History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 110

Author: Bradsby, H. C. (Henry C.)
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Chicago, S. B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1340


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LESTER R. LANTZ, physician, New Albany, born February 15, 1858, in Franklin township, Bradford Co., Pa., a son of William and Elizabeth (Arnold) Lantz, the former of whom, a farmer, born of German origin in New Jersey, was one of the representative men of the township, and died at the age of sixty-five ; the mother died aged thirty-eight. Grandfather Lantz was a Revolutionary soldier ; and the paternal grandfather was in the War of 1812. The subject of these Îines, who is one of a family of eleven children-seven sons and four daughters-was reared on the farm, and educated in the common schools of his town. He studied medicine from a very early age; and attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from there in the spring of 1880; and in the winters of 1885-86 he took a post- graduate course at the University of New York. Immediately after his


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graduation he engaged in the practice of his chosen profession at Hill's Grove, Pa., where he was for some time, and then three years at Norfolk, Va. In the spring of 1887 be located in New Albany, where he has had an extensive and lucrative practice, and is fast becoming one of the leading practitioners of the county. The Doctor was married, in 1879, to Maud Gilbert, of Franklindale. Dr. Lantz is a member of the I. O. O. F., and in politics he is an Independent. He is the owner of one of the finest residences in the township.


PETER LANTZ, farmer, of Franklin township, P. O. Franklin- dale, was born in Franklin, this county, January 21, 1851, a son of William and Maria (Arnold) Lantz, the former born in or near New- ton, Sussex Co., N. J .; the latter in Ulster, this county. William Lantz came with his father, Peter Lantz, Sr., when a young lad, or about 1840, locating in Franklin, where he afterward lived and died ; he was an industrious farmer, who by hard labor and economy acon- mulated a farm of 257 acres of good land; his family number twelve by two marriages; he married, for his first wife, Miss Maria Arnold, by whom he had nine children, eight of whom are living ; his second wife was Miss Catherine Beavens, by whom he had three children, two yet living. Our subject, who is the sixth in the first family, was reared and educated at Franklin, and always worked on a farm. At the age of twenty-seven he married, at Terrytown, August 29, 1878, Miss Mary, daughter of Charles and Ann Viell, and there were born to them four children, all of whom are now living, and very young, as follows: Charles, Edward, Arthur and Leo. Mr. Lantz, as were his forefathers, is a hard-working man, who by industry and economy has made himself a comfortable home; he is a general farmer, paying some attention to wool-growing; is a member of the Patrons of Indus- try, and a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church.


W. L. LANTZ, farmer, of Franklin township, P. O. Franklindale, was born in Monroe township, this county, April 17, 1840, a son of William and Amelia M. (Arnold) Lantz, the former born in New Jer- sey, the latter in Ulster, this county. William was the son of Peter, who removed from New Jersey about 1840, and located in Franklin, north and east of the village; he lived and died on the farm on which he located. William, his son, after taking care of him, and paying off the heirs, came into possession of the farm. He was twice married, and by his first wife had six sons and three daughters, five of whom grew to maturity; by his second wife he had one son and two daugh- ters. William died in 1878, at the age of sixty-four years, leaving a farm of about 200 acres, all of which he had earned with his own hands, which proved him to have been a successful and enterprising farmer. The subject of this sketch, who is the second child by the first wife, was reared and educated in Franklin, and early in life learned the mil- ler's trade at Horace Willey's mill, in Franklindale, and worked there seven years; then removed to New Albany, Pa., where he purchased a large mill, renovated and improved it so extensively by the appliance of modern machinery, and operating same by steam, that he made it a com- plete success. After establishing a paying custom, during the space of twelve years, he sold out to Mr. O. M. Fassett, who married his only


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daughter, Amelia M. He married, at Towanda, September 28, 1861, Miss Mary J., daughter of Horace and Debby A. Willey. Mr. Lantz is now engaged in general farming in Franklin; he enjoys the confi- dence of his neighbors, and was at one time elected county auditor ; has also held several town offices; politically he is a Democrat.


