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on which the first permanent building was erected. He was a pianomaker by trade, and a few pianos made by him are still in existenee about the county. It is believed that he learned the trade from Sam- uel Mans. He had ten children and is the an- cestor of all the Leighous of Point township. Mrs. Sarah (Weimar) Lighou survived her husband a number of years, dying Jan. 31, 1841. Her father, Peter Weimar, born about 1762, was according to family tradition a direet deseendant of a Duke of Saxe Weimar, Germany. He was a Justice of the Peace in the Montour Valley, Northumberland county, from 1823 to 1826. His wife, Cathar- ine (Lybrand), was a member of a Philadelphia family. The ten children of John and Sarah (Weimar) Lighou were: Elizabeth Leighow (born March 20, 1810), John Weimar Leighow, William Henry Leighou, Henrietta Leighow (born March 16, 1815), George Augustus, Sara K., Mary Ann, James K., Charles Lybrand and Osear Edmund.
(III) John Weimar Leighow, born March 25, 1811, died Aug. 28, 1875. He was married at East Lewisburg, Pa., to Harriet Waters, born in 1827, who died May 25, 1893. Their children were: Edward, Charles, Kate, James and Jennie. Edward, who died .Jan. 31, 1910, lived at the old homestead of John Lightou in Point township; he married Annie Hamor and had one child, Aline. Charles, born April 15, 1854, removed to Colorado. Jennie lives in Los Angeles, Cal., Jaines and Kate are dead. Kate married Henry Garman, and their son, Victor, lives in Reading. Pennsylvania.
(III) William Henry Leighou and his descend- ants will be mentioned more fully later.
(III) George Augustus Leighow, born July 24, 1816, married Louisa Robbins, born in 1826, who died May 24, 1893. They had children : Eugene, Sara Jane, Mary Louisa, George and Howard. The last. named married Regina Ertley, and they have five children. Graee, Thomas C., Dorothy Jane, Merle A. and Hattie M. This is a Point town- ship family. Eugene and Mary are dead; Mary married Jolm Collins, and lives in Ohio. George is in Washington State.
(III) James K. Leiglow, born Aug, 2, 1823, served in the Civil War as saddler sergeant, Com- pany F, 1st Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry Corps. He married his second eousin, Mary Weimer, and they had two sons, both of whom are married and have children. Charles A. lives in Portland, Oregon, and C. Wallace in Oakland, California.
(III) Charles Lybrand Leighow, born May 28, 1826, moved to Colorado, and died October 6, 1874. He changed the spelling of his name to Lehow. He married Mary E. Shellabarger. and their daughter, Mrs. Charles Howard Little,. lives at Xenia, Ohio.
(III) Oscar Edmund Leighow, born Jan. 29, 1829, also moved to Colorado, where he died, in Denver, Mareh 11, 1894. He also wrote his name Lehow. He married Eloise L. Sargent, and their son, Weimar Sargent Lehow, lives in Denver.
(II) Henry Leighow, son of Christopher, born Aug. 22, 1785, died Aug. 25, 1850. He lived on a farm at Red Point (near Danville, Pa.) and later in Northumberland. In the War of 1812 he served as a private in the 81st Regiment, Penn- sylvania Militia. IIe was a member of the Pres- byterian Chiureh. In 1815 he married Ellen Clark, born Nov. 3, 1794, died Dee, 10, 1849, and they had children: William, Pembroke. A. Jackson, John, Henry and Mary Ellen, Of these,
(III) William Leighow, born April 4, 1817, died July 14, 1862, He married Catharine Weimar, and they had three daughters, Gemella Medora (married C. D. Bisbee, of Chicago), Margaret Helen (married S. B. Morgan, of Watsontown, Pa.) and Anna Jean (married J. H. Traey, of Salt Lake City).
(III) Pembroke Leighow, born Feb. 20, 1825, died March 17, 1895. He married Elizabeth A. Sanner and had four children: (1) James mar- ried Margaret Messenger and lived in Woodland, Clearfield Co., Pa. They had three children, Em- ma E., Osear M, and Margaret: the two last named are married and have children. (2)
Charles, unmarried, lives in Haldeman, Rowan Co., Ky. (3) IIenry Kellar married in Novem- ber, 1886, Elizabeth Ulrich, and lives in Halde- man, Ky. ; he had five children. (+) Mary Ann, unmarried, lives in Haldeman.
