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(II) William McHattie, son of Peter and Belle (Frazier) McHattie, was born in Scotland, September 1, 1845. He was twelve years of age when he came to the United States with his parents, and his education was partly acquired in Scotland. Upon his arrival here he became a pupil in the public schools of Leetsdale, and was graduated from the City College in the class of 1866. For a time he followed farming and garden-
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ing, at first in Pulaski township, removing then to Hopewell township, Beaver county, in 1891. For a period of four years he was engaged in the gas business; then in the dairy business eleven years, selling this and becoming a merchant at Woodlawn, a line with which he was identified five years, and then retired to private life in 1910. He was a strong advocate of Republican principles, and served as school director six years.
Mr. McHattie married, April 4, 1875, Catherine McCune, born in county Cavan, Ireland, May 4, 1857, daughter of Thomas and Honora (Riley) McCune, both natives of county Cavan, Ireland; he came to America in 1881, where he died in 1888, at the age of seventy-five years; she died in Ireland in 1860. They had children: James, died in England, aged about forty years; Patrick, of Braddock, Pennsylvania; Andrew, of McKees Rocks; Thomas, lost at sea when he was about forty years old; Mary, who married Michael Owens, of Pittsburgh, both deceased; Michael, of East End, Pittsburgh; Catherine, mentioned above as the wife of Mr. McHattie. The grandparents of Mrs. McHattie were Thomas and (Brady) McCune, of Ireland, both of whom died in that country at an advanced age. William and Catherine (McCune) McHattie had children : I. Isabelle, born January 16, 1876; married Patrick Morgan, of Crafton, Pennsylvania; they had no children. 2. James, born October 18, 1877; is now of New Brighton, Pennsylvania; he married Margaret Rowan, of Kingston, Pennsylvania. 3. Thomas, born March 4, 1879; resides with his parents; he is a member of Woodlawn Lodge, No. 1221, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; he is an engineer by occupation. 4. William, born October 7, 1882; also an engineer; he is a member of Allegheny Lodge, No. 1708, Fraternal Order of Eagles. 5. Charles, born March 10, 1885. 6. George, born December 6, 1887, died March 12, 1888. 7. Herbert, born January 26, 1889, died December 6, 1913, killed in an accident on a street car line; was one of the most promising young men in this part of the state, and was preparing himself for the legal profession; he was a clerk in the office of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company. 8. Elsie, born July 18, 1893. 9. Mary, born June 7, 1896. William McHattie Sr. was reared in the Presbyterian denomination, while his family attend the Catholic Church.
CALHOUN
The ancestors of this family came from Ireland, the
American progenitor having been Andrew Calhoun, who was born in Derry county, Ireland, about 1802, and died in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. He emigrated to America and settled in Beaver county when he was a young man, married there, and had children as follows: Robert, of further mention; John; James.
(II) Robert Calhoun, son of Andrew Calhoun, was born in Big Beaver township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and married Eliza Scott, born in Darlington, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. Among their children was John C., of further mention.
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(III) John C. Calhoun, son of Robert and Eliza (Scott) Calhoun, was born in Beaver Falls, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1835, and died in 1907. He was educated in the public schools of Old Brighton, and learned the trade of tanning. He took a prominent part in the public affairs of the community, as an adherent of the Republican party, served as county commissioner, 1875-76-77, and was in office as justice of the peace at the time of his death. His religious affiliations were with the Methodist Protestant Church. Mr. Calhoun married Nancy White, born in Fallston, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1845, daughter of Harvey and Eliza (Rob- inson) White, both natives of Beaver county, and a sister of Sarah, James and Samuel White. Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun had children: Thomas S., of further mention; Harry, also of further mention; Edmund S .; Robert E .; Harvey W.
(IV) Thomas S. Calhoun, son of John C. and Nancy (White) Cal- houn, was born in New Brighton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1860. The public schools of New Brighton furnished a practical educa- tion to Mr. Calhoun, and all his earlier years were passed in that town. Upon the completion of his education he entered upon his business career, which has been a varied and interesting as well as a successful one. His first position was with the Novelty Works of Logan & Strawbridge of New Brighton, and from there he went to Canton, Ohio, having accepted a position with the Elbel Company, in the hardware line. He next es- tablished himself in business independently, in New Brighton, in 1891, as a confectioner, and was successfully identified with this for a period of ten years. After this he was in the foundry business in New Brighton for eight years, and in 1911 removed to Woodlawn, where he opened a con- fectionery and stationery business, which he has since that time conducted. The building in which he carries on his business was erected by him and is still his property. In political matters he is a Republican, and in fraternal, a member of the Royal Arcanum. His wife is a member of the Catholic Church.
