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member of the council from the Eighth ward (1903-04) and member of the board of education, in both of which bodies he gave public-spirited and disinterested serviee. Fraternally he is a mem- ber of the Elks (Lodge No. 267), Eagles and Red Men. Though a hotel proprietor so many vears he is a total abstainer, having never tasted intoxieating beverages of any kind.
Honniekel Strausser lived about two miles from what was then Union (now Snyder) Co., Pa., where he had a farm. He spoke German. He died about 1814, and is buried near Harold, in what is now Snyder county. His death was caused by lightning, which struck the long log house oceupicd by the family during an electrical storm, at night. Mr. Strausser got up and lighted a pine knot to go into an adjoining room, in which his children slept, but he was killed before he got there. His wife, Rebeeea (Burkart), was of Irish deseent, and was a sister of Philip Burk- art. She remarried, her second husband being Philip Lichty, by whom she had one daughter, the latter marrying Andrew Hauser and moving to Clearfield county, Pa. Mrs. Lichty died about 1846 or 1847. By her marriage to Honnickel Strausser she had children as follows: Elizabeth (married Samuel Willard), Mary (married John Laporte), Simon, Jacob and Nicholas; there may have been another son, Philip.
Simon Strausser, son of Honniekel, was a life- long farmer in Chapman township, Snyder Co., Pa. His wife was Catharine ( ?) Hochmaster, and their children were : Jacob, Samuel, David, George, William, Simon, Elizabeth, Susan and Catharine.
Jacob Stransser (Strawser), born in Chapinan township in 1814 (?), died in 1894 or 1895 at Bristol, Ind., to which plaee he moved in April, 1866, and there he is buried, in Zion cemetery. He was a lifelong farmer. He had a 103-acre farm in Washington township, Snyder Co., Pa., which he sold before he left that seetion. In religion he was a Lutheran, in politics a Democrat. His wife, Lydia Shotzberger, daughter of Jonathan Shotz- berger, died in 1871 aged about sixty-seven years. They had children as follows : Mary Ann, who mar- ried Henry Kautz: Jonathan S .; Nicholas, who died unmarried and is buried at Northumberland, Pa. ; Jacob, who is buried at Zion cemetery, Bris- tol, Ind. (he had a family) ; Elias, of Illinois; William W., who died young and is buried in Snyder county, Pa. ; and two who died small.
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Jonathan S. Strawser, son of Jacob, was born their worth to the community and a credit to the in Chapman township, Snyder (then Union) Co., name they bear. Pa .. March 27, 1839. He learned the carpenter Benjamin Martz, the great-grandfather of Ben- jamin Franklin Martz, was a farmer, and spent most of his life in Northumberland county. Here he died, while living with his daughter, Mrs. Michael Kostetter, in Coal township, and he is buried at the Blue church. His children were: Benjamin, Mrs. Michael Kostetter, John (who died in Jefferson county, Pa.), Mrs. George Fet- ter and Mrs. Maurer. trade in his native locality, and lived in Washing- ton township until 1866, when he and his family moved with his parents out to Elkhart county, Ind. There Mr. Strawser followed his trade of carpen- ter and joiner for about five years. From 1872 to 1875 he was the baggage-master at the Lake Shore depot in Bristol. He then moved upon a farm of 185 acres, which he cultivated for four- teen years, at the end of that time selling the land and stock and moving into Bristol, where he took up painting. He followed that trade until 1895, when he became salesman for the Deering harvest- ing machines, and also obtained the district agency for the Perkins windmills. In this line of busi- ness he continued until 1899, when he traded his house and lot in Bristol for a fruit tract of three acres, near the town of Bristol, to which he re- moved. He followed trucking, carried the United States mail from Bristol to Saylor, via Union, for two years. While selling machines and fol- lowing the painter's trade he had carried the even-
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Benjamin Martz, grandfather of Benjamin Franklin Martz, was born in Northumberland county in 1799, and died Oct. 11, 1884, at the age of eighty-five years, five months, twenty-one days. He is buried at the Blue church. He was a farm- er by occupation, and lived for a time in the Mahantango Valley, thence coming to Coal town- ship, where he settled near Shamokin, being one of the pioneers in this region. He followed team- ing as well as farming. During his last few years he lived among his children. His wife, whose maiden name was Arnold, died in Coal township at the age of forty-nine years, the mother of a ing mail from the depot at Bristol to the postoffice large family, viz .: Sarah married John Eyrich; Elizabeth married Adam Adams: Fiaetta married Jacob Smink; Matilda married (first) George Pensyl and (second) Dan Thomas : Annie married Eli Bressler; Caroline married William Weary; Daniel died in Shamokin; Samuel died in Shamo- kin ; John is mentioned below ; Charles died in Sha- mokin: Jacob died in Shamokin, having been killed in the mines; Benjamin died young.
