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Book Title: History Of Greene And Sullivan Counties, Indiana

CHAPTER XIII.
BY J. E. NORRIS.
CURRY TOWNSHIP—BOUNDARIES AND ORGANIZATION-—THE OLD PIONEER— WILLIAM
CURRY—PASCHAL SHELBURN—THE SMOCKS AND GASKINSES— OTHER EARLY SETTLERS—PRIMITIVE
RESOURCES—GAME—NOTED HUNTERS—THE LAST PANTHER—WILLIAM JULIAN AND WIFE—JULIAN'S
MILL—DISTILLERY AND SAWMILL—EARLY PREACHERS—FIRST CHURCHES—SCHOOLS — NATURAL
ADVANTAGES — SHELBURN—FARMERSBURG— THE ADVENTISTS—CURRYVILLE— BURCHARD.

CURRY TOWNSHIP is that portion of Sullivan County occupying the center of the
tier of townships forming the northern third of the county, and is bounded on
the north by Linton Township. Vigo Co.: on the south by Hamilton Township; on
the east by Jackson Township, and on the west by Fairbanks Township. The
township was named in honor of William Curry, among the oldest, if not the
oldest, settler within its borders. The exact date of the organization of Curry
is now lost, the records of the county, in which occurred mention of the
organizations within Sullivan County, having been destroyed in 1850: but Curry
was among the earliest, townships organized, and as a consequence was one of the
first settled. It is to be regretted that so much valuable information should
have been swept out of existence by the destruction of the court house and all
it contained: but enough, however, has been handed down from father to son upon
which to base with reasonable certainty all the leading and interesting facts
connected with those hardy old heroes who came out from the midst of the
comforts and even luxuries of civilization to build up and make blossom this
beautiful land, wherein their children and grandchildren might dwell in peace
and plenty, and surrounded by smiling fields and lowing herds. Too much praise
cannot be given—too much respect cannot be paid—to the old pioneer of the West,
who, with his rifle on his shoulder and ax in hand, shot and hewed his way
through heart of savage, as well as heart of oak, to the wilderness, which soon
gave token of his presence by the curling column of smoke from his cabin
chimney, and the ringing stroke of his keen-edged ax. The true lover of the
grand and great can never pass the grave of one of those sturdy old henchmen of
civilization, without lifting his hat to, or dropping a tear upon, the moldering
dust that covers his last resting-place.

WILLIAM CURRY, OF KENTUCKY.

   About the year 1817, or possibly previous to that date, William Curry came
from Kentucky and settled upon a tract of land where now is located the village
of Curryville, and just a little later Paschal Shelburn, also a native of
Kentucky, settled in the same section of country as Curry. Then came Henry
Smock, about 1819, bringing seven sons and four daughters, they also being from
Kentucky. From 1819-20, for several years, there arrived numbers of whose
descendants now help to make up the population of Curry Township. Samuel and
Kobert Curry came; Hardy Hill, William Carrithers, William Julian, of Ohio;
Nelson Siner, of Kentucky, father of J. P. Siner, of Shelburn; then Abram Smock
and Andy Weir, Athel, William and Joe Liston, of Ohio; Sebrun Barbre, Levi
Ridgway; William Watson, Robert G. Cummins, John A. Cummins, John and William
Lloyd, Elijah Gaskins, James Gaskins, Abram Fox, Alexander McDonald, John and
Samuel Anderson, Joseph Smith, William Martin, James Ralston, John Cuppy, Robert
McGrew, and many others who are now dead, but whose descendants are now living
in the township, among whom may be mentioned—and who are. by the way, from age
and ancestry, old settlers themselves—the following: Several of the Smock family
—John, Samuel and Henry; the Gaskinses, also, are well represented— William, E.
C. and Samuel: there are also William and Robert Curry, Wallace McKinney, Felix
J. McConklin, William R. Bennett, J. P. Siner, John A. Cummins, J. W. Lloyd,
Isaac H. McKinney, Spencer Russell, Jackson Hinkle, David Stutsman, and many
others, some of whom came in along in the forties and fifties. Mrs. Nancy Smock,
widow of Joseph Smock, deceased, is the oldest person in the township, being
eighty- five years of age, and Henry Smock is probably the oldest man, being
eighty years old.