Mr. Calhoun married, in 1891, Mary Eunice Sheehan, born in Cleve- land, Ohio, September 2, 1862, daughter of John and Ellen Sheehan, natives of Ireland and married in England, who emigrated to America and made their home at Lima, Ohio, where he died in 1900, and his wife in 1896. They had children: James; John; Mary Eunice, mentioned above; Ella, deceased; Harry, lives in Chicago; William, lives in Pullman, Illinois; Katharine; Peter Paul, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun have had chil- dren: Eunice, born in 1892, died in infancy; Eleanor Frances, born April 6, 1894, was educated in the public schools of New Brighton, and was graduated from the high school of Woodlawn, as a member of the first graduating class, in 1913.
(IV) Harry Calhoun, son of John C. and Nancy (White) Calhoun, was born in New Brighton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, September 15, 1862. After being graduated from the public schools of New Brighton,
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he matriculated at Geneva College, from which institution he was grad- uated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then took up the study of law with J. R. Harrah, and with Thompson & Martin, and was admitted to practice in 1892. He at once forged to the front ranks of his profession and has obtained a large and lucrative practice. He gives his political sup- port to the Republican party, and was for a time district attorney. His fraternal affiliations are with American Lodge, No. 259, Free and Accepted Masons; Gourgas Lodge of Perfection; Pennsylvania Consistory, of Pitts- burgh. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church of New Brighton. Mr. Calhoun married, September 8, 1896, Florence Dietrick, born in New Brighton, daughter of Frederick A. and Louisa Dietrick, early settlers of Beaver county, Pennsylvania.
Beaver county in its pioneer days knew well the name of WINKLE Winkle, borne in that locality until 1907 by William E. Winkle. His parents were Henrietta and Elizabeth (Bick- enstoff) Winkle, who settled at an early day in Hopewell township, where they both died.
William E. Winkle was born in Hopewell township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, died in Aliquippa, same county, in June, 1907. He married Kate L. McKee, born in Hopewell township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1847, daughter of John McKee, the ceremony being solemnized March 27, 1878. Kate L. McKee was educated in the public schools and in Mrs. Benham's and Miss Davis' seminaries, both of Allegheny City, Penn- sylvania, and in Mrs. Hughes' Seminary of Pittsburgh. Children of Wil- liam E. and Kate L. (McKee) Winkle: 1. John Rolf, was educated in the public schools, Peirsol's Academy, Duff's Business College, and the International Correspondence School of Scranton; a draughtsman by pro- fession he is now in the employ of the Westinghouse Electrical and Man- ufacturing Company; he married Mattie Shrader, of Erie county, Penn- sylvania, and is the father of two sons, John Rolf Jr. and Robert Riswell. 2. Ophelia, born March 13, 1883; was educated in Beaver College; mar- ried (first) Bruce Patton, who died in 1904; she married (second) Wil- liam Ehemann, a native of Germany, and resides in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania; she is the mother of one child by her first marriage, Leah Louise, and by her second: Lawrence Theofield, Frederick Daniel, Gustav Wilhemina. 3. Lawrence, born April 23, 1889; was educated in the public schools, Peirsol's Academy, and the Beaver County Commercial College, of Beaver, Pennsylvania; he is a bookkeeper, and resides at home.
STUBERT While the Stubert family has only been represented in this country for three generations, they have contributed many honored citizens to the state of Pennsylvania, and have won credit in all the walks of life with which they have been identified. No American-born citizen could have fought more bravely than did various
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members of this family when the needs of the country appeared to demand their service.
(I) Anthony Stubert was born in Germany, and emigrated to the United States with his wife and family in 1853. He went directly to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he found employment with the Jones & Laughlin Iron Mills, and he died in Pittsburgh, South Side, in 1866. He married, in Germany, Frances Lechler, also born in that country, died in Pittsburgh in 1877, and they had children: August, born in Germany, and died there; Mary Magdalena, married Peter Auen, of South Side, Pittsburgh; Joseph, see forward; Catherine, married B. J. Alexander, of Pittsburgh, where they now reside; Henry, who lives in New Kensington, Pennsylvania.