for sixteen years. In the fall of 1909 Mr. Straw- ser sold his fruit farm because of the death of his wife and retired to Bristol, where he now lives. In 1910 he returned to Pennsylvania for a visit to the home of his boyhood, where he attended the common schools and mingled with the youth of his neighborhood, most of whom have since passed away. He is related to the Shotzbergers, Stahls, and other families of Chapman and Washington townships, Snyder county. During the Civil war Mr. Strawser enlisted for nine months in Com- pany I, 172d Pennsylvania Volunteers, and he took part in the battle of Gettysburg.
Mr. Strawser was married Oct. 18, 1863, at Sel- insgrove, Pa., to Sallie Steffen, daughter of George and Polly (Shaffer) Steffen. of Washington town- ship. Mrs. Strawser died Oct. 5, 1909, aged sixty- seven years, six months, twenty-eight days. She is buried at Zion Church, Bristol, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Strawser had six children. as follows: Ethan Allen, who is a resident of Elkhart, Ind .: Sadie C., who married Guy Bardo (they are farming people near Bristol. Ind.) : Lydia M., who lives with her father and keeps house for him: Frank- lin V., of Jackson, Mich. : George W., of Bristol, Ind. ; and Cassius W., of Bristol.
John Martz, son of Benjamin, was born Sept. 12, 1840, in Coal township, near what is now Glenside Park. When only a boy he commenced work in the mines, where he was employed for . about twenty-three years, and upon giving up that occupation went into the milk business, which he followed for twelve years. He made a success of this venture, keeping twenty-seven cows, but after his wife died he sold it ont and was engaged in hanling in this district, continuing at this work about two years. He then built a bakery and did a bakery business for about one vear, after which he was again in the milk busi- ness for a short time. He has since done day's work. Mr. Martz resides at the corner of Second and Pine streets, in Shamokin, of which borough he is an old resident, one of the oldest now liv- ing, and he has many interesting recollections of its early days.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MARTZ, proprietor On June 5, 1859, Mr. Martz married Eliza Weary, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Diehl) Weary, and her death occurred Feb. 8, 1890, when she was forty-nine years, eleven months, twenty- one days old. She is buried in Shamokin cem- of the Shamokin Sanitary Milk Company, of Sha- mokin, Northumberland county, was born there March 24, 1860. and comes of a family of German extraction which has been settled in the county for several generations and has always been rep- etery. On Dec. 18. 1892. Mr. Martz married resented there by substantial citizens, esteemed for (second) Fiaetta (Maurer) Kembel, daughter of
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David Maurer and widow of Emanuel Kembel, Bower, daughter of George Bower, who came from who served in the Civil war. His children are all by the first union, viz .: Benjamin Franklin, born March 24, 1860; George L., born Feb. 3, 1862, who is fire boss in the mines at Shamokin ; Calvin E., born Aug. 19, 1867, who is a teamster in Sham- okin; and John H., born Sept. 20, 1822, who died Ang. 27, 1904. The father was formerly a member of the I. O. O. F.
