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ISAAC D. TALBOTT, born 1823, on Haeker's Creek, son of Elisha and Millie (Stephens) Talbott, was married October 21, 1841, to Martha, daugh- ter of Robert and Sallie (Keller) Mitehell. Children, Anna Amelia, Augusta, William Riley, Sallie, Simon Switzer, Mary M., Angeline and Theodosia. He is a Baptist and in politics a Democrat, and by occupation a farmer on Hacker's Creek. Mrs. Talbott is of Irish descent. The Mitchells were early settlers in Barbour.
SIMON SWITZER TALBOTT, born 1852, son of Isaac D. and Martha (Mitchell) Talbott, was married in Preston County, West Virginia to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of James and Amanda (Blackwood) Snyder. He is an Odd Fellow, a Democrat, and a farmer and stockdealer, residing on Hacker's Creek, where he owns 200 acres of well improved land. He attended the West Virginia College, at Flemington, and has held the office of County Superintendent. Mrs. Talbott's grandfather, Henry Snyder, came from Germany to Virginia, and in 1827, near Newburg, Preston County, his son, James, Mrs. Talbott's father, was born. Mrs. Talbott was educated at the Fairmont Normal School and taught three years; Mr. Talbott taught twenty-three schools.
ROBERT M. TALBOTT, born 1840, son of Robert and Mary (Woodford) Talbott, was married December 29, 1869, to Mary Florence, daughter of John R. and Lucinda (Sinsel) Williamson. Children, Anna Laura, Susan A., Maggie, James Guy, Alba Ray, Lucinda, Patrick G. and Emma. Mr. Talbott is a Missionary Baptist, and is a farmer, living near Arden. He was educated at the Morgantown Academy, and at a Commercial College in Philadelphia, and has taught twenty-four schools, and spent seven years as a merchant at Vannoy's Mill and at Flora, on Sugar Creek. He owns 120 acres in Barbour and owns a half interest in 900 acres in Randolph. Alba Ray, his son, was a soldier in the Spanish War of 1898.
WILLIAM WOODFORD TALBOTT, born 1825, son of Robert and Mary (Woodford) Talbott, was married June 12, 1853, to Sarah, daughter of Abram and Mary (Yeager) Simon. Children, Salathiel M., Melvin, Lewis Wilson, Elam Dowden, Abram Ira, Fitzhugh Lee, William Floyd, Waitman T., Robert Dellett, Mary Florence, Virginia B., Rosa May. He is a mem- ber of the Missionary Baptist Church, a Democrat, and a farmer, residing on Stewart's Run, where he owns 340 acres of land.
ELAM DOWDEN TALBOTT, son of William Woodford Talbott, was born 1857, and was married June 15, 1886, to Lutie Lee, daughter of Squire Newton and Florence A. (Brown) Bosworth, of Beverly. Children, Eva Bosworth, Marguerite, Eugenia, Winifred and William Donald. Mr. Talbott graduated at the West Virginia University, and entered upon the practice of law, locating at Beverly, Randolph County, and has become one of the
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foremost members of his profession in that part of the State. His brother, Dr. Lewis W. Talbott, located in Randolph County also, and is a leading physician at Elkins.
