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Others of the Wendell family who have been prominent men were Harmanus Wendell, commissioner of Indian affairs 1728- 1732; Evert Wendell, lawyer, and commissioner of Indian affairs 1724-1732; Johannes Wendell, also commissioner 1720-1726; Harmanus Wendell, judge of the Court of Common Pleas 1752- 1758, whose daughter married Colonel Philip Pieterse Schuyler, of the revolutionary army; General John H. Wendell, lawyer, who served in the continental army 1776-1781, held many
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offices, and was a member of the New York Cincinnati (he wore the costume of the revolutionary era until his death, in 1832); Judge Gerrit Wendell and Judge John L. Wendell, of Washing- ton county, N. Y. (a daughter of the latter was the wife of Robert B. Minturn, of Grinnell, Minturn & Co., the philanthropic mer- chants of New York City) ; and Doctor Peter Wendell, chancel- lor of the University of New York.
(VI) Johannes, son of Gerritt and Machtelt Wendell, born No- vember 16, 1788, married Vina Morey or Mowry, born 1792, died November 29, 1879, aged eighty-seven years, daughter of Isaac and Hopie (Harrington) Mowry, who came from Rhode Island to Lake George, and had seventeen children, of whom Melinda, the ninth child, born October 26, 1828, married, November 1, 1847, John Raeder. Isaac Mowry was descended from Roger and Mary Mowry, who came to Massachusetts with the Plymouth colony, was made freeman May 18, 1631, and located at Provi- dence, R. I., 1643. Austin states that family tradition makes him a cousin of Roger Williams. This appears to be corrobo- rated by the similarity of their first names, and the fact that the two were associates in their residence successively at Plymouth, Salem, and Providence. Hopie Harrington was descended from the family of that name that located in Gloucester, R. I., in the eighteenth century and moved thence to Danby, Vermont, 1777. Among them were Thomas Harrington, John Harrington, Oliver Harrington, Mowry Harrington, etc., etc.
W. L. Raeder, son of John and Melinda (Wendell) Raeder, was born at Ransom, near Gardner's Ferry, then Luzerne, now Lackawanna, county, November 27, 1854. He removed with his parents, in April, 1857, to Pittston, and attended the public and select schools of that borough and the West Pittston Semi- nary. He was " devil " in the old Gazette office when Hon. B. F. Hughes, of Philadelphia, was editor, and Hon. Theo. Hart, now its editor and proprietor, was job printer. He was prepared for college under the tutorship of Prof. W. J. Bruce, subsequently editor of the Record of the Times, and entered the freshman class of Lehigh University in September, 1872, where he took the course of civil engineering. While a student at college his parents removed from Pittston to Wilkes-Barre. He, therefore,
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came to Wilkes-Barre in July, 1876, after graduation as a civil engineer, and was employed as a member of an engineer corps under W. B. Hick, chief engineer for the Wyoming Valley Coal Company, formerly the Riverside. After a narrow escape from a fall of rock in the old Enterprise colliery he relinquished min- ing engineering and accepted a position with Virtue & Yorsten, publishers, whose headquarters were at Pittsburgh. He returned to Wilkes-Barre, however, in the spring of 1877 and entered, as a student at law, the office of E. P. & J. V. Darling. While yet a student he was employed as a solicitor to secure subscribers for the establishment of the Wilkes-Barre Telephone Exchange. After successfully establishing the exchange, with the aid of L. C. Kinsey, Esq., a member of the Luzerne bar, Mr. Raeder was continued as solicitor and collector until his admission to the bar, about which time the Scranton Exchange and the Wilkes- Barre Exchange were consolidated, forming the North Pennsyl- vania Telephone and Supply Company. Mr. Raeder was con- nected for a time with the old Wilkes-Barre Fencibles, and after- wards with Company F., Ninth Regiment, N. G. P., wherein, in a short time, he reached the position of a sergeant. Though not yet thirty-four years of age, he has attained an enviable position in his profession, principally as a practitioner of what is called real estate law, though his familiarity with its practice generally is a credit to his preceptors and an attestation of the industry and zeal with which he pursues its problems. He is the publisher of the Real Estate Intelligencer and an authority on the subjects to which it is devoted. He is a democrat in politics, and, though active in the local councils of the party, has never been a candi- date for any office. He is popular socially, being a cultivated vocalist and having achieved a flattering celebrity in amateur opera. His professional future is likely to be a bright one if strong common sense, well-digested methods, and unflagging persistency, added to a very thorough understanding of the law, can make it so.
