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Mrs. Harriet Brooks Breck, the widow of his son, possesses a large photograph of him taken in his old age, and it is most striking in its expression of gentleness and goodness, and one can easily create from
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it an image of an old-fashioned gentleman and scholar. He lived with his only son, Hon. Joseph Breck, or occupied the same house for twenty- two years, and all that time he was unfailing in his kindness and con- sideration towards his son's wife. She speaks of him in terms of ten- derest gratitude and respect.
Rev. Joseph and Angeline Breck had two children that reached matur- ity :
Hon. Joseph Breck, born 1831; mar- 1838; married C. B. Denio, who
ried Harriet Brooks. removed to Galen, Ill., and later to Angeline Snow Breck, born May 21, Vallejo, Cal.
Five years after the death of his wife, the Rev. Joseph H. Breck moved to a farm on the Brecksville road, and while his motherless chil- dren were yet young he met Miss Diantha Chamberlain, a maiden lady who was a school-teacher in Twinsburg, and they were married. She outlived Mr. Breck nine years, and died at an advanced age at the resi- dence of his son with whom she had made her home for thirty-one years. She left no children.
Hon. Joseph Breck lived a long life in or near Cleveland, and died in 1907, honored and respected. He married the daughter of Hezkiah Brooks, a pioneer of Carlisle, Lorain Co. She was a pupil of Miss Linda Guilford, and taught school in Cleveland before her marriage. Her grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier and on the staff of Gen. Wash- ington.
The children of Hon. Joseph and Harriet Breck :
George Dwight Breck, m. Minnie William Merriman Breck, unmar- Schultz. ried.
Theodore Brooks Breck, m. Martha Mary Louise Breck, m. George Begg. Resident of Detroit.
Spencer.
After the death of Mrs. Angeline Snow Breck, the aged and widowed mother of Rev. Joseph Breck came on to Cleveland from Northampton to look after his home and children. Besides this son she had a daughter Rachel married to Rev. George Hooker, an eminent divine of Massachu- setts, and another daughter Fanny married to a Mr. Eastman.
In many ways this mother was a remarkable woman. She possessed much musical talent, and as Abigail Kingsley, and as a very young girl she led the choir of a Northampton church.
She died in 1847, aged 79 years.
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NOTT
Sergeant John Nott, of Weathersfield, Conn., 1681, was the American ancestor of the pioneer family of that name who came to this city in 1833. The Notts intermarried with the Dimmock family of Connecti- cut, and one son in every following generation had "D" for a middle initial. The Notts possess a family Bible over two hundred years old. It is bound in calfskin as thick as sole-leather.
William D. Nott was twenty-three years old when, in 1811, he mar- ried Laura Belden of Chatham, Conn .; and he was about forty-five years old and had a family of children when he removed to Cleveland. The Notts were very desirable citizens. Their useful occupation of manufac- turing pumps, vessel-spars, etc., was a lucrative one for themselves and most valuable to the community in which they had come to live. Their shop was on Merwin street and their residence at 35 Water street.
William Nott died in 1858 and, with his wife Laura Belden Nott, and several of his children, is buried in Erie street cemetery. Mrs. Nott died several years before her husband. She was a sister of Capt. Clifford Belden and an aunt of William Hart, the pioneer furniture-dealer.
Children of William D. Nott and Laura Belden Nott:
Mary E. Nott, b. 1812; m. Nathaniel Taylor, of Willoughby, O.
William Dimmock Nott, b. 1814; m. Emily Hurd; 2nd, Emily Doane. He was a merchant and lived on Euclid Ave. on the site of Halle Brothers' store. He was instant- ly killed in 1859 by falling down the cellar-stairs of his home.
Henry Nott, b. 1817; m. Mary Farr of Euclid, O. In 1856 he was liv- ing at 46 Perry street.
Horace Nott, b. 1817; twin-brother of above; was in business with
him continuously. He lived at 50 Wood street; m. Harriet L. Smith of Rockhill, Conn. Laura Nott, b. 1819; m. Mr. Earl of Covington, Ky. They conduct- ed a seminary there.