JAMES WESLEY TALBOTT, born 1839, son of Zachariah and Mary (Ellison) Talbott, was married November 21, 1861, to Almira, daughter of Henry A. and Eunice (Marteney) Gall. Children, Emma Rosetta, Estella Lee, Minnie May and Adela. In 1895 his daughter Min- nie was married to Charles Bruce Sturm, of Philippi. Mr. Talbott is a Missionary Baptist, a Mason, and in politics a Democrat. He is proprietor of the Commercial Hotel in Philippi, and is a traveling salesman for a Philadelphia firm. For six years he was Sheriff of Barbour County, two years by appointment and four by election. Immediately after his marriage he entered the mercantile business at Mansfield, and later at Overfield. In 1865 he went into the saw-mill business and followed it five years, until he became Sheriff. Five years later he became cashier of the Farmers' Bank of Philippi, and held the position nine years, in the meantime engag- ing extensively in other business, and was promoter of the first steam flour mill in Barbour County, built at Philippi, in 1882; and was promi- nently identified with the building of the Grafton and Greenbrier railroad. The father of Mrs. Talbott's mother, Gideon Ellison, came to Barbour from Eastern Virginia and married Elizabeth Stephens, sister of Elisha Talbott's first wife. His children were, Zachariah, John, Isaac H., Samuel. W., Robert F., Edward G., Mary, Julia, Louisa, Emaline, Kaziah. The chil- dren of Zachariah Talbott, by his first wife, were, James Wesley, Almira, Ervin A., Asa Burton, Robert Clinton; by his second wife, who was Kaziah Ellison, sister .of his first wife, the children were, Gideon P. and Baby; by his third wife, who was Margaret J. Zinn, one child, Madera Elizabeth Belle. Mr. Talbott has a copper tea kettle which was brought to Barbour by his grandfather, Richard Talbott, in 1780.
SYLVANUS H. TALBOTT born 1854. son of Silas and Sarah (Mckinney) Talbott, was married November 30, 1884, to Edith, daughter of William and Lydia Bartlett. Children, Iva, William Bruce, Hazel, Ruby, Esker Wayne. He is a member of the Baptist Church, a Democrat, a farmer and stockdealer, living on Baker's Run, where he owns 105 acres of improved land, underlaid with coal. Mr. Talbott was five years a Justice of the Peace. The ancestors of Mr. Talbott have been given. Silas Talbott was born 1806, and his wife 1811; he died 1877 and she in 1899. Their children were, Margaret, Abraham, Daniel P. Jane M., Joseph P., Indiana, Sarah A., Elizabeth E., Bessheba M., John M., Wicena, Sylvanus H.
RICHARD EDWARD TALBOTT, born February 21, 1867, son of Richard T. and Margaret (Weber) Talbott, was married June 5, 1895, at Philippi, to Etta, daughter of Isaac H. and Margaret (Jarvis) Strickler. Their child's name is Margaret, Mr, Talbott is a member of the Baptist Church, is a
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WILLIAM WOODFORD TALBOTT AND FAMILY. Lewis Wilson Abraham Ira
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Waitman T. Mary Florence Mr. Talbot Mrs. Talbott Fitzhugh Lee Virginia B.
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Democrat, an Odd Fellow, a Mason and a lawyer. He formerly held the office of Recorder of Philippi, and is the present Circuit Clerk. He was educated in the public schools, in private schools and in the West Virginia University, graduating from that institution in the law department in 1893. His father, in early life, spent several years in Illinois and other western States, chiefly in the lead mines. While there, April, 8, 1849, he was mar- ried by a Catholic priest to Miss Weber. Immediately after that event he and his wife returned to Barbour County, passing down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Ohio, up that stream to Parkersburg, thence overland by stage to Barbour. He purchased a farm of George Woodford, and settled on the head of Simpson's Creek, where the new town of Heatherly is now building. There he became a prosperous farmer, and his children were as follows. Mary Elizabeth, Virginia, Melissa Ann, Josina (died February 28, 1897, at Pratt, Kansas), Robert Dowden (died young), John Lawrence, Lora Linden, David Albert, Richard Edward, Margaret Alice (died May 22, 1893, near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma;) William Howe, Alonzo (died young), Ar- thur Lee, Kyle Weber. The Weber family are German, and Lawrence Weber, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Merlenbach, Germany, and in 1819 was married to Elizabeth, daughter of John Keil, of Kraumbach. On June 8, 1830, they left for America, and arrived in Balti- more September 20, with four children, namely: John, born December 10, 1819; Katharine, born January 8, 1822; Eva, born August 16, 1825; Eliza- beth, born November 23, 1828. The other children were born in America, namely, Margaret, born in Pennsylvania, February 21, 1833; Mary Ann, born March 31, 1836; Sarah, born March 5, 1841; Louisa, born September 25, 1844. The family removed to Illinois. Richard T. Talbott, born April 17, 1821, is a son of Robert, and Robert was a son of Richard and Mary (Dowden) Talbott, the first settlers in Barbour.