W. L. Raeder married, February 17, 1885, Elizabeth, a daughter of George Worrell, of Elmira, N. Y. They have one child- Milicent Wendell Raeder, born September 27, 1888. Dr. Smith, in his History of Delaware County, Pa., states that it is sup-
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posed that the name of Worrall or Worrell was originally Warel, and that those bearing it are descended from a Sir Hubert de Warel, who lost three sons at the battle of Hastings, the town at which William the Conqueror first landed. In 1682 Richard Worrell or Worrall and John Worrell, both Friends, or Quakers, came from Oare, Berkshire, England, to Philadelphia, at the same time. They both presented their certificates at the same time, to the same meeting in Philadelphia, and are supposed to have been relatives.
John Worrell, born in Oare, Berkshire, England, in 1658, died at Edgmont, Delaware county, Pa., February 4, 1742, aged eighty- four years. He located first in Chester, Delaware county, in 1682. Two years later, in 1684, he moved to Middletown township, Delaware county, whence, in 1695, he moved to Edgmont town- ship, where he lived until his death. John Worrell was a mem- ber of the Pennsylvania Assembly from Chester county in 1716 (Delaware county being formed in 1789). In 1684 he married (1) Frances Taylor, died at Edgmont, October 13, 1712, widow of Thomas Taylor, of Northenby, Flintshire, England, who pur- chased lands in Pennsylvania, and died in 1682, leaving two sons, Thomas, and Philip, who married, in 1705, Ann, daughter of Thomas and Mary Conway, and died in 1732, leaving issue. He married (2), April 9, 1714, Sarah Goodwin, daughter of Thomas Goodwin, of Edgmont. She was a prominent preacher among the Friends. By his first marriage Mr. Worrell had, it is said, but one son, John, born July 26, 1685, who died young, but the records of Edgmont meeting show that "Joshua, son of John Worrell," married, January 23, 1727, Margaret Spoonly, daughter of Lewis Spoonly. This was probably a second son by the first marriage. By the second marriage Mr. Worrell had (2) Eliza- beth, born January 29, 1715 ; (3) Mary, born April 27, 1717, died young ; (4) John, born August 26, 1719; (5) Peter, born August 26, 1719 (these two were twins); (6) Sarah, born July 19, 1722 ; (7) Thomas, born September 21, 1724, died young ; (8) Thomas, born June 29, 1728 ; (9) Mary, born February 24, 1730.
(II) John Worrell, the fourth child of John and Sarah (Goodwin) Worrell, born August 26, 1719, married, April 18, 1741, Priscilla Lewis, of Edgmont township, Delaware county, and had,
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among others, (III) Samuel Worrell, born at Edgmont June 21, 1754, died February 14, 1827, aged seventy-three years. He was disowned by the Society of Friends for having served in the revolutionary army. One hundred and ten young men of this society entered the continental service from Delaware county and were disowned. Only two, however, joined the British army. Samuel Worrell married, about 1786, Martha Gamble, of Edg- mont, born in 1759, died December 26, 1826, aged sixty-seven years. They had four children-(IV) Lewis; John, of Pequa Valley ; Priscilla, and Rachel.