(II) Joseph Stubert, son of Anthony and Frances (Lechler) Stubert, was born in Germany, March 23, 1841. His education was commenced in Germany and completed in this country. He also found employment in the mills in Pittsburgh, was a heater by trade, and in the employ of Jones & Laughlin from his twelfth to his thirtieth year. When he commenced he earned twenty-five cents per day, and when he left them he was in receipt of a daily income of about eight dollars. At the time he became associated with this concern it was in its infancy, and operated under the name of Lauth Brothers, and from this small beginning has grown the huge enter- prise now known as Jones & Laughlin Iron Mills. Mr. Stubert lived at South Side, Pittsburgh, and also at Rochester, Pennsylvania, where he spent the summer months. In the month of June, 1892, he came to Ali- quippa, and there built his first house. He was engaged in the grocery business for a period of ten years, and was postmaster of the town during the second administration of President Cleveland. While he has very generally given his political support to the Democratic party, he cast his vote for Abraham Lincoln. He served in office as a member of the first council of Aliquippa. He and his family have always been devout members of the Catholic Church.
Mr. Stubert married, on Thanksgiving Day, 1865, Christina Haber, born in Germany, May 7, 1842, died in Aliquippa, December 29, 1899, daughter of Anthony and Helena (Grunhart) Haber, both born in Ger- many, who came to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1854, and then went to what is now known as Monaca, Beaver county. He was a laborer, and died at the home of his son, George, and his wife died at the residence of Mr. Stubert. They had children: John, George, Christina, mentioned above; Elizabeth. All of these are deceased with the exception of George. Mr. and Mrs. Stubert had children: 1. Mary Magdalena. 2. Clara, born October 8, 1869; married, 1895, Thomas McCormick, foreman of the melting department of the Vulcan Crucible Steel Mills, and has children : Clara, born September 26, 1897; Thomas Stubert, August 28, 1899; Mary, May 17, 1903; Ruth, June 5, 1907; Paul, December 23, 1909; Genevieve, February 19, 1913. 3. Joseph, born December 14, 1871; unmarried.
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The military record of Joseph Stubert is deserving of especial men- tion. He enlisted, August 22, 1864, in Company C, Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war, being discharged at Vienna, Virginia, June 30, 1865. Under Captain B. Young and Colonel George S. Gallupe, he was ordered to Washington, District of Columbia, and assigned to duty at the forts to the north of the city until September, and sent to cover the construction trains and open Manassas Gap. He was in an engagement with Mosby's command at Salem, Virginia, retreated to White Plains and captured four pieces of the enemy's artillery and a number of Confederate soldiers at Piedmont, Virginia. The next field of his operations was at Cedar Creek, then to the forts north of Wash- ington and then returned to Virginia. He built the stockades at Prospect Hill and Fairfax Court House, and was sent to the scene of the second battle of Bull Run to bury the two thousand soldiers who had died on that ground.
WIEGEL In the two generations that the Wiegels of Germany have held Pennsylvania residence they have been connected with the glass industry of that state, a business that in its most flourishing days offered employment to thousands.
(I) Carl Wiegel was the emigrant of the line, coming to Perryopolis, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1856. He immediately entered the glass works, but had been so employed for only two years when his labors were interrupted by the stilling hand of death. After his death his wife, Wil- helmina (Stender) Wiegel, took her family to Pittsburgh and later to Beaver Falls, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, her death occurring in Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, at the home of her son, Charles, in 1901. Carl and Wilhelmina (Stender) Wiegel were the parents of: 1. A child, died in in- fancy, in Germany. 2. John C., of whom further. 3. Elizabeth, mar- ried George Vetter, of Pittsburgh, who died in 1913. 3. Charles, a resi- dent of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
(II) John C. Wiegel, eldest of the living children of Carl and Wil- helmina (Stender) Wiegel, was born in Germany, February 23, 1852. He was four years of age when his parents came to the United States, and was reared to manhood in Pittsburgh, where he attended the public schools of that city. His first employment was in the glass works on the south side of the city, where he became proficient in the cutter's art, in 1879 becoming associated with the Co-operative Flint Glass Works, of Beaver Falls, in which he was a stockholder. In February of 1893 he retired from the glass manufacturing business and built the Columbia Hotel at Aliquippa, which he managed successfully and prosperously until April 1, 1909. Since then he has engaged in no business operations, nor has he formed any new connections, banking being his only association in business. At the time of the organization of the First National Bank, of Aliquippa, Pennsyl- vania, he was active in the perfection of all the plans and arrangements, has
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held stock in the institution ever since, and in 1911 was elected to the presidency of the board of directors, still holding that honored place. A position upon the directorate of the Woodlawn Trust Company is also his. His political faith is Democratic, and when the borough was erected in 1894, he was a member of the first council, being at the present time a member of that body. The Lutheran is the religious faith that claims his loyal allegiance. His fraternities are Russell Lodge, No. 1065, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and Rochester Lodge, No. 283, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Wiegel married (first) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1880, Eliza- beth Vetter, a native of Pittsburgh, who died in 1884; (second) in 1895, Isabel Swindell, likewise born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Children of the first marriage of John C. Wiegel: 1. Albert, born in 1881; a clerk; married May Collins, and has one daughter, Annabelle. 2. Charles, con- nected with the Colonial Steel Company, of Pittsburgh; married Alice Coffman, and has one son, John. 3. Hilda, lives at home. Children of the second marriage of John C. Wiegel: 4. John, born in 1896; a student in Duff's Business College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 5. Howard, born December 31, 1897; a student in the Aliquippa high school.
