History of Windsor County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 38

Author: Aldrich, Lewis Cass. ed. cn; Holmes, Frank R
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Syracuse, N. Y., D. Mason & Co.
Number of Pages: 1260


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and Athelia (Pollard) Moore. Sarah E., wife of Darwin Dow, farmer, living in Chester, Vt., is their only child. Mrs. Cheney died April 12, 1864. He married, April 12, 1866, Roann, daughter of Daniel and Julia Whitney. George A. Cheney, born May 16, 1868, in Woodstock, Vt., is the only child by this marriage. He lives with his father. Roann Cheney died January 3, 1878. Jane Maria, daughter of Samuel B. and Eunice (Sawyer) Bradley, was his third wife, whom he married January 8, 1879. She was born in Beek- mantown, N. Y., September 6, 1830. Her father was born in Great Barrington, Mass., March 13, 1794, her mother in Rochester, Vt., March 13, 1800. After his first marriage Mr. Cheney settled upon the farm now owned by J. R. Sargent in Plymouth. Next he purchased a farm in Woodstock, which he sold in 1871, and purchased the farm in Ply- mouth, between the " Notch " and " Five Corners," known as the " Headly farm," where he now resides.


Dix, Samuel, farmer, living in the southeast corner of the town of Plymouth, is a de- scendant in the eighth generation from Anthony Dix, who landed in Plymouth, Mass., in the ship Ann, 1623. He was a sea captain; was captured by pirate Bull in 1632, and after his escape, settled in Salem, Mass. He was wrecked on Cape Cod, December 13, 1636, and drowned. His wife's name was Tabitha. The line from Anthony to Samuel Dix, above named, is as follows: First, Anthony ; second, Ralph; third, John; fourth, Samuel; fifth, Samuel; sixth, Samuel; seventh, Stephen; eighth, Samuel. Ralph, born December 4, 1643, wife's name Esther, died September 24, 1688. John, born in Ipswich, Mass., March 12, 1658, died in Reading, Mass., May 12, 1745, was twice mar- ried, and had four children by his first and six by his second wife. His son Samuel, the second child by the last marriage, was born Feb: uary 7, 1705, married Hannah Batchelder, March 17, 1730, by whom he had eight children, of whom Samuel was the third, born March 23, 1736, in Reading, Mass .; was graduated from Harvard College in 1758; pastor of Congregational Church of Townsend for thirty-six years. He received a blow from an axe at a raising, and died a few days thereafter, September 21, 1802. He had seven children, of whom Samuel was the second, born September 5, 1763, and died October 21, 1839, aged seventy-six years. He was married October 31, 1785, to Chloe, daughter of John and Mary Dix, an own cousin. Of his five children, Stephen was born in Townsend, Mass., May 18, 1790, married September 8, 1821, Mary P. Gilson. Mr. Dix died September 11, 1867, and his wife May 1, 1864. His father, Samuel Dix, moved from Townsend, Mass., and settled in Cavendish, Vt., in 1793. He had eight children, all of whom are deceased (1889) except Samuel and Benjamin. Sam- uel Dix was born in Plymouth, Vt., January 24, 1824. His father moved from Caven- dish and settled in Plymouth on the farm now owned and occupied by Samuel in 1827. The house was built by a Mr. Spaulding in 1797. Samuel Dix married, July 26, 1862, Ellen S., daughter of Thomas and Mary M. (Davis) Cummings, who was born in Rock- ingham, Vt .. October 14, 1848. Her mother died June 10, 1852. Her father died from camp fever in Baton Rouge, La., September 18, 1862. Her brother, Lyman C., also a soldier in the War of the Rebellion, is a resident of Chester, Vt. A sister, wife of Charles Sisson, lives in Keene, N. H. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Dix are John D., born September 18, 1863, married October 2, 1888, Jennie, daughter of Heman and Caroline (Ordway) Gilson, of Wautoma, Wis., born July 27, 1869; Chloe M., born Oc- tober 6, 1870; and Ernest S., born September 9, 1879.


