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Biographies
Source:
A Portrait and Biographical
Record of Portage and Summit Counties, Ohio
containing Biographical sketches of many
Prominent and Representative Citizens.
together with portraits and biographies of all the
Presidents of the United States and Governors of Ohio.
V. 2
Logansport, Ind.
A. W. Bowen & Co.
1898
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MRS.
HENRY CASE. - This lady is the widow of one of the
prominent and substantial citizens of Hudson township, now
deceased - Hudson township, now deceased - Henry Case
- who was born on the Case Homestead Oct. 30, 1817,
son of Chauncey and Cleopatra (Hayes) Case. Henry
Case, received the common education of his day, became a
farmer, a pursuit which he always followed.. He married
Mary L. Goodman, Oct. 27, 1847. She was
born in Connecticut Sept. 7, 1828, at Hartford.
Henry Case and wife settled
on the Case homestead after marriage, and she now
lives on part of the estate with her daughter, Mrs. Hood.
Mr. and Mrs. Case were both members of the
Congregational church. Politically he was a
republican. His children were Nelson born Sept.
13, 1848, now living in Hudson township, where he is a
prominent farmer; Eugene was born June 27, 1850,
lives in Mentor, where he is a merchant; Eliza E. was
born Feb. 13, 1854, and died July 22, 1875; Frank was
born Jan. 17, 1852, and died June 14, 1858; John Goodman,
born Aug. 11, 1856, graduated from the Western Reserve
college in 1881, and is now a farmer in Hudson township,
near the homestead; Edmund W., born Nov. 1, 1858, is
a carpenter and builder at Earlville; Hattie S., born
Jan. 13, 1861; Frederick C. was born July 19, 1863,
and died Oct. 24, 1890; Mary L., was born Oct. 26,
1865, and Clara C., born Mar. 25, 1868. Mary
L. was married, Aug. 24, 1892, to John B. Hobart,
a native of Ohio, a descendant of ante-Revolutionary
ancestors, a graduate of Adelbert college, Cleveland, and
also of a theological institute in the east, and now a
minister in the Presbyterian church.
Politically Henry Case was a republican.
He inherited and purchased the Chauncy Case homestead,
consisting of about 275 acres, and by his thrift and
industry he added to it until he owned a handsome property
of 375 acres. He greatly improved the buildings and
erected just prior to his death, a very substantial modern
barn. He was a prosperous farmer, well known for his
sterling worth, and had just earned a reputation as a
straightforward and honest man.
The genealogy of Mrs. Henry Case is a follows:
She descends from Deacon Richard Goodman, who came to
Cambridge, Mass., in 1632; to Hartford, Conn., in 1639, and
was one of the original proprietors of that town. His
house-lot was on Main street, directly north of the "meeting
house' yard. He was townsman," "surveyor of
common lands and fences," "fence viewer," "juror,"
"sergeant of the train band," "constable." He
married Mary, daughter of Stephen Terry, who
was one of the settlers of Hadley, and was slain by the
Indians in 1676, aged about sixty-seven years. The
above facts about Deacon Richard Goodman entitle the
ladies of this family to be members of the "Society of
Colonial Dames." His son, Richard Goodman,
was born 1663 and died 1730. His son, Timothy
Goodman, was born Sept. 1706, in West Hartford, and died
1786; married in 1735, Joana, daughter of Joseph
and Jane Wadsworth, of Hartford, who in 1687 saved the
charter of Connecticut from seizure by Gov. Andros,
and hid it in the Charter Oak of that city. His son,
Richard Goodman, born April 10, 1748, and died May,
1834, married Nancy Seymour of West Hartford, in
1771, and had thirteen children; Richard Goodman
served from April 21, to June 6, 1777, in Lieut. Seymour's
company of Col. Belden's regiment of Connecticut
militia.
