Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Part 17

Author: Floyd, J.L., & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Chicago, J. L. Floyd & Co.
Number of Pages: 1024


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In 1884 Mr. Wolf married Emma Dubbendorf, daughter of William and Julianna ( Wiest) Dub- bendorf, and they have had five children, one of Henry Wolf, son of George, was born in Jordan township Oct. 21, 1823, and died March 19, 1896. By trade he was a stonemason. For a number of years he lived with his son Henry A. His wife, whom . is deceased. The survivors are: Mary F., wife of Edwin Baum, who has one child, Charles Edward: William Oscar, who married Beulah Brosus May 30. 1909, and has one child, Melvin Rebecca (Adam), was born in 1826, daughter of Stanley; Harvey E., who married May Schlegel Jolin Adam (whose wife's maiden name was Jan. 1, 1910, and has one child, Nevin Lee; and Nora S. Herb), and died in 1907, aged eighty-one years, six months, twenty-two days. They are buried in Urban at St. Paul's Church, to which both be- JOHN P. CARPENTER, present solieitor for the municipality of Sunbury, and formerly just- ice of the peace of that borough, is an attorney who has risen steadily in his profession sinee he commeneed practice, in 1893. He has been a hard worker. zealous in the discharge of his public du- ties and successful in the conduct of his private longed, Mr. Wolf being a Lutheran and his wife a Reformed member of that church. He served as elder for a number of years. Twelve children were born to this eouple : Hettie, who died young ; John and William, twins. the former of whom is associated with his brother Henry in farming, Henry A. having a two-thirds interest. John a cases. Mr. Carpenter is a native of Snyder coun-


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ty, Pa., born Oct. 18, 1867, at Beavertown, son State normal school at Bloomsburg and Susque- of Alvin M. Carpenter and grandson of Giles hanna University, at Selinsgrove, from which lat- Carpenter.


Giles Carpenter was a native of Germany and was one of three brothers who emigrated to Ainer- ica. He was a wheelwright and miller by occu- pation, and for a number of years conducted a mill at Ephrata, Lancaster Co., Pa., where he reared his family. He married Jane E. MeClin- tick, who was born and brought up in Mifflin county, Pa., and they became the parents of thir- teen children, only four of whom survive, namely : Amanda (deceased ), Martha (deceased), Margaret (wife of Philip Lash; they live in Michigan), James (deceased), Belinda (wife of Amos E. Sellers and living in Lancaster, Pa.), Hiram (who died young), Sylvester (deceased), Arabella (de- ceased), Cincanna (who died young), Louisa (who died young), Alvin M., Samuel L. (of Lan- caster, Pa.), and one that died young. Two of the children died of scarlet fever while the fam- ily lived at Ephrata.


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Alvin M. Carpenter, son of Giles, was born Aug. 21, 1841, in Lancaster county, Pa., and was reared principally on the farm. When sixteen years old he commenced to learn the trade of cabinetmaker, which he continued to follow for fifteen years, meantime locating in Adamsburg, Snyder county. He then began farming in that county, being thus engaged in Beaver township for a period of thirty years, and in connection with agricultural work he follows huckstering, buying and selling produce, in which line he has


established a profitable trade. Occasionally he whose councils he is quite influential. He was a


does carpenter work and painting, being an ex- cellent mechanic and an all-around thrifty man. For eighteen years Mr. Carpenter taught singing classes, and in that connection is widely known to young and old in his locality.


On July 29, 1866, Mr. Carpenter married Ellen Feese, daughter of Renben and Eliza (Middle- werth) Feese, of Beavertown, Pa., and they have had a family of eight children : John P. is men- tioned fully below : Gertie May is deccased : Charles E. lives in West Virginia ; Rev. Sanford is a well known minister of the Evangelical Luth- eran denomination, at present located at Carthage, Ill .; Elsie married George C. Walker, and they are farming people at Beavertown; Harry M. is deceased ; Ira J., of Sunbury. is engaged in rail- roading ; Bessie E. is the wife of Roy E. Eisen- hour, of Sunbury. Mr. Carpenter and his family are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, in which he has long been a prominent worker, having served as elder and trustee, and for a mim- ber of years as superintendent of the Sunday school ..