Abram Luther Nott, b. 1822; m. Elisabeth Slater.
Chauncy Clifford Nott, b. 1824; m. Mary Ann Ross, daughter of Joshua Ross, Jr. They had one child, George C. Nott, a resident of the city.
The wife of Horace Nott was one of three sisters, Sherrill, Harriet, and Ada Smith, noted for their intelligence and beauty. They were the daughters of John and Melinda Farr Smith, of Jefferson County, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Nott had three children :
Belle Hastings Nott, b. 1848; m. Franklin D. Nott, m. Elisabeth Cur- Benjamin L. Wareing ; 2nd, tis. James Warham Whitney. Lives Jennie Sherrill Nott, m. John Knox Brown, of Buffalo, N. Y. in New Rochelle, N. Y.
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KENDALL
An interesting and charming family were the Kendalls, three genera- tions of whom lived in Cleveland, covering a period of half a century.
The Kendall men, father, son, and grandson, were unusually fine- looking, and of cultured, dignified bearing. They were in the dry-goods business, and their store was first on the north side of Superior street below Seneca, now West 3rd, then removed above Seneca on the same side, and finally into the new Case Block, the site of the present post- office.
The pioneer of any new movement risks much, seldom benefits by it, and often comes to grief. The experiment of the Kendalls in locating their business above the Public Square proved a failure. It was many years later before local trade established a footing on Euclid ave. and East Superior street, and by that time the once popular store of Kendall & Son was unknown to the many, and recalled only to the few.
Lyman Kendall, Sr., came to Cleveland in September, 1833, in mid- dle life, 49 years of age. He was the son of Joseph and Hannah Smith Kendall, and was born in Ashford, Conn. In 1810 he married, and in the same year opened a general merchandise store in Greenfield, Mass., which proved very successful. After a 20 years' residence in that town, he sold out and conducted a banking business for three years in Homer, N. Y. Attracted by the glowing accounts of Cleveland's beautiful loca- tion and rapid growth, Mr. Kendall removed with his family to this town, and, returning to the occupation with which he was most familiar, opened a dry-goods store. The family residence was 44 Euclid ave., the site of which is now covered by the Kendall Building.
Lyman Kendall, Sr., died in 1847, and was buried in old Erie street cemetery. His wife's maiden name was Martha Clay Goodhue, of Put- ney, Vt. At the time of her marriage to Mr. Kendall she was 20 years of age, and 43 years old when she removed to Cleveland.
Her parents were Dr. Joseph and Martha Clay Goodhue, and her American ancestor was living in Ipswich, Mass., in 1639. Dr. Joseph Goodhue was a surgeon in the U. S. Army for 21 years. He died in Deerfield, Mass. Mrs. Lyman Kendall, Sr., was a woman of unusually strong character, and of fine intellect. She was a valuable member of Old Trinity, and zealous in all good and charitable work. After her husband's death in 1847, she went to live with her son George Kendall in Grand Rapids, Mich. She was greatly beloved by the people of that town, and always addressed or spoken of as "Madam Kendall." Her death occurred in 1874, and her remains were brought to Cleveland and placed beside those of her husband.
The year following the arrival of the family in Cleveland, an epidemic of cholera broke out in the town, and among the victims was the 15-year- old son, James Kendall. The Cleveland Herald of August, 1834, con- tained the following tribute :
"Seldom has the visitation of this dreadful scourge been more mourn- ful an affliction than in its sudden destruction of this most interesting youth, known and admired in this community for wisdom and virtues far surpassing his years."
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Children of Lyman and Martha Goodhue Kendall :
Lyman Kendall, Jr., b. 1811; d. aged 30.
George Kendall, b. 1813; m. Esther Tallman.
Henry Dwight Kendall, b. 1815; m.
Marcia D. Havens of Hamilton, N. Y.
James Kendall, d. aged 15 years. Charles Kendall, b. 1825; m. Sarah K. Butts.
John Kendall, b. 1825; m. Aurena Whipple. The latter were twins.