The Bryan family is closely identified with the early history BRYAN of our country, and is related by marriage to the Boone and other famous families.
(I) Captain John Bryan, who was an officer in the Continental army during the War of the Revolution, left to his descendants the following interesting document :
Fort Pitt, Nov. 2nd, 1761.
"Received from Captain John Bryan Seven pounds, Eighteen shillings and Seven pence - in currency of Pa. the remainder of my pay from the 4th of April, the date of my enlistment to this present date, being the close of all accounts.
(Signed) Alex. Dunlap."
Captain John Bryan married Rebecca Boone, a sister of Daniel Boone, the celebrated backwoodsman and trapper, and Daniel Boone married Re- becca Bryan.
(II) William Bryan, son of Captain John and Rebecca (Boone) Bryan, was born in Philadelphia. In April, 1786, he purchased two hundred acres of land on the north side of the Ohio river No. 2. He established himself in the tavern business very successfully, and died in Baden, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Price, and they had children : William, born June 25, 1794; John, March 20, 1796; Isaac, March 16, 1798; Price, see forward; Polly, or Mary, September 3, 1802, married John Cheney; Aaron Morton, August 6, 1805, married Ann McDonald; Henry, December 30, 1810.
(III) Price Bryan, son of William and Sarah (Price) Bryan, was
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born March 28, 1800, and died in Baden, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1865. He was about eleven years of age when his parents with the family crossed the mountains to the western part of the state. He could spend but very little time in actual school attendance, but by means of reading and observation he made himself a very well educated man. Mr. Bryan married, February 16, 1830, Cynthia Hill, born at Geneva, near Beaver Falls, died at the old homestead in Baden. They were Presby- terians. She was the daughter of Jonathan Hill, a farmer who died in 1837, and his wife, Jemima (Emerson) Hill, who had other children: Enos, married Sarah -; Samuel, went to Mexican War and never re- turned; Jonathan, married, has several children and lives in Youngstown, Ohio; Ethelinda, married - Miller; Susan, married Jonathan Cook. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan had children as follows: 1. Sarah Ann, born July 4, 1832, died February 8, 1837. 2. William Morton, born April 11, 1834, died May 21, 1836. 3. Ethelinda, born March 4, 1836, died February 20, 1856. 4. Polly, or Mary, born August 17, 1838; married, April 4, 1861, William Morton Cheney, Rev. John Cowe officiating; they had children : Samuel, married Laura Kennedy, and has two children; Elizabeth, mar- ried Bert Fullwood; William, married Carrie -, and has seven children; Lulu, died at the age of six years; Alberta, married Charles Coleman, and has three children; Blair, Lutheran minister, married and has one child. 5. Eliza, born September 20, 1840, died September 1, 1841. 6. John Henry, born June 27, 1842, died April 3, 1843. 7. Basmath Ariadna, born April 22, 1844, died May 9, 1891; she married Samuel Kinney and they had children: Cynthia, married John Easter; Belle, married Herman Mingel; Samuel, twin of Belle, married Elizabeth Webb; William Bryan, married Mabel -; Elwood, married - Morgan; Alice, twin of Elwood, mar- ried Charles Stormfeld; Elizabeth and Edna, twins, died in infancy. 8. Isabella J., married John H. Dippold, whose sketch also appears in this work. 9. Aaron Price, see forward.
(IV) Aaron Price Bryan, son of Price and Cynthia (Hill) Bryan, was born in Baden, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1849. He spent his early years in Baden, attending the public schools, and devoting his spare time to assisting his father with the work on the farm. After the death of his father he managed the farm for his mother for two years, then found employment in the stone quarries at Freedom. For a time he then worked as a blacksmith. His career has been a most varied one. For a time he worked on the river as a strike pilot, watchman and mate. He next took up carpenter's work, with which he is still occasionally occupied. He was in the government employ for a period of four and a half years, working on the Davis Island Dam. He also worked at times at brick laying, engineering and in a flour mill. He is now living retired from active work of any kind. In political views he is a staunch Re- publican, has been a school director for seventeen years, and assessor for three years. He and his family are members of the Lutheran Church.