Benjamin Franklin Martz received his education in the local public schools. which he only attended, however, until he was nine years old. At that ten- der age he began picking slate at the Luke Fidler colliery, and he continued to follow mining until October, 1888, when he engaged in teaming, haul- ing timber for some time for Hon. M. H. Kulp. He commenced the milk business in 1898 in a very small way, having at first one twenty-quart can, but his customers gradually inercased until he found himself at the head of one of the most pros- perous businesses of the kind in Shamokin. He first put up a small frame building at the location he still oecupies, corner of Third and Arch streets, built an addition as the growing business required, and in 1907 erected his present fine building, 25 by 78 feet in dimensions, which is modern in con- struetion and equipment and inodel in every detail. He has established a thriving wholesale and retail trade in pasteurized bottled milk and cream, run- ning seven teams and disposing of about 1,500 quarts daily. His prosperity is well deserved, be- ing the reward of honest dealing and industry. He is a member of the Merchants' Association of Shamokin, and was one of the organizers and original directors of the new Dime Trust & Safe Deposit Company. of Shamokin, which was opened April 1, 1911.
Mr. Martz married Clara Heim, daughter of store, Fisher's jewelry store, the Zettlemover build- Harrison Heim, of Shamokin, and they have had three children, William. E., Caroline Elizabeth and Charles F. The family reside at the corner of Third and Arch streets, where Mr. Martz erect- ed his comfortable residence in 1909. He is a member of the Reformed Church, and, socially, of the P. O. S. of A.
JOHN P. LANDAU, of Sunbury, is a native etc. All of this construction work is with- and lifelong resident of that borough, where he is engaged in business as a contracting bricklayer. There are many substantial evidences of his work in and around that place.
Mr. Landau's father, John Landan, was born in 1812 in Reading, Berks Co., Pa., and came to Northumberland county when a young man. Settling in Lower Augusta township, he did farmi work and learned bricklaying, which trade he fol- lowed until his death. He came to Sunbury before his marriage aud here passed the remainder of his days, dying in the borough Sept. 5, 1861. at the Sunbury, was organized in 1867 he became a age of forty-nine years. His wife was Elizabeth charter member and has belonged to that body
Lewisburg, Pa. Mrs. Landan survived her hus- band a number of years, dying in Sunbury in 1893, at the home of her son John P. Landau, when seventy-three years old. They are buried in the old cemetery. Eight children were born to them, namely : Rebecca married Abraham Brosi- us, who died in Sunbury ; Henry died young ; John P. is mentioned below; William died young ; Sus- anna married John Fox and (second) Joseph Hale; Jeremiah lives in Shamokin and is engaged as a miner ; George is also a miner living at Sham- okin; Edward, who was a bricklayer by trade, died in Sunbury. Mr. Landau and his family were members of the Reformed Church in which he served many years as deacon. He was a Republi- can in political matters.
John P. Landau was born Dec. 4, 1842. in Sun- bury, and received his education in the local schools. When sixteen years old he commenced to learn the trade of bricklayer, which he has followed ever since, with the most gratifying suc- cess. Sinee 1880 he has been engaged as a con- tractor, and he employs from twelve to eighteen men, as the needs of the business demand. Mr. Lan- dau has always made his home in Sunbury, and most of his work has been donc there, though he has done considerable work elsewhere. The brick- laying on a number of the most substantial strnc- tures in Sunbury has been done by him, and the quality of his work is its best recommendation. He had contracts on the "Neff House." "Central Hotel," W. L. Dewart block, Presbyterian Church, St. Matthew's Methodist Church, the big store next to the "Central Hotel" at the corner of Third and Market- streets, the "Packer House," the "Moore & Snyder House," the Yarnell furniture
ing, the Episcopal Church, the Lutheran Church in the Third ward, the Reformed Church (when it was remodeled ), the S. P. Wolverton office build- ing, Kurtz & Myer's wholesale grocery building on Chestnut street, No. 1 Fire Engine honse; and he has built a number of houses for J. Fred Shaffer, Esq., the "Clement House," the Methodist Chapel on Catawissa avenue,
in the limits of Sunbury, and shows that he has had more than a representative share of work in his line in the locality. He has not only been an , active business man, but has also taken some part in municipal affairs, having served one year as con- stable of the Third ward and two years as member of the council. In politics he has always been a stanch Republican. and during the Civil war he served in Company C, 174th Regiment, Pennsyl- vania volunteers, for one year: he was on duty in Virginia. When Lodge No. 620, I. O. O. F .. of
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ever since. He and his family are members of the Thursday following her remains, attended by Zion's Lutheran Church.