PRIMITIVE RESOURCES.

   When the Currys and Smocks and Shelburns came to Sullivan, bringing with them
their entire earthly effects, which consisted often o£ only a pair of oxen, a
rickety wagon and a few rude farming implements, the country, as a matter of
course, was extremely wild. Wolves, deer and turkeys were in the woods and
valleys in almost abundance—the wolves, in fact, most too abundant, while bears
and panthers were frequently met with in the recesses of the forests that
covered almost the entire surface of not only Curry Township, but Sullivan
County. Where there were openings in the timber, a very thick growth of wild
pea-vines covered the ground, and to such an extent as to interfere seriously
with travel, roads, or rather narrow wagon ways, having to be cut through with
almost as much labor as through the forests themselves. Clearing a patch or two
was no child's play, as one can readily imagine, and this had to be done as the
first step toward laying a foundation for a home in the wilderness, for it was
from these patches of corn and potatoes the pioneer expected to derive his
supply of food, in addition to the game his rifle would bring down. A patch of
flax also, and a patch of cotton had to be put out, for clothing was as
necessary as food. There did not exist in those primitive times the handy stores
in the villages or larger towns, for those could be found only at long
distances, nor were these country stores, as now, every few miles apart, from
which could be purchased all that the housewife might need, and where she could
exchange her butter and eggs and chickens for supplies of all kinds. A store was
almost an unheard-of luxury in those wilds, so the women folks had to hackle and
spin their flax, and card their cotton and weave and cut the cloth, and make the
clothing for themselves and husbands and children. Many an anxious hour has some
rustic beauty waited for the finishing of her frock to be worn on the next
Sabbath, and many an anxious lad has watched his good mother as she put the last
finishing touches to the blouse or pants of linsey-woolsey to be worn at some
gathering on Saturday evening after his week's labor had been finished, or in
which to go off to the log cabin church on Sunday. Those good old days had their
pleasures as well as their trials and hardships. The muscular frames, the strong
step and the unerring eye of those sons of toil, and the rosy cheeks and
well-developed forms of their wives and daughters, bore evidence of the
healthfulness of their mode of life, and laid the foundation for the vigorous
constitutions, the stalwart forms, and that innate integrity we find in so many
of their descendants.

NOTED HUNTERS.

   Among the noted hunters of those days were William Julian, William and Joe
Liston, William Watson, Robert Curry and Harrison Smith. The last bear killed in
the township was shot by William Julian, and the last panther, a very large and
ferocious one, was shot by Robert Curry. This panther had been seen in the
vicinity of where he was killed for many months, but the beast was so wary of
his two-legged enemies that he had always successfully evaded his pursuers, or.
if seen, was so swift in his endeavors to escape that he eluded the rifle balls
that, were sent after him. On his last, fatal day, however, he ventured closer
to the settlement, or rather farther away from his lair, than usual, presumably
in search of food. Now, it so happened that Curry was out on the lookout for him
that very day, and as it was only a matter of getting his eyes on the beast to
bag him, so when Curry espied him in the crotch of a large tree, the panther
might have said, with Davy Crockett's coon, when the latter saw Davy raise his
gun, knowing Crockett's unerring aim: "Don't shoot, Davy; I'll come down." Well,
the panther did come down, having been wounded fatally, but was not dispatched
until after a slight struggle. He was a monster of his kind, and weighed
probably 125 pounds, whilst he measured from tip of tail to muzzle over ten feet.

GAME.

   Deer were very plentiful, and sometimes "bunches" of them, to use a modern
cow-boy expression, could be seen browsing on the hillsides, almost within easy
gunshot. The Listons were known to have killed as many as ten in a single day.
Turkeys were extremely abundant, and they formed a large portion of the meat of
the settlers. Wild honey could be obtained in "quantities to suit," as they say
nowadays, by simply "following" a bee trail, spotting the tree and cutting it
down in the fall.

