History of Cumberland and Adams counties, Pennsylvania. Containing history of the counties, their townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc.; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; biographies; history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, etc., etc, Part 66

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farmer of Franklin County; Daniel, minister and farmer of York County; Mary, the wife of John Senseman, farmer of Cumberland County; Leah, wife of John Knisely, farmer in Upper Allen Township; David. a contractor and builder of Huntington, Penn .; Philip. a farmer of Osborne, Kas., and Susan, wife of Andrew Knoderer, a farmer of Upper Allen Township.

ALBERT ALLAN LINE, residence Carlisle, was born in Dickinson Township, this county, about five miles west of Carlisle, January 20, 1850, a son of Emanuel and Cathe- rine (Myers) Line. the former born in Dickinson Township, this county, and the latter at Rossville. York County, Penn. Emanuel Line was a son of Emanuel, Sr., and Elizabeth (Myers) Line, both natives of Cumberland County. Our subject is the youngest of three children, and the only surviving one. He married October 12, 1876, Miss Mary L. Jolinson, a daughter of Samuel A. Johnson of Philadelphia, Penn. Mrs. Line died December 25, 1877. Mr. Line's family is of Swiss origin, having immigrated to America and settled in Lancaster County, Penn., at a very early date. He is superintendent of the First Luthe- ran Church Sunday school at Carlisle, secretary of the Cumberland County Sunday-school Association, secretary of the Cumberland County Temperance Alliance, director of the Farmers' Bank, Carlisle and a member of the directors of the Carlisle School Board, in- struetor at Mountain Lake Park, Maryland Summer School Amateur Photography. He is also a member of the board of managers for the Y. M. C. A., Carlisle, and chairman of committee ou boys' work, Y. M. C. A.

WILLIAM II. LONGSDORF, M. D., Carlisle, was born in Cumberland County,. Penn., March 24, 1834. His grandfather, Henry Longsdorf, was a native of Germany, and in an early day came to Cumberland County, where he purchased land from William Penn, and located two miles west of Mechanicsburg. Adam, a son of Henry, was born on this land in Silver Spring Township, and was occupied as a farmer; served three years as sheriff of the county from 1844, and died the year following. He married Mary Sense- man, born in Cumberland County, her parents having removed thither from Lancaster County, and to this union were born four sons and three daughters. William II. being the fourth child and only one now living. Our subject lived on the old homestead until fif- teen years of age, saving a residence of about five years in Carlisle, during his father's term of service as sheriff. At the age of fifteen years he entered Diekinson College, where he pursued a course of study for three years; then read medicine with Dr. Dale, and, in 1856. gradnated from Jefferson Medical College, and in the spring of 1857 from the Pennsylvania Dental School, at Philadelphia. Ile then located in the practice of medi- cine at Bellevue, Neb., where he remained until the fall of 1858, when he went to Denver, Col., then a place of four cabins and forty men. Here he prospeeted and practiced medi- cine one year, and in July, 1857, returned to Cumberland County, where he continued practicing until Angust, 1861, when he was commissioned first lieutenant of Company I, Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry Volunteers. He was subsequently promoted major of the regiment, and discharged January 19. 1864, with both legs broken at the ankles. Dr. Long dorf participated in some eighty engagements, among which were the battles of Perryville, Ky .. Chickamauga, Ga., Shelbyville, and siege of Knoxville, Tenn. The Doc- tor, on being discharged from the service returned to Cumberland County, and after a time resumed bis practice, continuing until the fall of 1881, when he was elected treasurer of Cumberland County, the duties of which he performed for three years, when he again became engaged in the practice of his profession, at Carlisle. April 7, 1857, he was married to Miss Lydia R. Haverstick, a native of Cumberland County, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia (Mylin) Harverstick, old settlers of that county, now residents of Mechanicsburg. To Dr. Longsdorf and wife have been born two sons and four daughters: Harold H .. born in Nebraska, a graduate of Dickinson College, also of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Baltimore, Md., now practicing medieine at Centerville; John E., deceased at the age of twenty-one years; Zatae S., llilda, Jessica, W. D., and Persis-the last five reside with their parents. Zatae and IIilda are attending Dickinson College, they being among the first female students admitted to the institution, and Zatae being the first fe- male student to contend for the Pearson Oratorieal Prize and took the first prize, the parents are members of the Second Presbyterian Church. Dr. Longsdorf is a Mason, and has passed all the chairs in the Blue Lodge. Chapter and Commandery of Carlisle. He ranks among the leading physicians and surgeons of Cumberland County, and is an esteemed and respected citizen. He is among the original members of the Cumberland County Medical Society.