Mr. Landau married Harriet L. Kelly, daughter of Samuel Kelly, who lived in Upper Augusta township and they reside at No. 118 Catawissa avenue. Six children have been born to them: Harry is now superintendent of the water company at Sunbury; Elizabeth married William Glessner, of Sunbury; Jennie is the wife of J. Hummel Slear, a salesman, of Sunbury: Daisy died in in- fancy ; Clarence (who died in infancy) and Annie (who died when six years old) were twins.
REV. JOHN ROAN was born in Greenshaw, Ireland, April 30, 1717 (Old Style). He began the study of the languages Sept. 25, 1729. He left Ireland July 6, 1:39, and landed in America Sept. 3rd, following; was licensed to preach June 27, 1744; embraced the call from Paxton, Derry and Donegal, May 16, 1745: was ordained Aug. 16, 1745. He married Aug. 21, 1750. His wife, Mrs. Anne (Cochran) Roan, was born March 25, 1724, and was married before, Oct. 31, 1745, to Mr. Leckey, by whom she had a daughter named Mar- garet, born Aug. 14, 1746, who married David McClure June 20, 1765 ( their offspring was a son named . Richard). The issue of John Roan and Anne his wife were: Isabella, born July 8, 1751, died Nov. 27, 1758; Jane, born May 3, 1753 (New Style), was married to William Clingan June 11, 1778; Anne, born April 7, 1757, died Sept. 10th following ;. Elizabeth, born Aug. 14, 1758, married William Clark, June 19, 1787, and died Jan. 21, 1821; Flavel, born July 31, 1760, at half after one o'clock p. m., died February 19, 1817; Mary, born March 26, 1764, married Nathan Stockman, Oct. 10, 1789.
Rev. John Roan died Oct. 3, 1775. about three o'clock a. m., aged fifty-eight years, four months, twenty-one days. Mrs. Anne Roan died April 22, 1789, aged sixty-four years, twenty-eight days. The following inscription is on his tombstone in Derry graveyard, in Dauphin county :
Beneath this stone, Are deposited the remains of an able faithful, Courageous and successful minister of Jesus Christ, The Reverend John Roan, Pastor of Paxton Derry and Mountjoy Congregations, From the year 1745, Till Oct. 3rd, 1775, When he exchanged a militant for a Triumphant life, in the 59th year of his age.
a numerous concourse of relatives, friends and neighbors, were interred in the Presbyterian bury- ing ground of Upper Octoraro. A sermon suitable to the solemn occasion was preached by the Rev. Robert Smith, D. D., of Pequea, from 1st Corin- thians, 15th chapter, 55th verse.
"This amiable person, without flattery, filled all the various stations of life which she passed through with dignity and reputation and adorned the whole with that of a sincere Christian. During a long and tedious sickness she was remarkably patient and resigned to the divine will, and as death approached her prospects of a glorious im- mortality opened and she changed a world of sin and suffering for the full fruition of God in Chirist, eternal life and an immortal crown of glory. "Whose pious life with social virtue shone, O'r death she triumphed, eager to be gone; Who pressed the steps her mother first had trod; Her life she consecrated to her God; In her the name of Sympathetic friend, The faithful wife and tender mother joined."
WILLIAM CLINGAN was born in Donegal township, Lancaster Co., Pa., Sept. 28, 1753. His father's name was Thomas and his mother's Chris- tian name was Margaret. Thomas Clingan emi- grated from County Donegal, Ireland. He and his wife Margaret had children as follows: William, born Sept. 28, 1753, married Jane Roan: Mary. born Sept. 1, 1735, married James Scott: George, born Jan. 25, 1760, married ; Jennet, born April 27. 1763, married James Simpson.