HON. BARTHOLOMEW LAPORTE (deceased) was one of the leading men of the county in his day, a grandson of Bartholomew Laporte, a leader of the French colony that settled Asylum township- refugees from France in the close of the last century. Bartholomew Laporte, Sr., came to this county in 1794, and made his settlement on the farm now owned partly by F. H. Hageman. The subject of this sketch was a son of John and Matilda (Chamberlain) Laporte. born on the old homestead in Frenchtown, January 25, 1823. He married, July 31, 1845, Emily Terry, who was of the eminent family of Terrys whose names are indelibly connected with the early settlement of the north branch of the Susquehanna. To this marriage were born four chil- dren, two of whom are living, viz .: George B., born February 14, 1846, and Nancy M., born May 14, 1859. Of these, George B. married Amanda, daughter of John M. and Hannah (Mingos) Piatt, and they have three children : Emily G., born November 25, 1877; Nellie M., born September 14, 1879, and Jennie E., born October 24, 1881. Nancy M. Laporte is now Mrs. J. S. Bovingdon, of Buffalo, N. Y. Hon. Barthol- omew Laporte was during his life one of the prominent men of Brad- ford county; a strong leader of the Republican party, he was elected, and served with eminence three terms in the State Legislature, and died September 15, 1889.


MICHAEL J. LARKIN, boot and shoe merchant, Towanda, was born in County Galway, Ireland, January 6, 1830, a son of James and Elizabeth (Martin) Larkin. His father came to America in 1835 and settled in Schuylkill county, Pa., where he engaged in mining, and died in the mines, May 18, 1854. Michael J. was reared in Ireland until fifteen years of age. He came to America in 1845, and joined his father in Schuylkill county, Pa., where he was employed as a slate picker, and later as a driver and miner, and followed mining more or less for twenty years, a part of the time in Barclay, this county, five years as a miner and two years as dock boss. He came to Towanda in 1868, where he was engaged in various business enterprises until 1871, when he embarked in the shoe business, in which he still con- tinues. Mr. Larkin married. May 9, 1852, Catherine, daughter of Michael and Mary (Burke) Welch, of Carbon county, Pa., by whom he lias six children living, as follows: James, Elizabeth, Michael, Mary, Margaret and Joachim. Mr. Larkin is a member of the Catholic Church and is a well-known, representative citizen of Towanda. In politics he is a Republican.


PETER LAYMAN, farmer, West Terry, P. O. Marshview, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, November 24, 1828, a son of Jacob and Barbara (Bros) Layman, the former of whom, who was a weaver of superior skill, and a man of sterling qualities, reared a family of six children (all of whom grew to maturity), and died in 1869, at the age of seventy-six years. The subject of this sketch, at the age of twenty-


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four, in 1853, immigrated to this country, landing at Castle Garden, N. Y. He remained one year in that city, after which he came to Terry township, Bradford Co., Pa., where he has since resided. In 1856, in company with a cousin, he purchased 100 acres of wild land, which they highly improved, and in 1877, Mr. Layman purchased his cousin's interest, now owning the entire property of 175 acres. These men, like other settlers in a new country, had to cut their way through the woods to the nearest mill, which in this case was Frenchtown. On November 14, 1858, Mr. Layman married Miss Margaret Brown, and there were born to them six children, all of whom are living, as follows : John J. (married to Miss Mary Williams), Agnes I. (married to W. C. Jackson, and they have one child, a daughter), Charles F. (married to Eva Williams, and has one daughter), William H., Henry L. and Frank. Mr. Layman became a citizen of this country in 1858, and has been a law-abiding one ever since ; is honest in all his dealings with men ; has been elected to the office of town commissioner and school director; was also assessor three years. He was the principal mover in establishing the school in his neighborhood, and is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically he is a Republican.