ter institution he was graduated in the class of 1891. During the next two years he taught school in Rockefeller township, Northumberland county, meanwhile reading law in the office of C. B. Wit- mer. In fact, he gained most of his advanced education while supporting himself by teaching, having taught a number of terms before his grad- uation from the university, two in Lower Maha- noy township, this county. In 1893 he was admit- ted to practice before the Northumberland county bar, and he is now qualified to practice before the Supreme court (to which he was admitted in 1898), the Superior court (since 1909) and the Superior and Circuit courts of the United States. His public honors came to him unusually early in his practice. In 1899 he. became justice of the peace for the borough of Sunbury, continuing to hold that office for two successive terms, until 1909, and he is the present solicitor for the bor- ough of Sunbury, having held that position since 1907 ; in March, 1911, he was reelected to succeed himself for another term of three years. In that capacity he defended the borough in the case of Cake versus the borough of Sunbury, in which a new principle of law was involved, and had the case decided in favor of the borough. His pro- fessional work is above reproach, and his patron- age comes from a substantial class of clients, whose confidence is a gratifying recognition of ability.


From young manhood Mr. Carpenter has been an active member of the Republican party, in delegate to the district convention that nomin- ated Dr. E. W. Samuel, of Mount Carmel, for Congress.


In 1894 Mr. Carpenter married Hannah Min- erva Witmer, daughter of Isaac L. Witmer, of Lower Mahanoy township, and they have two chil- dren, Anna Ellen and Alvin Witmer. The family are active in church work in affiliation with Zion's Lutheran Church, in which Mr. Carpenter holds membership; he has been a member of the church choir since 1891. Fraternally he is a member of Lodge No. 167, B. P. O. Elks, of Sunbury, and of Col. James Cameron Camp, Sons of Veterans, also of Sunbury.


DAVID J. JONES, who is engaged in business at Shamokin, Northumberland county, as a coal dealer and contractor, has lived in the borough from boyhood and has made his own way to. a sub- stantial and respected position in the community. He is one of the foremost contractors of this sec- tion, where much of his work is in evidence.


Mr. Jones was born Jan. 25, 1871, in Danville, John P. Carpenter received his carly educa- Montour Co., Pa., and is of Welsh descent, his tion in the public schools, later attending the grandfather, a native of Wales, having brought his


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family to America and settled near Danville. He teen years as deacon, the same length of time as was employed in the ore mines, and died at Dan- trustee, sixteen years as leader of the choir, and ville, where he is buried.


John T. Jones, father of David J. Jones, was school. He is a Republican in politics and socially born in Wales in 1833 and was fourteen years old when he came with his father to this country. He learned shoemaking, and in time became a shoe Henry Keiser, great-grandfather of Mrs. David merchant at Danville, where he was a leading busi- J. Jones, was of German origin and was born ness man for a number of years. At the time of June 25, 1484. He moved from Berks county, the construction of the Reading railroad he made Pa., to Union county, and thence to Northumber- the shoes 'for the men employed in that work. He land county, finally settling in the Irish Valley, died at Danville March 28, 1874, at the compar- where lie engaged in farming to the end of his days. He died Nov. 13, 1864, and his wife, who was born Aug. 5, 1781, died Oct. 11, 1852. atively early age of forty-one years. Mr. Jones married Elizabeth J. Williams, daughter of Thomn- as R. Williams, and she died Feb. 4, 1886, the Henry Keiser, son of Henry, was born in 1811 and passed all his life in Northumberland county, dying in 1873. He settled in Shamokin, where he carried on a general mercantile business. He was a member of the Evangelical Church. He and his wife, Catherine (Reaker), had a family of six children. mother of nine children, viz .: The first three died young; Sarah is deceased; Margaret married (first) William Humphrey and (second) Hugh Wier ; May married (first) Harry Young and (sec- ond ) H. P. Ridel ; David J. is mentioned below ; Elizabeth is the wife of John Tasker, of Shamokin, Pa .; John is deceased.