Lewis Worrell, the eldest of these children, was born in Edg- mont October 13, 1787, died at Cape May, N. J., March 24, - 1860. He married, in 1810, Milicent Taylor, of Cape May, N. J., born in 1790 and died in 1865. Mr. Worrell was bound out at six years of age to learn the potter's trade, in Westown, Chester county. When his time had expired he worked for some time at his trade in Edgmont. In 1817 he removed to Luzerne county and settled at Wilkes-Barre. He lived, until 1840, on River street, where he carried on the pottery business in connection with a lumber yard until 1848, when he retired from business. In 1854 he removed to Elmira, where he established his son George in the coal business. In May, 1858, he moved to Cape May, N. J., and died there. Mr. Lewis Worrell, during his long residence in Wilkes-Barre, earned the high esteem of all its people. One who remembers him well, having had intimate business and social association with him, says : "He was a man ยท of fine physique, with sparkling blue eyes, intelligent, and in every respect companionable. He was full of energy and busi- ness tact and the very soul of honor and integrity." He lived in the Emley house and his pottery stood on the present site of the Urquhart property, where Arnold Bertels now resides. It was an industrial establishment of no small consequence in a borough of the size of Wilkes-Barre, and flourished under his careful management. Mr. Worrell was a devoted churchman, and an ardent participant in all efforts to help his less fortunate fellows, and to add to the good name and prosperity of the city. He was a good man and a good citizen in all that the term implies.
(V) George Worrell, son of Lewis Worrell, was born in Wilkes-
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Barre in 1824, and died in Elmira, N. Y., July 21, 1887, aged sixty-three years. Moving to Elmira in 1855, he spent thirty-two years of his life in that city. The Elmira Advertiser, speaking of Mr. Worrell at the time of his death, says: "He was always an active and intelligent business man. At different times in his busy career he had been associated with the Nobles Manufactur- ing Company and with the company that operated the woolen mills, but he was chiefly known as a successful coal dealer. He brought the first cargo of Pittston coal to Elmira in a canal boat on the once prosperous Chemung canal, and was the first to in- troduce the product of the Pittston mines into Rochester and other cities. In political life Mr. Worrell was not unknown, serving several terms as member of the common council and board of supervisors. These trusts were discharged to the credit of himself and the satisfaction of his constituents in the Third ward. He was a member of St. Omer's Commandery and was connected with Grace Episcopal Church." The Gasette says in addition to the above : "Personally Mr. Worrell was one of the pleasantest men. He was one of those generous, whole- souled men, quiet and unostentatious in his way, but never with- holding aid from any deserving one. Few, perhaps, knew him intimately, but they can testify to his worth as a man, a citizen and a neighbor." Mr. Worrell married, October 18, 1853, Eu- nice Callahan, daughter of John and Mary (Cole) Callahan, and had four children-James L., of Elmira, George H., of Rochester, N. Y., Mrs. W. L. Raeder, and Mrs. Lewis B. Landmesser, of Wilkes-Barre.
TUTHILL REYNOLDS HILLARD.
Tuthill Reynolds Hillard, who was admitted to the bar of Lu- zerne county, Pa., June 6, 1885, is a descendant of Joseph Hillard, of Killingsworth, Conn., who had a son Joseph Hillard, who had a son Oliver Hillard, also of Killingsworth. His wife was Nancy Crawford. Oliver Burr Hillard, son of Joseph Hillard, was born in
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Killingsworth, Conn., June 7, 1803. He subsequently removed to Charleston, S. C., where he carried on a large mercantile and ship- ping business. While a resident of that city he married Catharine Roberts, a daughter of Captain Roberts, of Charleston. He after- wards removed to this city, where he is still remembered by our older citizens as the most enterprising merchant of his day. Thad- deus S. Hillard, son of Oliver Burr Hillard, is a native of Charleston, where he was born in 1829. He came to this city with his father's family, and was for many years engaged in the mercantile business with his brother, William S. Hillard. His wife is Esther Jane Reynolds, a native of Elmira, N. Y. She is the daughter of the late Charles Reynolds and his wife, Lydia Tuthill, a daughter of Samuel Tuthill.