His son, the twelfth child, Sylvester Goodman
born Apr. 18, 1789, married Jan. 1, 1810, Rebecca,
daughter of Deacon Thomas and Rebecca (Ives) Hough
she was born Aug. 29, 1789, and resided in West Hartford
many years. He died in Wolcottville, Conn., Nov. 8,
1834. She moved to Atwater, Ohio, in 1835, and died in
Hudson, Ohio, in 1853. They had seven children, viz.:
Nancy Seymour; Emeline; Henry; Eliza A., who married
John Buss and died May 21, 1889; Thomas
Richard; Susan Gaylord; Mary Lucia, married Henry
Case Oct. 27, 1847. There was a John Goodman
who came to this country in 1620. He was, however,
a single man, and died in 1621; nothing further is known
about him. The ancestry of the Goodman family
is taken from the records in the state library of Albany, N.
Y., by Mrs. Ella Buss Seymour.
Of Chauncy Case's
children, Laura died Nov. 30, 1825, in Hudson, a
single lady aged about twenty-three years; Chauncy
married, first, Dollie Blair and then Sarah Wilcox.
He moved to McComb, Ill., and there died. Clarinda
married Alvin Loomis; Perintha married Amos
Woods; Lucian married Julia Pitkinand for his
second wife he married Lucia Lyman. He moved to
McComb, Ill. Amelia married Charles Hunt,
now deceased, and lived in Cuyahoga Falls; Maria
married John W. Gross.
Frank F. Barlow of Hudson, Ohio, is a substantial
farmer and respected citizen. He was born on Apr. 25,
1858, at Mariaville, Schenectady county, N. Y. He
married Hattie S. Case Dec. 12, 1883. She was
born on the old Case homestead Jan. 13, 1861,
daughter of Henry and Mary (Goodman) Case. To Mr.
and Mrs. Barlow have been born three children,
viz.: Henry C., born Dec. 22, 1885; Harley E.,
born Feb. 14, 1887, and died Feb. 16, 1894; Clara M.,
born June 22, 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow are
both members of the Congregational church at Hudson.
Politically he is a republican. Mr. Barlow
is one of the representative and practical farmers of Hudson
township. James M. Hood was born in Tennessee
at Flat Creek, Aug. 1, 1863, son of Hezekiah and Emily
(Jones) Hood. It is believed that William Hood,
the grandfather, was born in Connecticut, fifty-four miles
east of Hartford, of English descent. He married and
settled in Tennessee, near Flat Creek, where he bought a
large plantation and was slaveholder. He was a brother
of Gen. Hood, of the Confederate army.
He freed his slaves a few years before the Civil war and
after the war he removed to West Virginia, where he bought a
farm and passed his remaining days. He lived to a
venerable age of eighty-eight years and died in 1890 or
1891. Hezekiah Hood, father of James
M., was born about 1831, in Connecticut, and was a small
boy when he went with his father to Tennessee. He was
a blacksmith by trade and married in Allegheny, Pa. He
settled in Tennessee and moved to Virginia during the Civil
war, passing through the Confederate lines to the northern
army. He died near Marietta, Ohio, aged about
forty-five years, the father of six children and a member of
the Presbyterian church.
James M. Hood received a common-school education
in Noble county, Ohio, and early began to work on the farm -
was fireman for a time on a railroad, came to Summit county
in 1887, and was clerk for a time in Ravenna in the hardware
and agricultural implement business. He married, Nov.
13, 1895, in Hudson, Ohio, Clara C. Case, born Mar.
25, 1868, daughter of Henry and Mary (Goodman) Case.
After marriage Mr. Hood settled on part of the old
homestead, and has a good farm of 100 acres.
Source: A Portrait and
Biographical Record of Portage and Summit Counties, Ohio -
V. 2 - Publ. 1898 - Page 593 |
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LORA CASE, one of the most
venerable and honored citizens of Summit county, a pioneer
and a man who was always identified with the best interests
of humanity, sprang from sterling English descent on the
Case side, who came from England in the old colonial
Puritan times.
Richard Case, great-grandfather of subject, was
the father of Richard Case, the grandfather of
subject, who was a farmer of Hartford county, Conn., and to
his marriage were born Richard, Sterling, George, Chauncy,
Gideon, Ruth and others not remembered. Richard,
the grandfather of subject, lived to be an aged man and died
in Connecticut. He had a brother who was a soldier in
the war of the Revolution and was killed by a spent cannon
ball. A premium was offered for British cannon balls
found in battle, and he and another soldier attempted to
stop an apparently slow-moving ball and was instantly
killed.