JAMES ANDREW MCCAULEY, D D., LL. D., president of Dickinson College, was born near Elkton. Cecil Co., Md., October 7, 1822. Ilis earliest educational advantages were had in the schools of the neighborhood; but the family removing to Baltimore, in his boyhood, his education was continued in the city. Quitting school at seventeen. he took a position in a business house. without, however, serious thought of adopting busi- ness as a life pursuit; for. thus early even, monitions of duty to preach had been, at times, distinctly heard. These monitions pervaded the years spent in business, acquiring, at length, a constancy and foree, which, in the end, he came to feel it were a peril not to heed. Business was accordingly relinquished, and preparation for the ministry com-

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menced. After a year of preparatory study he entered, in 1844, the freshman class at Dickinson, and, at the suggestion of the faculty, doubling work the second year, he grad- uated the second in scholastic rank in the class of 1847. The two years succeeding gradn- ation were spent in teaching, as private tutor, in one of the old historic families of Mary- land. Admitted to the Baltimore Conference in 1850, and assigned a charge adjacent to the city, he was, midway the year, transferred to the principalship of the Wesleyan Fe- male Institute, a school of high grade for ladies, located at Staunton, Va., whose patron- age the Conference had assumed. To the development of this new enterprise he gave un- sparing labor, with the result of conspicuous success. The cares and labors incident to or- ganization and constant supervision affected his health, and at the end of the third year, though in the midst of great prosperity, he was constrained to seek release. A period of rest and travel restored his health, and in the spring of 1854 he resumed the work of the pastor- ate. Except two charges in Virginia-Front Royal and Fredericksburg-his ministry, till 1872, was chiefly exercised in Baltimore and in the District of Columbia; from 1869, as presiding elder of the Washington District. In the summer of 1872 he was elected presi- dent of Dickinson College, which position he has since continuously held. His term of service here has witnessed great improvement in all the interests of the college. Besides the addition to its endowment of more than $100,000, and the thorough repair of its old buildings, three new structures have been erected, at an aggregate cost of $115,000. On two occasions-first in 1872, and again in 1884-he was chosen to represent his conference in the general conference, the highest council of the church. In. 1872 he was designated by this body its fraternal messenger to hear the greetings of the American Church to that of Great Britain. In 1874, in association with Bishop Harris, he performed this duty, vis- iting the Wesleyan Conference, at Cambonrne, Cornwall. On completing this service, varions parts of England and the continent were visited, including the Universities of Ox- ford and Heidelberg. In 1868 his alma mater conferred on him the degree of D.D., and, in 1883, Lafayette College the degree of LL.D.