(III) Andrew Jackson Leighow, born Sept. 12, 1828, died May 27, 1890. His wife. Re- becca, born in 1834, died Feb. 20, 1908. They liad five children : Harry Pierce, who died umnar- ried; John, who died in infaney: Clinton, who died Feb. 9, 1910 (he married and had two chil- dren, Harry Pierce and Rebecca) ; Martin, a twin of Clinton, who died in infancy ; and Mary Ellen, who married Charles Allen Graves and lives in Seranton, Pennsylvania.
(II) Elizabeth Leighow, daughter of Chris- topher, born about 1789, married Henry Dale, the ancestor of the Dales of Northumberland, Pa. They lived first at the present site of the Stone Mill, in Point township.
(II) Lewis Leighow, son of Christopher, born Oct. 29, 1799, died Mareh 22, 1845. He was mar- ried twiee, marrying first Theodosia Gulick and (second) Mrs. Sara Jane Cousert, nec Ammer- man. His descendants are living principally in Montour and Columbia counties, l'a, His chil- dren were: Charles B., Rachel, Hugh. George M., Mary E. and William Henry, Of these,
(III) Charles B. Leighow, born Feb. 10. 1827, married Saralı Ernest, and lives in Danville, Pa.
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They have six children: Clarence, married and which organized the Baptist church of Northum- living in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (no children) ; Clara; berland, July 7, 1842.
Margaret ; Elizabeth; Alice, and Lucinda.
a half brother of Charles, served a term as county commissioner of Montour county, 1902-1905. He married Sarah Elizabeth Ephlin, and they have eight children, namely: William is married and lives in Chelsea, Oklahoma; Oscar, married, lives at Catawissa, Pa. ; Annie is married; Frank, mar- ried, lives at Lime Ridge, Pa. ; Edward is unmar- ried ; Ella is married ; Morris and Ralph are both married and living in Danville, Pa. The mem- bers of this family live in Danville, and Blooms- burg and that vicinity.
(III) William Henry Leiglow, born June 24, 1844, married Margaret Catharine Barr. They have had seven children: Lafayette, Walter, Jen- nie, Laura, Edith, Maud and Margaret. They live at Millville, Pennsylvania.
(II) Tobias Leighow, son of Christopher, had a married Mrs. Mary (Eckert) Smith. Had no son John.
(III) Jolin Leighow, son of Tobias, married Margaret Ernest (sister of the wife of his cousin liam Henry, born Dec. 28, 1858, died in January, 1906, unmarried.
Charles), and they had children Michael and Mar- tha. The former lives in Northumberland, Pa., is married to Lizzie Rishel, and has two children, Ethel Claire and Paul Gernon.
(III) William Henry Leighou, son of John and grandson of Christopher, born Feb. 13, 1814, in- serted the "e" in the spelling of the name and was the only niember of his family to preserve the "ou" termination. He was a farmer; and his homestead in Point township is now owned by his son Oscar, having been in the family considerably over one hundred years. For a time he lived in the house erected by Dr. Joseph Priestley, at Northumber- land. In partnership with Grant Taggart le con- ducted a general merchandise store there, in the building now standing on the northeast corner of Queen and First streets, which building .they erected. Mr. Leighiou had various interests, and was one of the first directors of the old First Na- tional Bank of Northumberland. organized in 1864. He was a man of public spirit and served tlie community faithfully in official capacities, be- ing jury commissioner of the county from 1876 to 1879, and a member of the school board of North- umberland borough for many years. In 1875 he was president of the board, and he was later a di- rector of the Point township schools. It was dur- ing his period of service that the present eleven- room building was erected. He taught, when a young man, in No. 2 building, Point township. In 1858 he moved to the farm, where Oscar Leighon now lives. . He bonght from Messrs. Voris, Foust, Weakley and Forsythe the farm now the property of Mrs. Anna Leighow. Mr. Leighou died Nov. 18, 1881, and is buried in the cemetery at Northumberland. He was one of the assembly
On May 29, 1838, Mr. Leighou married Lour-
(III) George-M. Leighow, born Dec. 31, 1837, issa Vastine (for genealogy of Lourissa Vastine see page 728), who was born Aug. 29, 1817, daughter of Jeremiah Vastine, and died May 24, 1894. Their six children were born as follows : Elizabeth, Aug. 25, 1841; Arthur, Ang. 29, 1846; Vastine, Oct. 8, 1851; Oscar, Ang. 10, 1855; Wil- liam H., Dec. 28, 1858; Benjamin R., June 11, 1861.
