History of Dane County, Wisconsin, Part 150

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899; Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1304


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MYRON B. FRENCH, the son of Leonard French, who came to Fitchburg, Dane Co., and located on Sec. 18, in 1847; he died in 1856; Myron B. was born in the town of Lenox, Madison Co., N. Y., July 8, 1826, where he lived until he came to Fitchburg, Dane Co., Wis., with his father in .1847 ; lived there until 1850, then came to Madison, and was employed in clerking until 1853 ; then carried on business for himself, which he has continued to the present time; commenced the real estate business in 1870. Was married in Madison, Oct. 19, 1853, te Elizabeth Page; she was born at Bucksport, Me .; they have one adopted daughter. Mr. French has been Superviser, is a member of the M. E. Church, I. O. O. F. and Good Templars.


MORRIS E. FULLER, a native of Little Falls, Herkimer Co., N. Y .; came to Madison, May, 1856, and engaged in the grocery business in the same building where he now carries on agricultural implement trade; was four years in the grocery trade ; in the fall of 1861, he took charge of camp supplies


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here and six months later he with partners took charge of all camps in the State except one ; three months later they furnished supplies to all the troops in the State ; same company also furnished about 6,000 hor-es to the Government; in 1862, commenced handling the Wood mowers, which they now sell in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Dakota and north half of Iowa; sales run from 5,500 to 8,500 machines per annum; Mr. F. is President of Gas Company, Director of First National Bank, and Trustee of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. The firm of Fuller & Johnson was organized in spring of 1879; they give employment to about fifty men.


HERMAN GAERTNER, barber of Park Hotel, Madison, Wis .; is the son of Fritz and Caroline Gaertner, and was born in Osterode, Hartz, Germany, Jan. 18, 1851 ; Mr. G. came from Ger- many to Madison, Wis., August, 1876 ; after having spent two months in Chicago, June 7, 1875, he was married to Miss Matilda Ising; they have two children-Otto and Berthold. Mr. G. belongs to Turner's Society, also to United Workmen and the Madison Maennerchor Club. Mr. G. has been in his present business ever since coming to Madison ; learned his trade in Germany, and is an enterprising business man.


DR. CLARK GAPEN was born in Monongalia Co., W. Va., where he was reared; grad- nated from Chicago Medical College io 1874, and from the Cook County Hospital afterward, having been elected to a position in that institution prior to that time. Is Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Wisconsin, and has held the position for three years; is one of the Board of U. S. Examiners for Wisconsin, and a member of the State and Dane County Medical Societies, also a member of two Chicago Medical Alumni Associations ; for three years he was first assistant physician of the Wis- consin State Hospital for the insane. The Doctor was married in Chicago in July, 1876, to Jeanie C. Swanson ; she was born in Chicago; they have two children-Anna and Flora.


RICHARD F. GEORGE, proprietor of the Madison Museum and general variety store, opposite north corner of the Capitol Park; was born in Glostershire, England, in 1840; his father, David G., was a merchant ; Richard F. was educated in Cheltenham Grammar School-an institution similar in many respects to our State University ; he came to United States in 1860, and taught two years in Massachusetts ; settled in Madison in 1862, and for eighteen years taught a select classical and commer- cial school, in which were educated many of the younger leading citizens of Madison. Seventeen times he has crossed the Atlantic, the last voyage was in 1876, after visiting the Centennial. He was a Demo- cratic candidate for the Assembly in 1876, but his heavy majority in Madison was overcome by the Re- publican majorities in the country townships. He is now engaged in establishing a museum of natural history in Madison. He is well known and appreciated.


