Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 79

Author: Floyd, J.L., & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Chicago, J. L. Floyd & Co.
Number of Pages: 1090


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CLYDE KEEFER, son of Capt. Benjamin F. Keefer. was born Nov. 16. 1864. at Mnney, Pa. He was educated in the public schools of Sunbury, graduating from the high school, and when six- teen years old began doing clerical work as clerk in a general store condneted by D. H. Snyder & Co. With that concern, which changed ownership and style several times during this period. he con- tinned until April. 1908. when three of the old- est clerks, Mr. Keefer being one, bought the busi- ness. His partners are S. H. Snyder and T. A. Layman, and they are associated under the firm name of S. H. Snyder & Co. Thmus Mr. Keefer " has been connected with the same establishment throughout his business career. The firm does a large general business. dealing extensively in country produce, groceries, flour, carpets. rngs, etc., and employment is given to ten people. Mr. Keefer is a respected citizen of Sunbury, and has


served four years as auditor of the borough. He Keefer's station in Upper Augusta township, and is a Republican in politics.


On June 23, 1896, Mr. Keefer married Carrie DeHaven, daughter of Jehu and Mary ( Douglass) De Haven, and they have one son. Harold De- Hayen, born May 20, 1897, now a student at the Sunbury high school. The family reside in a com- fortable home at No. 449 Chestnut street, Sun- bury. They are members and supporters of the Presbyterian Church, in which Mrs. Keefer is an active worker.


schools of the township afforded him his educa- tional privileges, and he was reared to farming, which he has followed at the same place all liis life. He purchased the property in 188?, after his father's death, and now owns 102 acres. The present house was erected by Christopher Reed prior to . 1806. The barn was built by John Keefer in 1844. Jacob J. Keefer has been a suc- . cessful general farmer and is one of the prosper- ons and substantial residents of his locality. He has been school director and served some years as overseer of the poor.


On Feb. 12, 1867, Mr. Kcefer married Susan Neidig, danghter of Michael Neidig, of Little Ma- hanov township, whose wife was a Wagner. On their fortieth wedding anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Keefer had their pictures taken, he in his wedding coat and vest and she in her wedding dress, in which she was buried. She died May 12, 1910. aged sixty-seven years, five months, five days, and is interred near Snydertown. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Keefer: (1) Howard E., born April 3, 1868, assists his father on the farm. He is nnmarried. (?) Calvin E., born Ang. 16, 1875, took a business course in the Shamokin bus- iness college and subsequently began clerking for a lumber concern. For three years he was engaged as clerk in the connty commissioners' office, and he is now employed as clerk in the Susquehanna Silk Mills at Sunbury. He married Mary A. Pfahler, who was a school teacher before her mar- riage. and they have one child, Frances. (3)


Lloyd C: is. mentioned below. (4) Dennis E .. born Dee. 26, 1884, received a public school edi- cation, graduating in 1902, and then took a course at the Sunbury high school. from which he was graduated in 1906. In 1908 he was appointed reg- ular letter carrier on Route No. 7, in Sunbury.


Mr. Keefer and his family are members of St. John's Reformed Church, near Snydertown, and he has been elder and one of the pillars of the church for years. He is still serving as elder and also as treasurer. Politically he is a Democrat.


LLOYD C. KEEFER was born Feb. 7, 1882. at


obtained his early education in the township pub- Tie schools. Later he attended Susquehanna Acad- emv, at Lewisburg, from which he was graduated. and then for several terins was a student at the Freeburg Music Academy, after which he took a course at Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove. l'a. Meantime, in his eighteenth year, he began teaching school, in his native township. He taught five terms in all, two in Upper Angusta township. one in Rush township and two in the grammar school at Snydertown. In the spring of 1906 he engaged in farming-with which he has been fa-


JACOB J. KEEFER, son of John, the farmer on the original homestead at Keefer's station, in Up- miliar all his life-on his own account in Rush