Greene, Levi J .- Isaac Greene, grandfather of Levi J., married a Miss Chamberlain, raised a large family, and died in New York. His wife survived him, and died in Cav- endish, Vt. Their son Isaac married Polly Parker, of Cavendish. Their children were Mary, Eliza F., John P., James S., Joshua P., Levi J., Henry C., Hannah M., and Ab- ner F. The first four and Henry C. are deceased. All were married, and, except Henry C., had children.


Greene, Isaac, father of Levi, moved from Cavendish and settled on a farm in the southwest part of Plymouth in 1817. He died there May, 1853. His wife survived him


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many years. She died in Rutland, at the residence of her daughter, Hannah M., now Mrs. Thomas A. Cheney.


Greene, Levi J., was born in Plymouth, February 25, 1825, and has been a life-long resident of the town. He married, April 5, 1855, Philinda A., daughter of Moses and Hannah (Sawyer) Hall. Mrs. Greene was born in Plymouth, September 29, 1829. Her father was the son of Nathan Hall, one of the early settlers of Plymouth. The chil- dren of Moses and Hannah Hall were George W., Philinda A., Ellen A., Daniel M., Mary Ann, Sally A., Ada E., and two who died in infancy. Mr. Greene built his resi- dence at Plymouth Union, now kept as a hotel, in 1853. Besides keeping hotel, he has carried on carpentering and carriage-making, also the business of an undertaker. He has been selectman four years, town treasurer ten years, justice of the peace four years, and has represented the town in the State Legislature four years. These positions of public trust sufficiently attest the estimation in which he is held by the community in which he has spent his life. Mr. and Mrs. Greene have one child, Ruth, born June 8, 1862, married March 28, 1889, to Will D. Boyd, now living in Westminster, Mass.


Hall, George W., died at the age of sixty-one, leaving a widow and one son, Charles M., now residents of Plymouth Union. Daniel M. is a farmer living in Min- nesota. Mary Ann is the wife of Levi B. Moore, merchant at Plymonth Union. Ada E. is the wife of John W. Pierce, farmer in Plymouth. Moses Hall was born August 30, 1800, died March 10, 1882. His wife was born January 7, 1802, died March 31, 1886.


King, Simeon Hunt. - James King, great-grandfather of Simeon Hunt, was an Eng- lishman by birth. He was taken a prisoner from a merchant vessel, by a French man- of-war, and was brought as a captive to America. Escaping his captors, he enlisted in the English service, and served through the French and English war, subsequently set- tling in Hamstead, N. H. His wife's maiden name was Dilly Harriman. They died and were buried in Sutton, N. H. Of their children Nathaniel, grandfather of Simeon Hunt, was born in Hamstead. When eight years of age his father moved to Sutton, N. H., where he resided till he was twenty-one years of age. In 1789 he visited Tun- bridge, Vt., where he purchased a tract of land upon which he settled. In 1794 he mar- ried Miss Lydia Noyes. They reared a family of five sons and eight daughters. In 1804 he became a Free Will Baptist minister, and was an earnest and successful minister of that persuasion for more than half a century. He died in Northfield, Washington county, Vt., October 18, 1852. His wife survived him seventeen years. She died Feb- ruary 5, 1869, at the advanced age of ninety years and six months. For the term of thirteen years Elder King was a representative for the town of Tunbridge in the Ver- mont Legislature. Of these thirteen children, Nathaniel, father of Simeon Hunt, was the sixth and eldest son. He was born in Tunbridge, in 1806. He was a farmer by oc- cupation. He was twice married. His first wife was Amanda Hunt; his second, Re- becca F. Whitney. He had six children by the first, and two by the second marriage. He held many of the town offices, and for four years was one of the associate judges of Orange county. He was for many years a member of the Free Will Baptist Church of Northfield and Tunbridge. Of his eight children only three, viz .: Orlando H., harness- maker in Northfield and Tunbridge; Henry C., merchant in Lawrence, Mass .; and Sim- eon Hunt, are living. The latter was born in Tunbridge, Orange county, Vt., March 12, 1836. With the exception of eight years in Northfield, he lived till he was thirty-six years of age in his native town, where he received his education in the district school. He married, October 17, 1865, in Reading, Harriet Amanda, daughter of Dennison and Mary H. (Sumner) Miner. Mrs. King was born in Plymouth, January 25, 1844. Her grandfather, Andrew Miner, born in Stonington, R. I., married Malvina Hicks. They had five children, two sons and three daughters, of whom her father, Dennison, was the youngest. He was born in Brattleboro, Vt., April 30, 1804, and died in Reading, Sep- tember 22, 1878. He married Mary H. Sumner, February 13, 1829, who survives him, and lives with her son, Almon D. Miner, in Reading. They had thirteen children, of whom four sons and five daughters are living, one of them in Nebraska, and the others