HON. CHARLES MCCLURE (deceased) was a native of Cumberland County. His father, Charles MeClure, was born in Cumberland County, 1739, and was the son of John McClure, of Scotland, who died in Cumberland County October 9, 1757, aged sixty-one years. Charles McClure, the father, married Miss Mary Blair, who died without is- sue. He subsequently married Emelia Blair, cousin of his first wife, and hy her had two children: John, a farmer and literary man, and Mary, who became the wife of Joseph Knox, a merchant of Carlisle. One daughter of Jolin is now the widow of J. F. D. Lanier, who was a wealthy banker of New York City. Of Mary's children two are now living: George, an attorney of Philadelphia, and Rebecca Steele, wife of a prom- inent lawyer of Chicago. Charles McClure, Sr., was the third time married, his last wife being Mrs. Rebecca Parker, widow of Gen. Parker, of the war of 1812, the result of which union was two sons and two daughters: Charlotte, who married Dr. Adam Hays. of Car- lisle; Rebecca, who married Elisha White, an attorney of Carlisle; Judge William Mc- Clure, of Pittsburgh, who married Miss Lydia Collins, and Charles MeClure, the subject of this sketch. The latter was graduated from Dickinson College; read law in Carlisle, and was there admitted to the bar. He was elected a Representative to the State Legislature in 1834, and subsequently served two terms in Congress. His death occurred in 1846, al the age of forty-two years. His wife was Miss Margaretta Gibson, daughter of Chief Jus- tice John Bannister Gibson, one of the most prominent and learned men of the State; born in Perry County, Penn., a son of Col. George and Ann ( West) Gibson; she an intelligent and highly-educated lady for her time, a daughter of Francis West, the first magistrate of Cumberland County. Col. George Gibson was a native of Lancaster County, commanded a regiment through the Revolutionary war, and was killed at St. Clair's defeat, Novem- ber 4, 1791. He was a great linguist and possessed much wit; was a splendid officer, and beloved by everyone for his jovial nature. His brother John, also an officer in the Revo- lution, was familiar with the customs of the Indians and their language, and it was he who translated and published the famous speech of the Indian chiel Logan. Col. George Gib- son and wife had four sons: Francis West, a farmer, who lived to be ninety years old; George, a commissary-general of the United States Army. who organized the commissary de- partment of the army, for which purpose he was sent to Washington. He was the intimate friend and adviser of Andrew Jackson while President of the United States, with whom he had served, as his quartermaster-general, in the war of 1812, and by whom he was called "hon- est George Gibson." Gen. Gibson was a very generous warm-hearted gentleman, always re- mained a bachelor, and died in his eighty-seventh year, at Washington in 1861, in full posses- sion of all his faculties. William, who died young, from yellow fever contracted in the West Indies; and Chief Justice John Bannister Gibson. The latter was a young child when his father died, and the mother being left in straitened circumstances, though possessing a farm in Perry County, inherited from her father, managed to keep her sons together and instructed them herself, to which training the Chief Justice said he was indebted for all that he was. Subsequently the mother moved to Carlisle, where John's education was furthered at Dickinson College through the efforts of his elder brother George. John read law with Judge Thomas Duncan, of Carlisle, who became one of the judges of the su-

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preme court of the State; and was admitted to the bar in Cumberland County; was later appointed one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the State, and served on the bench with his preceptor. At the death of Chief Justice Tighlman, of Philadelphia, Judge Gib- son was appointed to the position. President Jackson desired to appoint him to the sn- preme bench of the United States, and promised him the first vacancy; but owing to great political claims of Judge Baldwin, Chief Justice Gibson yielded to his appointment. The wife of Chief Justice Gibson was Miss Sarah Galbraith, of Cumberland County, and a daughter of Maj. Andrew Galbraith, an officer in the Revolutionary war, who was made a prisoner by the British. Chief Justice Gibsou and wife had eight children, five of whom lived to be men and women: Mrs. McClure, widow of Charles McClure; Mrs. Roberts, wife of William Milnor Roberts, a distinguished civil-engineer, who died in Brazil, while acting as chief of the engineering works of Brazil; Sarah, wife of Capt. Richard H. Anderson, of the United States Army, of Charleston, S. C., afterward lieutenant-general in the Confederate Army; Col. George; and John Bannister, the latter a lieutenant in the United States Army, died from disease contracted in the Mexican war. Of these, George Gib- son, colonel of the Fifth Infantry, United States Army, now stationed at Fort Keogh, M. T., and Mrs. Charles McClure are living. Our subject's widow has three sons: Charies, brevet-colonel, who served in the Union Army, during the war of the Rebellion, as captain. and until 1880 in the Regular Army, when he was appointed paymaster, with the rank of major, in the United States Army (married Miss Annie, daughter of Gen. George and Eliz- abeth (Graham) Getty; George Gibson, paymaster's clerk in the United States Army (he was for sixteen years in the Third National Bank of New York City); and William Mc- Clure, a banker and broker, New York City (married Miss Ella, daughter of Theo. Crane, a deceased merchant of New York City). Our subject was, and his widow now is, iden- tified with the Episcopal Church.