After the death of Lyman Kendall, Sr., his son Dr. Henry Dwight Kendall, who, meanwhile, had studied medicine, and was a well-estab- lished physician, felt obliged to relinquish his practice and assume charge of his father's store and business.
Dr. Henry D. Kendall later took into partnership his son Lyman H. Kendall, and the firm was afterward known as "H. D. Kendall & Son." Finally, Dr. H. D. Kendall sold out his interests and removed to Grand Rapids, Mich. He died at Guaymas, Mexico, in 1891. Crumb, Baslington, & Kendall continued the business for a time, then established a bank.
George Kendall, the second son of Lyman Kendall, Sr., lived in Cleve- land but a year or two, and then embarked in the dry-goods trade in Kalamazoo, and later in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he lived until his death in 1890. Eventually, his four younger brothers followed him to the latter place. All of them at first were dry-goods merchants, later, be- came interested in real-estate, and in banking and brokering.
The children of George and Esther Tallman Kendall were:
Martha Goodhue Kendall, b. 1844. Mary Kendall, b. 1848.
George Tallman Kendall, b. 1846; Esther Kendall, b. 1856; d. 1897. d. 1877.
Children of Dr. Henry and Marcia Havens Kendall :
Lyman H. Kendall, b. 1840; m. Miss George Kendall, b. 1844; d. 1866. Clara Mix; she died 1864. Joseph G. Kendall, b. 1849. Henry Kendall, b. 1842.
The children of Charles and Sarah Butts Kendall :
Charles J. Kendall, b. 1848. Sarah, Harriet, and Josephine Ken- dall.
The children of John and Aurora Whipple Kendall were:
John, Julia, and Anna Kendall.
Dr. Henry D. Kendall, his wife Marcia Havens Kendall, and Clara Mix Kendall are buried in Erie street cemetery.
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KELLOGG
Pliny Kellogg, born in Hanover, N. H., in 1876, was the son of Enos Kellogg. In 1809 he married Wealthy Smith, daughter of Benjamin and Maria Smith.
Pliny Kellogg was a shoemaker. He came with his wife and children to Cleveland in 1833, but remained in the city but a few years, remov- ing to Chagrin Falls some time before 1845. While living here, the family resided at 81 Bank street where Mr. Kellogg kept a large boarding- house.
The children of Pliny and Wealthy Smith Kellogg:
Leonora Kellogg, b. 1810; m. Har- leans and never heard from after- ward.
mon Burrows.
Lydia Kellogg, b. 1812; m. Jarius Ruggles.
land very young for New Or-
Stephen Kellogg, b. 1816; m. Abi- gail Pierce.
Walter Kellogg, 1814, he left Cleve- Lucy Kellogg, b. 1820; m. Anson Welcon Gaylord.
Mrs. Wealthy Kellogg died in 1858, and her husband ten years later.
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KEEP
Rev. John Keep had charge of the old stone church through the year of 1833. He was born in Longmeadow 1781, and was the son of Samuel Keep. He was a Yale graduate of the class of 1802.
While studying for the ministry in Goshen, Conn., he boarded at the residence of Judge Nathan Hale, and there met Lydia Hale, the oldest daughter and domestic mainstay of the family, her mother being an inva- lid. John Keep was attracted by her lovely spirit, pretty ways, and prac- tical accomplishments. He frequently offered her a helping hand when she was occupied in duties that would allow it, and soon a romance de- veloped. They were married in 1808.
Rev. Keep's first charge was in Blanford, Mass., where his only child was born. After the close of his work in the Old Stone Church, which belonged to the Presbyterian society, he organized the First Congrega- tional church on the West Side. It stood on the corner of Detroit and State street for long years. A police-station now occupies the site. He was pastor of that church for two years, and then became interested in Oberlin College and spent his time in soliciting and raising money for that institution. He visited England, making eloquent pleas for the education and elevation of the black man. He made Oberlin his perma- nent home, and died there in 1870.
