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KOCHERSPERGER, Stephen Morris:
Captain United States Army; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania. Ca- det, Military Academy, June 15, 1892. Additional Second Lieutenant, Second Cavalry, June 12, 1896; Second Lieuten- ant, Tenth Cavalry, Dec. 11. 1896: trans- ferred to Seventh Cavalry, Feb. 16, 1897; transferred to Second Cavalry. April 21, 189S; First Lieutenant. Seventh Cavalry, July 10. 1900; transferred to Second Cav- alry. Jan. 30, 1901; Captain, July 30 1902. Address, Manila, P. I.
KOESTER, Oscar William:
Lieutenant United States Navy; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania. Naval Cadet, Sept. 26. 1883; resigned. Feb. 4, 1884; Naval Cadet. April 5, 1884;
Assistant Engineer, July 1. 1890; Passed Assistant Engineer, June 21, 1896; rank changed to Lieutenant, March 3, 1899; Omaha. July 25, 1888; Essex, July 23, 1890; Navy Yard, New York, 1893-1895; Cushing, March 14, 1895-1898; Annapolis, 1899; training ship Lancaster, May 30. 1899; Albany, 1900 to 1902; Navy Yard. New York, Oct. 20, 1902, to 1904; execu- tive officer of the Marietta since April, 1904. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
KAETHEN, J. Ludwig Jr .:
Attorney at law; born Oct. 14, 1852, at Augusta, Ga., the son of Julius Ludewig and Mary (Young) Koethen; was edu- cated in the public schools of Pittsburg, Pa., and at Thiel Hall, Phillipsburg (Monaca), Beaver County, and the West- ern University. He has made a special- ty of conveyancing, and was one of the founders of the McKee & Koethen ab- stract firm and of the Guarantee Title and Trust Company, of which he is now title officer. Address, 5524 Stanton Ave., and 210 Fourth Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
KOBLER. George Henry:
Physician; born in Abbottstown, Ad- ams County, Pa., Feb. 4, 1851, a descend- ant on his mother's side of General Jor- dan, one of Napoleon's able commanders. Educated in the public schools, he became interested in the medical profession, and by diligence and perseverance earned money enough to carry him through the Millersville Normal School and the Jef- ferson Medical College of Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 1867. He then became salesman in a wholesale dry goods house to earn the money necessary to establish himself in practice. His office was first opened at 245 Pine Street, and two years later at 305 Pine Street, where he has since remained. Dr. Kobler be- came actively interested in politics as a Republican, and took an important part in favor of Quay in the State Chairman- ship fight. In 1895 he was the anti-com- bine candidate for Coroner, and in 1896 for Select Council. For several years he was on duty at the Episcopal Hospital. for five years was physician in chief of the House of Consumptives, and for four years was Clinical Professor at the Med- ico-Chirurgical College. Address, 305 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa.
KOONS. N. C .:
President of the Citizens' Bank of Freeland. Address, Freeland, Luzerne County, Pa.
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KOONTZ, Willim Henry:
Lawyer and legislator; born in Somer- set, Pa., July 15, 1830; educated in the common schools; read law with Forward & Stutzman, and was admitted to the bar in 1851. He was elected District At- torney of Somerset County on the Whig ticket in 1856 and was nominated for the State Senate in 1857. A delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1860, he was one of the first to cast his vote for Lincoln. He was elected Prothono- tary of the county in 1860, and in 1964 was elected to Congress, being re-elected in 1866. He was very active during the reconstruction period, and was conspicu- ous in
the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson.
In later years he was active as a political orator in election campaigns, speaking widely in 1875, 1876, 1SS0, 1884, etc. Meanwhile he carried on a large legal business and was concerned in a large number of leading cases. In 1898 he was elected to the State Legislature, and re-elceted in 1900, and in his last term was nominated for Speaker of the House, being defeated by but one vote, though the Senate organization, under M. S. Quay, was against him. Mr. Koontz is Vice Presi- dent of the Somerset County National Bank and a director in several railroad and coal companies. Address, Somerset, Pa.