(IV) Arthur Leighow, son of William Henry, born Aug. 29, 1846, married Eliza S. Welliver, and lives at White Hall, Montour Co., Pa. They have six children : Benjamin A., who married Carrie Cooper, and has one son; Amos Vastine; Isaiah James; William E .; Mary Jane; and Cyrus George.
(IV) Vastine Leighow, son of William Henry, born Oct. 8, 1851, died in January, 1904. He
children.
(IV) William Henry Leighow, Jr., son of Wil-
(IV) Benjamin R. Leighow, son of William Henry, born June 11, 1861, died Feb. 18, 1895. He married Anna Shaffer, but left no children.
(IV) Oscar Leighou, son of William Henry, born Aug. 10, 1855, at Northumberland, attended the elementary and high schools there and later was a student of Freeburg Academy. He taught for sixteen years, in the Northumberland High and Point township schools, beginning in 1873 at No. 1 building in Point township, and he has taught in all the buildings in the district except No. 4; he was engaged in the borough for two years. Meantime in 1877, he commenced farming in Point town- ship, and has ever since followed that vocation there, having 170 acres of fertile land, devoted to general crops. The present set of buildings upon the property have been erected by him. Mr. Leighou has always ranked among thie most in- telligent and progressive men of his section. For twenty-one conscentive years lie has filled the office of township assessor, to which he was first elected in 1885. He is president of the local telephone company, which secured rural service for the dis- trict; was for many years master of the local Grange; and in these and various other associ- ations has proved himself one of the most capable and useful citizens of his locality. He and his family are members of the Baptist Church.
On Dec. 27, 1876, Mr. Leighou was married, at Selinsgrove, Pa., by Rev. Emory L. Swartz, Meth- odist Episcopal minister, to Hannah Mary Lesher (for genealogy sce page 728), who was born May 12, 1856, at Pine Creek, Lycoming Co .. Pa., daughter of Robert Alexander and Saralı (Vand- ling) Lesher, and seven children have been born
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to this union: Estella May; Lourissa Vastine; custom in that day, with its gable to the road, Robert Benjamin, mentioned below; Sallie; John Vandling; Paul Henry; and Catharine Emma. The first five graduated from the Northumberland High school, while the latter two are now attend- ing. Estella, Lourissa, Robert and Sallie gradu- ated from the Bloomsburg State Normal School, all in the Class of 1902, and have been teaching ever since-Estella and Lourissa in Point town- ship; Sallie has taught several years in the North- umberland High school. John took two years' work at Bueknell University and is now a student in forestry at Pennsylvania State College.
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(V) Robert Benjamin Leighou, son of Oscar, was born March 28, 1882, in Point township. He was graduated in 1906, in the General Science course, from Bucknell University, having special- ized in chemistry. He was chosen as one of the ten speakers at Commencement, and was awarded the Hollopeter prize-the first prize in chemistry. The following year he taught in the Mansfield State Normal School, as Head of the Department of Chemistry and Organic Science, and was later employed as first assistant chemist for the National
. Tube Company, of Mckeesport, Pa. In 1907 he was appointed to the position of Head of the De- partment of Chemistry of Materials, in the School of Applied Industries, of the Carnegie Technical Schools, Pittsburgh, which position he now holds. On Aug. 12, 1908, he was married at Auburn, N. Y., to Bertha Emily Jones. They have one child, Christine Elizabeth, born Sept. 4, 1909.