. David J. Jones was eight years old when he came to Shamokin, and when he was nine he commenced' work as a slate picker at the Sterling colliery. Later he was employed by Cruikshank & Emes for a time and after that by Thomas Baumgardner at the Enterprise colliery, as door tender, remaining at the latter works until he reached the age of twenty years. He then spent a year at the Camer- on colliery. In September, 1893, he turned to teaming, on his own account, and soon was inter- ested in contracting, which he has since followed, having now one of the most extensive contracting businesses in Shamokin. His combination of in- terests has proved very profitable, the various branches of work he carries on giving constant employment to his men and teams. His interests now include, besides coal dealing and contracting, moving (for which he lias a large dray) and ex- cavation work of all kinds. He did the excavation work for the building of the new Dime Trust & Safe Deposit Company. His business is located at No. 132 East Arch street. The fact that he constructed five and a quarter miles of the State road from Shamokin to Paxinos gives some idea of the magnitude of his undertakings. He has the confidence of a wide circle of patrons and is con- sidered a reliable and intelligent citizen, being well known among the solid business men of the bor- ough. Many dwellings there are of his construc- tion.


nineteen years as superintendent of the Sunday a member of Garfield Lodge, I. O. O. F.


Reuben Keiser, son of Henry and Catherine (Reaker) Keiser, was born in Shamokin May 15, 1852, and is now living there in retirement. He was long employed as a clerk in his brother's store, following this work about twenty-eight years. He married Sarah Hornberger, daughter of John Hornberger, of Minersville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and a family of ten children was born to this un- ion, namely : Harry, Bessie Maude ( Mrs. Jones), John, Reuben, G. Bert, Helen, Hazel, Winfield, Jacob and Frank.


JOHN PHILLIPS, a prosperous farmer of the Plum Creek district in Rockefeller township, was born June 26, 1868, in Lower Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, son of Jacob Phillips.


This Phillips family is of old Berks county (Pa.) stock, the progenitors of the line in this country having settled in that part of Bern town- ship, Berks county, now embraced in Center town- ship, that county. From this locality came ser- eral of the name to Northumberland county, set- tling in Mahanoy township. Mr. John Phillips traces his descent from the early Berks county set- ^ tlers through two lines, his father's mother, Su- sanna (Phillips), having been a daughter of Georg Phillips, the first of his line to come to this coun- ty. He was born in Berks county Mareh 24, 1774, and died April 8, 1852. His wife. Saralı ( Fuchs), died Sept. 25, 1836, aged sixty-one years, three months, twenty-six days. They are buried at Zi- on's (Stone Valley) Church in what is now Low- er Mahanoy township. Their children were : Jolin ; Heinrich (born Jan. 9, 1803, died Oct. 23, 1853) ; Maricha, who married Peter Brosius; Elizabeth, who married Peter Witmer ; Catharine (born April 9, 1805, died Sept. 30, 1889), who married Mich- acl Witmer (born March 29. 1804, died Jan. 28,


On Dec. 26, 1892, Mr. Jones married Bessie Maude Keiser, daughter of Reuben Keiser, and they have had the following children : David (de- ceased), Sarah, George, May, Maude, Paul. John (deceased) and Fred. The family home is at No. 132 East Arch street. Mr. Jones is a prominent member of the Baptist Church, in which he has been an enthusiastic worker, having served four- 1842) ; Sally, who married Heinrich Fox; Chris-


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tine, who died unmarried; and Susanna, who mar- township which he has rented to his son Monroe. ried Jacob Phillips.


In 1908 he retired from hard work and has since Solomon Phillips, the progenitor of the family in America, came to this country in the ship made his home at Hickory Corners, in Lower Ma- hanoy township. Mr. Phillips has served as over- "Phoenix," Capt. John Mason, which arrived at seer of the poor and as supervisor. He is a. Dem- Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 28, 1750, he being the only ocrat in politics, and a Lutheran in religion, he Phillips among the 339 passengers. He settled in Bern (now Center) township, where many of the gation of Zion's Church, at Stone Valley, which he name now reside, and lived to advanced years, as has served as member of the church council. He did his son Michael. He reared a large family, married Hettie Leister, daughter of John Leister, two of his sons being Michael and Heinrich. Mich- late of Lower Mahanoy township. They have had ael's son, John H., attained the age of 105 years, five children: Frank, who lives in Lower Maha- and the latter's son Jacob lived to be ninety-two years old.