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in Plymouth and the adjoining towns. In 1871 Mr. King moved from Tunbridge and settled in Plymouth, and in 1877 purchased the farm known as the "Deacon Clark farm," situated in that portion of Plymouth known as the " Kingdom." He is a Repub- lican in politics. Both he and Mrs. King are members of the Congregational Church at Tyson. Their children are Jessie Amanda, Abbie Lillian, and Nathaniel.


McDermott, James, was born in Ballymote, County of Siigo, Ireland, July 12, 1837. He emigrated in 1857. His father, James McDermott, emigrated with his family two years afterwards, settled in Plymouth, and both he and his wife, whose maiden name was Margaret Scanlan, died there, and are buried in the cemetery at the "Notch," in Plymouth. He has had two brothers, John, who resided at Rutland, Vt., until his death May 10, 1889, and Owen, who resides in Janesville, Wis. He has two sisters, Mary and Margaret, the former, wife of John Harrison, living in Shrewsbury, Vt., and the latter, wife of James Malloy, farmer, living in Plymouth. Upon his arrival in America James McDermott settled in Plymouth. He enlisted as private in Company G, Second Vermont Volunteers, and was with the regiment in all of its engagements after the bat- tle of Antietam. He was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness, and receives a pen- sion. He was mustered out June 19, 1865. At the close of the war he returned to Plymouth. He married, October 3, 1867, Mary, daughter of Patrick and Mary (Holpin) Crosby. Mrs. McDermott was born in Plymouth, August 15, 1850. Her father was a native of Ireland, emigrating to America; he settled in Plymouth and died there. His wife survives him and lives with her son, Patrick Crosby, in Ludlow. Philip W. Crosby, son of Patrick, was killed at the battle of Fredericksburg. John Crosby, another son, lost an arm in the battle of Spottsylvania; now living in Ludlow. In 1872 Mr. McDer- mott purchased of his brothers-in-law, John and Patrick Crosby, the Crosby farm, situ- ated on the eastern shore of Adsulule Lake, which he has since carried on. The chil- dren of James and Mary McDermott are William Monroe, born August 5, 1868; Mary Winifred, born September 14, 1871, died March 19, 1877 ; Philip W., born August 27, 1873; and James W., born April 3, 1878.


McWain, Harmon .- This family is of Scotch origin. It is supposed the first of the family who emigrated from Scotland was the great-grandfather of Harmon, and that he settled in the town of Hartland. His son, Andrew, married Polly Lampson. Their children were Andrew, jr., Abraham, Asa, Jacob, Lydia V., David J., and Archibald. Andrew, jr., lived and died in Canada; Asa, in Batavia, N. Y .; Jacob, in Shaftsbury, Bennington county, Vt .; Lydia V., was the wife of Dr. Knight, of Grand Blanc, Gene- see county, Mich. She and her brother, David J., lived and died in Grand Blanc; Ar- chibald, at Owasso, Mich. All these children left families in the localities where they lived. Abraham McWam married Abigail, daughter of John and Hannah (Carpenter) Whitehorn, in Wallingford, Rutland county. He died there in 1828; his wife at the residence of their son, Harmon, in Plymouth, April 29, 1869. The children of Abraham and Abigail McWain were Lucretia T., Harmon, Mary Malona, John W., and Malvina M. Harmon Mc Wain was born in Dorset, Bennington county, Vt., September 5, 1817, and passed most of his minority there. In 1844 he married Sarah S. Beebe, who died in 1848, leaving a daughter, Sarah A., born August 8, 1847, the wife of James Ailward. Harmon McWain married, October 6, 1850, Amanda M., daughter of Luther and Betsey (Jenne) Coolidge. Her grandfather, Captain John Coolidge, a Revolutionary officer from Lancaster, Mass., who at the close of the war was paid for his services in Conti- nental script, which afterwards became worthless, thinking to better his fortune in the new country as it was then, removed his family to the wilds of Vermont. Many were the hardships endured, but at last plenty smiled upon them, and at thetime of his death, March 23, 1822, left each of his three sons and two daughters a farm. Luther Coolidge, his second son, father of Mrs. McWain, was born on this place May 6, 1781, where his father first located, and died there June 11, 1856. Her mother, Betsey Jenne, was born in Poultney, Vt., April 27, 1790. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. McWain was the Rev. Prince Jenne, the first settled minister in the town of Plymouth, having been sent