KOOSER, Francis J .:
Jurist; born in Somerset, Pa., June 15, 1846; was educated in the public schools, in the Millersville State Normal School, and the Pennsylvania College at Gettys- burg, and taught as principal of the Somerset schools and for several terms in the Normal School of Somerset Coun- ty. After serving as clerk under his father, then County Treasurer, he read law in the office of Hon. W. H. Koontz and was admitted to the bar in 1867, being eleeted District Attorney in the next year. In 1875 he was elected Pro- thonotary and clerk of the court. the business panic of that period rendering his term of office a very busy one. As a lawyer he was very able and had to do with many important cases. On three occasions he received the Republican nomination for Congress, and in 1890 ho was nominated for President Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District. He was again nominated in 1300 and was this time elected. Somerset County had been just before made a separate judicial dis- trict. Address, Somerset, Pa.
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KRAEMER, H .:
Educator; born March 14, 1859, at Berleburg, Westphalia, Germany; edu- cated in High School, same placc. He served four terms as School Director in Nazareth Borough, and Prison Inspector of Northampton County. Married Anna P. Mack, Nov. i, 1SS3. Address, Nazareth, Pa.
KRAEMER, Henry, Ph. D .:
Professor of Botany and Pharmacog- nosy, and Director of the Microscopical Laboratory in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; editor of the American Journal of Pharmacy: born in Philadel- phia, 1867; entered Girard College in June, 1877, and graduated in 1887; en- entered tered Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1SS6. graduating in 18SO: School of Mines. Columbia University, in 1891. graduating in 1895. and receiving the degree of Ph. B .: entered Marburg University (Marburg. Germany) in 1896. obtaining the degree of Ph. D in 1897; Assistant in Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, 1888 to 1890; Instructor in Botany in the College of Pharmacy in the City of New York, 1890 to 1892: Pro- fessor of Botany in the School of Phar- macy of Northwestern University, 1895 to 1897; Professor of Botany and Phar- macognosy, and Director of the Miero- scopical Laboratory in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 1897; editor of the American Journal of Pharmacy. 1898; member of the Revision Committee of the United States Pharmacopoeia, 1900. Author of "A Course in Botany and Pharmacognosy." "Viola Tricolor." "The Structure of the Starch Grain," "On the Continuity of Protoplasm." "Crystalline and Crystalloidal Substances and their Relation to Plant Structure." "The Mor- phology of the Genus Viola." "An Ex- amination of Commercial Flour." "Quali- tative Examination of Powdered Veg- etable Drugs," ctc., etc. Fellow of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, and of the Wild Flower Preservation Society of America: life member International Botanical Society. Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sci- ences. American Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation, etc .; member of the Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology. the Torrey Botanical Club, the Botanical So- ciety of Pennsylvania. the Philadelphia Botanical Club, etc .; corresponding mem- ber Société de Pharmacie de Paris, etc. Address. 145 North Tenth St., Philadel- phia.
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KRAEMER, Louis F .:
President of the Colonial Trust Com- pany of Reading; born in Greeneville. Conn., July 13, 1804; educated in com- mon schools, Connecticut and Pennsyl- vania and State Model School, Trenton, N. J., Palatinate College. Myerstown, Pa. Married Miss Ella Hall, June 21, 1877. Democrat. Address, Reading, Pa.
KRATZ, Henry W .:
President of the National Board of Schwenksville. Address, Schwenksville, Montgomery County, Pa.