Heinrich Phillips resided near Belleman's


and his family belonging to the Lutheran congre- noy ; John ; . George, of Philadelphia; Charles, of Sunbury ; and Monroe, of Lower Mahanoy.


John Phillips was reared on the farm and Church, where he and his wife Esther ( Mogel) lie worked for his parents until twenty years old. He buried. They reared children as follows: Peter, then moved to Upper Augusta township, where Jacob, John, Samuel, John Adam and several he farmed for about twelve years, in 1902 pur- daughters.


chasing his present farm, in Rockefeller township,


Jacob Phillips, father of Jacob Phillips and which was formerly the old Philip Weiser place. grandfather of John Phillips, was born in Berks It contains 121 acres of the best land in the valley, county, and came to Northumberland county when and has been highly improved, Mr. Phillips him- eighteen years old. He settled in.Lower Mahanoy self having made many changes which have ma- township, where he found work among farmers, terially increased its value. In 1909 he built the one of whom was Georg Phillips, whose daughter . residence, and the two wagon sheds and silos, etc., Susanna he afterward married. After his mar- are also of his construction. In addition to gen- riage he commenced farming on his own account in cral farming he specializes in dairying, keeping Lower Mahanoy, where he remained a number of on an average twenty-five milch cows and having years, moving thence to a farm he purchased in always from ten to fifteen young cattle. His milk Jordan township, the property now owned by his team goes to Sunbury daily. Everything about son Elias. He cultivated this place for several his property indicates progress and intelligent management, good judgment and the best of care, years, later purchasing the George Phillips farm in Lower Mahanoy, to which he moved, making his and the returns have amply repaid him for all his home thereon until his death, which occurred there trouble. Mr. Phillips is a public-spirited citizen, April 20, 1862, when he was fifty-four years, ten willing to assume his share of the duties of gov- months, four days old. So well had he prospered ernment, and is at present serving as overseer of by steady industry that at the time of his death the poor. He is a Democrat in politics.


he owned the two farms mentioned and one in On March 24, 1887, Mr. Phillips married Liz- Snyder county, and had several thousand dollars zie Bordner, daughter of George and Susanna in money. He and his wife Susanna, who died (Phillips) Bordner, of Lower Mahanoy township, Aug. 16, 1892, at the age of eighty-one years, eight and seven children have been born to them, as fol- months, twelve days, are buried at the Zion's lows: Julius Augustus, Mary M., Maude E., (Stone Valley) Church. They were the parents Charles N. (Boyd), John E., Lottie I. and Verna. Mr. Phillips and his family are members of the


of fourteen children, seven sons and seven daugh- ters, viz. : Isaac, Elias, Benjamin, John, William, Lutheran Churchi. George, Jacob, Saralı (who died May 15, 1895, aged fifty-eight years, nine months, six days, mar-


JOHN U. HOPEWELL (deceased) was a ried William Schaffer, who died May 6, 1895, aged farmer of Point township, Northumberland coun- fifty-nine years, one month, twenty-four days), ty, during thirty years of his active life, and his Ann (married Samuel Spotts), Catharine (mar- son, the late John C. Hopewell, was a native of ried Isaae Spotts, brother of Samnel, who married that township, where he passed all his life. This her sister), Malinda (married Isaac Trego), Su- family is descended from John Hopewell, a native sanna (married Emanuel Bover), Lizzie (married of New Jersey, who came thence to Pennsylvania, Frank Dreibelbis) and Emma J. (died young).


settling in Northumberland county.