LEWIS MASONHEIMER, prothonotary, Carlisle, was born iu Waynesboro, Frank- lin Co., Penn., December 5, 1840. When he was seven years old his parents moved to Carlisle, where he attended school until fourteen, when he learned the confectionery busi- ness, and later engaged in the same, remaining until early in the war of 1861-65, when in August. 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company A. One Hundred and Thirtieth Regi- ment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. After ten months' service he was discharged and returned to Carlisle, and for three years was engaged in the livery business. He next carried on a meat market for three years, when he began clerking in a dry goods and gro- cery store, which position he held until 1874 or 1875, when he opened a grocery, which he carried on for seven years. In January, 1882, he was appointed deputy clerk for the county prothonotary, and in November, 1884, was elected to his present office by the peo- ple of Cumberland County, without opposition. May 5, 1864, Mr. Masonheimer was mar- ried to Miss Eliza Wetzel, a native of Cumberland County, and daughter of John and Cath- erine (Wise) Wetzel, of the same county. Five children have been born to this union: Harry L. (died at the age of eight months), Kate M., John E., Laura E. and Wilbur. Mr. and Mrs. Masonbeimer are members of the Reformed Church; he is a member of True Friends Lodge No. 56, K. of P. Our subject is a son of John and Elizabeth (Dysert) Masonheimer- former a native of Maryland, and a shoe-maker by trade; who was married in Adams County, Penn., and became the father of six children: George D., a boot and shoe-maker and dealer, in Boyle County, Ky. : Mary, a resident of Carlisle; Kate, wife of William B. Crouse, of Waynesboro. Penn .; James M., a resident of Brooklyn, N. Y .; John H., accident- ally killed in Carlisle, at the age of twelve years, and Lewis. The mother and father were identified with the Reformed Church.

JACOB L. MELOY, grocer, Carlisle, is a native of Cumberland County, born one mile east of Carlisle October 15, 1843, a son of Samuel and Catherine ( Haverstick) Meloy, also natives of Cumberland County; the former, by trade, a blacksmith. They wer . the parents of the following named children: George H. (now a farmer of Cumberland Coun- ty), Jacob L., William M. (now a cigar-maker of Greason, Penn.), and Miss Mary E., of Carlisle. When our subject was six years of age his parents moved to Harrisburg, and when only nine, his father died, and at that early age Jacob L. began earning his own living. He worked for farmers in Perry and Cumberland Counties until April 1, 1860, when he went to Carlisle and lived with James Hamilton (deceased), with whom he re- mained one year, when he entered the cash and door factory of Frank Gardner, with the intention of learning the trade; but, on the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion. he left his employment and enlisted in Company A, which was organized at Carlisle, and tendered its services to the Government April 19, 1861, but which was not accepted, on account of the already full quota, until June 6 of that year. However, in the meantime the company was maintained, drilled and kept ready for service, aod mostly, too, at the individual expense of the members; and when discharged, the men were credited with en- listment from April 21, 1861. Mr. Meloy served throughout the war, and was mustered out March 22. 1865. having participated in the following engagements, and been confined in the prison pens mentioned: The seven days' fight before Richmond: the battle of Charles City Cross Roads, where he was made a prisoner, June 30, 1862, and was confined at Richmond and Belle Isle, Va., until August 6, of the same year; battles of Gaines' Mill,