KRAUSKOPF, Joseph:
Rabbi, lecturer and author; born in Ostrow, Prussia, on the 21st of January, 1858; was educated in religious and secu- lar branches, in the schools of his native place. Came to the United States in July, 1872, and became clerk in a tea store, in Fall River, Mass. Graduated from University of Cincinnati. and ss Rabbi from the Hebrew Union College, in 1883, the latter conferring upon him the degree of D. D., in 1885. While a student, he and H. Berkowitz published "The First and Second Hebrew Read- ers," and "Bible Ethics." Some time before his graduation he received a call to the pulpit of the B'nai Yehudah Con- gregation, in Kansas City, Mo. Life member of the Board of National Char- ities and Corrections; 18SẼ
in Vice President of the famous Pittsburg Con- ference. In 1887 Dr. Krauskopf accept- ed a call to the Reform Congregation of Keneseth Israel, of Philadelphia. " Seven- teen volumes of his lectures have been published in book form since 1SSS, They embrace every topic in the field of reli- gion. ethics and social science. He was the chief promoter of the Jewish Publi- cation Society of America, which has become a powerful factor in the devel- opment of American Judaism. Dr. Kraus- kopf leads a number of classes. and is heard on the lecture platform in all parts of the United States. Author of "A Rabbi's Impressions of the Oberammer- gau Passion Play," (1901). In 1994 Dr. Krauskopf resolved to visit Russia, to appeal to the Russian Government for the Russian Jew, and suggest as a means of relieving the congested popula- tion of the Russian Pale their coloniza- tion as agriculturists in the interior of Russia, toward which the Jews of the world might extend support. Upon ap- plying for the necessary vise endorse-
ment of his passport it was denied, since, as a foreign Jew, he could not be ad- mitted into Russia. The reply to the Secretary of State for, permission was, "Russian Government deeply regrets its inability to accede to the request in be- half of the Reverend Jewish Divine." Bills were introduced into Congress to the effect that if an American citizen is refused entrance into Russia by rea- son of his faith, the treaty of the two countries should be considered abroga- ted. During this agitation he left for Russia. Unmolested, he traversed the entire country of Russia and made a thorough study of the condition of the Jews in the Pale settlements and of the agricultural colonies in the interior, con- cerning which he made a report to the late Baron de Hirsch for use at a con- ference at Geneva, which was not held owing to the death of Baron de Hirsch. Peing impressed with the excellence of the Jewish Agricultural School at Odes- sa, and Count Tolstoi's arguments in favor of such institutions, upon his re- turn he set to work to found the Na- tional Farm School, raising sufficient means to buy a farm at Doylestown, Pa .. near Philadelphia, erect buildings. and start the school in 1897. He is its Presi- dent. Its object is training of boys for practical and scientific agricultural ca- reers and fitting them for superintend- ents of colonies, to be organized among the unemployed or debilitated poor of overcroweded cities. It is non-sectarian. In 1898 he was chosen one of the three Special field Commissioners. His report of observations made and relief rendered in the American camp and in the Cuban battlefields, forms part of the most in- teresting heroic records of the late Span- ish-American War. Address, 122 West Manheim St., Germantown, Pa.
KREIDER, Andrew:
President of Annville National Bank. Address. Annville, Lebanon County, Pa.
KREIDER. Charles D .:
Principal of Linden Hall Moravian Seminary; born Dec. 29. 1867. in Lan- caster, Pa .: son of William E. and M. Josephine Demuth Kreider; was edu- cated in the public schools of Lancaster and the Moravian College at Bethlehem, Pa .: taught at Nazareth Hall, Moravian School for Boys, Nazareth. Pa., 1990- 1896; was instructor at both the Mora- vian College and Moravian Seminary, at
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Bethlehem, Pa., 1896-1897; appointed as- sistant principal of Linden Hall in 1897; ordained to the ministry of the Moravian Church, 1898. Married Emily A. Ham- mer of Philadelphia, 1898; and was elect- ed Principal of Linden Hall the same year. Address, Linden Hall, Lititz, Pa.