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from Massachusetts as a missionary to establish churches in the new settlements in Ver- mont, and after a long and faithful ministry died in 1836, aged seventy-eight years. Mrs. McWain was born August 16, 1830, where she now lives, and has lived since her marriage with the exception of the first six years, when they resided at East Dorset, Bennington county. Of their seven children six are now living. Jennie R. McWain, born October 4, 1852, married Merritt A. Sawyer, in 1875, and resides in Woodstock, Vt. They have four children : Merle, born August 7, 1876; Mary Angela, born Janu- ary, 1878; Clifton W., born August, 1879; Wayne Harmon, born September, 1881, died April 10, 1884; Charlie Field, born March, 1886. Harmon A. McWain, M.D., born De- cember 10, 1855, graduated in medicine at the University of Vermont, at Burlington, in 1882. He is now located in Chicago. Martha B. McWain, born March 22, 1858, wife of Norris D. Wilder, resides at Plymouth Union. Frank Ellsworth MeWain, born November 8, 1861, died April 10, 1864. Flora A. McWain, boin November 18, 1864, wife of Charles H. Scott, of Tyson, Vt. Lettie E. McWain, born March 12, 1867, wife of F. C. Morgan, M. D., of Felchville, Vt. Stella A. McWain, born August 25, 1870, and Lillian Amanda, born December 10, 1879.


Ravlin, Henry E., was born in Huntington, Rutland county, Vt., May 1, 1825, the seventh son, in a family of sixteen children, of David and Louisa (Gay) Ravlin. David Ravlin, his father, at the age of twenty-one, came to America from Ireland, as a British soldier, but upon arrival in this country he deserted the British service, joined the Con- tinental army and served in that till the close of the war. At the close of the war he settled in Shelburne, Vt., and married there. He died in Leslie, Jackson county, Mich., December, 1854. Henry E. Ravlin married August 24, 1845, Esther M., daughter of Eli and Hannah Manly, of Chittenden. Rutland county. After his marriage he resided in Chittenden, Brandon, Middlebury, Ripton, Pittsford and Rutland. From the latter place he settled in that part of Plymouth known as "Nineveh," in 1887, where he re- sided up to the time of his death, which occurred August 16, 1890. In October, 1861, he volunteered, as private, in Company F, Vermont Cavalry, Colonel Platt commanding, and was mustered out of service in 1863. While in the service he received an injury that resulted in partial spinal paralysis, on which account he had drawn a pension of twenty-four dollars per month. Mr. and Mrs. Ravlin had seven children, one of whom is now living, viz., Orris E. The latter married Chestina Davis, and they have one child, Willie H. Another son, Orlando F., died in the army at Pensacola, Florida.