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township, where he has since lived, near Klines- A. Murdock, was born in Chillisquaque township grove. He has a tract of 150 acres, upon which in 1803. He was a contractor and builder. In are two sets of new buildings. On April 19, 1905, 1834 he was married to Eleanor Wilson, daughter he married Grace Eckman Savidge. daughter of of Nathaniel Wilson, Jr. (1979-1826), who lived Harman and Clarissa (Eckman) Savidge and niece of Judge Savidge, and they have had one daughter, Dorothy Gladys. Mr. Keefer and his family attend the Lutheran and Methodist


near where Pottsgrove now is, and who for many years was a justice of the peace and paymaster in the militia (48th Regiment), and whose father, Nathaniel Wilson, Sr., was born in 1747 and died Churches. He is a Republican in political faith, in Chillisquaque in 1807. Nathaniel Wilson, Sr., ' and socially a member of the Odd Fellows (Sny- dertown Lodge, No. 527) and Modern Woodmen (Camp No. 8678) at Snydertown.


was married to Eleanor McAllister in 1764. He was one of the original subscribers to the Chillis- quaque Presbyterian Church. Nathaniel Wilson, Jr., was married to Sarah Bond (1781-1832), a


MURDOCK. William Murdock, the progen- daughter of Samuel Bond (1754-1838) who emi- itor of the Murdock family of Northumberland county, was a native of Scotland and came to this country about the middle of the eighteenth cen- tury. He served under General Braddock at the time of his defeat at the hands of the French and Indians in 1755. He was afterward a member of the garrison at Fort Augusta, and continued to reside there after his term of service had expired. In June, 1772, he was one of the nien employed by Surveyor General Lukens in laying out the town of Sunbury. In the earliest list of taxables of Northumberland county. 1774, he was assessed as the owner of 300 acres of land, probably granted him for military services. From 1785 to 1790 he was tyler of Lodge No. 22, Ancient York Ma- sons, at Sunbury. He died in 1790. His wife died in 1793.


grated to Chillisquaque in 1790 from Maryland, and who afterward became prominent in North- umberland county politics, being commissioned justice of the peace in 1197, and serving as county commissioner from 1806 to 1809, and as member of the State Legislature from 1811 to 1813. and, again, representing Columbia county in the Legis- lature from 1816 to 1818. Samuel Bond was a . `grandson of Sir Richard Bond, of England.


Thomas M. Murdock was politically a Demo- crat. In 184? he rebuilt the Susquehanna river bridge, which had been swept away by a flood. His wife, Eleanor Wilson Murdock, died in 1872. They were the parents of six children: Sarah. wife of the late C. W. Tharp, Esq. ; Robert Ham- mond, who is still living, and who for many years was the agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany at Corry, Pa .: Jane, wife of Williamson Marsh, deceased: Nathaniel Wilson, who died in 1860, in his eighteenth year; Thomas A .: and Elizabeth Ellen, who married George Barelay, of Milton.


Robert Augustus Murdock, son of William Mur- doek, was born at Fort Augusta. He was the first white male child born in Northumberland coun- ty. . In 1799 he married Mary Fisher, of Chillis- quaque, a daughter of William Fisher, one of the early Chillisquaque settlers, who had obtained a THOMAS AUGUSTUS MURDOCK, son of Thomas Murray Murdock, was born in Milton June 20, 1847. After attending the Milton Academy for a time he learned telegraphy and went to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in 1864, and was with that company continuously to the time patent from the proprietaries in 1774 for a tract along Chillisquaque creek. This tract he after- ward sold to Samuel Bond and in 1:90 bought 241} acres for 540 pounds. known at. the present time as the Frederick and Rissel farms. William Fisher was second lieutenant in the Northumber- of his death, Dee. 3, 1909, a period of nearly forty- land county militia organized in 1727. He also six years. From 1866 to 1822 he was located in filled various township offices and was one of the Sunbury, when he was made station agent at Mil- original subscribers to the Chillisquaque Presby- ton, which position he filled for twenty years, after terian Church. He died in 1794. He was a native of Cumberland county. as was also his wife Mary, position which he held at the time of his death. daughter of Alexander Murray. of Cumberland