JOHN LEE, farmer, P. O. Franklindale, was born in Scotland in 1823, a son of Robert and Sarah (Boyd) Lee, the former a native of Ireland, the latter of Scotland. Mr. Lee came to this county in 1838, and located in Herrick township, where he resided thirty years. He owned a farm out West, which he divided between his sons; he entered the army in defense of his adopted country, March 15, 1864, for the term of three years, attaching himself to Company A, One Hundred and Forty-first P. V. I .; was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, after which he was discharged for disabilities. He now draws a pension of $30 per month, and is living on a small place belonging to his wife, whom he married in 1887. She was the widow of Charles Smith. Mr. Lee married, for his first wife, Miss Louisa, daughter of Thomas Bomp, by whom he had four children-three sons and one daughter : Thomas, Frank, Harry and Phoebe, three of whom are married, and prospering in business, and all are living in this county. Mr. Lee enjoys good health at the age of sixty-eight ; in politics he is a Republican.


JOSEPH P. LEE, blacksmith, Wyalusing, was born in Herrick, Bradford Co., Pa., and is a son of James and Jane (Daugherty) Lee. His parents were born in County Armagh, Ireland; his father was a clothier and his mother a tailoress; they came to this country in 1829, and settled in New York City, where the father remained about eight years; then removed to New Milford, and engaged in the business of manufacturing cloth, and later removed to Herrick, becoming a suc- cessful farmer of that section, and remained there until his deatb, which occurred in 1857; his widow survived until 1879. Joseph P. Lee passed his boyhood on his father's farm, and attended the common schools of Herrick, also two years at the Laceyville Academy. On July 9, 1851, he purchased a blacksmith shop in Herrick, and hired men to work for him, and with them he learned his trade; here he remained until 1865, when he went to Carroll county, Ill., where


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he was two years; then came back and opened an extensive shop at Camptown, using steam power: here he manufactured wagons, besides doing general blacksmithing, and worked a large force of men; from there he went to Athens, where he engaged in the livery business. In August, 1884, he came to Wyalusing township, and, with the excep- tion of two years spent on the road as traveling salesman, selling a tool of his own invention, he has passed his time here in general blacksmithing. Mr. Lee is a genius as regards mechanics, and has made that his constant study; has numerous inventions, the best of which are the lightning hoof shears, a device for trimming horses' hoofs without the use of the old-fashioned nippers and buttress; an expansive shoe for diseased feet; also a machine for cutting, punch- ing and upsetting iron bars, all of which work to perfection, and are a perfect success. Mr. Lee married, March 10, 1860, Elizabeth, daughter of Lyman Matson, of Herrick, and they have a family of five chil- dren : Joseph L. (a traveling salesman in Nebraska); Lyman M. (a furniture finisher in Waverly); William H., Lizzie J. and Lulu E., the two latter at home. Mr. Lee is a stanch Republican, but has no offi- cial aspirations. As a horse-shoer he has no superior, and the numerous improvements which he has planned in his trade shows him to be a close student of the trade he follows. His hoof-shears are sold in every State and Territory, and in Canada, and his shear-punch, and upset does heavier work than any other machine now made, and is on an entirely new principle.


THOMAS A. LEE, farmer and stock-raiser, Herrick township, was born November 8, 1835, on the farm he now owns. His father, James Lee, was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, August 8, 1801; he had- two brothers who came to this county about the same time, viz .: Thomas, who died in Nebraska, in 1884, and Eccles, who died in this county in 1881. When James Lee came to this country he located at New York City, where he married, March 4, 1830, Jane Daugherty, a native of Ireland (whose family came to this State in 1831), and lived in New Milford, Susquehanna Co., Pa., nearly three years; then came to this county and purchased the farm now owned by his son, Thomas A. He devoted his whole life to farming and stock-raising ; was a deacon in the Baptist Church, and died in 1857, leaving six children, viz .: Margaret Jane (wife of David Nesbit), William E., Joseph P., James H., Charles J., and the subject of these lines. Thomas A. Lee was educated in the district schools until his twentieth year, then went to Nebraska, and from there to Wisconsin, returning home in 1857. His father having died intestate, the farm was appraised, and he and his brother, James H., took the property, after purchasing the rights of the other heirs, soon after they divided, Thomas A. taking fifty- three acres, on which were the house and other outbuildings (built by his father in 1849) since which time he has devoted his life to farming and stock-raising. He is a Republican in politics, and was jury com- missioner in 1876 and 1879 ; constable, one year ; auditor, three years ; he is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Lee married, in 1869, Catherine, daughter of John and Jane (Little) Lafferty, natives of New York; she was born August 19, 1835, and previous to her mar-