William Clingan was married to Jane Roan June 11, 1778. He died May 24, 1822, and was buried in Lewisburg cemetery ; his wife, also buried there, died May 9, 1838. Their issue: Margaret, born Oct. 18. 1749, married John Scott Nov. 15, 1798 (he died Sept. 18, 1821, in the fifty- fifth year of his age, in Montgomery town- ship, Franklin county: she died Ang. 2, 1849, about one o'clock. p. m.) ; John, born April 26, 1781, died Sept. 15, 1841: Anne R., born Jan. 23, 1783, married Joseph Lawson, March 19, 1812: Thomas, born May 19, 1785, married Margaret Lewis, Jan. 5, 1813: Elizabeth, born Jan. 13, 1787, married Thomas Barber, March 26, 1812 ; George, born Oct. 26. 1788, mar- ried Eliza Scott Oct. 7, 1817: Flavel, born March 18, 1795, married Mary Ann Scott, May 25, 1819.
Of these Joseph Lawson (died Feb. 24, 1843, aged sixty-five) and Anne R., his wife, had children : Jane Roan, born Dec. 19, 1813. mar- ried Paschal L. Wright, Oct. 18. 1836; Margaret Strawbridge, born Oet. 7, 1815, married Dr. Jacob Written on the death of Mrs. Anne Roan, Upper Octoraro, Chester county, April 25, 1789. Schuyler Dec. 6, 1864 : William, born Dec. 3, 1817, "On married Hannah Sanderson Oct. 19, 1843 (she Tuesday, the 22nd of the month, departed this died April 29, 1854) : John, born Nov. 30, 1819, life, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, Mrs. Anne married Elizabeth Finney Jan. 15, 1845: Elizabeth Roan. widow of the late Rev. John Roan, and on was born Feb. 17. 1822: James, born Nov. 14,
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1823, married Jane R. Clingan April 21, 1852, 1824 (he died in 1836) ; Flave! was born Feb. 9, and married (second) Jane Finney Feb. 14, 1884.
Thomas Clingan died April 24, 1858, aged sev- 1795; Walter, born Jan. 27, 1797, married Esther enty-three years, and Margaret, his widow, died Dec. 31, 1861, aged seventy-one years. They had children : Elizabeth Bonde, born June 18, 1814, married Samuel Harris Laird Nov. 15, 1836; Wil- liam, born March ?2, 1816, married Mary E. Dean June 12, 1856; Jane Roan, born March 8, 1818, married James Lawson April 27, 1852 (she died April 8, 1882) ; Mary Lewis was born March 19, 1820; Adelia Lewis, born May 21, 1822, mar- ried John Steritt Nov. 18, 1868; Sarah Ann, born Dec. 31, 1824. married William P. Dougal, Jan. 2, 1849, and died April 17, 1862, leaving a daughter a week old; Paschal L., born Feb. 6, 1830, married Maria S. Zuber, Feb. 28, 1868.
Thomas Barber (died April 14, 1856, aged sev- enty-one years, one month, twenty-three days) and Elizabeth his wife had children: Sarah, born March 6, 1815, married John A. Vanvalza Oct. 9, 1844 (he died Aug. 26, 1854) ; Jane Roan, born May 17, 1816, married Laird Howard, Feb. 2, 1836: Robert, born June 30, 1819, married Mar- tha Ellen Young, Jan. 18, 1844; Margaret, born March 18, 1821, married John Wilson Oct. 2, 1865; William, born July 31, 1823, married Mary Foster, Nov. 11, 1847; Flavel C., born Jan. 30, 1830, married.
George Clingan and Eliza, his wife, had chil- dren : William, born in August, 1818; Mary, born October, 1820 (died Sept. 12, 1824) ; Jane, born September, 18 ?? (died Sept. 4, 1824) ; Mary Jane, born Jan. 15, 1825; Martha Ann, born Oct. 4, 1828: Margaretta, born October, 1830 (died Jan. 13, 1834) ; Elizabeth, born December, 1832 (died Sept. 4, 1843) ; Clarissa, born November, 1834 : (married Scott Clingan Jan. 2, 1870) ; Flavel, born August, 1837 (died Sept. 10, 1843) ; Alex- ander Scott, born October, 1839 (died Ang. 23, 1843).
1859; Ann Mary, born in July, 1838, married James Finney Nov. 30, 1865; Martha, born Nov. 4, 1840, died Oct. 5. 1841.