HIRAM H. GILES, son of Hon. Samuel and Hannah (Foster) Giles ; was born March 22, 1820, in New Salem, Mass., and was reared on a farm; his father was in fair circumstances for a New England yoeman, and was at one time a member of the Massachusetts State Senate. Hiram was educated at New Salem Academy, and was preparing for college in 1837, when his health failed and he was com- pelled to relinquish the purpose he had in view ; he then went to Chautauqua Co., N. Y., where he joined a brother who was lecturing on electricity, traveling in Ohio and spending the winter in Kentucky and Tennessee; he returned to Fredonia, N. Y., in the spring of 1839, and soon afterward began a more ex- tended lecturing tour, traveling two years over parts of the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the province of Upper Canada; he was successful in his undertaking, and although but 20 years of age won for himself many laurels in the field as a lecturer ; becoming tired of travel he entered Fredonia College with health restored ; confinement to study so affected him that he abandoned its pursuit and came to Wisconsin Territory in 1844. Returning to New York State, he mar- ried in the autumn of 1844, Rebecca S. Watson, and in the winter of 1844-45 taught the village school at Fredonia ; in the spring of 1845, he removed to Harbor Creek, Penn., where he resided for two years ; thence to Wisconsin Territory in 1847 ; he settled in Dunkirk, Dane Co., and engaged in the occupation of a farmer ; removed to Stoughton in 1853, and engaged in business ; two daughters, Belle T. and Ella A., and a loving wife, have made his home a happy and peaceful one. Mr. Giles is a member of the Unitarian Church. He joined the Republican party at its first organization and has remained with it, but was a Demo- crat in his boyhood. He was elected to the Assembly from the southeast district of Dane Co. in 1852, carrying a strong Democratic district upon the bank issue; he was the Whig candidate for Dane Co. for the Senate in 1853, and was defeated; he was again a candidate in 1855, and was elected, then re-elected in 1857; was President of the Senate in 1859; he was Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue under Gen. Atwood for four years; he removed to Madison in the fall of 1869. Mr. Giles signed the total abstenence pledge when 15 years of age, and has ever since been a prominent advocate of the cause of tem- perance.


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W. GODENSCHWAGER, boot and shoemaker, Madison, Wis. ; was born in Mecklenburg -- Strelitz, May 13, 1849; learned his trade in the old country ; came to America in 1869. In 1870, Mr. G. enlisted in Co. D, 3d United States Regulars, for five years service, and spent them in Kansas, Louis- iana, Colorado and Mississippi ; he was discharged in 1875. May 25, 1876, Mr. G. married Miss E. Bareken ; they have two children-Amanda and an infant. Mr. G. is a member of the Odd Fellows' Lodge.


MRS. NEELY GRAY, nee Adaline C. Starks; born in Otsego Co., N. Y., in 1821 ; her father, Jonathan Starks, was a cousin of Gen. Starks, of revolutionary fame. Her father died when she was 18 years of age, and then the family, consisting of the mother and six daughters, one of them married, came West in the fall of 1839, and settled on the present site of Madison, where two of the married sisters had settled in 1838. The family wintered in 1839-40, in the old log cabin built by Eben Peck two years previous. Simeon Mills was then a prominent settler. A Mr. Fake was keeping tavern. There were three families of Birds-Prosper B., Augustus A., Charles H., also two unmarried Birds-Enos and I. Washing- ton; the Birds and a George Hyer were from New York ; Robert L. Ream, from Pennsylvania, came the preeediog year, and a daughter born in Madison is Vinnie Ream, the famous American sculptor. An Episcopal preacher named Philo was here, and also Messrs. Van Bergen and Smith, the brothers-in-law of Mrs. Gray, who were the pioneers that secured the coming of the Starks family. When she came, Eben Peck, who built the first log house in Madison, was living in a frame house, and Mrs. Roseline Peck was in good demand as a violinist at the dances which were numerous and popular. George P. Delaplaine, Darwin Clark and Adam Smith were unmarried residents. There was also a Winslade family, whose widow still lives in Madison. There were also families named Lamb, Wyman and Stoner. The first male child born in Madison was named Madison Stoner, born in 1838, and the first female child was born in 1837, and named Wisconsiana Victoria Peck. In 1842, the subject of this sketch was married to Neely Gray, who had been a member of the Territorial Legislature, and was afterward a member of the First Constitutional Convention. Mr. Gray was a millwright by trade, and owned a grist- mill in Plattville, Grant Co. For seven years after marriage, they lived in Plattville; in 1850, Mr. Gray went to California, and after his return, in 1852, he was engaged till his death in mercantile pursuits. He died in May, 1867 ; they have four children, three sons and a daughter-all now living-three married, and living in Wisconsin. The oldest, Henry, enlisted at the age of 18, and was assigned to the Quartermaster's Department, and, at the close of the war, was a Quartermaster. Franklin is partner of James Conklin, his father's former partner in the grain and coal business. The youngest son, Arthur I., is at home ; the daughter is the wife of E. D. Pardee, druggist, of Madison. Mrs. Gray lives on Clymer street, in the neat residence which she built in 1878. She also owns a brick residence on Washington avenue, and other real estate. The family are Episcopalians. Her husband, Mr. Gray, was born in 1810, and came to Wisconsin in 1835, and to Madison in 1849. In early life, his only capital was industry, integrity and business ability, and he soon won the confidence of his fellow men, and seoured a fair competency. He was a loyal Unionist, and held several offices of trust and honor. Mrs. Gray has seen Madison develop from a woody thicket to the present rich and beautiful produet of civilization.