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Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, in the pursuit of Stuart's cavalry, battles of Freder- icksburg, the Wilderness, where he was taken prisoner and confined in the prisons at Lynchburg and Danville, Va., and at Andersonville. Ga., from May 22 to September 17, and at Florence. S. C., from September 24 to December 8, 1864. At the close of the war he returned to Carlisle, and entered the grocery store of William Blair & Son, as a clerk, April 1, 1865, and with them he remained until January, 1871, when he opened a store of his owu, on Pitt Street, in the 16x20 room formerly occupied by Peter Faust. He started in a small way, with a stock of only $300, but, by close application to business and fair dealing, he won the confidence of the people, and some five months later houglit the southeast cor- ner lot, Pitt and South Streets, where he has his present store. His trade increased, from time to time, until he did a business of $38,000 a year. Iu 1879 he was appointed postmas- ter, which position he held nearly five years. In April, 1830, he sold his store to Mahon & Mundorf, but in 1886 repurchased. In 1882, at the organization of the Carlisle Manu- facturing Company, he became one of its directors, and in 1884 was elected secretary of the board. Mr. Meloy was one of the original members of the Cumberland County Fer- tilizing Company, and on its organization as a company was elected its president, and has since remained as such. He is a member of the G. A. R., and was the first senior vice com- mander of Capt. Colwell Post, No. 201, and subsequently was elected commander of the post. November 16, 1866, he was married to Miss Martha B. Zimmerman, of Carlisle she being a native of the vicinity of Carlisle, and a daughter of Abraham and Keziah (Copper- stone) Zimmerman; former of Schuylkill County, and latter of Adams County. Our sub- ject and wife had born to them four sons: Andrew D., Thomas M., Charles L. and Harry W. Mr. Meloy is one of the self-made and successful business men of Carlisle. He was a member of the town council two terms, and took an active part in the organization of the Carlisle Board of Trade, and was elected its first secretary; but at the end of two terms declined re-election, on account of other duties. He is a member of the State Firemen's Associatiou, and secretary of the Carlisle Firemen's Union, and vice-president of the Car- lisle Live Stock Company, Wyoming Territory.

CAPT. WILLIAM E. MILLER. Abraham Miller came to this country in 1738, and settled in Lebanon County, Penn. He laid out what was formerly Millerstown, but is now known as Annville. During his residence there he was engaged as an iron master. He came to Cumberland County about 1765, purchased lands in Allen Township, along the Yellow Breeches Creek, where he built mills, and near which he resided. One of these, a fulling-mill, remains standing at the present day. He served as a soldier during the Rev- olutionary war. He married Rebecca Epwright, of Harrisburg, an English lady by birth. by whom he had six sons and one daughter. His sixth son, Abraham, was born at and became possessor of the homestead. His wife was Elizabeth Boyer. a daughter of Fred- erick Augustus Boyer, a German by birth, who took degrees at Heidelberg, and who also served as a soldier during the revolution. Abraham, the younger, had five sons and two daughters. Andrew G., the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at the old homestead in 1811. He became a merchant. During the years 1869-71, he served his dis- trict (the eighteenth) in the Senate of the State. He married Eleanor Umberger, whose paternal ancestor, John Leonard Umberger, came to this country in the ship "Hope" in 1732. He had six children: William E., Mary, John R., Ellen, Henrietta M. and Andrew G. Mary, died in infancy; John R. and A. G., both graduated at Princeton, and are now prac- ticing lawyers at the Carlisle bar; Ellen, married H Lee Snyder, an officer of the United States Navy, by whom she had two children: Richard Henry Lee and George Mcknight; Henrietta, married George Bridges, of Shippensburg, Penn., and has one son-Jobn; John R., married Caroline O. Rankin, a daughter of Dr. William Rankin, of Shippensburg, Penn., and had one daughter, who died in infancy, and one son-Hugh Rankin; A. G., married Jane Kennedy, a daughter of Joseph Kennedy, of Shippensburg William E., the eldest son, was born at West Hill, Cumberland County, February 5, 1836. He was reared on the farm, and owing to the limited means of his parents and to the fact that his father was a great iuvalid for many years, he received but a limited common school edu- cation. Young Miller showed a fonduess for military life in his youth, and at the age of sixteen joined a military horse company, known as the " Big Spring Adamantine Guards," which company was organized in 1814, and when the war of the Rebellion broke out was among the first to tender its services to the Government, through the Governor of the State. A G. Curtin. Cavalry was not included in the three months' call, so that the serv- ices of this company were not accepted until the later call for three years' troops was made. August 8, 1861, this troop left Newville. Cumberland County, for Washington, D. C., where, ou the seventeenth of the same mouth, it was sworn into the United States serv- ice, in the yard in frout of the war office, by Lieut. Elwood. and became Company H. Third Pennsylvania Cavalry. Up to this time William E. Miller served as a private, but was mustered into service as a second lieutenant. Owing to our limited space it is impossible to give a full account of the achievements of this officer, and we will, therefore, relate but a few of the more important events in his military career. He was one of the few officers that survived the rigid discipline at the training school of Camp Marcey during the winter of 1861-62, under Col. W. W. Averill, a graduate of West Point. In the spring of 1862 he