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riage had successfully taught school seventeen terms, one term in Lycoming county, ten in Luzerne and six in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Lee have had three children : John, a successful teacher in Her- rickville ; Daisy M., and an infant (deceased). Mr. Lee has sixty-three acres of land, three horses, seven cows and thirteen sheep.


JAMES P. LEES, farmer, P. O. Athens, was born in Athens, this county, in 1866, son of William and Charlotte (Isby) Lees, the former a native of Manchester, the latter a native of Trowbridge, England, born in 1834. The father removed to this county in 1856, locating in Litchfield township, and in 1869 he removed to Athens township, where he remained until his death, which occurred March 3, 1890, in the fifty- ninth year of his age. He leaves a widow, and children as follows : John H., Esther, Joseph, James P. and Lottie. Esther is married to a talented minister, Rev. Douglass King, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. James P. is the principal man on the farm, taking charge and having the oversight of all in connection with same. They raise a mixed produce on a well-cultivated farm of seventy-three acres; have a very fine house, roomy and commodious. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.


DAVID S. LENOX, a farmer and proprietor of Mountain Lake Summer Resort, Mountain Lake. This resort is fast becoming one of the most frequented and popular places in the State ; next to Mount Pisgah it is the highest elevation in Pennsylvania, and there being abundance of fish in the lake, and beautiful groves surrounding it, it is altogether a very pleasant and picturesque place. Mr. Lenox was born June 28, 1838, in Ulster, a son of Daniel and Betsey (Head) Lenox, farmers of French origin, the former of whom was born in Canada, removed to this State when a child, and was reared a farmer ; the mother was a native of this county: her grandfather (Head) was one of the first settlers of the township of Burlington; they died at the ages of eighty-two and eighty four years, respectively. Subject was reared on the farm, and at his majority he went to the oil regions of West Virginia and then to Pennsylvania, where he was superin- tendent of the largest works; after some years he engaged in the lum- bering business in Canton township, near Alba, where he owned a sawmill, which he lost by fire, and in 1875 removed to the farm which he now owns, and where he entertains many hundreds of people in the season. Mr. Lenox was married, September 13, 1871, to Juliet Freeman, of Troy. born October 4, 1845, a daughter of Horace D. and Sylvia (Palmer) Freeman, both of English extraction. There have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lenox four children, three of whom are living, as follows: S. May, born September 5, 1874; Ernest D., born March 30, 1879, and Lee D., born July 21, 1883. Mr. Lenox's farm consists of about seventy-eight acres, and lies around two-thirds of the shore of the lake. He is a Democrat in politics, and was, during the Civil War, acting in the commissary department.


EDWARD P. LENOX, farmer and stock-grower, Ulster township, was born February 9, 1841, on the farm he now occupies, a son of Daniel and Betsey (Head) Lenox. His father, a farmer, was born in Canada, August 7, 1794, and immigrated to the United States, settling