JOHN GREASHABER, saloon-keeper, Madison, Wis .; is the son of John and Margaret Greashaber, and was born in Tiffin, Ohio, Jan. 28, 1852. He went to Madison, Wis., with his parents in 1854; attended school in Madison for nine or ten years, until 1877, when he began his present business. He was employed only in general work, and at school. Jan. 28, 1875, Mr. G. married Miss Elizabeth Smith, wbo was born Aug. 17, 1857; they have had four children, viz., Mary, Helen, John and Lizzie ; the last named died Feb. 22, 1880. Mrs. G. belongs to the German Catholic Church. Mr. G. is con- neeted with the fire company, and with the Madison Relief Association,


C. N. GREGORY, son of Jared C. Gregory; born in Unadilla, Otsego Co., N. Y., Aug. 27, 1851; came to Wisconsin in January, 1858 ; graduated from the University of Wisconsin, class of 1871. In 1872, he graduated from the law department ; A. M. degree conferred in 1874; is Secretary of the Dave County Legal Association ; member of the firm of Gregory & Pinney from January, 1877, to July 28, 1879, since then of the firm of Gregory & Gregory.


JARED C. GREGORY, was born Jan. 13, 1823, in the town of Butternut, Otsego Co., N. Y. His parents were natives of New England, and descended from highly respectable familics. He was educated at Gilbertsville Academy, read law with Judge Noble, of Unadilla, was admitted to the bar in Cortland Co., N. Y., in 1848, and was married the same year to Miss Charlotte C. Camp; have three children-a daughter and two sons. He was elected a Justice of the Peace when quite young; was a candidate for Congress in 1856, and removed to Wisconsin in January, 1858, locating in Madison and


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formed a partnership in the practice of law with S. U. Pinney, which continued until July, 1879, when the present firm of Gregory & Gregory, was formed. Mr. Gregory is an Episcopalian, and his family are members of this church. In politics, he is a Democrat in the sense in which Jefferson and Madison were Democrats, as much removed from radicalism as from centralism.


GOTTLEIB GRIMM, proprietor of Madison Book Bindery; was born in Wurtemburg Germany in 1831. His father, G. Grimm, was also a book-binder; learned his trade in Europe ; came to the United States in 1849, and located in Sandusky, Ohio, where he remained one year, then with his employer, Charles Weed, came to Madison, and in 1850, Mr. Grimm bound the first book in Madison, it was Graham's Magazine, and for Simeon Mills. He was married in 1856, to Miss Elizabeth Krieger, formerly of Prussia ; they have ten children-John, Rosalie, Mary, Lizzie, Matilda, Katie, Crecenzia, Julia, Amanda and Annie E., all living at home. Has been Alderman of the First Ward, also City Treasurer. Family are Catholics, and he is Secretary of church committee, and for ten years was organist. Owns a residence on Johnson street. Since October, 1874, he has been proprietor of the Madison Book Bindery, employing on an average fifteen hands; his son John is foreman. He is a good mechanic, and a quiet, capable citizen.