Jacob Phillips, son of Jacob, was born in Lower James Hopewell, son of John, was born in New Mahanoy township and there has spent the greater Jersey in 1797 and came to Northumberland coun- part of his life. In about 1814-15 he lived at Rich- ty with his parents, spending the remainder of his field, on the border of Snyder county, returning .life in this region. For many years he was a to his native township, where he farmed through- clerk in Cowden's store, at Northumberland bor-, out his active years. He still owns a farm in that ough, where he died Jan. 29, 1839. His wife,


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Elizabeth Ulp, was born in December, 1800, and died July 18, 1850. They made their home at Northumberland. Their children were as follows: Mary E., born in 1823, married Daniel Voris, and died in 1848; Elsie, born in 1825, married Capt. William Gray, and died in 1847; Rebeeea B., born in 18 ?? , married Hiram Young, and died in 1850; Jolin U. is mentioned below: James H., born in 1834, died in 1896 (his family live at Scranton, Pennsylvania).


Jolin U. Hopewell was born Dec. 4, 1829, at Northumberland, at the corner of Market and Third streets. He followed various occupations. For some years he was engaged as a boatman, later carried on the coal business, was engaged in butehering for a time, and for thirty years followed farming in Point township, where he owned over two hundred aeres of land. He was not only sue- cessful in the management of his own affairs but took an interest in the direction of public matters in the locality, serving as supervisor, sehool direet- or and overseer of the poor. An all-around use- ful citizen, he was respected throughout the eom- munity, and was a pillar of the Methodist Church, of which he was an active member and for some years an exhorter. In politics he was a Republi- can. He died Nov. 11, 1908.


On May 25, 1854, Mr. Hopewell married Saralı C. Young, who was born Dee. ? , 1834, and who survives him. Thirteen children were born to their union, as follows: Mary E., born in 1855, mar- ried James Smith; Rebecea, born in 1857, mar- `ried John P. Mertz; Margaret G., born in 1858, married John F. Hummel; Sarah H. J., born in 1860, married Michael E. Sanders : Eliza J., born in 1861, married William Botts, and died in 1910; William Y., born in 1863, married Margaret Lon- don, and died in 1897; John C., born in 1866, is mentioned below ; James H., born in 1868, married Harriet Yoxtheimer : Hiram B., born in 1870, mar- ried Hannalı P. Renner; Robert V. G., born in 1872, married Jennie Sampsel : Minnie R., born in 1873, married Charles O. Heintzelman; Bessie M., born in 1876, married George C. Schaffer ; Ella C., born in 1878, died in 1881.


Jolin C. Young, father of Mrs. Sarah C. (Young) Hopewell, was born Aug. 5, 1789, and died Oct. 11, 1845. His wife, Margaret C. (Phil- ips) Young, born April 5, 1802. died Sept. 11, 1878. They were farming people, and lived in Union county, but both are buried in the River- view cemetery, at Northumberland. Their chil- dren were born as follows: Philip, Nov. 25, 1820; George, Oct. 19, 1822 : Hiram, Dee. 6. 1824 : Jolin, June 14, 1827; David. Oct. 30, 1830; Mary E., Oct. 10, 1832; Saralı C., Dee. 7, 1834: Rebecca, Oet. 16, 1836; Peter, Sept. 29, 1838: William, June 23, 1841; Eliza J., Dee. 3, 1844.


spent his youth upon the farm, obtaining his edu- cation in the local public schools. When four- teen years old he went to learn the trade of nailer at the Johnson mills, and followed that ealling for some time, but for three years lie was in such poor health that he was able to do little manual labor. After that lie bought a coal digger, and for the three years before his death was engaged in dig- ging coal, finding this business quite profitable. Mr. Hopewell died Sept. 20, 1909, and is buried in Riverview cemetery. He was a Republican in polities, and in religion a member of the Meth- odist Church, in which he was quite aetive, serv- ing as steward. His family also belong to that chureh.


On Feb. 12, 1888, Mr. Hopewell married Cath- arine E. Miller, daughter of Joseph E. and Cath- arine (Herr) Miller, and two children were born to them: Catharine G. is a milliner and dress- maker, assisting her mother, who is engaged in dressmaking; and Beatriee E. is attending sehool.