COLUMBUS TALBOTT, born 1864, son of Abram R. and Irena Talbott, was married November 15, 1893, to Mattie, daughter of Captain William C. and Rebecca (Conway) Parker. He is a member of the M. E. Church, South, an Odd Fellow, a Democrat and a farmer, living near Burnersville. He was educated at the Fairmont Normal School. His father, who was a son of David and a grandson of Cotteral Talbott, was born in 1827. His mother's maiden name was Ruth Wamsley. Abram Talbott married (1849) . Irena, daughter of Stephen and Catherine (Reger) Martin. Their children were, Elizabeth, Leroy H. and Columbus. He is a member of the M. E. Church, South, is a Democrat and a farmer, living near Burnersville.
JACOB TETER. According to the traditions of the family, Jacob Teter was the first of the name to make his home in what is now Barbour County, coming from Pendleton and settling near Belington about the year 1800. However, it is shown by the Virginia land books that George Teter owned land here as early as 1787; and the same books show that Teter's Creek
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was named as early as 1783. It is probable, therefore, that there were two families of Teters who figured in the early history of what is now Barbour. Jacob Teter was married before he came to Barbour, and his son Joseph was born in Pendleton County, May 8, 1796. The family was represented in the Valley of Virginia at the close of the Revolution by the Dietricks, which is the German form of the name Teter. They are said to have come from Pennsylvania to the Valley of Virginia, whence they entered Pendle- ton and crossed into Randolph, now Barbour. Jacob Teter was a son of Philip, and his children were, Jacob, Joseph, Isaac, James, Nancy, and probably Mary. At any rate, the records in Randolph show that in 1803 Mary "Tidricks " was married to Enoch Osborn, the ceremony being per- formed by Robert Maxwell. In 1809 Jacob Teter (son of Jacob, no doubt), was married to Nancy, daughter of Moses Cade. The ceremony was per- formed by Phineas Wells. In 1811 Solomon Yeager married Mary, daugh- ter of Jacob Teter, the ceremony being performed by Simeon Harris. There is no mention in the Randolph County records of the marriage of any other of Jacob Teter's children; but three of them held office in Randolph: Jacob, who was Justice of the Peace in 1817 and Assessor in 1823; James, who was Constable in 1819, and Joseph, who was Justice of the Peace in 1832.
JOSEPH TETER, son of Jacob, was married to Mary McCann (Mitch- ell) who was born in 1786. They had two children, Joseph and Elizabeth. The latter married William P. Woodruff. Mr. Teter died February 17, 1881. He was Assessor in 1845, and was school commissioner in 1844.
JOSEPH TETER, son of Joseph and grandson of Jacob, was born 1828. On March 29, 1856, at Carrolton, Ohio, he was married to Dorrinda, daughter of Charles and Margary (Brooks) Fawcett. Their children were Charles Fawcett, Martha Virginia, John Mitchell, Gordon Battelle, Mary Margary, Daniel Patrick, William Steele, Joseph Henry, Letticia Grace and Addison Brooks. Mr. Teter died December 21, 1898. He was a mem- ber of the M. E. Church, and was a local preacher. He organized the first Sunday School in Valley District. He was a member of the Masonic Order; in politics he was a Republican, and by occupation a farmer, residing near Belington. He was educated in the public schools; and he filled the office of Colonel of the Militia. In 1864 he was elected Supervisor. He was a member of the first legislature of West Virginia, and his name was first on the roll. He was twice elected to the legislature. As a preacher, it is claimed that he married more couples than any other person in Barbour County, except Joshua S. Corder. He preached fifty years. He was an extensive owner of real estate, and was in all ways, an able and influential man.
GORDON BATTELLE TETER, born 1861, son of Joseph and Dorrinda Teter, was married June 6, 1894, to Flora, daughter of Watson and Eliza- beth Tenney. He is a member of the M. E. Church; in politics is a Repub-
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lican, and by occupation a farmer and stockman, living on the head of Simpson's Creek, where he owned 300 acres, recently sold for $12,000 to the Southern Coal and Export Company. Mr. Teter spent one year in Texas as a cowboy.