day school. He was retiring in disposition and Mr. Murdock was a staunch Republican, but the county. . Robert A. Murdock continued to live on only office he ever held was an appointment from the judge as school director in 1891. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and while which he was supervising agent of the division, the


part of the Fisher farm, where he followed his trade, that of cabinetmaker. to the time of his death, in 1845. He took an active interest in pol- living in Sunbury was superintendent of the Sun- ities and filled various township offices. In 1834 he, with a number of other Chillisquaque men, was a well informed man and pleasing conversa- vigorotisly protested against the removal of the publie deposits from the Bank of the United States. His wife, Mary Fisher Murdock, died in 1857. They were the parents of nine children."


Thomas Murray Murdock. second son of Robert


tionalist. He was a member of the International Association of Ticket Agents. He founded the Milton Circle of the Protected Home Circle and was its treasurer for many years.


In 1820 Mr. Murdock married Margaret L.


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Grav, daughter of P. W. Gray, a merchant of Sun- Spring, near Snubury, July 18, 1804: he had been bury, Pa. P. W. Gray ( 1816-1894) was the only


working in the harvest field and sustained a stroke son of William M. and Elizabeth ( Watson ) Gray. of apoplexy while leaning over drinking from the spring.


William M. Gray (1792-1858) was a lientenant in the war of 1812. After the war he returned to 1831 and 1832 he was worshipful master of Lodge


Capt. William Gray was married to Mary Brady, Sunbury and engaged in merchandising. In 1830, daughter of Capt. John Brady, who had served in the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars, No. 22, Ancient York Masons. In 1841 he or- and who was shot by the Indians near Muney in ganized the first Lutheran Sunday school in Sun- 1279. Captain Brady was a son of Hugh Brady, bury and was its first superintendent. William M. of Cumberland county, Pa. His wife, whose Gray was the son of Capt. William Gray, who was maiden name was Mary Quigley, was a daughter born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1:50, and emigrated of James Quigley. of Cumberland county.


to America on reaching his majority. A short


P. W. Gray, the father of Mrs. T. A. Murdock. time before the Revolution he settled in Sunbury, was married in 1847 to Margaret Frantz, of Se- where he followed his profession, surveying, and linsgrove, Pa., who was born in Reading, Pa., in where for a time he kept a general store. In 1819, and died in Sunbury in 1891. Margaret 1776 he enlisted in the Continental army and was Frantz was the daughter of John and Mary taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island, Aug. ( Fricker ) Frantz. After her mother's death in 27, 1776, and on the 8th of the following Decent- ber he was exchanged for Lieutenant Thompson of the 26th British Foot. He continued in active service until 1781, when he returned to Sunbury. 1824 she was taken and raised by Mrs. Simon Snyder, of Selinsgrove, widow of ex-Governor Snyder, and a friend of her mother's. John Frantz, her father (1781-1834), was a hotel-keep- Captain Gray was prominently identified with the er in Reading. In 1805 he married Mary Frieker. history and development of his town and county. daughter of Anthony and Margaret Fricker, of In 1978 he accompanied General Sullivan's expe- Reading: Mrs. Margaret Fricker was a daughter dition, and his draft of Col. William. Butler's of Conrad Weiser, the Indian interpreter of Co- march and a letter to Robert Erskine are printed lonial Pennsylvania.


in the Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series. Vol. XV. He was made paymaster of the county mili- tia in 1781 : collector of excise in 1783; and dep- uty surveyor in 1791 : he was'auditor of Augusta township in 1787 and overseer in 1791: in 1996 he was one of the trustees appointed to purchase a schoolhouse for Sunbury. Captain Gray was a Presbyterian and in 1787, he and Abraham Scoot, representing the congregation of Sunbury, united with the representatives of the Northumberland and Buffalo congregations in extending a call to Rev. Hugh Morrison, a licentiate of the Presbytery of Root, Ireland, who had been admitted to the Presbytery of Donegal in 1786: this call resulted in the establishment of the first Presbyterian Church in Sunbury. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Society of the Cincinnati, and was made a Mason in Royal Arch Lodge No. 3, at . Philadelphia, during the Revolution. He first ap- pears in Lodge No. 22, at Sunbury, as a visitor on Aug. 31, 1781. and on Jan. 7, 1784. was elected a member of that lodge. He was elected worship- ful master of the Lodge Dec. 27, 1784: Dec. 27, 1791: June 24, 1793: Dec. 28, 1895: Dee. 27, 1797 ; June 28, 1798, and Dec. 27, 1799. He was an enthusiastic Mason and some of the meetings of the lodge were held in his house, which was a large two-story log house standing at the south- east corner of Second and Walnut streets. The tax records at Sunbury show that in 1795 he was assessed as the owner of 260 acres of land, sixty town lots, five horses, one house and lot and one slave. Captain Gray was drowned in the Bloody