H. GROVE, vinegar manufacturer and rectifier ; is the son of Christian L. Grove, and was born in Hanover, Germany, Oct. 13, 1822; he came to America, and directly to Freeport, Ill., in 1857 ; he re- mained in Freeport, engaged in his present business for two years, and then in March, 1859, he removed to Madison, where, in 1861, he opened a business as manufacturer of vinegar, rectifier of liquors, etc. ; he keeps two hands employed, and manufacturers from 1,000 to 1,500 barrels per year. October, 1856, Mr. G. married Miss Augusta Sohle, who was born Jan. 1, 1833; they have nine children, eight of whom are living. viz., William, Louis, Theodore, Matilda, Henry, Fred, Walter and Edward ; their daughter who died was named Dora. Mr. G. belongs to the German Presbyterian Church, and to the Society of Druids. In connection with his son William Grove, he is also carrying on a cigar manufactory; they employ from six to nine hands, and manufacture about 300,000 cigars per year.


RICHARD GUENTHER, State Treasurer; was born in Potsdam, Prussia, Nov. 30, 1845 ; educated at the Royal Gymnasium at Potsdam, came to New York City in August, 1866, and removed to Fond du Lac, Wis., in September of the same year ; in January, 1867, he returned to the city of New York but remained there only a short time, returning to Wisconsin the same year, and located permanently at Oshkosh, where he has been extensively engaged in the drug business ; in 1874, he was elected School Com- missioner of the city of Oshkosh, and was re-elected in 1875; he was first elected State Treasurer in 1877, re-elected in 1879, both times being elected by large majorities over the Democratic candidates; in No- vember, 1880, he was elected Congressman in the Sixth District, receiving a majority of over 3,400 over Gabriel Bouck, Democratic candidate.


PETER GUNKEL, saloon-keeper, Madison ; is the son of Joseph and Magdalena Gunkel, and was born in Bavaria, Germany, July 11, 1841 ; he came to America in 1857, and lived in Massachu- setts for one year ; came to Madison, Wis., in 1858; Mr. G. is a shoemaker by trade, and worked at that for fifteen years ; he opened his present business in 1874. Feb. 2, 1862, he was married in Massachu- setts, to Miss Apalonia Link, who was born Feb. 8, 1843; they have six children, viz .: Joseph, Peter, Theadore. Otillia, Joachim and Ernestina. The family belong to the German Catholic Church.


WILLIAM HABECK, book-keeper for Sorensen, Fredricksen & Fish ; was born in Darm- stadt, Germany, in 1829 ; attended industrial high school until 18 years of age; came to the United States in 1854 and located in Madison, where, for several years, he was book-keeper for John Rodermond, and, the last four years, with his present employers. He was married in 1861, to Miss Nancy A. Utter, of Madison ; they have nine children-Theodore, Minnie, Capitolia, Louisa, William, Jane, Annie, Frank and Mamie, all in Madison ; he owns and resides on Block 222; has a grapery of 2 acres. Was City Treasurer one term, and Alderman of the Second Ward one term ; is a Royal Arch Mason ; the family are Protestants.


S. A. HALE, ice dealer, Madison ; is the son of D. J. and Margaret Hale, and was born Aug. 22, 1838, in Hornellsville, Steuben Co., N. Y .; he went to Madison, Wis., in May, 1854, and, in 1855, entered the University at Madison, taking a three-years course in that institution ; after leaving school, he became book-keeper for the firm of Carman & Co., now Conklin & Gray, coal dealers, and held that posi- tion until May, 1862, when he went into the Army of Virginia as Commissary Clerk, in which position he served for three and one-half years ; returning to Madison, Mr. H. resumed his former position as book-keeper with the old firm, where he continued until 1874, when he engaged in his present business.


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In February, 1873, Mr. H. was married, in Madison, to Miss Chtharine Rose, who was born March 5, 1849; they have one child, Edward, born Dec. 22, 1875. Mrs. Hale is a member of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Hale has served as Alderman.