Tuthill Reynolds Hillard, third son of Thaddeus S. Hillard, was born in this city December 12, 1860. He was educated in the public schools of his native city, Williston Seminary, East- hampton, Mass., and Yale College, graduating from the latter institution in the class of 1883. He read law in this city with E. P. Darling and W. C. Price. The same month that he was ad- mitted to the bar he left for an extended cruise in the schooner yacht Brunhilde, John Jay Phelps, owner and captain, sailing around the world, and arriving home a year ago. The yacht left New York June 20, 1885, and spent the next ten days at New Haven and New London, Conn. On the 29th she sailed for Cowes, Isle of Wight ; thence to Boulogne and Cherbourg, France; Cadiz, Spain; Tangiers, Morocco; Gibraltar; Mers-el- Kebir, Oran, Algiers, Bougie and Bona, Algeria; Alexandria, Port Said, Ismaila and Suez, in Egypt; Jebel Zukir, an island in the Red Sea ; Perim Island in the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb; Aden; Sokotra, in the Indian Ocean, since seized by England ; Aucutta, one of the Laccadives ; Bombay; Columbo; Penang and Singapore in the Strait Settlements; Pulo Condore in the China Seas; Hong Kong; Nagasaki, Shiminiseki, Marayama, Mirawa, Te Sima, Kobe, Okoshka, and Yokohama, in Japan ; San Francisco and Monterey, California; Honolulu and Hilo, Sandwich Islands; Papiete and Papara in Tahiti; Rapanni or Easter Island; Juan Fernandez; Valparaiso; Stanley Harbor, Falkland Islands; Montevideo, Urugauy; Ilha Grande, Rio
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Janeiro and Bahia, in Brazil ; Barbadoes, St. Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Montserrat, St. Kitts, Santa Cruz, and St. Thomas, in the West Indies ; the Bermudas, and New York; arriving at the latter place July 31, 1887, and after remaining there a week, running up the New England coast and back by the first of Sep- tember. At many of these places journeys inland were taken, and frequently stays of a month made in a single port. Mr. Hil- lard, since his return, has been actively engaged in the practice of the law.
Very few men of any age can be said to have seen as much of the world as it has been Mr. Hillard's privilege to familiarize himself with, under most advantageous circumstances. The voy- age of the Brunhilde was exclusively for sight seeing purposes. Abundant means were at the command of the captain, who is a son of the millionaire congressman, William Walter Phelps, and time in which to " do" each place visited as thoroughly as pos- sible was not wanting. The amount of information any young man of even the most ordinary powers must needs have acquired in such a tour is not only vast in extent, but largely such as could not in a lifetime have been gathered from mere book study. Supplementing a graduation from Yale, it should fit a man for success in almost any undertaking he could choose. Mr. Hillard already gives evidence that he will win a good position in his chosen profession.
LORD BUTLER HILLARD.
Lord Butler Hillard, who was admitted to the bar of Luzerne county, Pa., September 7, 1885, is the only son of the late William S. Hillard, of this city, a native of Charleston, S. C., and grand- son of Oliver Burr Hillard. (See preceding sketch.) The wife of W. S. Hillard is Ruth Ross Butler, a daughter of the late Lord Butler, of Wilkes-Barre. (See page 338.) Lord Butler Hillard was born in Wilkes-Barre December 5, 1861, and was prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.,
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and, entering Yale College, graduated therefrom in the class of 1883. He read law with his uncle, E. G. Butler, in this city. Mr. Hillard is first lieutenant of Company F, Ninth Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania. He entered as a private, and was promoted through all the grades to his present position. Failing health compelled him to give up the practice of the law, at least temporarily, and he is now engaged in the sale and man- ufacture of lumber at Pittston. He is the vice president of the Wyoming Valley Lumber Company, located at that point. Mr. Hillard is an unmarried man, and a democrat in politics. Though he was but a short time at the bar, it was long enough to dem- onstrate that if health had permitted and inclination prompted he could and would have fought his way to success there. He is a young man of fine mind, ambitious, and possessed of excellent general business qualifications.
GEORGE EUGENE COHEN.