   William Watson was not only a noted hunter, but a noted Indian fighter. He
had been in the famous battle of Tippecanoe, and camped with his command near
the scene of the battle the night before it occurred. As is well known, the
Indians commenced the battle, really, the night before, and Watson, with a
companion, sought rest near a strip of woods, and to deceive the redskins hung a
light-colored blanket up some distance from where they lay. In the morning they
found eleven bullet holes in the blanket, having saved themselves by their
artifice, and beaten the Indians at their own game. As an antagonist, a
civilizer and an inventor the Caucasian has no equal in the economy of this
world, and Mr. "Lo! the poor Indian" must go, as well as all antagonistic races.
If they cannot be abolished, they must succumb.

A NOTED CHARACTER.

   First, possibly, among the noted hunters, stands the name of William Julian.
He was not only a noted hunter, but an eccentric, yet withal a stanch and
estimable citizen. He had many peculiarities, now well remembered by those who
knew him, yet his kindly old face and singularity of manner made him one of the
marked personages of his day. He was a large, round-faced man and somewhat
nervous in temperament. He built the first mill in the township—a water mill,
which stood on Turman Creek—and run it for many years, supplying a want that was
sorely felt up to the time of the erection o£ the establishment, small in its
way, but of prime necessity. The old man was very particular about making a good
quality of meal and prided himself much upon the softness, or lack of grit, in
his product. So habituated had he become to "feeling" the meal as it ran out of
the spout into the bin, that he was continually at it, and even when at the "
store " not far off, or church on Sunday, his fingers were going as if in the
act of testing the grade of his invisible meal. The old fellow was bald, and it
is said that he became so from resting his head against the frame work near the
bin as he leaned forward to "feel" the running meal.

MRS. JULIAN.

   Mrs. Julian, wife of William, was also a noted personage for years in Curry
Township and the adjacent country. She possessed considerable knowledge in
regard to diseases, and knew many remedies for all sorts of ills and ailments,
besides being indispensable at an accouchement, her handiness as a midwife being
acknowledged by all. Besides, she was a resolute, fearless woman, as well as a
kind and accommodating one, and would get upon her horse at any hour of the
night and ride off alone into the darkness for miles, to render all the
assistance that her knowledge and skill could bring to bear upon the sick or
afflicted.

JULIAN'S MILL.

    Julian's primitive mill, as noted above, was an institution that was well
patronized for many years, and the settlers for many miles around brought their
grists to him for grinding. Some of them would have to wait a couple of days to
be accommodated, so slowly did the little mill turn out its orders. So slowly,
indeed, did the stones turn, that it is said that the old miller would pour a
grist into the hopper, and then take down his gun and go for a hunt into the
woods, returning ere long with a turkey or two.

A DISTILLERY.

   William Hazelrig had a distillery about 1840, and made, it is said, a
superior article of tangle-foot, grape-vine, forty-rod whisky. He could make
liquor—that is, something that would produce intoxication—out of almost anything
that would "mash up and ferment," and it is an easy process of the imagination
to fancy what execrable stuff he would run through his still-pipes. That devil's
den is now among the things that were, and there is none like it, either in
Curry or any other section of the county.

   Several tanneries were formerly in operation, but they have now passed away.

SAW MILL.

   The first saw mill was built about 1840, and was located in the eastern
section of the township. It was replaced some years after by others of greater
capacity and later improvements.

EARLY PREACHERS.

   As is usually the case in all the early settlements of the West, we rind the
Methedist circuit-riders with the vanguard of civilization. These old pioneers
of religion could have been found in every settlement of the early days.
Wherever there was a soul to save—wherever humanity needed the healing of the
Great Physician, there the pioneer preacher was found, clad in the humble garb
of those days—home spun suits and home-made hats and boots, and often with one
hand resting upon his pocket Bible and the other upon his rifle; for those old
heroes of the Lord could draw a bead as nicely as he could a conclusion from the
text he was expounding. His welcome form, coming through the woods in the
distance, was a moment of joy to the settlers, for they knew that they would
have meeting on the next Sabbath, and although that "meeting " would not be 'mid
"cathedral arch," or "arches groined with gold," yet they felt, as they
worshiped under the spreading branches of an elm or oak, or within some humble
cabin, that He who was born in a stable would not forget to visit the scene of
their pious, yet lowly devotions. What joy thos9 visits of the pioneer preacher
brought to the hungry souls of the devout and earnest Christian men and women,
who, having left their homes of comparative comfort in the older States, left
also behind them glorious privileges for attendance on divine service. No
wonder, then, that the authorized soldier of the cross met with a warm reception
in the new settlements. Then, indeed, were all fine-drawn creeds and theological
intricacies forgotten; Methodist could kneel in prayer with Baptist, and
Christian with Presbyterian, and all feel that Heaven was no place for sects and
isms, but that the bountiful grace of a Redeeming Savior covered all casts,
shades and shadows and colors and lights of all religions and denominations;
providing, only, that the worshiper was sincere, and that he trusted in the
goodness and providence of God, and acted squarely with his fellow man. Thus the
humble Christian men and women gathered together on Sunday morning, and their
notes of praise, without the accompaniment of deep-toned organ, resounded
through the arching branches of the forest trees, and their thanks in prayer
went up as holy incense rises, pure and free from cant and affectation, straight
to the throne of the Great Jehovah.