Thomas A. and Margaret L. (Gray) Murdock were the parents of five children : Edna G. ; Helen Margaret, married to William B. Godcharles, of Milton ( they have two children, Charles Augustus and Margaret ) ; Donald : William G., and Frances.


William Gray Murdock was born in Milton. Pa .. July 27, 1881. He graduated from the Milton high school in 1898 and after working several years in the office of the American Car & Foundry Company he attended Bucknell University and Dickinson Law School: was admitted to the bar in 1906, and in 1909 succeeded to the office of his preceptor. the late Clarence G. Voris, Esq. In pol- ities Mr. Murdock is a Republican, and in 1910 was a delegate to the State convention which nom- inated John K. Tener for governor, and was a member of the notification committee. On May 16, 1911, he was appointed postmaster of Milton. He is a director and secretary of the Mountain Water Company. and is secretary of the Milton Fair and Northumberland County Agricultural Association, and treasurer of the Protected Home Circle of Milton. In 1908 he served as worship- ful master of Milton Lodge, No. 256. F. & A. M., and is the present scribe of Warrior Run Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Watsontown. He is also a member of Williamsport Consistory and Adon- iram Council of Williamsport. He is a member of the Milton Lodge of Elks and of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon college fraternity. In 1908 he pub- lished a History of Freemasonry in Milton and in 1909 a History of the Brady Family. He has . written a number of articles on local history and


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is a contributor to the "Pennsylvania German" magazine and the "Sigma Alpha Epsilon Record."


FRANKLIN. E. KRUMM, who died .June 22, 1910, resided on his farm in West Chillisquaque township, Northumberland county, from 1874. until his death, and he was one of the most active and respected citizens of that section. He was a native of Orange township, Columbia Co., Pa., born Dec. 10. 1831, son of Jonas Krumm and grandson of Henry Krumm, the latter born in Northampton county, Pa., whence he moved with his family to Columbia county. Henry Krumm was a shoemaker, and followed his trade through- out his active years, his children operating the farm which he owned. He married Mary Eliza- beth Wertman. and to them were born the follow- ing children : Jonas, Eli. Daniel, Philip, John. Benjamin, Jacob, Susan, Lydia, Kate, Phoebe and Annie.


Jonas Krumm, son of Henry, was born in Northampton county and accompanied his par- ents to . Columbia county. After assisting his father for some years he learned the trade of blacksmith. which he followed for a number of years. He then farmed for some time in Colum- bia county, later living in Montour county, and he died at Turbutville, Northumberland county. His wife. Catharine (Ernst), was a daughter of Henry Ernst, whose wife was a Gietner. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Krumm : Franklin E. : Henry, who died at Bloom : Daniel, who died in Michigan: Nathan, deceased, who lived at Catawissa. Pa .: Amos, living at Bloom : George M., deceased : Lloyd, who lives at Danville,' Pa. ; and John. of Turbutville.