Chauncy Case, son of Richard, was the
father of Lora Case, was born in Hartford county,
Conn., Nov. 20, 1775, and became a farmer. He married,
in 1801, Cleopatra Hayes born Sept. 4, 1779, and the
children were Laura, born Aug. 30, 1802; Chauncy,
born Oct. 26, 1803; Clarinda, born Jan. 27, 1808;
Parintha born Apr. 10, 181-; Lora, born Nov. 17,
1811; Edward, born Aug. 15, 1814; Lucian, born
July 3, 1816; Henry born Oct. 30, 1817; Amelia,
born Nov. 6, 1819; Maria, born May 8, 1822.
Chauncy Case owned a good farm in the town of Granby,
Hartford county, Conn. He moved with his family to
Summit county, Ohio, arriving at Hudson July 4, 1814, having
made the journey with a two-horse team, and had a milk cow
tied on behind for milk for the children. They were
six weeks on the way. His brother-in-law, Gideon
Mills (who had married his wife's sister, Dorothy
Hayes), and his family came with the party.
Chauncy Case settled in Hudson, in the east part of
town, on a farm of 160 acres, about twenty acres having been
cleared and a hewed log house having been built, but not
finished, having neither door, chimney nor window nor floor.
Mr. Case put in a puncheon floor, and improved his
house, and built, the second year, a frame barn. He
cleared up his farm and became a substantial farmer and made
a good pioneer hoe, and here the last five children were
born. Mrs. Case was a member of the
Congregational church and Mr. Case was an old-line
whig in politics and an abolitionist. He was a sturdy
pioneer and lived to be about eighty-four years old, and
died in May, 1865. He was a very industrious and
hard-working man, much respected as a substantial farmer and
good citizen.
Lora Case, son of about and the subject of this
sketch, was born Nov. 17, 1811, in Granby township, Hartford
county, Conn., and was about two and a half years old when
brought by his parents to Ohio; was brought up among the
pioneers and received a pioneer common school education in a
log house at Darrowville, but always took a great interest
in reading good books and a wide interest in reading god
books and a wide interest in all political matters, and
improved his mind. He worked hard at clearing land and
on the farm when young. He married, at the age of
about twenty-five years, May 10, 1837, in Hudson, Ohio,
Sarah A. Wright, born May 8, 1814, in Sharon, Conn., a
daughter of Thomas and Clarissa (Hollenbeck) Wright.
Thomas Wright was a farmer born in Connecticut and
married there, and was of English ancestry. Their
children were William, Samuel, Sarah A., Mary, George,
Jeremiah, Henry and Frederick. Thomas Wright
moved to Summit county, Ohio, in 1815, and settled in Hudson
township, cleared up a farm from the woods, and there passed
the remainder of his days. He was a member of the
Congregational church and highly respected by all. He
died at the age of seventy-five years. Lora Case
and wife settled on a farm of 160 acres in the woods in
Streetsboro township, Portage county, near the line.
He cleared up this farm and had paid $5 per acre, his father
giving him the first payment of $5, and by diligence and
hard work, aided by his helpful wife, he made a good farm
and home, and in 1864 sold this farm and home, and in 1864
sold this farm and moved to another, which consisted of 164
acres when he bought it, but he sold all but sixty acres.
He built good buildings and made a good home.