   Among these early preachers, and more than probably the first, must have been
Rev. Joel Collins, a Methodist, from Kentucky, who came with the Ledgerwoods and
Haddons, of the southern part of the county. This old soldier in the advance
guard of religion no doubt preached all over the county. And Job M. Baker and
Orsinath Fisher both no doubt held forth in Curry, for they were here before
1820. Rev. Earnhard also was one of the early preachers, and he, too, was a
Methodist circuit-rider. Rev. William Eldridge, a Baptist, was here as early as
1821. Rev. Abram Stark, a Baptist, and Rev. William Stansil, of the same
denomination, were also here and preached at various points, before there was a
church building in the township. Rev. Joseph Wolfe and Rev. John Bailey were
among the earliest preachers also.

FIRST CHURCHES.

   Little Flock Baptist Church society was organized in 1821, by Rev. William
Eldridge, but they had no house of worship for several years afterward, and the
first camp meeting was held by the New Lights in 1824.

   Friendship Baptist Church was probably the first church in the township. The
building stood two miles west of Farmersburg, and was built of logs in the old
primitive way. A neat frame building now occupies the place of the original
humble house of the Lord.

   Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church, three miles southeast of Farmersburg,
was erected after Friendship, and was built by Rev. Thomas Man-warring, who
owned and preached in it.

   Liberty Christian Church came after Ebenezer. It was located about the center
of the township, and Rev. Joseph Wolfe and Rev. John Bailey were the first who
preached in it.

PRESENT CHURCHES.

There are nine church organizations in the township:
Ebenezer Methodist Church, Rev. Marion Rose, pastor.
Friendship Baptist Church, Rev. H. R. Liston, pastor.
Liberty Christian Church, Rev. W. N. Littell. pastor.
Concord Christian Church, Rev. W. N. Littell,  pastor.
Little Flock Baptist Church, Rev. Jacob Smock, pastor.
Shelburn Baptist Church, Rev. Jacob Smock, pastor.
Shelburn Christian Church, no regular pastor.
Shelburn Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Marion Rose, pastor.
Farmersburg Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Marion Rose, pastor.
Seventh-Day Adventists. no regular pastor.

EARLY SCHOOLS.

   Wherever the pioneer settled, in addition to his cabin and his clearing and
his patches fur food, and his humble church building, he must have his
schoolhouse, with its accompanying teacher. Many of those early teachers tramped
over large sections of country in the then far West. They could be found in
Ohio, then in Indiana, then in Illinois, and then farther westward. They adapted
themselves to all circumstances, and were as earnest and careful in their
vocation as the most exact professor of our modern schools, and if their lore
was not as deep as the latter, it was, at least, adapted to the times and
circumstances. What they did not know of the calculi was made up by practical,
hard, common sense, and a certain modus operandi of getting the "rule of three"
into the noddle of the backwoods boy. No thinskinned, palefaced, spectacled
bookworm was our old pedagogue of the bygone days. Ah, no! he was one of your
double fisted, rawboned, resolute fellows, who, if a boy couldn't spell off-hand
the word the master would "give out," was able to take that 125-pound boy by the
top of the head and turn him inside out. And he would come very near doing it,
too, sometimes. Many's the hard rap over the head with an oak ruler, or a
sounder dressing-off with a hickory wand across the most prominent portion of
his anatomy, have most of the older citizens of Curry received from their old
teachers. Yet this same pedagogue was kindly to a fault. He thought it his duty
to-whack knowledge into his pupils, and he thought by sparing the rod that he
was not doing his duty—that he would be robbing the parent who expected, when he
paid for his son's tuition, that the teacher would put "spellin" and "readin"
and "writin" and "rithmetic" into the boy, if not in one way, then in another.
The world moves, however, and it is found that education can now be imparted
more effectually by "moral suasion" than by harsh methods.