JOSEPH E. MILLER, father of Mrs. Hopewell, was born in Laneaster county, Pa., Sept. 5, 1840, and his family is an old and honored one in that county. Henry Miller, his grandfather, was one of three brothers who settled near Salunga about the time of the Revolution. He was a large land owner, ,a suceessful farmer, and a member of the Old Mennonite Church. He lived to be nearly seventy years old, and always enjoyed the confi- dence and respeet of the entire community. He married a Miss Shenk, whose father was one of the pioneer settlers in the valley of the Chick- ies, near Salunga, where he preempted and pat- ented several large traets of land and built two mills upon the stream named. One of these is still known as the Shenk mill, the other as the Garber mill. To Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller six children were born. The eldest. John Miller, was the father of Josepli E. Miller. He was born Oct. 15, 1797, and died Sept. 23, 1850, a farm- er and a man of influence. He was long a mem- ber of the school board, and served for many years as supervisor. He was a Whig in polities, and, like his father. a Mennonite in religious faith. On Mareli 22, 1825, he married Elizabeth Erb, who was born Nov. 9. 1904, and died Aug. 29, 1863. They had a family of eleven children : Emanuel, born Jan. 11, 1826. died in infaney ; Daniel, born May 22, 1827, died Oet. 23, 1895, at Elizabethtown, Pa., where he had been first a farmer and then for many years an innkeeper ; Susanna, born Feb. 19, 1829. married David Weaver, of Manheim ; Henry E. died at Lititz. Lancaster county, where he was a very promi- nent citizen : John E., born Aug. 22, 1823, learned the tradle of a tailor and is engaged as a cutter at Portsmouth, Ohio : Andrew, born April 8, 1836.


JOHN C. HOPEWELL. son of John U. Hopewell, died when one month old : Elizabeth. born April was born Oet. 14, 1866, in Point township, and 29, 1837, died Feb. 16, 1839; Josepli E. is men-


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tioned below; Reuben E., born Oet. 14, 1842, is which he farmed for one year in Jackson town- a · laborer at Salunga ; Catharine, born Oct. 21, ship, Northumberland county, and then lived two 1844, married Levi B. Zook, a farmer living near Lititz; Elizabeth, born Feb. 7, 1847, died Aug. 22, 1863. years in Lower Mahanoy township, Northumber- land eounty. In 1880 he came to Shamokin, and found employment in the mines, where he rc- Joseph E. Miller lived at Landisville and was a farmer in his native eounty until 1893, in which year he eame with his family to Point township, Northumberland county. For nine years he farmed the Thomas Baumgardner property of ?20 acres there, at the end of that time returning to Lancaster eounty. He and his wife Catharine (Herr), daughter of Abraham Herr, now live near Columbia, Pa., engaged in farming. They have had children as follows: Mary married James Probst; Catharine E. married John C. Hopewell : Joseph G. is a resident of Columbia, Pa. : Harry G. lives with his parents : Frances A. (deceased) married Harry Beats: two children died young. mained about six years. The next five years lie passed in a general hauling business, and the sue- ceeding five years as conductor on a freight train for the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Com- panv. On Oct. 1. 1903, he assumed the duties of his present position, that of superintendent of the Shamokin cemetery, and his efficiency is well attested by the carefully kept condition of that beautiful city of the dead. His residence is at No. 53 Marshall street. He is a member of St. John's Reformed Church. Mr. Lark has been twice married. In 1873 he married Emeline Boyer, daughter of Benjamin and Catharine (Stine) Boyer, the former of whom was born in CHARLES C. LARK, a very successful, prae- titioner at the Northumberland county bar, and a man of high ideals and sterling integrity, was born in Mifflin township, Dauphin Co., Pa., March 12, 1874, son of Emanuel S. Lark. Berks eounty. Pa., of French Huguenot ancestry, later settling in Lower Mahanoy township, North- umberland county. Mrs. Lark was born Oct. 21, 1847, and died April 9, 1895, and was buried in Shamokin cemetery. The children born of this union were: Charles C. : Carrie C., who died aged eighteen years: John B., a physician, located at Trevorton, Pa. : Leah B .. still living with her father ; H. Wilson and Thomas F., overall man- utfacturers at Shamokin, trading as Lark & Lark; and Edward H., a salesman for Lark & Lark. Emanuel S. Lark married (second) Nov. 12, 1908, Mrs. Margaret Umpleby, daughter of Wil- liam and Susan Weitzel.




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