Franklin E. Krumm attended public school in his native county and remained with his father un- til he reached the age of twenty-one. He then learned the carpenter's trade, at which he was en- gaged for twenty-one years, assisting in the con- struction of most of the important buildings at Williamsport, Pa .. and many of which went up in his own district. In 1860 he helped to put up a fine barn for his future father-in-law, Josepli Frederick, in his day the most prominent man in this part of Northumberland county. In 1874 he located on the farm of 103 acres in what is now West Chillisquaque township which was ever aft- erward his home. It was formerly a Nesbit farm. Mr. Krumm, was as successful at farming as he. was at mechanical work. and he was one of the most estcemed citizens of his community, having proved himself worthy of the confidence of his fellowmen in all the associations of life. He was a member of the Reformed Church, and in pol- seat. He was a soldier during the Civil war. hay- ities identified with the Republican party. He ing been mustered into the service as second lien- died June 22, 1910, and was buried at Lewisburg. . tenant of Company B. 96th Regiment, Pennsyl-


In 1873 Mr. Krumm married Mrs. Clara A. E. vania Volunteer Infantry, to rank from Sept. 23,


and Elizabeth (Myers) Frederick, and widow of Rev. Aaron Hottenstein. She passed away in Jan- uary, 1909, and is buried at Lewisburg. The fol- lowing children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Krumm: Ida C., who is the wife of John Zear- fans; Sarah A. E., who married John DeFrain and (second) T. H. Hannah ; Bessie, who is the wife of Newton Raup; and Frederick Myers, now engaged in farming the homestead, who married Mary Snyder.


IVANHOE STEES HUBER, cashier of the Shamokin Banking Company, of Shamokin, was horn Oct. 4, 1845, at Pine Grove, Schuylkill Co .. Pa., son of Levi and Margaret (Stackpole) Huber.


Mr. Huber's great-grandfather was born in one of the German Cantons of Switzerland, and emi- grated to the United States about 1763 or a few years later. He settled in Lebanon county. Pa., where he was married. His son, Michael Huber, the grandfather of Ivanhoe S. Huber, was born April 28, 1769, in Tulpehocken township. Lebanon Co., Pa .. and followed farming. He was a major in the State Militia and took a very active part in such affairs. He married Regina Elizabeth Ch- ler, who was born in Lebanon county, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Uhler. Michael Huber and his wife were members of the Reformed Church. and both died in Pine Grove township, Schuylkill Co., Pa. They were the parents of these children: John. Jacob, Michael, George, Philip, Solomon and Levi, and one daughter who died in infancy.


Maj. Levi Huber, son of Michael and Regina. Elizabeth (Uhler) Huber, was born Nov. 9, 1818, in Pine Grove township, Schuylkill Co .. Pa. The public schools of Pine Grove township and the Academy of Myerstown, Lebanon Co .. Pa., were the sonrees through which he obtained his education. Leaving school he learned the tailor's trade at Pine Grove, and for four years did jour- ney work in New York City, and London, Eng- land. In 1844 he went into the tailoring business in Pine Grove on his own account. continuing it up to 1849. Meantime, from 1847 to 1849. he was a school director. For five terms, from 1849. to 1854, he was engaged in teaching in the county. He was town clerk from 1853 to 1857. In the spring of 1854 he was elected justice of the peace, but bad not yet completed his term when he was, in 1852. elected county recorder of deeds. etc .. for the term of three years, having been nom- inated on the Democratic ticket, the Republicans declining to name an opponent. Shortly after his election the family moved to Pottsville, the county


( Frederick ) Hottenstein, daughter of Joseph 1861 : promoted to first lieutenant June 27. 186 ?:


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to captain July 30, 1862; to major Jan. 18, 1864. Kingston, N. Y., wife of Prof. John E. Shull) ; He participated in the following operations: Katharine Louisa, Nov. 13, 1858 (died in .in- fancy) ; Sara Margaret, Jan. 16, 1866 (unmarried, living at Kingston, N. Y.). The two last named were born at Pottsville, Pa., the others at Pine Grove. The family have all been Presbyterians, except Frederick T., who was a Lutheran.