KREITLER, Frank X .:
Manufacturer; son of Bernhart and Mary Kreitler; born in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, Dec. 4, 1842; was educated in the common schools of his native country. At the age of seventeen he came to America. settling at New Rochelle, N. Y. In 1863 went to Brook- ville, Pa., where he engaged in his work as a barber. Enlisted in Company B, 211th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in 1864, and served one year in the Civil War; at its close, returned to his trade at Brookville. By the practice of economy he saved money and invested in timber lands in Presque Isle, Alcona and Lake Counties, Michigan, and in large tracts in Jefferson, Elk and Forest Counties, Pa .; also in West Virginia and in Warren County, Pa .. with E. H. Dar- rah, Esq. In 1883 he took a special busi- ness course at Duff's Business College, Pittsburg; subsequently began the man- ufacture of lumber, and in 1886 removed to Nebraska, Pa .. where he became a partner with T. D. Collins. On March 19, 1904, received the nomination for As- sistant Judge of Forest County by the Republican party. He was an organizer and is a stockholder and Director of the National Bank of Brookville, a stockhold- er of the Citizens' National Bank of
Tionesta, stockholder in the Brookville Electric Plant, stockholder in the Brook- ville Wagon Factory. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; of the Jefferson Lodge and Brookville Chapter. F. and A. M., and also of the Grand Army of the Republic, Post No. 242, of Brookville. Address, Nebraska. Pa.
KRESS, Charles F:
President of the Citizens' National Bank of Johnstown. Address, Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.
KRESS, John Alexander:
Brigadier General United States Army; born Nov. 4. 1839. in Delmar Township. Tioga County, Pa. In 1847 moved to Laporte County, Ind .; entered Uni- ted States Military Academy at West Point in 1858; Oct. 31, 1861, he resigned,
to accept an appointment tendered him by Gen. Jas. S. Wadsworth of New York, as First Lieutenant of the Twenty-fifth New York Volunteer Infantry and Aide- de-Camp to the General. During his cadetship. appointed Corporal, Sergeant Major and Captain of the Corps of Ca- dets; appointed Major of the Ninety- fourth New York Volunteer Infantry, July 9. 1862,
and Lieutenant Col- onel, November, 1862. Commanding the regiment in the battle of Fredericks- burg; detailed as Inspector General of the First Division of the First Corps, commanded by Brig. Gen. Wadsworth. Ap- pointed a Second Lieutenant in the Ord- nance Department of the United States Army. A short tour of duty at Fort Monroe Arsenal, Va., was followed by assignment as Chief Ordnance Officer of the Army of the James. While so sery- ing he was also appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 117th United States Col- ored Infantry and given additional duties as Inspector General of the Twenty-fifth Army Corps; 1865, was assigned to duty at the United States Arsenal at Rock Island, Ill .; 1867, to the United States Arsenal at Pittsburg, Pa .; 1871. to the United States Arsenal at Vancou- ver, Washington Territory: 1882, to the United States Arsenal at San Antonio, Texas; 1883. to the United States Arsenal at Indianapolis, Ind .; 1SS6, to the St. Louis powder depot; 1887, to Benecia Ar- senal, California; 1890, the St. Louis powder depot; assigned as Chief Ordnance Officer of the Army encamped at Chica- mauga, Tenn .; served in Cuba as Chief Ordnance Officer of the First Army Corps and as Chief Ordnance Officer of the entire island of Cuba, on the staff of Major General Brooke; 1899. again as- signed to command of St. Louis powder depot. and remained there until pro- moted to the grade of Brigadier General in the Army, and retired on Aug. 17, 1903. Married Anne Augusta Muhlenberg, daughter of Dr. Henry M. Muhlenbers. of Lancaster, Pa., in 18SS. Address, 5030 Vernon Ave., St. Louis, Mo.
KRETZ, Herman:
President of the Ridge Avenue Bank of Philadelphia. Address, Ridge Avenue and Twelfth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
KRIBBS, William W .:
Merchant: born in Knox, Clarion Coun- ty, Pa .. in 1567; son of P. F. Kribbs. a prominent merchant and oil man; was
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graduated from Gettysburg College in 1886, and from the Theological Seminary at the same place, in 1889; same year he took charge of a Lutheran mission in Ells- worth, Kansas, and was ordained a Lu- theran minister at Atchison by the Kan- sas Synod; 1891 accepted a call to Salis- bury, Somerset County, Pa. In 1895, on account of throat trouble, left the min- istry and went into business in Marien- ville, and is now one of the promi- nent merchants of that place. In 1898 married Elizabeth Thompson, teacher of elocution in Kilmar College, Hagerstown, Md., daughter of Rev. A. Thompson. Address, Marienville, Pa.