Sanders, Albert F .- Isaac Sanders, grandfather of Albert F., was born in Fitzwilliam, N. H., August, 1775. He married Susan Woods, aunt of . Walter A. Woods, the manu- facturer of mowers and reapers at Hoosick Falls, N. Y. She was born in Pepperell, Mass. After marriage they settled in Cavendish, where their eight children were born, viz .: Susan, Isaac L., Mary Ann, Rosalinda, Nelson, Laura, Rebecca and Harriet. Isaac L. was born February 19, 1807. He married, March 24, 1831, Lovisa S., daughter of Ed- ward and Abigail (Seward) Wilder. She was born September 2, 1810. Her father was born in Sterling, Mass., October 18, 1779; her mother, June 11, 1787. Isaac L. lived in Cavendish until he was twenty-nine years old, then removed to Westfield, Orleans county, Vt., where he lived fourteen years, then thirteen years in Lowell, and finally settled in Albany, Orleans county, where he still resides. He is a wheelwright by trade, but has followed farming since he left Cavendish. The children of Isaac L. and Lovisa S. Sanders are Laura, Lorette, Isaac, Lestina, Mary, Annis, Martha, Lucy, George W. and Albert F. Albert F. Sanders was born in Lowell, Orleans county, Vt., March 17, 1851. He lived at Lowell until he was seven years of age, a year with his grandfather, Edward Wilder, in Ludlow, then with J. G. Priest, at Plymouth, till he was of age. He married July 4, 1878, Alida F., daughter of William T. and Rebecca P. (Brown) Merrill. Mrs. Sanders was born in Plymouth, November 11, 1853. William T. Merrill, son of Abraham and Sally (Tolbert) Merrill, was born in Weathersfield, Vt., July 22, 1814. His wife was born in Plymouth, August 1, 1812, and was the daughter of Israel P.and Sally (Briggs) Brown. Sally Brown was the daughter of Asa and Eliza-


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beth (Paul) Briggs. Adam Brown, Mrs. Sanders's great-grandfather, was the first town clerk of Plymouth. After marriage Mr. Sanders settled on the Isaac Greene farm in Plymouth. In 1879 he purchased the farm on the east shore of Echo Lake, known as the " Amos Polland farm," which he still owns and carries on. Mr. Sanders is a Re- publican in politics Mr. and Mrs. Sanders are members of the First Congregational Church of Plymouth. They have one child, Amy A., born July 24, 1883.


Scott, Dr. Charles A., was born in Cavendish, Windsor county, Vt .. January 6, 1819. His grandfather, Thomas Scott, was born in Massachusetts, July 25, 1761. At the age of fifteen he enlisted as a private and served through the War of the Revolution. He married Olive Proctor, born April 12, 1760. Thirteen children were the issue of this union, eight of whom were born in Massachusetts, five in Vermont. Thomas Scott moved from Littleton and settled in Cavendish about the year 1795. He died in Pots- dam, N. Y., in 1857, at the advanced age of ninety-six years. His wife died in Caven- dish in 1829. Of the thirteen children, eleven were married and raised families. The two that were not married died in Cavendish. The eleven moved out of Vermont and settled in other States. Isaac Scott, the seventh of the thirteen, was born in Littleton, Mass., December 7, 1792, married, April, 1818, Polly Eaten, who was born April 29, 1797, in Stoddard, N. H. She was the daughter of William and Bethiah Eaten. After marriage he lived in Cavendish until 1837, with the exception of three years passed at Crown Point and Ticonderoga. In 1837 he moved to Ohio, settling at Troy, and died there January 25, 1881. He, with three of his brothers, were soldiers in the War of 1812, and he received a pension on that account. His wife died in Ohio, in October, 1873. Their children were Dr. Charles A., Nathan E., and Luther P. Nathan E. was twice married, but left no children. He died at Karns City, Septem- ber 21, 1880. Luther P. is station agent on a branch of the Pennsylvania Central Rail- road in Indiana. Dr. Scott bought his time of his father when he was eighteen years of age; received his preparatory education in the common school with three terms at the Chester Academy. He commenced the study of medicine at the age of twenty-one with Dr. Abraham Lowell, of Chester, with whom he remained one year. The next two years he studied with Professor Joseph Perkins. He was graduated from the Castleton Medical College in 1843. In 1844 he commenced the practice of his profession in Plymouth, Vt., and has followed it continuously ever since, and is at the present time, 1890, the only physician residing in the town. The Doctor is a member of the Ver- mont State Medical Society, also of the Connecticut River Medical Society. He rep- resented the town of Plymouth in the Legislature in 1869 and 1870, and was a member of the State Senate in 1872. He has also filled the offices of justice of the peace, select- man and superintendent of schools. In politics the Doctor is a Republican. He has been a member of the Plymouth Congregational Church for many years. Dr. Scott married January 29, 1845, Betsey E., daughter of Spafford and Sally (Parker) Watkins. She was born in Reading, August 24, 1826. Mrs. Scott is the sole survivor of her father's family. Children of Dr. and Mrs. Scott are Clarence W., born August 20, 1849, married Hattie Field, April 30, 1888. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1874, and is at the present time professor in the Department of Agricultural and Me- chanical Arts of that College. Charles H., born May 1, 1838, educated in the common school and Ludlow Academy, married December 22, 1886, Flora A. McWain. They have one child, Betsey Amanda, born January 19, 1889. He represented Plymouth in the Legislature in 1886 and 1888 and was selectman from 1886 to 1889. He is a farmer and stock dealer and resides at the homestead in Plymouth. When Dr. Scott first settled in Plymouth he located at the " Kingdom," then the most considerable set- tlement of Plymouth, but in 1879 he removed to Tyson, where he has since resided.