VASTINE. The Vastine family is descended from Abraham Van de Woestyne, who with his three children, John, Catherine and Hannah, left Holland in the seventeenth century and crossed the ocean in a sailing vessel, landing at New York (then New Amsterdam) in 1690. They soon crossed over into New Jersey. About the time Wil- liam. Penn founded Philadelphia they came into Pennsylvania, and in 1698 we find them in Ger- mantown, where the daughters, Catherine and Hannah, joined the Friends.
fronting south, at a point two miles north of Line Lexington and four iniles southwest from Sellersville, Bucks Co., Pa. On the above men- tioned old petitions for the opening of roads the name is spelled Van de Woestyne, which has changed gradually, to Van Styne and then to Vastine-its present form. It has also been found in the forms Voshine and Vashtine. The name in Dutch meant "forest," hence the early settlers often ealled John Van de Woestync "Wilderness." John Van de Woestyne died at Hilltown Feb. 9, 1738; his wife, Abigail, survived him some time. They were the parents of five chil- dren, as follows: (1) Abraham, born May 24, 1698, died in October, 1772, in Hilltown. He married Sara Buckman, and they were the parents of five daughters: Abigail, married to Andrew Annstrong; Ruth, married to James Armstrong; Mary, married to Robert Jameson; Rachel, mar- ried to Hugh Mears; and Sara, married to Samuel Wilson. Thus far we have been unable to learn anything about their descendants. (?) Jeremialı, born Dec. 24, 1701, died in Hilltown in Novem- ber, 1769. He and his wife Debora were the par- ents of one son and two daughters: Jeremiah (whose wife's name was Elizabeth) died in New Britain, Bucks Co., Pa., in April, 1778; Martha married John Louder; Hannah married Samuel Greshom. (3) Benjamin, born July 1, 1703, died Aug. 17, 1749. (4) John died Feb. 9, 1765, in Hilltown, Pa., unmarried. (5) Mary, born March 1, 1699, married a Mr. Wilson and removed to South Carolina.
Benjamin Vastine, son of John and Abigail, was the progenitor of the family in Northumberland eounty, Pa. He became a member of the Friends Meeting, and at one of the meetings held in 1:30 in Philadelphia requested permission to hold meet- ings in his house. About 1738 he married Mary Griffith, and their union was blessed by the birth of seven children, as follows: Hannah married Erasmus Kelly; John married Rachel Morgan ; Abraham married Elizabeth Williams; Benjamin married Catherine Eaton (he died in September, 1775) ; Jonathan married Elizabethi Lewis: Isaac married Sara Matthews; Amos married Martha Thomas.
John Van de Woestyne, son of Abraham, was born in Holland May 24, 1678, and came to Amer- ica with his father, landing at New Amsterdam in 1690. Records show him living in 1698 in Germantown, Pa., where he owned real estate. He Jonathan Vastine, fourthi son of Benjamin and Mary (Griffith) Vastine, was born about 174; at Hilltown, Bucks county. With his nephew Peter, who was also his son-in-law. he came to Northum- berland county, Pa., first to Shamokin, then to the territory south of Danville, where they pur- ehased large farms (and erected buildings). the foriner about six hundred aeres where later Valen- tine Epler lived, and the latter three hundred Jonathan Vastine's land are in the possession of purchased several tracts of land from one Jere- miah Langliorn, in Hilltown township, Bucks Co .. Pa., whither he moved about 1720, being one of the pioneers in that county. He was very influen- tial in the opening of roads there, and his name, which appears on a number of official papers and documents on record in Bucks county, is found on many petitions pertaining to roads and im- provements in Hilltown township. There he ereet-, acres near that of his uncle. The original deeds for ed a granite dwelling along the pike leading from Philadelphia to Bethlehem. It stood, as was the Mrs. Elisha Campbell, of South Danville. Jona-
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than, like his father, was a member of the Society America with his widowed mother, Sailing from of Friends. He died about 1833 and is buried Rotterdam on the ship "Hope," he landed at Phil- in the old Quaker burying ground at Catawissa, adelphia Sept. 23, 1734. His parents were Men- Pa. About 1270 he married Elizabethe Lewis, nonites. His marriage to Maria Catharine Loesch daughter of John and Anna Lewis, and tInir un -. took place April 16, 1759, in the Moravian church ion was blessed by the birth of five sons and three at Bethlehem, Pa. He died May 12, 1782, she daughters, as follows: Benjamin married Eliza- on May 10, 1802. beth Van Zant; Ann married Thomas Robbins ;.
