John J., Eliza A., Robert S., Letitia E., Sarah F., William M., Thomas H., Emily J., David, Maggie I. and George J. Mr. Sloan died February 29, 1880, aged sixty years. He was for many years an Elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, in which he was an active worker. He started in life working by the day, and at his decease owned over 700 acres of land, all in this township except 150 acres in Rush Creek and Richland Townships, Logan County. In 1871 and 1872, he erected his residence, at a cost of $3,000. He followed farming and stock-raising, devoting special attention to the rearing of fine cattle. The farm is still conducted by Mrs. Sloan. Mr. Sloan furnished two substitutes during the rebellion, paying $600 to secure them.
JAMES SLOAN, farmer, P. O. Yelverton, was born in County Mona- ghan, Ireland, in the year 1822. He is a son of John and Sarah (McClellan) Sloan, both deceased and both buried in the Sugar Ridge Cemetery. At the age of about sixteen years, our subject emigrated to America, remaining for about two months in Philadelphia, coming thence to Ohio, settling in Hardin County. He is the second son, living, of a family of eight sons and three daughters, the two remaining survivors being David and Eliza. Mr. Sloan owns 220 acres of land, and is a successful, self-made man of Taylor Creek Township, and is a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church.
ROBERT SLOAN (deceased) was born in Ireland in 1827, and was a son of John and Sarah Sloan, both of whom were of Irish descent. Our subject came to Ohio when a boy, and settled in Taylor Creek Township, Hardin Co., Ohio, on the farm now occupied by John Sloan and family. He was united in marriage, June 12, 1862, with Miss Jane E., daughter of George and Elizabeth Shaw. She was born February 13, 1833, in Penn-
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sylvania, where her parents spent their lives. To Mr. Sloan and wife were born three children, viz., Mary I., George H. and Rosa E. He was engaged in farming and raising stock, in which he was generally successful, and departed this life on March 19, 1870. He left his family a good home, with pleasant and comfortable surroundings. At his decease, Taylor Creek Township lost a good citizen, and the family a kind husband and loving father. The widow was subsequently united in marriage, on October 8, 1874, to John Sloan, a cousin of her first husband.
DAVID L. SLOAN, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Yelverton, was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, and is a son of John and Sarah (McClellan) Sloan. Our subject has spent twenty-five years in Springfield and Cleve- land, in the employ of the Columbus & Cincinnati Railway. He was fore- man of general repairs on the track. He owns a piece of land of 125 acres in Taylor Creek Township and fifty-one acres in Richland Township, Logan County. He is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, and is a useful citizen of Taylor Creek Township.
JOHN SLOAN, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Yelverton, was born in Ireland, October 17, 1833. He is a son of John Sloan and Eliza Wiley, and emigrated to Ohio when twenty-one years of age. In 1855, he was married to Miss Margaret McMakin, to which union four children have been born, three sons and one daughter, viz., Emily, Robert, William S. and an infant, both deceased. Mr. Sloan owns 120 acres of land in Taylor Creek Township and 100 in Lynn Township.[
HOMER P. STEVENSON, farmer, P. O. Silver Creek, was born in Greene County, Ohio, May 31, 1816. He is a son of William and Margret (Hillis) Stevenson, natives of Virginia. His father's parents removed to Tennessee. His father came, in 1800, to Xenia, Ohio, and afterward settled on a purchase of land of 100 acres on the Little Miami. He was among the earliest pioneers and was County Assessor for one term and Justice of the Peace. He served in the war of 1812, and died in December, 1826; his wife died of cholera in 1848. Homer is next to the youngest of five children, and was reared on a farm until seventeen years of age. In 1829, 1830 and 1833, he came to this county, remaining about two months each time, and returned in 1835 and resided here until 1840, working for his brother Samuel. He bought eighty acres of woodland in 1842, and settled on it in 1844. He erected a log cabin and lived in it until 1862, when he built his present house. He aided in the building of the schoolhouse in District No. 3. He has since purchased seventy acres of land, and has cleared and improved his whole farm. He married, November 26, 1840, Miss Mary A., daughter of Daniel Hullinger. To this union there are nine children, six living, viz., Lewis M., Rachel H. (wife of Leander King), Elizabeth (wife of Albert Ranney), Perry H., David P. and Maggie; Bart- ley E., Presten W. and James U. are deceased. Bartley E. enlisted, July 28, 1861, in Company D, Thirty-fourth Ohio. Volunteer Infantry. He served in the Army of West Virginia and veteranized. He was killed at the battle of Winchester September 19, 1864. Lewis M. enlisted in November, 1861, in Company -, Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded at the second battle of Bull Run, and afterward discharged through disability. Mr. Stevenson is a Republican in politics. He was Township Trustee for cre year, and has served twenty-seven years as Jus- tice of the Peace, and was ie-elected to that office April 2, 1883.