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CHAPTER XXI.


HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SPRINGFIELD.


S PRINGFIELD is situated in the southeasterly part of Windsor county, in latitude 43 degrees, 17 minutes, and longitude 4 degrees, 28 minutes, and on the west bank of the Connecticut River, which sepa- rates it from the town of Charlestown, Sullivan county, N. H. The town received its name from Springfield, Mass. It is bounded south by Rockingham, Windham county, north by Weathersfield, and west by Chester.


The general surface of the town is hilly, but there are valleys in vari- ous localities, which afford excellent farming lands. Skitchawaug Mountain is in the eastern part of the town, rising directly from the river banks, and is the only prominent elevation.


The Black River enters Springfield from Weathersfield, near its north- west corner, and flows diagonally across the town, emptying into the Connecticut about one half mile south of the Cheshire bridge. It is to this river that Springfield owes most of her prosperity, as it contributes one of the best sources of water-power in the State. Along its banks are located manufacturing establishments which represent a large per- centage of the wealth of the town.


Proprietors' Meeting .- The most honorable and worthy servant of His Majesty George the III, Benning Wentworth, then governor of the province of New Hampshire, did on August 20, 1761, give and convey, by letters patent, the territory in what is now Springfield and said to contain 28,000 acres to the following named gentlemen: Gideon Lyman, Simeon Parsons, Phineas Lyman, Gideon Lyman, jr., John Phelps (chap- lain), Phineas Lyman, Caleb Lyman, Aaron Wright, Simeon Parsons, Ebenezer Sheldon, Oliver Lyman, Nathaniel Fellows, Samuel Parsons, Naomi Lyman, Medad Alvord, Reuben Coats, Seth Clark, Oliver Thomas, Stephen Pomeroy, Eleazer Root, Thomas Quiner, Colonel Seth Pomeroy, Samuel Bancroft, John Burt, jr., Selah Wright, Jonathan Strong, Selah Wright, Elijah Lyman, William Kennedy, Israel Lyman, Daniel Graves, Gideon Lyman, Elijah Lyman, Josiah Pierce, Ephraim


GEO H. WALKER &CO.ENG BOSTON


Aaron Bisbee


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Wright, Benjamin Parsons, Elias Lyman, John Lyman, jr., Gad Lyman, Elias Lyman, jr., Timothy Ruggles, Captain James Lyman, Stephen Root, Nathaniel Day, Gideon Lyman, Richard Cutt, Captain John Ly- man, Nathaniel Phelps, Samuel Marshall, Dr. Samuel Mather, John Nelson, Theodore Atkinson, Joseph Newmarch, Benning Wentworth, John Wentworth, Hunking Wentworth, James Ashthorp, John Gould, jr., Henry Hilton, Joseph Little, Samuel Wentworth of Boston, Elijah Lyman.


These men were principally residents of Northampton, Mass., with a few from Portsmouth, N. H., and the latter are believed to have been favorites of the colonial governor. A large number of the names appear to have belonged to the family of Gideon Lyman.


The patent was subject to the usual conditions in grants given in those days-an ear of Indian corn was to be paid as rent, a market established, the timber preserved for the royal navy, a village site to be laid out, and a reservation made for religious and school purposes.




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