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accompanied his regiment to the Peninsula, and, upon the arrival of the army at Fortress Monroe, was assigned the advance to Yorktown, where he received his baptism of fire, on the same ground, where, nearly a century before, his great-grandfather closed his military career under Gen. Washington. A singular coincidence that his great-grandson should draw his sword in defense of the same Union, and on the same ground, where, nearly a century before, the great-grandfather had concluded fighting for its establishment. After leaving Yorktown Lieut. Miller's regiment again led the advance to Williamsburg, where it par- ticipated in the fight on the left under Gen. Heintzeiman. Torrents of rain fell during this battle, and the night following was the essence of darkness, rainy and muddy. During this night, Lieut. Miller was summoned to Gen. Heintzelman's headquarters, and handed a dispatch with the following sententious order: "This dispatch is for Gen. MeClellan. Yon may find him at Yorktown, or you may find him on the road between this and York- town, or you may find him anywhere along the line of this army, but you must find him, and a reply must be at these headquarters before daylight to-morrow." The task was accomplished, and Lieut. Miller received the congratulations of both Gens. MeClellan and Heintzelman. So much, indeed, was Gen. McClellan impressed with this occurrence, that, though he never saw Miller uutil nineteen years afterward, he at once recognized him and recalled the circumstance. Lient. Miller participated in all the sad scenes that followed on the Peninsula. He took an active part in the invasion of Maryland, and September 16, 1862, led Gen. Hooker's advance across Antietam Creek, and drew the first fire from the Confederate guns. During the 17th he was assigned an independent command, and acted under orders from Gen. Ilooker direct. At a critical period in the battle, when Lient. Thomas' battery was charged by Jackson's troops, Lieut. Miller came to the rescue and aided in saving the guns. For his gallantry on this occasion he was made captain, being promoted over all the first lieutenants of the regiment. In the campaign of 1863, Capt. Miller took a conspicuous part in the battles of Brandy Station. Aldie, Middleburg aud Upperville; and at Gettysburg, on the 3d of July, won distinction by a gallant and timely charge, made in violation of orders, on Wade Hamptou's flank, which contributed largely to the defeat of Stuart in his attempt to gain the rear of the Federal right flank. After participating iu thirty-seven cavalry engagements, Capt. Miller, with his regiment, was mustered out of service August 24, 1864. In 1856 he was married to Elizabeth Ann Hocker, by whom he had two children: Caroline O. R. and Elizabeth. The latter died in the spring of 1862, while he was encamped in front of Yorktown, while the former grew to womanhood and married George K. McCormick, with whom she now lives at Knox- ville, Tenn. In 1859 Mrs. Miller took malignant typhoid fever, and died. June 25, 1868, Capt. Miller was again married, this time to Anna De Pui Bush, of Tioga County, Penn., a daughter of J. S. Bush, a wealthy and retired lumber merchant. This lady is possessed of considerable literary attainments and position, and is the author of a reference hook. "Who and What," and many minor stories. Since the war Capt. Miller has been engaged in the hardware business at Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn. Ile is social, but retiring and modest, firm in his opinions, and unchangeable in his convictions. He is highly es- teemed by his neighbors and friends, as he was respected and admired by his comrades in arms. Some estimate may be formed of the man by the remarks made by his old com- mander, Gen. D. McMI. Gregg, at the dedication of the cavalry shaft at Gettysburg, Octo- ber 15, 1884: " Of course everybody expects to hear from Capt. Miller, whose name is so inseparably and honorably connected with our shaft. Possibly having built so well, on the very ground on which he fought so well. he will try to escape talking, which he can do well also. How pointedly he can write you can all attest." Capt. Miller takes an ac- tive part in all public enterprises; has served two terms as chief burgess of his towu; was the original commander of Post 201. G. A. R .; is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, president of the Carlisle Board of Trade, and vestry - man of St. John's Episcopal Church.

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