He was a man of lofty ideals and high vision. His services for Ober- lin College when it was poor and struggling can never be fully realized.
Mrs. Lydia Keep was a helpmate in all her husband's efforts.
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Their only child:
Rev. Theodore J. Keep, b. 1809 in Blandford, Mass .; m. Mary Ann Thompson, dau. of Kisuyck and Children of Theodore and Mary Keep:
Eunice Gaylord Thompson, in 1841.
William J. Keep, b. 1842; m. Fran- Fanny M. Keep, b. 1856; m. Nor- ces S. Henderson. mand Pelton.
Mary E. Keep, b. 1849; m. George M. Clark.
These children died young.
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CLARKE
One of the leading physicians of the town in the '30s was Dr. W. A. Clarke, who was a partner of Dr. Erastus Cushing. In 1836 he was re- siding at 25 High street, with his office designated as "Cushing and Clarke," 48 Superior street. He also had a drug-store at 11 Superior street, and over this was the first location of The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
High street was a short, pretty thoroughfare in those days, and sev- eral well-known families, at different times, resided there. Years ago, however, it retrograded into a mere passage-way, occupied by negroes of the lowest type. Dr. Welcome Arnold Clarke was born in Stonington, Conn., in 1791, and was the son of the Rev. Henry Clarke of Hopkin- ton, R. I. His mother was Catherine Pendleton Clarke of Westerly, R. I. Rev. and Mrs. Henry Clarke died in Brookfield, N. Y.
The Clarkes were welcomed as acquisitions to Cleveland's best society, and their four pretty, accomplished daughters were much admired and their company sought by the young men in town, but the house of Wins- low won three times in the race. It is not unusual for two brothers to marry sisters, but the number rarely exceeds that.
Dr. Clarke died in 1848, aged eighty-two, and was buried in Erie street cemetery, probably in the Winslow vault.
Mrs. Clarke was a Miss Mary Brown, daughter of Nathan Brown, of Brookfield, N. Y. She was a graceful, slender lady, with alert carriage and very pleasant, friendly manners. She died a very old lady, outliving her husband nearly forty-two years. In all that period of widowhood she retained her own home, and after the death of her daughter, Mrs. Tracy, cared for and educated the latter's two motherless sons.
She lived for some time on Prospect street near Bolivar Road, but died on Euclid Ave. in a residence opposite that of her daughter, Mrs. R. K. Winslow.
The children of Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Clarke :
Mary Anne Clarke, b. 1816; m. Na- than C. Winslow.
Harriet Clarke, b. 1818; m. Tracy.
Lucy Clarke, b. 1821; m. Rufus K. Winslow. Helen Clarke, b. 1826; m. Hezekiah Winslow.
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JOHNSON
Before the locks of the Sault Ste. Marie were built, the Cleveland firm of Johnson and Tisdale had their two new schooners, the "Swallow" and the "Julia Palmer," taken by land above the rapids and launched in the waters of Lake Superior. It was accomplished by means of greased skids, and its success created much comment all over the country.
The senior member of the firm, Seth W. Johnson, was a familiar fig- ure on the streets of Cleveland for nearly 75 years. He was a pioneer ship-builder who was 95 years old at his death, 1907, and but for an accident in which he was injured, he might have lived to the 100 years, which event he assured his friends, he intended to celebrate. In his extreme old age he was still a fine-looking, alert man, whose snow-white hair and beard only served to make his keen eyes still brighter.
Mr. Johnson was a genuine Yankee, possessing Connecticut enterprise and industry, and the seven years of his youth in which he served an ap- prenticeship to the ship-building trade developed an instinct for vessel- construction that eventually won him a competence.
Seth W. Johnson was born in Middle Haddam, Conn., in 1811. He came to Cleveland about 1833, and soon after started a drydock for vessel- repairing which developed into the building of new ones. The steamers Constellation and Robert Fulton were the first of these. It was in 1844 that he took into partnership Mr. Erastus Tisdale, and for 19 years thereafter turned out some of the finest craft ever constructed for fresh water, besides furnishing many steamers for the English coast-trade.