C. H. HALL, M. D., was born in the village of Munson, Hampden Co., Mass., March 16, 1846 ; son of Sidney H. and Sarah B. Hall, who reside in the town of Burke, Dane Co., Wis .; he was educated at the University of Wisconsin, from which he graduated in 1870, from the scientific department, having also studied Latin ; having begun the study of physiology, chemistry, anatomy, etc., he graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, in March, 1876; was appointed hospital physician in Philadelphia ; studied with the late Dr. C. Hering, of Philadelphia ; since May, 1876, he has been engaged in practice in Madison ; he is a member of the Alumni Association of the University of Wisconsin ; he holds, at present, several offices with the temperance organizations of the State. He was married in Madison, May 18, 1877, to Carrie Norton ; she was born at Prairie du Sac, Sauk Co., Wis .; daughter of John B. Norton, of this city ; they have one daughter, Claudia J. Dr. Hall has been Medical Examiner for various insurance organizations, and is connected with secret societies, etc .; in 1877, the University of Wisconsin conferred on him the degree of Master of Sciences.


MRS. MARY C. HALLIDAY (nee Freeman), Matron of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane; is a native of New Jersey ; when a child, her parents removed to Ohio, and she was educated mainly in Columbus, Ohio. She was married Feb 5, 1845, to Samuel M. Halliday, a merchant of Rey- noldsburg, Ohio; he died in September of the same year ; she has one son, Samuel M., married, and living in Portage, Wis .; she came to Wisconsin in 1853; she was appointed Matron on the completion of the hospital, and entered upon her duties June 11, 1860; the hospital was then in the condition in which the workmen left it-uncleaned, unfurnished, unoccupied; she is now passing her twenty-first ycar of continuous service in the capacity of Matron ; her duties are multitudinous and important, extending to the super- vision of all the varied domestic interests and departments of this immense home ; her housekeeping quali- ties sre seen in the cleanly content of the patients, and the perfect cleanliness of every department ; her sxperiences have been varied and interesting ; her acceptability can be inferred from her permanency, which is phenomenal. For forty years she has been a member of the Presbyterian Church ; she is kind and capable.


PETER HAMACHER, proprietor of the Madison House, also grocer and saloon-keeper ; is the son of Bartholomew and Mary Hamacher, and was born in the province of Rhine, Oct. 21. 1823 ; he came to America, and direct to Madison, Wis., in May, 1852; Mr. H. was for six years a soldier in Ger- many, serving from 1844 to 1850, and participating in the war of 1847-48; he owns a farm of 130 acres to the southwest of Madison, 100 acres of the same being under cultivation. Nov. 22, 1852. Mr. H. married Miss Lucy Roland, who was born in Germany Dec. 6, 1818; they have six children-John, Matthew, Frank, Maggie, Peter and Mary ; the third son, Frank, married Miss Clara Schoen Jan. 12, 1879 ; they have one child, Sophia, who was born Oct. 29, 1879. Mr. H. and family belong to the Roman Cstholic Church.


GEN. HENRY HARNDEN, the son of Jonathan and Rhoda Harnden, was born March 4, 1823, at Wilmington, Mass .; his ancestor, Benjamin Harnden, settled in Providence, R. I., in 1645; removed to Lynn, Mass., in 1647. Richard Harnden, who was probably a son of Benjamin, settled in Reading, Mass., in 1666 ; he had three sons-one, Benjamin, was born in Reading in 1667, who had three- sons-one, Benjamim, born in 1697, who had four sons-one, named Benjamin, born in 1740, in Wil- mington, Mass. (this being a town set off from Reading in 1729), who had seven sone-one, Jonathan, born in 1786, who was father of Gen. Henry Harnden, subject of this sketch ; receiving a common-school education at the age of 18 years, he sailed on a voyage and visited the coast of Africa ; also doubled Cape- Horn and visited many of the islands of the Pacific Ocean, as also the entire west coast of South America, returning after an absence of five years, returned to his father in Wilmington ; afterward made several voyages ; was in Mexico during the first part of the Mexican war, and assisted in bringing back the wounded of the battle of Palo Alto to New Orleans; his health failing, he returned home and engaged in clerking at Lowell; in the spring of 1850, he went overland to California and engaged in gold mining, returning from there in a short time; in 1852, he removed to the town of Sullivan, Jefferson Co., Wis. ; que of bis brothers, William, lives in town of Blooming Green, Dane Co .; engaged first in farming, then in lumbering; he owned and operated a steam saw-mill. At the commencement of the war he called his work hands together and told them the mill must stop, and that he should enlist and advised them all to do the same, which they did to a man; enlisting in the 1st W. V. C. as a private July 15. 1861 ; promoted Sergeant Co. D Jan. 1, 1862 ; then Captain of Co. L May 24, 1862, which rank he held when