To Mr. and Mrs. Case were born Chauncy,
Ellen, Julian and Wilbert. Mr. Case died
Dec. 8, 1888, a member of the Congregational church at
Hudson, and a woman of many virtues. In politics
Mr. CAse was a whig and an abolitionist, and was one of
the founders of the republican party in Portage county, and
voted for John C. Fremont. He was a stanch
lover of freedom and was connected with the under
ground railroad, and his house was a station on this famous
secret route, and he, a number of times, afforded shelter to
the down-trodden slaves on their way north. At one
time in the fifties, in the fall of the year, a colored man
from Ravenna (a hackman for Samuel Taylor, who was a
Quaker tavern-keeper of that place), drove out in the night
and called upon Mr. Case and told him that Samuel
Taylor had sent him seven fugitive slaves, and that men
were on their track at Ravenna. Mr. Case's
house was selected because it was a little off the usual
route, which was via David Lane's, who lived at
Streetsboro, and thus the pursuers were thrown off the
tract. Mr. Case kept them from Friday night
until Sunday night, and then drove them from Friday night
until Sunday night, and the drove them to Hudson to John
Markley, who immediately drove them to a Mr. Johnsons,
at Northfield, who drive them to Cleveland, and taken safely
to Canada. This party consisted of four men and two
women - all young - and a child. They kept very quiet
and seemed depressed and fearful, and said but little and
kept close to the barns, and could not at first be induced
to come to the house for food. This kind of work in
the cause of liberty was dangerous, for many would have
gladly given information and caused the arrest of those who
aided the slaves to escape, as they were liable to a fine
and imprisonment and the price of the slaves. Thus
these fearless men risked their property and even liberty to
help the down-trodden to freedom - who were strangers to
them and whom they never saw again. They were simply
instruments for the great cause of liberty, and many a slave
was thus taken to Canada and freedom. Mr. Case
was always industrious and has all his life been an active
temperance worker, and voted for prohibition during its
advocacy by Green Clay Smith, and was a
faithful laborer in the good cause. He was a much
respected and well-known pioneer, was a man of intelligence
and ability, and died July 14, 1897, deeply mourned by the
entire community. His reminiscences are just now
appearing in the Hudson Independent.
Source:
A Portrait and Biographical Record of Portage and Summit
Counties, Ohio - V. 2 - Publ. 1898 - Page 594 |
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NEWMAN
CHAMBERLAIN, one of the substantial farmers of Stowe
township, Summit county, Ohio, descends from sterling New
England ancestry, the tradition being that several of the
brothers of the name came from England in the Mayflower in
1620.
Moses Chamberlain, father of
Newman, was born in Dalton, Mass., in May, 1709.
He was a farmer, and married Hannah Newell; who was
born in Dalton, Mass., in 1761. Moses Chamberlain
moved to Riga, N. Y., and after some years, to Sweden,
Monroe county, N. Y., where he cleared up a farm from the
woods, about ninety years ago. He was a
substantial farmer, and owned at Sweden, a fine farm of 160
acres. His children were: Merrick, Lyman,
Adeline, Patty, John, Newman, Alvira, Stephen, Nelson, Moses
and Joseph. Mr. Chamberlain was a
Jacksonian democrat, a respected citizen, and was frequently
a member of the grand jury, lived to be a little over sixty
years old, and died on his farm, in October, 1849. He
was a straightforward, industrious man, well-known for his
honesty of character.
Newman Chamberlain was born October 31, 1820, at
Riga, N. Y., received a common district-school education,
and has always been a farmer. He came to Stowe
township, Summit county, Ohio, in 1842, and married here
Sept. 29, 1844. Miss Charlotte S. Stark, who
was born in Stowe township, Jan. 14, 1824, daughter of
Benjamin and Hannah (Chapman) Stark.
The Stark Family is of
the same stock as Gen. Stark, of Vermont, the famous
Revolutionary general, and here of the battle of Bennington.
Joseph Stark grandfather of Mrs. Chamberlain,
was born in Vermont, but died on his farm in Chazy, N. Y.,
about 1830. His children were Benjamin, James,
Rebecca, Susan, Anna and Sallie.
Benjamin Stark was born in Vermont, May 16, 1793.
He was a farmer, and married Hannah Chapman, January
3, 1817. She was born at Lake Champlain, N. Y.,
Dec. 25, 1798, a daughter of Ebenezer Chapman, and the
children were Frederick, Philander, William, Charlotte
S., Eliza A., Laura, Carroll, George, Aurilla, Maryette.
Lucius and Lewis (twins), and Hiram.
Benjamin Stark came to Ohio in 1817, making the journey
overland with horses, and was twenty-four days on the road.
He first located in Kent, Ohio, and then settled in
Stowe township, and here developed a farm of 140 acres, and
made a good home, becoming a substantial farmer. He
reared his children well, and gave them all a fair
education. Twelve of his children lived to maturity.