FIRST SCHOOL.

   The first schoolhouse stood where now is Currysville. It was erected in 1821,
and was of the usual pioneer pattern—puncheon floor, greased paper windows,
etc., etc. When this log structure was completed, it was looked upon as a
remarkable acquisition to the township, and pupils attended from a radius of
five and six miles. There being no schoolhouse here up to that time, and as
there were beginning to be quite a number of children in the vicinity, the
school was well attended. A man named Graham was the first teacher, and after
him came John Dodd. It is thought that Haywood and Baker, who had taught in the
southern part of the county, also taught here, they having come to Sullivan at
quite an early day.

PRESENT SCHOOLS.

   There are nine schoolhouses in the township outside of the villages, five of
which are frame and four brick, and the average attendance is about 480 pupils.
The schools are well conducted and reflect much credit upon the Trustee, Mr. E.
C. Gaskins, who takes great interest in matters of education. All the school
buildings are comfortable, and are located at the most accessible points
throughout the township. The teachers are well selected and the curriculum will
bear comparison with the best township school.

TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.

   Trustee, E. C. Gaskins; Assessor, W. M. Denney; Justices of the Peace, Joseph
Hendrix, W. H. Snider.

NATURAL ADVANTAGES.

   The township of Curry has, like most of the country in Sullivan County, many
natural advantages. The soil is excellent, producing, with a minimum of labor,
as much as any spot in Indiana. It is well timbered and well watered, and has
the advantages afforded by a well-conducted railroad, the Evansville & Terre
Haute, which passes longitudinally across the township. The timber alone could
be made a source of great revenue, in addition to a very prolific soil, and in
the matter of stock-raising it has the best of facilities. Considerable grain is
raised, and large supplies of butter, eggs and chickens are annually shipped to
all sections of the State. But nature has placed beneath the soil a storehouse
of wealth in the immense coal beds that underlie the country, that will some day
run the price of land in Curry Township up to what would now seem fabulous
figures. Development is all that is needed to bring to this section of country
much business and consequently much wealth.

SHELBURN.

   In 1855, the town of Shelburn was platted by Paschal Shelburn, who came to
Sullivan, as stated before, at an early day. He came from Kentucky in 1818, and
purchased a large tract of land upon which he settled, and there he lived and
died a bachelor, being eighty years old at his death. The place has a population
of about 325, and is growing rapidly. There is much thrift and enterprise
discernible, and when the coal beds are further developed, Shelburn will take an
important step forward.

   The following are the officers of the town, and its business interests:

   Town Councilmen—First Ward, William Jefferson; Second Ward, Dr. J. S.
Buskirk; Third Ward, Hugh Lowery; Fourth Ward, John Banholzer; Fifth Ward, G. C.
Richards.

   School Trustees, John Anderson, Chairman; Erastus French, Hosea Hawkins.

   Clerk and Treasurer, O. T. Martin.

   Postmaster, D. T. Pierson.

   One merchant-mill and one grist-mill.

   General stores, Hugh L. Sherwood, S. E. Cuppy, Robert Linn, M. French & Co.

   Groceries and hardware, J. P. Siner.

   Drugs and groceries, I. W. Patton.

   Drugs, H. B. Stark, J. S. Buskirk.

   Eating house and confectionery, J. T. Wheat.

   Wagon-maker and blacksmith, William Turman.

   Boot and shoe maker, Gotfried Yohn.

   Undertaker and furniture dealer, O. T. Martin.

   Physicians and surgeons, S. D. Osburn, V. E. Delashmut, J. S. Buskirk, J. A.
Harper.

   There are two mines opened and operated by the Shelburn Coal Company.

   Graded school—Principal, William M. Denney; Assistant Principal, Miss Cora
Flood.