John H. Short, Pr.
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For many years he was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, and also belonged to the Carpenters' Union, but he has withdrawn from both.
Mr. Bryan married, March 7, 1872, the Rev. W. A. Passavant officiat- ing, Sarah F. Spence, born in Wheeling, West Virginia, January 21, 1849. She is the daughter of Washington F. Spence, born in New Jersey, a glassblower, who died at Masontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1882, aged sixty-nine years. He married Elizabeth Spitzjasper, born in Culpeper, Virginia. They had children: Rachel D., born August 2, 1848, died unmarried, May 22, 1894; Sarah F., who married Mr. Bryan, as above mentioned. The mother died at the old home, October 2, 1876, at the age of fifty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan had children: Charles M., born October 28, 1873, married, September 17, 1911, Blanche Blazier; Elizabeth Irma, born August 2, 1876, married Charles Rye; Alice B., born April I, 1881, married Joseph E. Baughman.
SHORT There have been three generations of Shorts in Beaver county, each with the given name John H., the first John H. Short, a native of Ireland, being among the earliest settlers of that county. He was a farmer, cleared the land that he later cultivated married, and was the father of Hugh, John H., of whom further, James, Nancy, Ann. His wife was a native of Ireland, their wedding ceremony being solemnized in that land.
(II) John H. (2) Short, son of John H. (1) Short, was born in Ire- land, and came to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, with his parents. His trade was that of mason, and during his active life he followed this as a means of livelihood. He married Elizabeth Baker, born in Moon town- ship, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1800, daughter of Daniel, son of George Baker. Both John H. Short and his wife died in Beaver county. Children of John H. (2) and Elizabeth (Baker) Short: 1. Daniel, de- ceased; was commissioner of Beaver county during the Civil War, and during his administration the court house was built. 2. Margaret, mar- ried Milo Holmes, of Moon township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, both deceased. 3. John H., of whom further.
(III) John H. (3) Short, son of John H. (2) and Elizabeth (Baker) Short, was born in Moon township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, Novem- ber 30, 1835. His early life was spent in Moon township, where he at- tended the public schools, and in young manhood he began farming opera- tions, which he continued until his retirement. In 1896 he moved to Wood- lawn and purchased considerable property, which is now laid out in build- ing lots, many occupied by handsome and modern homes. He now lives retired in Woodlawn, aged seventy-eight years, having led an active and useful life, the contemplation of which, as it draws to a close, leaves him no feeling other than one of peaceful satisfaction in his performance. of his duty.
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He married Margaret H. Baker, born in Moon township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1845, daughter of John G. and Margaret (Shodes) Baker. Margaret Shodes was a daughter of George Shodes, a prominent resident of Beaver county, while John G. Baker was a son of George (2) Baker and a grandson of John (1) Baker. Children of John H. (3) and Margaret H. (Baker) Short: 1. Mary Elizabeth, unmarried. 2. Daniel B., a resident of Sheffield Terrace, Pennsylvania. 3. John H., of whom further. 4. Morton B., lives in Hopewell township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. 5. Sylvester, resides in Hopewell township, Beaver county. 6. Jesse, en- gaged in business at Lockport, New York. 7, Blaine, lives in Lockport, New York. 8. Margaret H., married William Shinn, of Aliquippa, Penn- sylvania. 9. Celestia Ella, married Horace Barnes, of Woodlawn, Penn- sylvania.
(IV) John H. (4) Short, son of John H. (3) and Margaret H. (Baker) Short, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, September 25, 1871, being reared on a farm in Moon township, attending the Bunker Hill school, an institution named by his father, who was the organizer of a literary society there. He also studied at the Bridgewater and New Sheffield academies, later studying bookkeeping with the aid of a few published volumes on the subject. He obtained his first business training in the employ of the Crucible Steel Company, being stationed in the finishing department at Aliquippa, and when the mills discontinued operation he engaged in carpentry work. In 1911 he embarked in the real estate and insurance business in Aliquippa, of which town he had been a resident since 1899, and that is his line at the present time, his firm being the Aliquippa Real Estate Company, of which he is a director and manager. Enterprising, resourceful and success- ful in his new business, he is also prominent in public matters, as a Re- publican having been elected auditor of the independent district of Hope- well township, now Woodlawn; has been inspector of elections of Wood- lawn; auditor of the borough of Aliquippa; and in 1903 was elected tax collector of Aliquippa, an office of which he is the present incumbent. Since 1897 he has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to Russell Lodge, No. 1065, and he is also a member of Wood- lawn Lodge, No. 1221, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
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