He was a man of sterling worth, and much industry and
integrity of character. He and wife were both member
of the Disciples' church at Stowe Corners, in which he was a
deacon, and in politics he was first a whig, and then a
republican. He reached the venerable age of nearly
eighty years and died Oct. 19, 1872, a much respected
citizen. When Benjamin Stark was a boy of but
fourteen years old he did some service in the war, his
father's house being filled with wounded soldiers from a
battle, and at one of these battles he carried water
to the soldiers in the field. Moses Chamberlain
father of the subject, moved from Dalton, Mass., with a
three-horse team, and was obliged to cut his way through the
woods.
Newman Chamberlain, after his marriage, lived on
his father's homestead four years and then returned to Stowe
township, and lived on a farm for awhile, and then lived in
Akron, where he and wife kept a boarding house ten years.
He next moved with his family to Stowe township, and settled
on his present farm in 1854, having bought eighty acres.
By thrift and economy he prospered, aided by his faithful
wife, and they now have a good farm of 160 acres, with
tasteful residence, substantial barns, etc.
Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain are both members of the
Methodist church, in which he has held the office of
steward. In politics he is a republican. they
have one son, Dr. Frederic N., of Akron, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain are well known for their
upright christian character, are very industrious and
frugal, and by their patient labor and thrift they have
acquired a goodly property. Mr. and Mrs.
Chamberlain, in the kindness of their hearts, have
brought up and given a good home to five children, viz.:
William P., Lillie O., Charles L. Wright, Harvey F.
Wright and Clara E. Wright.
Moses Chamberlain, a brother of Newman, was
a soldier of the Civil war, was captured and imprisoned in
the infamous Libby prison, and finally died from the effect
of the imprisonment. Merrick G., another
brother, was a licensed Methodist exhorter. Of the
sons of Benjamin Stark, two were prominent physicians
- Dr. Frederick B. and Dr. Philander H., both of
Detroit, Mich. William H. was a prominent
commission merchant of Newton Falls, Ohio, where he died.
Lewis V. was a soldier in the Civil war and served
all through. Lucius, twin brother, died young.
Carl J., is a Disciple minister of Hamilton, Ill.,
and Hon. George P., of Michigan, is the youngest.
The Chamberlain Family - The first of this
family of whom there is any account was William
Chamberlain who came to America from England, and whose
record extended from 1620 to 1706. His wife was named
Rebecca, and their children were William, Timothy,
Isaac, John, Sarah, Jacob, Thomas, Edward, Rebecca, and
Abraham. Jacob, the sixth child, married
Experience, and their children were Jacob, John O.,
Jason and Ebenezer. Jacob, first child of
Jacob, married Susannah Stone, and their
children were Jacob, Josiah, Susannah, Isaac, Simon,
William, Sarah and Margaret. Isaac, fourth
child of Jacob (second), married Mary Keys,
and their children were Isaac and Mary.
Isaac, first child of Isaac, married Elizabeth
Sprague in 1780. The children were Luther,
Isaac, David, Elizabeth, Hannah, Jacob, Lydia, and
Mary. Isaac was married twice, but the children
were all by first wife.
Jacob, seventh child of Isaac, second,
married Sarah Strong, in 1820, and by her had two
children, David and Elizabeth. He
married Dec. 26, 1829, his second wife, Anna Nutting,
who bore the following children, Sarah, Emily G., Jane
Hulda, Jacob, and William, second - all the
children being born in Sharon, Conn. Anna Nutting
was born at Groton, Mass., a sister of Prof. Rufus
Nutting, of the Western Reserve college. Jacob
and Sarah both went to the Arcat Mission, India.
The above is the line of lineal descent from the first
Chamberlain in America to W. I. Chamberlain the
editor of the Ohio Farmer, now residing at Hudson, Ohio.
It is believed that all the Chamberlains of the Western
Reserve are of this same stock. J. Chester
Chamberlain, No. 135 East Eighteenth street New York
city, nephew of W. I. Chamberlain is investigating
the Chamberlain genealogy.
Dr. Frederick Chamberlain, one of the leading
dentists, and a respected citizen of Akron, is the only
child of Newman and Charlotte (Stark) Chamberlain.
He was born Aug. 18, 1851, in Akron, Ohio. He received
his education in the public schools and the high school, and
attended the college at Alliance and Hudson four years.