George Eugene Cohen, who was admitted to the bar of Lu- zerne county December 11, 1886, is a native of Pittston, Pa., where he was born July 24, 1862. He is the son of the late Henry Cohen, a native of Schubein, in the province of Posen, Prussia, where he was born in 1820. His father was Eugene Cohen, of the same place. Henry Cohen was educated as a teacher, and at the age of fifteen years passed the government examination. He subsequently taught five years. In 1848 he emigrated to this country, and did business in Susquehanna De- pot and Scranton, Pa. In 1850 he removed to Pittston, where he resided until the time of his death, May 25, 1886. During that time he achieved success in business and amassed a consid- erable fortune. He was an active, enterprising citizen, and won universal respect for his honorable dealing as a man of affairs, and as a friend and neighbor. He took an active interest in the public schools of Pittston, and served for a number of years as one of the directors, and was treasurer of the board for several years. He also held other offices of trust and responsibility to
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the satisfaction of the public. He was a director of the People's Savings Bank of Pittston, and also of the Miners' Savings Bank, at the time of his death. Mr. Cohen married, in 1857, Amelia Aurbach, a native of Schroda, Prussia, daughter of the late George R. Aurbach.
George E. Cohen, son of Henry Cohen, was educated in the schools of his native place, at Wilkes-Barre Academy, Mielzeiner Boarding School, New York, and Yale College, graduating from the latter in the class of 1884. He took at the latter institution the Cobden prize in political economy. Mr. Cohen read law with H. B. Payne and George K. Powell, in this city. He also attended the Columbia College Law School in the city of New York. Mr. Cohen made an extensive tour of Europe in 1887 for the benefit of his health. He has an office in this city, but his residence is in Pittston. He married, August 30, 1888, Lillie Stein, of Mont- gomery, Alabama, daughter of George A. Stein, of New Orleans.
Mr. Cohen, at the time of the writing of these lines, although nearly two years after his admission, can scarcely be said to have as yet attempted practice. As already noted, his health has not been of the best, and, having the means at command, he has uti- lized them to find renewed strength in foreign climates. He is now prepared to win a place in the profession by deserving it, and he comes to the performance of his task well equipped to succeed in it. The honors he won at Yale show him to have ex- ceptional ability not only for acquiring knowledge but for making stong presentment of what he has learned. He has a keen, ana- lytical mind, is an ingenious and effective disputant, and an intelligent conversationalist. He has every qualification, in fact, as well as admirable opportunity, for making his mark both at the bar and, if he chooses, in public life.
JAMES MADISON FRITZ.
James Madison Fritz was born in Orangeville, Columbia county, Pa., March 10, 1857. He is a descendant of Philip Fritz, a native of Philadelphia, who removed from that city to what is
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now Sugarloaf township, Columbia county, in 1790. He was a descendant of one of the early German emigrants who settled in Philadelphia at a very early day. Philip Fritz was the owner of a large tract of land, and in addition to his duties as a farmer filled the office of justice of the peace and was also a school teacher. John G. Freeze, in his History of Columbia County, says that Philip Fritz was the first school master and justice of the peace in the north-eastern part of Columbia county. He also says that " he was a scholarly gentleman from Philadelphia. He taught the first school of the township in a log hut which stood where St. Gabriel's church now stands." His wife was Charlotte Deborgur, also a native of Philadelphia. She was the daughter of Henry Deborgur.
Henry H. Fritz, son of Philip Fritz, was about four years of age when his father removed from Philadelphia to Sugarloaf township. He was a farmer and was one of the founders of St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church, in Sugarloaf township. He died in 1866. He married, in 1814, Margaret Roberts.
William Fritz, son of Henry Fritz and father of James M. Fritz, was a native of Sugarloaf township. He was a school teacher for several years and finally became a merchant at Orangeville. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church and a justice of the peace at the time of his death, in 1864. The wife of William Fritz was Margaret Jones, of New Brunswick, N. J. She was the daughter of Benjamin Jones, who removed from that place to Orangeville.