THOMAS BENTON TETER, born 1852, son of Jesse and Elizabeth (Phillips) Teter, was married March 5, 1874, to Mary, daughter of B. B. Durrett. Children, Minnie, Darwin, Ora Bessie and Bertzell. He is a Demo- crat, and is owner of the mill at Belington where he lives. In 1893 he was appointed United States Indian Agent over the Bannock and Shoshone Indians at Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, and had control of the U. S. forces sent to Jackson Hole during the Indian trouble in 1896, which grew out of a dispute as to the right of the Indians to hunt in the Yellowstone Park. That right had been granted by treaty, but forbidden by the Wyoming game laws, and the Wyoming officers killed a few Indians, whereupon the tribes collected to avenge it. Mr. Teter's prompt action in getting troops on the scene prevented further trouble. Mr. Teter has traveled extensively, and he considers that West Virginia has resources and advantages possessed by few, if any States of the Union, and he has unbounded faith in the develop- ment of West Virginia.
CHARLES FAWCETT TETER, born August 4, 1858, son of Joseph and Dorrinda (Fawcett) Teter, was married at Philippi, December 17, 1890, to Lillian, daughter of James E. and Elizabeth (Wilson) Hall. Children, Dwight Hall, Charles Wilson and Elizabeth. He is a member of the M. E. Church; is a past master in Masonry; in politics he is a Republican, and by profession a lawyer. He was educated at Bethany College, and is a grad- uate of the University of Michigan. In 1882 he was elected on the Repub- lican ticket District Attorney of Barbour County. In 1898 he made a trip to Europe. He is is secretary and treasurer of the Philippi Coal Mining Company. This company, in 1899, successfully placed upon the market large areas of coal in Barbour and Upshur Counties, and brought about the development of the section, and secured the building of the necessary plants. Mr. Teter takes an interest in politics and contributes largely to the success of the party.
NATHAN H. TAFT, a native of New England, located in Philippi about 1848, for the practice of law. Some years later he married Mary E., daughter of Rev. Solomon and Elizabeth Jarvis. In 1862 he moved to Buckhannon, having been elected Prosecuting Attorney of Upshur County. Later he became editor of the Republican, published in Buckhannon. It was the organ of the Conservative party, and opposed the conscriptive methods of the radicals. The paper incurred the enmity of those whom it opposed, and violence was threatened to prevent its publication. But it came out regularly with the assistance of James W. Woffindin, a young newspaper man. Mr. Taft died at Weston, January 3, 1867. He had taken
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a prominent part in politics during the war. In 1861 he was elected Prose- cuting Attorney of Barbour; and the same year was chosen member of the second Wheeling Convention which re-organized the government of Vir- ginia. Early in the same year, when Thomas A. Bradford and Sumuc] Woods were candidates for the Richmond Convention, which passed the Ordinance of Secession, Mr. Taft supported Mr. Woods, believing that he was more friendly to a preservation of the Union. When Mr. Woods while a member of the Convention, introducedl resolutions declaring the Federal Government ought to recognize the independence of the Seceeded States, Mr. Taft upheld the position taken by Mr. Woods; and in a meeting held in Philippi March 7, 1861, was one of a committee which drafted resolutions sustaining Mr. Woods. When the war actually came, Mr. Taft supportcd the North. He was in Philippi on June 3 when the Federal artillery opened on the town; and from an attic window (present residence of C. P. Thomp- son, he watched the Confederates going up the pike, and was heard to exclaim, "Thank God!" He hated slavery, and although he did not wish for war, yct when the war came, he wanted it to stamp slavery out forever. He was instrumental in setting at liberty many persons who had been arrested because of their supposed sympathies with the South. He knew what arrest was, because he had been taken forcably from his own house by Confederates a short time before and had been confined in jail because of his sympathies with the North.
As a lawyer, Mr. Taft stood high in the profession, and as an orator, he was eloquent and successful, exercising much influence over a jury.