Johan Georg Leshrer, son of Johannas and Maria Hannalı married Peter, son of Benjamin Vastine; Catharine (Loesch) Lischer, was born in Berks Mary married William Marsh; John married county April 6, 1768. He settled in Chillisquaque township, Northumberland county, where he fol- Catharine Osmun; Jeremiah married Elizabeth: Reader; Thomas died unmarried; Jonathan mar- lowed farming, and died Nov. 1, 1823. He is ried Nancy Ann Hughes.
John Vastine, second son of Jonathan and Eliz- land, Pa., and the inscription upon his tombstone abeth (Lewis) Vastine, married Catharine Os- mun, and they had four sons and two daughters: Adieu my friends; dry up your tears; I must lie here till Christ appears. William married Elizabeth Hursh: Amos married Susan Lurch; Margaret married Charles Heffley; Sarah Ann married Robert Campbell; Thomas married Lena Vought; and John, after winning his way through the medical school of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, and beginning practice, died aged nineteen.
In the family of William and Elizabeth (Harsh) Wastine there were eight ehildren, as follows: Amos, Jacob, Hugh, Simon, Ezra, Eliz- abeth, Ellen and Daniel.
The children of Amos, the eldest son of William and Elizabeth (Hursh) Vastine, were: Elizabeth, who died in 1879, aged twenty-one years; William, born Oct. 29, 1859; Laura; John Hursh and Ella K., twins; and Amos Beeber.
Of these, William, the eldest son, a progressive and influential citizen of Danville, Pa., married Boone Gearhart, born Mareh 4, 1859. They have two daughters, Katharine G. and Elizabeth Boone Vastine.
Jeremiah Vastine, third son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Lewis) Vastine, was born July 30, 1780, and died Sept. 22, 1840. He owned a farm in Rush township, near Elysburg, Pa. He was married April 8, 1802, by John Patton, to Eliza-
buried in the Riverview cemetery, Northumber- reads :
On June 25, 1786, he married Anna Fliekinger, who was born May 22, 1762, and died Oct. 24, ISII. They are interred in Lot 23. He was a Lutheran in religion. Their children were: Michael, who settled at Newfane, near Loekport, N. Y., where he had an eighty-aere farin, and later movedl West (he had children) ; (John) George ; William, whose death was caused by the bite of a mad dog (he was unmarried) ; Mrs. Crites, and other daughters.
Jobn George Lesher, son of Johan Georg and Anna (Flickinger ) Lesher, was born Oet. 20, 1792, and spent all his life in Point township, where he was a farmer throughout his active years. He owned 240 acres of land, of which 201 acres are still in the family name and owned by his son Charles M. He died in Point township, on what is now the farm of his son Charles, Jan. 16, 1866, aged seventy-three years, two months, twenty-six days, and is buried in the Lesher plot in River- view cemetery. He and Iris wife, Catharine ( Rob- bins), were Presbyterians in religious belief. She was a daughter of Daniel and Catharine (Hul- heiser) Robbins, of Liberty township, Montour
beth Reader. who was born Oct. 27, 1782, and died, Co., Pa., and died Oct. 22, 1869, aged seventy- June 21, 1860. They had a family of two sons and five years, seven months, two days. Her father, three daughters, as follows: Jonathan died single: Daniel Robbins, was a man of extraordinary physi- Mary married C. Fisher : Margaret married cal strength. which he retained even during the latter period of his life. He died aged 106 years. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lesher, as follows: Robert A., born Oct. 19, 1817; Daniel, Daniel Robbins; Lourissa married William Henry Leighou, and they were the parents of Oscar Leighou, of Point township; Thomas married Eliza Reader, and one of their children was named Catharine (the others are not known).
born Sept. 8, 1819; Lucy Ann, born April 21, 1822; Mary. horn April 2, 18?4: Sarah J., born Sept. 17, 1826; George, born Nov. 28, 182 -; Wil- liam, born Feb. 14, 1831, who died May 29, 1896: John, born Aug. 12, 1833: and Charles M., born Aug. 28, 1836, the youngest being now the only survivor.