WILLIAM STEVENSON, farmer, P. O Silver Creek, was born in Hardin County, Ohio, in June of 1850. He is a son of Samuel and Har-
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riet (Webb) Stevenson, old settlers of Hardin County. Our subject was married, October 21, 1872, to Elizabeth Phillips, born in Coshocton County, Ohio, in November, 1849. Mr. Stevenson and his wife are the parents of five children, viz., Homer, Ada, Lodema and Netta (deceased) and Cora. Mr. Stevenson owns eighty acres of land, and has resided here since 1881. Samuel Stevenson, father of our subject, one of the early pioneers f this county, died at his residence in Lynn Township, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. Mr. Stevenson came to this county in company with his brother, Charles W. Stevenson, in the spring of 1827, when the country was an unbroken wilderness. They first settled on the Detroit road, about seven miles south of old Fort McArthur, on the farm now owned by Campbell, Walker and others. For a number of years, they encountered all the hardships and privations incident to pioneer life in a new country, but, by industry and frugality, he had secured for himself and family a com- petency of this world's goods, and lived to see what were once his favorite hunting grounds converted into beautiful farms and villages-in many in . stances the abode of ease and luxury. Mr. S. was a man conscientiously honest and truthful, and noted for his generosity and kindness of heart. His wife's death occurred about two weeks previous to that of her husband. They left four children, two sons and two daughters, besides many warn) friends to cherish their memory. There is, perhaps, no other resident now living in the county who emigrated here at so early a day.
SAMUEL STEWART, farmer, stock-raiser and dealer, P. O. Big Spring, Logan Co., Ohio, was born in Clark County, Ohio, March 26, 1823. He was a son of John T. and Ann (Elder) Stewart. In 1735, the grand- parents of John T. Stewart-Samuel T. Stewart and wife-came to the American Colonies, and with them came the father of John T., viz., Sam- uel Stewart, a native of Belfast, Ireland, the family settling in Pennsyl- vania. John T. Stewart, our subject's father, was born in Dauphin County, Penn., March 3, 1781, and there grew to maturity, his father dying in that county September 19, 1803. In the autumn of 1806, he, with his brother Samuel, came to Ohio and purchased 500 acres of land in what was then a part of Greene County, but now lies in Green Township, Clark Co., Ohio. About 1815, they divided the land, John T. receiving the southern portion in the division then made. He was united in marriage, near his home, March 2, 1815, with Miss Ann Elder, third daughter of Robert and Ann Elder. She was born in Pennsylvania, May 19, 1798. John T. departed this life in Clark County April 16, 1850; his widow survived him thirty years, dying September 24, 1880. Samuel, our subject, was reared on a farm until twenty-six years of age, at which time he went to Greene County, Ohio, where he was engaged in merchandising, and was also a railroad agent. He was united in marriage, December 12, 1848, with Mary A. Marshall. She was born in Clark County, Ohio, June 19, 1825, and was a daughter of William Marshall. To this union have been born seven children (of whom six survive), viz., Marshall, Ella M., Anna (deceased), Chase, Mary, Elizabeth and Katie. Our subject filled the office of County Commissioner of Hardin County, Ohio, for three years, being elected in 1870, and it was during his term of office that the gravel and stone pikes throughout the county were first built. Mr. Stewart's farm is situated in Taylor Creek Township, and is one among the largest and best improved in the county. He 'has given his attention to the raising of stock of different kinds, but makes a specialty of sheep, being one of the largest wool-growers in the county. Mr. Stewart is one among the first settlers of Taylor Creek Town-
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