KRIEBEL, Oscar S .:
Clergyman and principal of Perkiomen Seminary; was born in Hereford, Berks County, Sept. 10, 1863. Educated in pub- lic schools and taught school for three years. A student of Oberlin Academy, Oberlin. Ohio; graduate of Oberlin College 1889, and Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1892. A student at the University of Ber- lin, Germany, during the years 1891-1892, and traveled in England. Scotland, and Germany during that time; was also a student at the University of Pennsylvania for several years. Since 1892 pastor of the Schwenkfelder Church near Penns- burg, Pa. Address, Perkiomen Seminary, Pennsburg. Pa.
KROGH, D. M. F., M. D .:
Born March 10, 1867. in Altona, Hol- stein, Germany; came to United States in 1882; entered the Normal School of Gymnastics of the N. A. Gymnastic Union at Miler, Wis., in 1887, and was graduated in 18SS. Has been Instructor of Gymnastics since then in Chicago, Ills .; Johnstown, Pa .; Wheeling, W. Va., and Philadelphia, Pa. Matriculated at Jefferson Medical College in 1893, and received the degree of M. D. in 1896 from this school; passed the State Board of Medical Examiners the same year. Was assistant in various out-patient depart- ments of hospitals for a number of years. Address, 1531 S. Thirteenth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
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KRUESI, Walter Edison:
Educator: born at Menlo Park, N. J., Sept. 3. 1881; son of John Kruesi, the noted mechanico-electrical engineer, who at that time was the partner of T. A. Edison and manager of his laboratory; entered Union College Sept. 13, 1898, and
University of Pennsylvania Sept. 28, 1902; studied shop methods and general man- agement at the General Electric Com- pany's Schenectady works, July, 1899, to September, 1900; graduated in June, 1903, from the University of Pennsyl- vania, receiving degree of B. S. in econ- omics; received appointment in June, 1903, as Harrison scholar in economics, University of Pennsylvania; studied Eu- ropean industrial methods in Holland, switzerland and France, from June to September. 1903; August, 1903, received appointment as Assistant Instructor in Industry and Economics, University of Pennsylvania. Address, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
KRUG, Frederick Valentine:
Captain. United States Army; born in Pennsylvania, appointed from District of Columbia. Enlisted man. United States Navy, June 2. 1882, to July 22, 1884; Sec- ond Lieutenant, Eighth Infantry, Oct. 30, 1884; First Lieutenant, Twenty-third In- fantry, Oct. 21. 1891; transferred to Twentieth Infantry, Nov. 5, 1891; Cap- tain, Feb. 27, 1899. Address, Manila, P. I.
KRISEN, Wilmer:
Physician; born in Bucks County, May 18, 1869; graduated from Jefferson Medi- cal College in 1893; was resident physi- cian at the Jefferson Hospital 1893-1894; Instructor in Gynecology at Jefferson from 1894 to 1903. and assistant Gyne- cologist at St. Joseph's Hospital from 1897 to the present time. He is one of the collaborators of "American Medi- cine" and was elected in 1903 Pro- fessor of Gynecology at the Temple Med- ical College and Gynecologist to the Sa- maritan Hospital. Married in 1895 to Elizabeth W. Gilbert. Residence, 127 N. Twentieth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
KUHN, James S .:
President of the First National Bank of MceKesport, and of the Pittsburg Bank for Savings. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
KULP. George B .:
Editor and publisher; born in Reams- town, Lancaster County, Pa., Feb. 11. 1839. A lawyer by profession, he has devoted his time largely to the publica- tion of legal annals and reports and to public duty in Luzerne County, where he served in Wilkesbarre as Register of Wills for six years, was twelve years a
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member of the Board of Education, and for six years a member of the City Council. For thirty-two years he was the publisher and editor of the Luzerne Legal Register, retiring from the duty in 1901. He has also published eleven volumes of "Kulp's Luzerne Legal Reg- ister Reports," and is the author of "The Bench and Bar of Luzerne County," in three volumes. Address, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
KULP, John S. M. D., Ph. D .:
Captain Medical Department U. S. Army; born March S, 1866; educated at Yale, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Berlin. Commissioned First Lieutenant, 1893; Captain, 1898; Major (Volunteers), 1900. HIe served in the Spanish-American War and in the Philip- pine Insurrection. Member of various hereditary and military societies, and is author of several monographs on medico- military subjects. Address, Hotel Nor- mandie, Philadelphia, Pa.