LESHER. The Lesher family traees back to George Loeseh, born about 1700, who married An- na Christina Wallborn. and lived at Tulpehocken, fifteen miles from Reading. Their daughter, Maria Catharine Loeseh. born May 12, 1730, mar- Robert Alexander Lesher. son of John George and Hannah Catharine ( Robbins) Lesher, was ried Johannas Liseher, who was born Nov. 28, 1719, at Wittgenstein. Hesse. Germany, where his born Oct. 19, 1817, in Tuckahoe Valley, and died father died, Johannas subsequently coming to April 3, 1903. A boat builder and lumber mer-
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. chant, he built the boat used to carry the first locomotive from Harrisburg to Port Treverton (Herndon), to be used on the Shamokin & Port Thomas Rossiter, the first of this family of whom we have record, lived in Brush Valley, Pa., in the vicinity of Philadelphia, and it appears that he was an officer of the Revolutionary army dur- ing the hard winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge. On Dec. 28, 1780, Thomas Rossiter appeared as a soldier of the fourth class on the muster roll of Capt. Sampson Thomas's company. It seems the time of service was classified into several parts, Treverton railroad: Later he established a home- stead on Blue Hill. He was not only a progres- sive, scientific fariner, but was also prominent in the public affairs of his locality. He was the last surviving member of the first fire company or- ganized in Northumberland. On March 22, 1853, he was married at Lewisburg. Pa., by Rev. Mr. Conser, to Sarah (Sallie) Vandling, who was born June 30, 1833, at Northumberland, Pa., and died Thomas Rossiter's name appearing both times. On Jan. 10. 1907. Their daughter, Hannah Mary, be- came the wife of Oscar Leighou.
Henry Wendling, immigrant ancestor of Mrs. period, 1782, in the list of Capt. Samuel Roberts' Sarah (Vandling) Lesher, came to this country about 1765. In the course of time the name Wend- ling came to be written Vandling.
John Vandling, son of Henry, married Cath- arine Rhodenbach.
John Vandling, . son of John and Catharine tween him and Thomas; tradition says they were (Rhodenbach ) Vandling, was born June 3, 1800. brothers. They were always of the same company, and except that Daniel is mentioned as a soldier of the third class, and Thomas as a soldier of the 5th Series of Pennsylvania Archives, are identical. He was a man of remarkable stature, six feet, three inches in height, and weighed as much as 240 pounds. A school teacher for many years, he fourth class, their records. which appear in Vol. V, taught for a long period at No. 4 school in Point township. Later he lived in Harrisburg, where he While at Valley Forge Thomas Rossiter was taken sick, and one Betsy Coats (who was a sister died. On Feb. 12, 1824, he was married at Moores- burg, Pa., by Rev. Mr. Gutelius, a German Re- of ex-Governor Pennypacker's grandmother) be- formed minister. to Susan Douty, who was born came his nurse. She was not only an able nurse, Oct. 26, 1799. Their daughter Sarah became the but a lady of most pleasing personality, and the wife of Robert Alexander Leshier and the mother of Mrs. Hannah Mary (Lesher) Leighon.
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Henry Baldi Douty, grandfather of Mrs. Susan (Douty) Vandling, was a Huguenot refugee who came from France with his father and brother and located at an early date in Lancaster county. Pa. "Two sons are definitely known, namely: Nich- olas and Henry Baldi Douty, both of whom were born in France. The former removed to the mouth of Seneca Lake in New York (present Geneva), and the latter, who was an accomplished scholar and schoolmaster, was one of the first resi- dents of Milton, Pa. He suddenly disappeared in 1790, and was supposed to have been murdered." (From "Memorials of the Huguenots in Amer- ica," by Stapleton, page 97.) Henry Baldi Douty married Elizabeth Cooper.
John Douty, son of Henry Baldi Douty, was married Jan. 21, 1799, to Mary Martz, daughter of Peter and Susanna ( Brown) Martz. Their daugh- ter Susan married John Vandling.
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