1793; Peggy, born Nov. 18, 1704, died Sept. 4, Hill Aug. 5, 1819 (he died in 1835) ; James, born Sept. 18, 1799, married Jane Sweney Aug. 13, 1824 (she died leaving a daughter named Mar- garet), and married (second) Sarah Crawford Sept. 13, 1836.
Mary Roan married Nathan Stockman Oct. 10, 1789, and died Jan. 4, 1846, about ten o'clock a. m., at Sharpsville. Their children: James, born in November, 1790, married Martha Dryden; Anne, born Jan. 28, 1793, married Mark Clark March 24, 1812: John, born Nov. 4, 1795, married Hannah Dryden July 4, 1820; Isabella, born Sept. 2, 1797, married James Sharp in September, 1822; Joseph Gardner, born July 2, 1800, died at New Orleans in 1835; Samuel Maclay was born Jan. 20, 1902: Laird Harris, born Dec. 7, 1804, died May 2, 1905: Jane Harris, born April 3, 1805, married Mr. Baltzhoover in 1824.
WILLIAM F. GROW, of Shamokin, is well known in that town both in a business way and as assessor of the Fourth ward, which position he has held since 1902. He has been engaged as a barber at No. 114 South Market street for many years.
Mr. Grow was born in Jackson township, North- umberland county, Oct. 18, 1867, son of John Grow, and grandson of Daniel Grow. The grand- father lived and died in Lower Mahanoy township, this county, where he is buried. He was engaged in the crockery business at Swabian Creek and was well known in his day.
John Grow, son of Daniel, was born in Lower Mahanoy township, where he was reared. He was for many years engaged on construction and re- pair work on the Pennsylvania railroad, being eni- ployed on the building of the road between Sun- bury and Harrisburg by Richard Malone, who was the contractor, and he was subsequently employed by the Pennsylvania Company on repair work for a period of twenty-five years. He then came to Shamokin, where he was employed by Andrew Robinson; at the mines, until his death. His in- dustry and upright life won him general respect, and 'he was elected supervisor of Coal township, serving one year in that office. He was a Demo- crat in politics.
Flavel Clingan and Mary Ann, his wife, had children : Alexander S., born in August, 1820, died in September. 1821; Jane, born March 28, 1822, married James Haves Jan. 19, 1847; Mary Mc- Kean, born March 1, 1824, died May 1, 1834; William, born June 18, 1826, married Elizabeth Finney May 10, 1864; Scott, born Dec. 12, 1828, married Clarissa Clingan Jan. 2, 1870: Thomas, born Feb. 6, 1831, married Mary Emily Sedam March 25, 1856; George was born in March, 1833; Flavel Roan, born July 26, 1835, died April 21, Snyder county, Pa., and to them were born the
John Grow married Elizabeth Shemorry, of following named children : Daniel, Sarah J., Mary A .. William F., Charles E. (who was killed in the mines), Samuel, George, and Louisa (who
Elizabeth Roan married William Clark June 19, died at the age of eleven years).
William F. Grow attended school in Jackson township. His first work was upon the farm, but
1787. Their children: Roan, born June 9, 1:88. married Dehaven in July, 1824; Sarah was born Nov. 19, 1789: William, born May 5, like many in the region he soon found employ- . 1791, married Hannah Brewster in September, ment at the mines, beginning as slate picker at the
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Excelsior Colliery when he was fourteen years man of good executive ability, and his prompt and old. However, he did not continue at this line of pleasing method of dealing with his patrons, who have learned to have implicit confidence in him, has won him a leading place in commercial circles. work for long, only one year in fact after he be- came a regular miner. In 1887 he took up the barber's trade, which he has followed ever since. For many years he has had his own place of busi- ness, being located at No. 114 South Market street, where he also lives. His place has a reli- able and profitable patronage, being known for ex- - cellent service and unusually good management.
Mr. Grow was appointed assessor in 1902, to fill the unexpired term of Charles A. Zerbe, who had died while in office, and he was regularly elected in 1904, since when he has continued in the posi- tion by reelection, in 1907 and 1910. He is a Republican in political sentiment. Fraternally Mr. Grow holds membership in the Royal Ar- canum, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Knights of Pythias.
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