In 1840 Mr. Johnson married Miss Sophia Norton.
The family lived for some years in a fine brick residence on Wash- ington street, corner of Pearl, now West 25th, West side, and afterward lived on Prospect Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson had many close friends and attached neighbors during that time, who rejoiced with them in their pros- perity, and grieved when sorrow touched them.
There were two sons in the family. They were Calvert Henry, and Malcolm S. Johnson, handsome, interesting boys in their childhood and young manhood. They were in partnership in the tea-trade for a time. Calvert Johnson met with a sudden and tragic death in Chicago in 1871. He was 28 years old and unmarried.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson had a little daughter, Belinda Norton John- son, who died young and the family mourned the rest of their lives.
Capt. Malcom S. Johnson, b. 1846, m. Amanda Root Ruffner. Mrs. Amanda Johnson died in 1886, aged 35 years.
Capt. Malcom S. Johnson passed away in 1909, and his mother, the last remaining member of the family, soon followed him.
The Johnson burial-lot is on Garfield drive in Lake View cemetery.
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In 1833 two brothers started a small dry-goods store on Superior street just below Bank. Soon after Samuel Raymond was taken into partnership, and later the firm became Clark & Morgan. The young mer- chants were Henry White Clark, aged twenty-six, and Mervin Clark, twenty-one years old. They were from New Britain, Conn., and the sons of Ornan and Lucy White Clark.
Six years later Marvin married Caroline Guptil who was born in Cleveland, 1822, and was the daughter of those very early pioneers John H. and Lucy White Guptil. Her mother was one of the party of four- teen who came all the way from Vermont in an open flat-boat. Caroline Guptil Clark lived but eight years after her marriage.
Evidently Mervin Clark was not satisfied with the financial outlook for his line of business, perhaps the panic of 1837 may have influenced his decision, for he left Cleveland for Milwaukee in the early '40s. His wife died there and then he removed to Rensselaer, Ind. He died while on a visit to his sister in New Britain, Conn., at the age of forty-two years. His four children, born in Cleveland, were:
Almira Clark, m. George S. Britain. M. Julius Gay, a noted genealogist,
b. in 1834, son of Fisher and Lucy (Thomson) Gay.
Mervin Clark, a young soldier of the civil war, who lost his life at the battle of Franklin, and was bur-
ied on the field. He had served in the famous 7th Ohio Reg. and in the 183rd, lieutenant-colonel of the latter, and was but twenty- one years of age at the time of his death.
Oliver Stanley Clark, lives in Wa- tertown, Wis.
Mervin Clark, Sr., married (2) Miss Mary J. Thorp, and had two more children, Lucy and Henry Clark.
Henry White Clark, brother of Mervin Clark, Sr., remained in the city the rest of his life and became very prosperous. He married Emily Rowena Stanley, b. 1810, the dau. of Cyrus and Abigail Lee Stanley.
The family lived for a time on the Public Square, west of the Old Stone church, and later at 23 Euclid Ave., the site of the Stanley Block. They had no children of their own, but informally adopted several of their nephews and nieces, caring for and educating them. "Their roof was never too narrow to shelter those dear to them, and they never wearied in giving to others." One who was of that beautiful household says, "Henry W. Clark was one of the kindest-hearted men I have ever known, and his wife and he were of one mind and one impulse when it was a question of giving and doing."
Mr. Clark became interested in mining and lost heavily and was un- able to provide for his numerous proteges as he had hoped and expected. His business had taken him often to Dubuque, Iowa, and in 1869 Mrs. Cark died there. She was the granddaughter of Col. Gad Stanley, a Rev- olutionary officer of 1776, whose wife, Mary Judd, was of the bluest blood of the colony. Mr. Clark outlived his wife only three years.
Mrs. Clark's widowed mother, Abigail Lee Stanley, lived in Cleveland a number of years, residing with Mrs. Clark. She died in 1867 aged 80.
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Mrs. Clark's sister, Harriet A. Stanley, was a lovely character. She never married but gave her long life to the care of nephews and nieces. While very aged she and a brother lived on Vienna street, and both died there.