   A., F. & A. M., Shelburn Lodge, No. 369, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons,
was organized in 1867, and now has a membership of fifty-three; meets
fortnightly. W. M., W. H. Coffin; S. W., Alexander Martin, J. W., John T.
Anderson; Secretary, O. T. Martin; Treasurer, C. S. Anderson.

   I. O. O. F., Prairie Lodge, No. 420, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was
organized in 1873, and has a membership of fifty-five; meets weekly. N. G., Levi
McCoskey; V. G., Simeon Rogers; P. S., S. D. Osburn; Treasurer, C. B. Bolinger.

   The Amalgamated Union, a miners' organization, have a lodge here.

FARMERSBURG.

   This town was laid out in 1853, by William Hopewell and S. J. Cummins, the
latter gentleman building about the first house in the new settlement. The plat
was located on forty acres of land, and has grown considerably from the first
small nucleus, and bids fair, some day, to attain some importance, as many
indications of enterprise are noticeable in and around the place. The citizens
are kindly disposed to aid development of their natural resources, and cordially
welcome any measure tending that way. The population is about 300 at present.

   The following is a summary of the business interests of Farmersburg and its
officers:

   Councilmen—Robert Vancleave, W. H. Bennett, Albert Deal.

   Clerk—J. K. McClain.

   Marshal—Church Taylor.

   School Trustees—R. J. Cummins, Jackson Hinkle. T. H. Kendal.

   General stores—R. J. Cummins, Riley Whitney, J. D. Baldridge & Son, T. Crary.

   Drug stores—J. Heap, W. B. Bennett.

   Grist mill—George Bounds.

   Two blacksmith shops.

   Postmaster and Notary Public—Jackson Hinkle.

   Physicians and surgeons —John Parker, Z. Foote, Robert Vancleave, W. S.
Duncan, J. H. Bennett.

   Graded School—Principal, B. R. McClellan; Assistant, Miss Maggie Gaskins.
Attendance—first grade, fifty-two; second grade, forty-seven.

THE ADVENTISTS.

   In connection with the history of Farmersburg, a remarkable event occurred in
religious circles. Instances are extremely rare where a new sect, one so
diametrically opposed to all the accepted orthodox beliefs and principles,
succeeds in changing the staid old religionist whose creed and worship have been
handed down to him by his father and mother. After a man has worshiped regularly
on Sunday, and when he has had ingrained into him a reverence for the accepted
Sabbath, it is difficult to get him out of it, and make him work on Sunday and
go to church on Saturday. But this very thing has been brought about by the
Adventists in quite a large number of families in and about Farmersburg. In the
summer of 1883, there arrived at Farmersburg Elders Thompson and Overholzer, who
set up a tent, and, inviting all who chose to do so to come and hear them
expound the Gospel according to the belief and teachings of the Seventh-Day
Adventists. They were not lacking in confidence, these apostles of the new
faith, yet they modestly requested some members in good standing in the other
churches to join their ranks, and give them a send-off, as it were; also, that
if any one chose to invite them to dine or sup with them they might do so. Well,
several members of other churches actually did join the worshipers in the tent,
and the labors of the Elders were rewarded before they got through the summer
with an accession to their ranks of about sixty persons. They believe in keeping
the seventh day (Saturday) as the Sabbath; that the Millenium is near at hand;
that Christ will appear to the saints on earth, coming in a white cloud, and at
the same time a beautiful city will descend upon the earth, wherein the
righteous will dwell for a thousand years, the devil being chained during that
period, and the wicked lying dormant. Then, at the expiration of the thousand
years, the last resurrection will take place, when the devil will be killed, and
the wicked fall dead and rot on the earth, the good and pure and just at the
same time being caught up into the Third Heavens, to dwell forevermore with the
blessed.

CURRYSYILLE.

   This village was laid out in 18S5 by Adam Carrithers, the coal mine, owned by
Richards & Wooley, being the the chief interest. The mine runs a force of about
fifty men, and is being developed by its owners to its full capacity. It
contains one general store. Stephen Bracewell, proprietor, a saw-mill, a
blacksmith shop, and a saloon.

BURCHARD.

   This post office is located about three miles southwest of farmersburg, [sic]
and contains one store, with Lon Hill as storekeeper and Postmaster.


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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
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1884.

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