GRANVILLE ESKRIDGE TAFT, born July 19, 1862, in Taylor County, son of Nathan H. Taft, was married January 10, 1889 to Emma L., daugh- ter of John T. and Rachel B. (Critchfield) Alexander. Children, Cyril Dan- iel, Lottie Lee, John Hopkins and Rachel May. He is a Baptist, a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a K. of P., an Elk, and a Democrat, He is county clerk of Barbour, elected by a very large majority. He was educated in the public schools, and before he became clerk he was a printer and a railroad agent.
HUGH TURNER. This eccentric man, called "the Hermit" lived for the most of his life, and died in what is now Barbour County. The circum- stances of his birth and early life are unknown. He was the first contrac- tor to build the first court house in Randolph County, 1788; but he failed to fulfill his contract. He withdrew from the settlements and lived along Laurel Hill at several places in caves or in vaults made by building stone walls against the faces of cliffs. He was a Scotchman. He eked out a liv- ing by making millstones from the rock found along Laurel Hill suited to that purpose (Pottsville Conglomerate) and sold them to millers who built the first mills in Glade District. John G. Johnson says there are some of the unfinished millstone on Teter's Creek on Mrs. Catherine Poling's land. Some of his old camping places are nearby John Harris who died in 1882
JOHN F. WOODFORD.
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in his ninety-third year remembered him, and said that Turner seldom came into the settlements, and could never be induced to lie in bed, always lying on the floor before the fire. He was called a "woman hater." He had a camp on the top of Laurel Hill on the old road which led from Belington by way of Beaver Creek to Beverly. The camp was ten or twelve feet square, built of stones beside a cliff, and the ruins may still be seen. About 1860 Lewis Corley (who in 1898 hung himself at the Poor Farm in this county) found a copper rule one foot long, with inches and fractions mark- ed on it, and some mason's tools, in a crevice of a cliff. The tools were probably his. The old man was found dead by some persons going from Glady Creek to court at Beverly. He had a fire near the roadside, and it was supposed that he had fainted and fallen into the fire. He had rolled into the road. Some of his millstones were near the place in recent years. Others had been rolled down the steep eastern face of Laurel Hill (toward Leading Creek) and they acquired such force that they knocked down trees
HENRY TRIMBLE, born 1872 in Highland County, Virginia, in politics is a Democrat, and belongs to the order of Good Templars. He is a har- ness maker at Belington where he located in 1899. He was educated in the public schools, and has followed his trade with success for eleven years.
JACOB SPOTSWOOD THACKER was born in Nelson County, Virginia, 1843, son of Jacob and Sarah (Demaster) Thacker; and on November 2, 1866 was married to Jerusha, daughter of Edward and granddaughter of Elisha Talbott; and as a second marriage, April 25, 1876, he married Isa- bel, daughter of Addison and Elizabeth Reed. Children, Dora Ellen, Hen- rietta, Theodosia Lee, Columbia Lily, Annie L., Cora V., Georgia, Gracie Cordelia, Estella, Jennings Bryan. Mr. Thacker is a member of the Chris- tian Church, is an Odd Fellow, a Democrat and a farmer, residing near Mt. Zion Church where he owns 125 acres, mostly improved. His great grand- father came from Scotland and settled near Richmond; and his grand- father, Wyatt Thacker was born at Richmond, 1785; and his father was born in 1811 and lived to be 84 years old. His grandfather, Henry Demas- ters, served in the War of 1812. Mr. Thacker's children married as follows: Ellen married B. F. Vequesney at Elkins; Henrietta married Alman Poling; Columbia married Grant Williams at Junior; Annie married James Curtis of Harding; and Cora married Riley Poling. Mr. Thacker has travelled in seventeen States and has voyaged 4000 miles by sea. He has been a mem- ber of the Board of Education. During the Civil War he fought on the Con- federate side.