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the regiment went to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Mo., where they were first sent; then, in May, 1862, to Cape Girardeau, Mo. ; they shortly afterward pushed into the interior to Helena, Ark., where the regi- ment was so reduced by sickness and death that at one time there were only five officers and sixty men who were able to do duty. Capt. Harnden being one, and in command, was promoted Major Jan. 6, 1865, then in grades from third to first Major, and Lieutenant Colonel March 13, 1865, all further promotion being pre- vented by the Colonel being in a Rebel prison, but was in command of the regiment up to the close of the war ; his services were acknowledged by being brevetted Colonel and Brigadier General March 15, 1865; par- ticipated in the following battles and skirmishes : Swamp fight near Bloomfield, Mo .; Chalk Bluff, Ark. (1862) ; Oak Ridge, Ark. ; Black Mingo, Mo., near Greenville; Chalk Bluff (1863) and Scatterville, Ark .; Cape Girardeau, Mo. ; the charge at Huntsville, Ala. ; at Ostanula Bridge and Dirt Town, Ga. ; Chickamauga ; crossing the Tennessee River under artillery fire above Chattanooga; at Sequatchie Valley, Tenn. ; pursuit of Wheeler's rebel cavalry; night fight with Rhody's men in Tennessee ; at Mossy Creek and New Market, East Tennessee; night march and skirmish in Ocoe Valley, N. C .; at Spring Place and Vorndls Station, Ga. ; at Buzzard's Roost; reconnaissance on to east end of Buzzard's Roost ; at Resaca and Cassville, Ga .; in cavalry charge near Dallas, Ga., where his horse was killed and he was shot in shoulder and right arm broken ; in fight with guerrillas near Calhoun, Ga. ; at battle Russellville, Ky .; in fight at Duck River bridge, Tennessee, when bridge broke and let part of regiment into the river, was carried down the stream two miles before being rescued, horse was drowned; was at Montevallo, Cahaba Bridge and Scatterville, Ala. ; in fight between Selma and Montgomery, Ala., and between Montgomery and Tuscaloosa ; at storming and capture of Ft. Tyler, West Point, Ga., where he was wounded by rifle ball. In May, 1865, he was selected by Gen. Wilson to take a detachment from the 1st W. V. C., and cross the country towards Savannah and head of Jeff Davis, who was reported to be making his way South through South Carolina into Georgia. This duty was so well performed that it resulted in the capture of the rebel chief at a place called Irwinville, in the southern part of Georgia. At the capture of Davis an unfortunate affair happened which was afterward the cause of some controversey between Gen. Harnden and the Lieu- tenant Colonel of a Michigan cavalry regiment, but was finally settled by Congress, after a full investigation, dividing the reward given for Davis equally between the two parties, and exonerating Gen. Harnden from all blame in the collision of the two regiments, in which two men of the Michigan regiment were killed and several wounded, also the wounding of several of the Wisconsin men. On July 10, 1865, at Edgefield, Tenn., his horse fell and rolled over him, breaking his leg; was mustered out at Edgefield July 19, 1865, while in command of the 2d Brigade of the 1st Division, Cavalry of the West ; after his return to his home in Wisconsin, he was immediately elected to the Assembly from the third district of Jefferson Co. ; in the Legislature of 1866, he was Chairman of committee on military affairs ; in the spring of 1867, he was appointed by Gov. Fairchild, one of the Trustees of the Soldiers' Orphan Home; was appointed United States Collector of Internal Revenue May 20, 1873, which office he still holds. Married in December, 1848, Mary A., daughter of John Lightner, of Roxbury, Mass., by whom he has four children. The General's forefathers were Revolutionary soldiers.




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