Peninsular Campaign, Seven Days battles, en- gagements at Gaines's Mill, Chickahominy, Savage Station, Malvern Hill, South Mountain, Antie- tam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Salem Church, Gettysburg, Rappahanock Station, Wil- derness, Spottsylvania (where he was slightly Ivanhoe Stees Huber, son of Levi and Mar- garet (Stackpole) Huber, lived at his native place until 1857, when, his father having been elected recorder of the county, the family removed to Potts- ville. He received his early education in the pub- lic schools of Pine Grove and Pottsville. In 1862 he entered the law office of Hon. Francis W. Hughes, at Pottsville, where he was engaged. until December, 1864, when he was appointed teller of the First National Bank of Mahanoy City, Pa., wounded ), Bloody Angle, Cold Harbor, Peters- burg, Shenandoah Valley Campaign, battle of Winchester and others of lesser note. He was mustered out Oct. 21, 1864. After coming out of the service he, in November, 1864, accepted a po- sition in the extensive. establishment of D. G. Ynengling (now D. G. Yuengling & Son), as office manager and confidential agent, which position he held until his death, April 26, 1900. He was one of the incorporators and a director from 1871 to filling that position until 1868. He then became 1896 of the Shamokin Banking Company. In the spring of-1865 he was elected a school director of the borough of Pottsville and served continuously as such for over thirty years, and fully half that time as president of the board. Upon the re-or- ganization of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, some years after the war, he served for some time on the staff of Maj. Gen. J. K. Siegfried, as as- sistant adjutant general of the division. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the Royal Arch Chapter and Knights Templars, in both of which he passed the several chairs; to been varied and numerous, and all looked after the Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine: the in the capable manner for which he is noted. Odd Fellows, lodge, encampment and Patriarchs Militant ; and Knights of Pythias. He was an ac- Since 1883 he has been a director and treasurer of the Building and Loan Association of Shamo- tive member of the G. A. R., Union Veterans kin, and he is a member of the Shamokin Board Union, and Pennsylvania Commandery of the Mil- of Trade. From June, 1881, to 1902 he was itary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United treasurer of the borough of Shamokin, and also States. By appointment he was for many years served as member of the school board from 188? the D. D. G. Master, F. and A. M., of District to 1885, acting as president of that body in 1883 No. 11, comprising twelve lodges in Schuylkill and as treasurer in 1884. His ability as a finan- county, Pa. Politically Major Huber was all his cier is so generally recognized that he has been. life a Democrat.


secretary and superintendent of the Ringgold Coal and Iron Company, at New Ringgold, Schuylkill county, holding this position ten months, and resigning to accept the appointment of deputy prothonotary of Schuylkill county, which he occupied until Sept. 4, 1871, when he was appointed cashier of the Shamokin Banking Company, of Shamokin, serving as such continu- ously until now. He also was for many years a director of that company. Mr. Huber's interests, . of a business, social and religious nature, have


intrusted with financial responsibilities by almost every association with which he has been identified. For many years he was treasurer of the Shamokin Bible Society, and treasurer of the local advisory


On Oct. 15, 1844, at Pine Grove, Pa., Levi Huber was married ( Rev. Aaron Kern perform- ing the ceremony) to Margaret Stackpole, who was born April 4, 1826. in Mc Veytown, Pa., board of the Children's Home Society of Pennsyl- daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Stees) Stack- vania. He is a prominent member of the Prot- estant Episcopal denomination, a lay reader and pole, and died at 1:30 o'clock on the morning of Dee. 31, 1894 ; she was buried Jan. 2, 1895, in the warden of his home church-Trinity-in Shan- Charles Baber cemetery, of Trinity Protestant okin, and is superintendent of the Sunday school. Episcopal Church of Pottsville. They had chil- He is a member of the Laymen's Club; of the Church club of the Diocese of Harrisburg (Pa.), dren born as follows : Ivanhoe Stees, Oct. 4, 1845; Regina Elizabeth, March 17, 1847 (wife of being one of its founders; and of the Church His- F. R. Carpenter, of Bloomsburg, Pa.) ; Alice torical Society ; is a member of the Standing Com- Ruth, Aug. 12, 1849 (died in infancy) : Freder- mittee of the Episcopal Diocese of Harrisburg ick Thomas, Sept. 9, 1850 (who married Amelia and has been since its organization, in November. M. E. Beyer, daughter of George Henry Bever, of




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