JOHN P. THOMPSON, born 1826 in Barbour County, son of Henry and Mercy (Parrill) Thompson, was married April 7, 1864, in Philippi, to Helen, daughter of Daniel and Jerusha (Hart) Capito. Children, Flora, Eva, Claude H., John Paul, Edna and George P. Mr. Thompson is a member of the Old School Baptist Church, is a Democrat, and for many years was Jus-
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tice of the Peace, and was Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. He was edu- cated in private schools, and one of his instructors was William Ferguson, a pedagogue famous in his day for cruelty to his pupils. However, he made them learn. Mr. Thompson's brothers and sisters were, Hamilton G., William C., Hezekiah J. and Jane R., who married A. P. Wilson. The Thompsons were among the very first settlers in Barbour. The exact date of their coming is uncertain, but it is believed to have been near the time of the coming of the Talbotts; that is, 1780.
JAMES L. THOMPSON, born near Calhoun, 1864, son of James and Maria (Day) Thompson, was married May 5, 1889, to Lucy A., widow of Henry Dayton, who died in 1886. She is a daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Knapp) Delauder. Children, Ethel Catherine, Cornelia Edith, Benjamin Harold. He is a member of the M. E. Church, a Republican and a farmer, living near Calhoun. Mrs. Thompson's grandfather, Henry Knapp, came to West Virginia from New York, and her father was a soldier in the Union army. Catherine Knapp, mother of Mrs. Thompson, was born 1829 at Lost River, Hardy County. She was a daughter of Jacob and Barbara (Feather) Delauder, and came to Barbour when eighteen years of age, where she mar- ried Samuel Knapp. Their children were, John Williamson, Marietta, America, George W., Stephen Hezekiah, Edith Elizabeth, Cornelia Indiana, Lucy Adaline, Samuel Willie, David Festus. Mrs. Knapp has belonged to the M. E. Church 52 years. Mrs. Knapp's great grandfather, Lawrence Delauder, died in 1835 at the age of 103; her grandfather, Abram Delauder, lived to the age of 95, and her father to the age of 83. Her grandfather, George Feather, served in the Revolutionary War. Samuel Knapp was in the Union army.
HEZEKIAH THOMPSON, born 1845, son Henry and Mercy (Parrill) Thompson, was married December 20, 1883, to Augusta, daughter of John R. and Susan (Sinsel) Williamson. He is a Baptist, a Democrat and a farmer, living three miles east of Philippi, where he owns 200 acres of land, devoted to farming and grazing; it is underlaid with coal. Mr. Thompson was a deputy sheriff twelve years, and two years township treasurer, and is an energetic and progressive citizen.
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MRS. AUGUSTA UMBACH was born in Germany, daughter of John Cus ter, and in 1879 was married in Pittsburg to Henry Umbach, who died in 1892. Children, Theodore, Marie, Hilda, Edna and Nelly. She is a mem- ber of the Lutheran Church, and is proprietress of the Luzerne Hotel at Belington. She received her education in Germany and came to America in 1873. Six years ago she came to Belington, previous to which time she had been living on a farm. Four years ago she took charge of the Hotel Luzerne, after having lost heavily by investing in West Virginia coal lands.
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Her father was for twenty years overseer of a large estate in Germany, and she lost a brother in the Franco-Prussian War.
GEORGE WESLEY UTTERBACH, born 1842 in Fauquier County, Vir- ginia, son of Wesley and Juliet (Bailey) Utterbach, was married March 4, 1866, to Florence, daughter of Miner and Matilda (Bolyard) Fleming. Chil- dren, Lloyd J., William S., Charles B., Elmona, James B., Lucy O., Floy D., Willie H., Grace P., Don G., Florence J. He is a member of the M. E. Church, a Republican and a farmer residing near the mouth of the Buck- hannon River. He enlisted in the Federal army in 1861 and fought through the war, taking part in many battles. He was in the Lynchburg Raid with Hunter and Averell. In 1893 Mr. Utterbach was married to Jennie, daugh- ter of John W. Ward, and has one daughter by this second marriage, Mary G.
JUDGE SAMUEL WOODS .* The true object of any one who attempts to write a sketch of the life of another should be to put on record the prom- inent traits of character of the subject of the sketch so all may know what manner of man he was, and gather from his life something which may inspire others in the journey.
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