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with his parents in Ulster township, in 1799, at the age of five years. His mother was born in this county, April 22, 1799 ; they were among the early pioneers of Bradford county, and purchased the old home- stead farm about the year 1822, that being abont four years after their marriage, which occurred in 1818. Daniel died on the old homestead, February 24, 1874, aged eighty years ; his widow survived until April 18, 1881. Edward P. Lenox attended the common schools of Ulster township, and received a good common-school education ; when twenty- one years old he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty- first P. V. I., and was discharged at Baltimore, March 5, 1863. On September 16, 1864, he re-enlisted, this time in Company C, One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Regiment, N. Y. V. I., and was discharged at Rochester, N. Y., July 11, 1865, at the close of the war. He participated in the battle of Hatcher's Run; skirmishes along the Weldon Railroad, March 30, 1865, in the battle of Lewis' Farm, and of Five Forks, April 1, 1865, the siege of Petersburg, surrender of Richmond, and was present at Lee's surrender at Appomattox ; he was in the hospital about five months on account of disability caused by rheumatism, and receives a pension. His farm consists of fifty acres of finely-improved and highly-cultivated land; he is one of the few farmers who grow tobacco on the upland, and he culti- vates about three acres yearly. His father's family consisted of thirteen children, five of whom survive, and three live in this county, viz .: John, David S. and Edward P. Mr. Lenox was united in mar- riage April 14. 1867, with Mary J., daughter of Hugh and Marion (Richie) Templeton, natives of Scotland, and the result of this marriage was ten children, viz .: Robert S., James T., Maud B., Myrtle A., Anna E., Daniel H., Edward P., Jessie E., Harry A. and Mary Jane. Robert S. (the eldest) is twenty-three years of age, and Mary J. (the youngest) is one year old. Mr. Lenox is a member of the K. of H., and is a stanch Democrat in politics. He gave the spring-time of his life to his country, sacrificing his health as an offering to the Union, and is a man broken in his prime, but surrounded by an exceedingly interesting family.


ALBERT LENT, farmer, Wysox township, was born May 4, 1808, in a log house which stood where his barn now is, a son of John and Barbara (Croft) Lent, natives of New York, the former born of Hol- land origin and the latter of German. Barbara Croft's mother, Mary Bowman, was the daughter of the Duke of Baden, Germany, and ran away with her father's coachman, coming to America. John Lent came to Rome in 1797, and the same year located in Sheshequin, where he remained two years, and then removed to the farm where Albert Lent now resides, buying 120 acres of " Uncle Jesse Allen," where he reared a family of thirteen children, eight of whom grew to maturity as follows : Mary, Tobias, Hannah, Catherine, Elizabeth and Mathias (twins), Sallie and Albert; he and his wife died in November, 1838, at the ages of seventy-five and seventy-three years, respectively. The subject of this memoir spent his boyhood assisting his father on the farm, and attending a school taught by Almira Price, situated on the present site of Wysox Presbyterian Church. When he was twenty


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years of age, his father gave him a portion of the old homestead, where he has since resided, and accumulated a valuable estate. He was mar- ried, June 3, 1835, to Susan Bull, who was born July 6, 1815, a dangh- ter of William and Julia (Conklin) Bull, natives of Orange county, N. Y., and of English and Dutch lineage, respectively. The fruits of this union were the following : Frances, born Angust 2, 1836 (married to John Webb of North Towanda); Abel K .; Cidney, born January 22, 1840 (she was married to M. B. Owen, a grocer of Towanda, Pa., who died, and she later married George Eranbrack, druggist, Athens); Caro- line, born March 25, 1842, (married to Dr. Edward Reed, of Genesee Forks, Pa.); Julia C., born Angust 25, 1843 (married to Stephen Bar- ner, a farmer, of Sheshequin, Pa.); Sarah, born July 15, 1846, died in infancy ; Barbara E., born November 4, 1849 (married to George K. Smith, a farmer and school teacher, Orange county, N. Y.); Abigail, born February 12, 1851 (married to George Dewing, a farmer, of Warrenham, Pa.); Susan, born. December 5, 1853 (married to E. G. Owen, a farmer, of Wysox); Albert, born July 13, 1857 (married to Wealthy Coolbaugh, of Wysox; they have two children : Agnes C., born November 1, 1887, and Barbara, born November 26, 1889; he is engaged with his father on the farm, and in stock-dealing). Susau (Bull) Lent died in 1880 at the age of sixty-five years. Mr. Lent was married, November 14, 1883, to Elizabeth M. Reel (nee Elizabeth M. Moody), daughter of Moses and Pbebe (Allen) Moody. Mr. and Mrs. Lent are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pond Hill ; he is a Republican and has held the offices of constable, two years ; school director, fifteen years; and collector, two years; was justice of the peace, but did not take out his commission. Mr. Lent was a pio- neer in the advancement of education, having taught the first two terms of school at Pond Hill.