James M. Fritz, after the death of his father, removed to New Brunswick with his mother and for a few years filled the position of clerk in some of the manufactories and dry goods stores of New Brunswick. Upon the death of his mother, in 1875, he returned to Columbia county and attended the Orangeville Academy in the summer time and taught school in the counties of Columbia and Luzerne during the winter season until 1879, when he entered Lafayette College and graduated in the classical course in the class of 1883. He then registered as a law student in the office of C. G. Barkley, of Bloomsburg, Pa. While pursuing his law studies he taught school and was principal of the Shickshinny schools and also of the New Columbus Academy. He was ad- mitted to the bar of Columbia county December 13, 1886, and to
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the bar of Luzerne county January 29, 1887. He immediately thereafter removed to Nanticoke, where he has opened an office. He has attached himself to the principles of the democratic party. James M. Fritz was married to Annie Elizabeth Stackhouse, a daughter of the late John M. Stackhouse, of Shickshinny, Septem- ber 9, 1886: Mr. and Mrs. Fritz have one child, Margaret Fritz.
John M. Stackhouse was a descendant of Thomas Stackhouse and his wife, Grace Heaton, daughter of Robert and Alice Heaton. They were born in England and came to America in 1682. They were married, 7th mo., 27, 1688, at Middletown meeting, Bucks county, Pa. Thomas Stackhouse represented Bucks county in the Colonial Assembly in the years 1711, 1713, and 1715. He was re-elected in 1716, but refused to serve. He was the owner of five hundred and seven acres of land in Middletown. Robert Stackhouse, son of Thomas Stackhouse, removed to what is now Berwick, Columbia county, Pa. He was one of the earliest settlers there, and died in 1788, aged about ninety-seven years. He had a son Benjamin, who had a son James, who had a son Joseph, who was the father of John M. Stackhouse.
Mr. Fritz brought experience in the trials of this world to the study of his profession, and from this incentive naturally comes a degree of quiet but serious energy, fruitful of the best possible results. The knowledge gained by him in his connection with general mercantile and manufacturing business, together with the understanding of human nature that comes from wielding author- ity in the school room, are an equipment that cannot but tell profitably to him in the pursuit of his chosen calling. He is a painstaking and intelligent servitor of his clients, and will doubt- less prosper in pace with the rapidly growing community in which he abides.
JOHN FRANKLIN EVERHART.
John Franklin Everhart, who was admitted to the bar of Lu- zerne county November 15, 1887, is a native of Pittston, Pa., where he was born June 18, 1859. Two and a half centuries is
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a long time for one to glance back through the vista of a family history, yet it is about that length of time since there landed in this country, from Germany-most probably from the ancient kingdom of Wirtemburg-a family by the name of Eberhard, which has since that time become anglicized into Everhart. The name Eberhard is closely linked with Wirtemburg, and as far back as 1370 there was a famous Count Eberhard, who figured promi- nently in the history of Germany, and gave the Emperor Karl IV no little amount of trouble, which was continued for several years with the emperor's son and successor, Wenceslas. About the commencement of the last century the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch moved from his New York home to Pennsylvania, and settled in East Vincent township, Chester county. The great-grandfather, James Everhart, was a stripling of seventeen years when the revolution of the English colonies occurred. Like a brave and patriotic youth, he shouldered his musket and was soon in the field fighting for the cause of liberty and independence. He served the infant republic until his musket was worn out, and lived to see his grand-children prosper, and died a nonagenarian in 1852. He had three sons, James, John, and William, all of whom became men of wealth and prominence. The latter was a member of congress from 1853 to 1855. It is related .of William that it was his misfortune to be wrecked on the coast of Ireland, where he and five survivors of the ill-fated vessel were treated with great kindness, and that during the famine in Ireland, a few years since, he loaded a ship with provisions at his own expense and sent her to Ireland, by way of expressing his gratitude. He was the father of the late ex-congressman James Bowen Everhart, of Chester county, Pa. James Everhart was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, and the youngest son of James Everhart. He was born in 1789 and died in 1863. He was an officer in the war of 1812, and after the war engaged in the mercantile business in Chester county, Pa. In 1820 he removed to Berks county, where he engaged extensively in agri- culture, tanning, and the iron trade, during which time he took a ship load of bark to England and exchanged it for merchandise. He was a man of sound judgment and correct principles, whose influence was more than local, and whose opinion was sought as
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