KULP, Monroe II .:
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Business manager; born in Barto, in Berks County, Pa., Oct. 23, 1858. When he was nine years of age his parents re- moved to Shamokin, Pa., where his fath- er engaged in the lumber business, in which the son followed after a period of work in the collieries. Feeling the need of a better education as he grew older, he entered the State Normal College at Lebanon, Ohio, and afterward a business college in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he graduated in 1881. He then became book- keeper and cashier for the firm of which his father was head, and when the firm dissolved, in 1SS6. he became manager of the large lumber interests of his father. In 1895 he organized the firm of Monroe HI. Kulp & Co., adding general construction to the lumber business. On finding the timber supply rapidly decreas- ing. he obtained control of about 25,000 acres of forest land in 1897, and organ- ized the Lewisburg & Buffalo Valley Railroad Company, of which he became President and General Manager. Mr. Kulp entered into other business rela- tions, becoming President of the North and West Branch Telephone Company, and a Director in a number of industrial concerns. Among his enterprises was the purchase. from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, of about eighty-seven acres of land near Shamokin, on which he laid out the two suburbs of Fairview and Edgewood. Mr. Kulp is politically
an earnest Republican, and in 1890, at the solicitation of his friends, consented to become a candidate for the Legisla- ture. For reasons connected with the in- terest of the party, he subsequently withdrew, and was rewarded in 1894 with the nomination and election to Congress, to which he was re-elected in 1896. As a member of the House Mr. Kulp served on several important committees, con- sidering the interests of his constituents without regard to party affiliation. Ad- dress, Shamokin, Pa.
KUNKEL, George:
Jurist; born March 11, 1855, at Harris- burg, Pa .; educated at the Harrisburg Academy and Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, at which later he graduated in 1876; read law under the Hon. John W. Simonton, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1878; was District Attorney of Dauphin County from 1SS6 to 1892; a member of the House of Rep- resentatives, sessions of 1893, 1895 and 1897; again elected in November, 1902. Address, Harrisburg, Pa.
KURTZ, B. Frank:
City official; born in Willow Glen, Feb. 4, 1851; was educated at the public school and Grammar School of the Dis- trict; has held all the local offices of the Township-School Director for twenty years, and a member of the present board. Secretary, for ten years; President and Secretary of different organizations. Married Laura E. Good, May 1, 1879; has acted as administrator. executor, an as- signee of estates; conducted, and now owns, the Willowglen Roller Mills, twen- ty-five years; has crossed the Continent and lectured on the trip. Address, Joan- na, Berks County, Pa.
KURTZ, David B .:
Lawyer; born in Chester County, Pa .. July 6, 1826. His father. a farmer, re- moved to Juniata County in 1840. where the son attended the public schools and the Mifflinburg Academy. He afterward studied law and was admitted to prac- tice at the Union County bar in 1849. Immediately afterward Lawrence County was created and Mr. Kurtz located at its county seat of Newcastle, where he has ever since practiced, being the only sur- viving member of the lawyers then ad- mitted to the bar of that county. He quickly acquired a large practice and has since then missed only one session of
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