Mr. Cyrus T. Stanley of East Cleveland is the only representative of this family remaining in the city.
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HEWITT
When Miss Sarah B. Hitchcock, daughter of Judge Silas and Polly Bradley Hitchcock, started from Cheshire, Conn., to visit her sister Mrs. John A. Foote in Cleveland, no one could foresee that then and there Cheshire had lost one of its dearest young girl residents; one who had been born and spent her 21 years of life in that old New England town.
For, during her stay in Cleveland, she met Morgan Lewis Hewitt, a physician and surgeon 26 years of age, who had arrived here from Plattsburg, N. Y., some time previous, and they were married in 1836.
Dr. Hewitt combined a strong personality with charming manners, and as a physician was far in advance of his day, advocating and prac- tising methods since adopted by the medical profession.
The couple began housekeeping at 74 Bank street. Subsequently, . Isaac L. Hewitt, a brother, came on from Plattsburg, and began a busi- ness career in the city. He invested in vessel property, and later be- came interested in the iron ore trade. This led to the removal of Dr. Hewitt in 1857 to Marquette, Mich., of which he became a founder and promoter.
During the 21 years of their residence in Cleveland, Dr. and Mrs. Hewitt were respected and loved by many people, especially by those affiliated with the Old Stone Church, of which Mr. Hewitt became an officer and deacon.
Their removal to Marquette was attended by some sacrifice, as that place was then a wilderness, and at that time deemed as far away and inaccessible as Dakota is in this day of railroad communication. Dr. ment of Marquette. Both he and his wife died there many years ago.
Children of Morgan and Sarah Hewitt:
Ellen S. Hewitt, m. Hon. Peter Mary L. Hewitt, m. Henry Mather White.
of Middleton, Conn.
Both sisters spent their married lives in Marquette. The former died some years later, leaving an only daughter, Mrs. Shirer, who divides her time between Washington, D. C., and Marquette. Mrs. Mary L. Mather still resides here.
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Isaac L. Hewitt, the brother of Dr. Hewitt, married a Miss Lake of Cleveland, whose father, Alanson Lake, was in the confectionery bus- iness at that time. Mr. Isaac L. Hewitt removed to Lugonia, California.
Morgan Lewis, the Christian name of Dr. Hewitt, was a favorite one in early days of the past century. It was bourn by a famous resi- dent of New York state who was an American general and a jurist.
1833
HULBURT
Hinman B. Hulburt was 18 years of age when he came to Cleveland in 1833 and began the study of law in his brother's office. It took him three years to prepare for his examination and admission to the bar. Mean- while he was a member of his brother's household.
For some reason he hit upon Massillon, O., as a promising field for a newly-fledged lawyer, or, perhaps there was something else than the law in view when he packed his small hairtrunk with his limited ward- robe and his law library, two volumes, and spent part of his whole cap- ital, $3.25, for a ticket to that town.
Massillon was having a boom in those days, and several Cleveland men were interested in her future.
H. B. Hurlburt entered a bank there and soon developed a talent for money-making. Everything he touched commercially proved a success, and in 1852 he returned to Cleveland a rich man, for that day. From that time on he was connected largely with banking interests and with railroads, and became one of the leading capitalists of the city. He died in 1889 worth a half-million dollars.
As soon as established in Massillon sufficiently to warrant such an undertaking, which was only a matter of a few months, he returned to Cleveland for his promised bride, and a quiet wedding took place on Pearl street, West Side, that was fraught with the happiness of a life- time.
Mrs. Jane Elisabeth Hurlburt was the daughter of Samuel and Fanny Eells Johnson who had formerly resided near Utica, N. Y., and had been in Ohio City, West Side, about three years. Mr. Johnson was a car- penter and joiner. His wife was a member of an old New England family.
Upon Mr. Hurlburt's return from Massillon, he purchased a home on Superior street beyond the Public Square where the family remained for two years. Then a mansion was built on Euclid Ave. which was occu- pied for 56 years.
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