He studied dentistry in the dented college of Philadelphia,
from which he graduated in 1887, as D. D. S. He began
the practice of dentistry at Canal Fulton, Ohio, and settled
in Akron in 1888, where he soon built up a successful
practice by his skill and ability in his profession.
He married, Aug. 22, 1872, at Akron, Demaris D. Viall
who was born in Richfield township, Summit county, a
daughter of S. and Mary A. (Freeby) Viall, the
Vialls being among the pioneers of Summit county and
Akron. To Dr. and Mrs. Chamberlain have been
Blanche S., Oct. 6, 1874, at Kent, Ohio.
Fraternally, the doctor is a Mason and a member of
Elliott lodge, No. 14, at Canal Fulton, and a knight
templar. Dr. Chamberlain is well known and
highly respected, and stands high in his profession.
In politics he is a republican.
Source: A Portrait and Biographical
Record of Portage and Summit Counties, Ohio -
V. 2 - Publ. 1898 - Pages 886 - 888 |
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WILLIAM E. CHAMBERLAIN, M. D., of Akron, Ohio, is
of sterling English descent, and is the son of a physician,
who reared four sons to the profession of medicine, to which
complicated science nature seems to have peculiarly adapted
the male members of this honored family.
The ancestors of the doctor, on coming to America,
settled near Charleston, S. C., and from these descended
Jacob F. Chamberlain, the grandfather of Dr. William
E., and the father of Dr. Charles W. Chamberlain.
The last named is a renowned practitioner and has had an
extended experience in Cumberland, Md., Wheeling, W. Va.,
and in Ohio, and is still in active practice. He
married, in Allegheny county, Pa., Miss Lovinah LaCock,
daughter of David LaCock, and to this union have been
born Dr. William E., Dr. G. W. E., Dr. Jacob F.,
Dr. Norman W. (deceased), Louisa, Adelaide
(deceased) and Lovinah P. Of the sons, three
served in the Civil War - Doctors William E., G. W. E.
and Jacob F. - Dr. G. W. E. serving as chief of
saddlery in the Sixth Ohio cavalry, and Dr. Jacob F.
in the Second Ohio, same branch of service.
Dr. William E. Chamberlain was born in Allegheny
City, Pa., Nov. 29, 1840, and received his preparatory
education at Marietta, Ohio. He then studied medicine
under his father, Dr. Charles W. Chamberlain, and
also pursued a course of study in chemistry and
pharmaceutics; in 1863 and 1864 he attended the medical
department of the university of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and
later graduated from the Charity Medical college, at
Cleveland, Ohio (in the spring of 1879), receiving his
degree of M. D., and still later received an ad eundem
degree from the medical department of the Wooster
university, Cleveland, and is now, also, an alumnus of the
Western Reserve college of Cleveland, a member of the
Northeastern Ohio Medical society and of the Cleveland
(Ohio) Medical society; he possesses a valuable library of
well-selected works pertaining to his science, and keeps
well abreast of every advance made in its progress.
Dr. Chamberlain began the actual practice of his
profession at the age of seventeen years, at the Peninsula,
Ohio, in conjunction with his father, with whom he remained
until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in
company D, First Ohio light artillery, and was soon
afterward detailed as surgeon. He served at Ivy
Mountain, Green River, Prestonburg, East Liberty, Louisa,
Ky., and was also in many skirmishes, but was finally taken
sick from exposure during a severe snow-storm, which led to
his confinement in hospital at Louisville, Ky., and at
Columbus, Ohio, and also received other injuries, from which
he never fully recovered, being still deprived of hearing in
one of his ears. His term of service continued through
thirteen months, when he was honorably discharged on account
of disability, although he was a man of very robust
constitution prior to his enlistment.
The first marriage of Dr. Chamberlain took place
Mar. 31, 1862, at Liverpool, Medina county, Ohio, to Miss
Mary Prichard, a native of the place, and a daughter of
Sheldon and Marietta Prichard and to this union was
born one child - Myrtle M., Feb. 3, 1868.
Having been deprived by death of his first companion, the
doctor next married Miss Elizabeth R. Greer.
Source: A Portrait and
Biographical Record of Portage and Summit Counties, Ohio -
V. 2 - Publ. 1898 - Page 597 |
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