ABEL K. LENT, farmer, Wysox township, P. O. Myersburg, was born October 5, 1838, a son of Albert and Susan (Bull) Lent. He was educated in the common school and in Wyoming Seminary, and remained at home until 1867, when he purchased his present home of 108 acres of his father, upon which he has since lived and placed it in an excellent state of cultivation. Mr. Lent was married, November 26, 1867, to Emma, daughter of Jacob and Adaline ( Wheeler) Ercanbrack, and to them were born three children as follows : Cidney E., born October 9, 1868, married to Emerson Bull, who is in the employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at Sayre, Pa .; Mattie E., born March 5, 1871, and Addie S., born June 15, 1873. The mother of these children dying December 25, 1875, Mr. Lent married, in 1879, for his second wife, Adilaid Sill, and by this union there have been born the follow- ing named children : Elmer D., born March 18, 1880; Ethlyn J., April 12, 1882 ; Edwin H., December 4, 1886, and George A., November 27, 1889.


LEWIS THATCHER LENT, farmer, Wysox township, P. O. Myersburg, was born in Sheshequin, this county, July 28, 1823, a son of Tobias and Lucy (Thatcher) Lent, and is the eldest of eleven chil- dren. Mr. Lent began life for himself at the age of eighteen, slioe- making, which trade lic followed several years ; then engaged in farm-


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ing, which has been the principal occupation of his life. He purchased his present home of J. M. Wattles, in 1871. Mr. Lent was married, November 12, 1845, to Miss Caroline, daughter of Arunah and Eliza- beth ( Allen ) Wattles, and this union has been blessed with nine children (five of whom are now living): The eldest died in infancy; Elizabeth, born June 29, 1847, married M. L. Maynard, a farmer of Rome township; the next child died in infancy; Alice Letta, born March 24, 1850, married to Charles H. Stevens, farmer of Standing Stone; Ada Albina, born May 24, 1852, married to Charles Fox, a farmer of Wysox; Edith Ethleen, born July 31, 1854, married to Miles B. Caswell, who died in Colorado; Caroline, died when two years old; Caroline Ida (second), born February 18, 1861, lives with her parents; Lewis Byron, born April 16, 1868, and died May 27, 1869. Mr. Lent is a member of Wysox Grange, and is a life-long Republican in politics. THORNTON F. LENT, carriage manufacturer, and justice of the peace, Burlington, was born in Towanda, this county, December 15, 1840, a son of Mathias C. and Susan (Minier) Lent, the former of Dutch and the latter of German descent, and. natives of this county. The grandfather Lent, settled at Pond Hill, Wysox township, early in this century, was one of the pioneers, and took up a large possession, cleared a fine farm and reared a large family ; he was a man of influence in his time. Mathias C. Lent was reared on the farm, and largely en- gaged in lumbering; which he followed many years ; he was a major in the Pennsylvania Militia, and died in 1876, aged seventy-six years; his wife, Susan, died in 1864, aged sixty-two years. Our subject is the sixth in a family of eight children, six of whom are still living. When he was twenty years of age, April 23, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, Sixth P. R., and was thus one of the first to respond to the call of his country in the late Civil War; among the engagements in which he participated were the battles as follows: Dranesville, Fredericksburg, Antietam, Gettysburg, through the Wilderness campaign, and was honorably discharged, June 11, 1864. He had previously served his apprenticeship to the carriage-builder's trade, and in 1869 settled at Burlington where he has since carried on a successful business; he is a Democrat in politics. In February, 1891, he was elected a justice of the peace, and has been in the council of the borough several years. Mr. Lent was married, in September, 1868, to Mary U. Melville, of Bur- lington, of Scotch-Irish descent, a daughter of Franklin W. and Articica Clark, natives of Burlington. Mr. and Mrs. Lent have two sons : Harry M., born October 29, 1869, and Walter P., born December 26, 1873. Mr. Lent is much respected by the entire community.




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