THE HARTMAN FAMILY BOOK

BY THE HARTMAN FAMILY

IN GERMANY ON MARCH 27, 1815, A MALE CHILD WAS BORN, JOHN FREDERIC HARTMAN. A FEW YEARS LATER, ON JULY 4, 1819, A FEMALE CHILD WAS BORN, ALSO IN GERMANY. HER NAME WAS ANNA-MARIE ELEANORE UKORMAN. THESE TWO LATER MARRIED AND THE HARTMAN FAMILY ANCESTRY TRACES TO THAT UNION.

EARLY IN 1843 THESE YOUNG FOLKS, LIVING IN DETMOLD, LIPPE, GERMANY, REACHED A DECISION. THEY WERE GOING TO AMERICA. DETMOLD WAS ABOUT EIGHTY MILES SOUTH OF BREMAN. SO WITH THEIR ONE CHILD, JOHN FREDERIC AND ELEANORE HARTMAN SAILED FROM GERMANY AND ARRIVED IN THE NEW LAND AT A LOCATION WHICH IS NOW NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. FROM HERE THEY MOVED UP THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. HERE THEY MADE THEIR HOME FOR APPROXIMATELY EIGHT YEARS.

DURING THIS TIME, THERE WERE ADDED TO THE FAMILY THREE MORE CHILDREN, SO NOW THERE WAS YOUNG JOHN REINHARD, FREDERICK WILHELM, MARY ELEANORE AND FREDERIC.

AGAIN THE FAMILY MOVED, NOW TO PEORIA, ILLINOIS WHERE JOHN FREDERIC WORKED AT HIS TAILOR TRADE. THEY MADE THEIR HOME ON THE CORNER OF MONROE AND CAROLINE STREET AND HIS TAILOR SHOP WAS IN THE BASEMENT OF THE BUILDING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF HAMILTON AND ADAMS. IN THE THEN SMALL CITY, JOHN FREDERIC WAS ABLE TO MAKE A LIVING AND THERE WERE MORE CHILDREN ADDED TO THEIR FAMILY CIRCLE: LYDIA, EMIL, EDWARD, LYDIA AND SARAH.

JOHN FREDERIC AND ELEANORE WERE FRUITFUL IN OTHER WAYS ALSO. HAVING FOUND THEIR SALVATION IN JESUS CHRIST, THEY ATTACHED THEMSELVES TO THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT PEORIA. THEY GATHERED AT FIRST IN THE HOUSE OF MOTHER SOMMERS ON THE METAMORA ROAD, BUT LATER IN THEIR OWN HOME AT MONROE AND CAROLINE. DURING THESE DAYS, A NEW RESPONSIBILITY WAS PLACED ON JOHN FREDERIC, THAT OF MINISTERING TO THE GROUP OF BELIEVERS.

AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARS IN PEORIA, JOHN FREDERIC AND ELEANORE ONCE AGAIN PULLED UP STAKES AND THIS TIME MOVED OUT TO THE PRAIRIE, NOW KNOWN AS THE VICINITY OF ROANOKE. HERE THEY SETTLED ON THE FARM, AND JOHN FREDERIC CONTINUED TO MINISTER AT THE ROANOKE CHURCH. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS A KIND, LOVING MAN, RATHER SMALL AND WEARING A BEARD. PRIOR TO HIS DEATH ON JAN. 19, 1895, HE DID NOT GO UP ON THE PULPIT, BEING UP IN AGE, APPROACHING EIGHTY YEARS OF AGE WHEN HE DIED.

ELEANORE HAD ALREADY PASSED AWAY, HAVING DIED FEB. 25, 1882, AND JOHN FREDERIC LIVED OUT THOSE REMAINING YEARS AT THE HOME OF LYDIA. THEY WERE BOTH BURIED IN THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY AT ROANOKE, THE GRAVES ARE LOCATED IN THE OLD PART ON THE EAST SIDE.

JOHN FREDRICK HARTMAN 1815 - 1895

(WIFE) ANNA-MARIE ELEANORE UKORMAN 1819 -1882

(SON) JOHN R. HARTMAN 1842 - ????

(SON) FREDERICK WILHELM HARTMAN 1844 - 1847

(DAUGHTER) MARY (HARTMAN) NUSSBAUM 1848 - 1938

(SON) FREDERIC HARTMAN 1850 - 1929

(DAUGHTER) LYDIA HARTMAN 1853 - ????

(SON) EMIL HARTMAN 1856 - ????

(SON) EDWARD HARTMAN 1858 - 1940

(DAUGHTER) LYDIA (HARTMAN) MANGOLD 1862 - 1957

(DAUGHTER) SARAH (HARTMAN) ZIMMERMAN 1865 - 1927

EDWARD HARTMAN, SR.

EDWARD HARTMAN, SR. WHO HAD SPENT THE GREATER PART OF HIS MORE THAN FOUR SCORE IN THIS CITY AND VICINITY, PASSED AWAY AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL, ON MONDAY MORNING AT 7:15 O’CLOCK AT THE AGE OF 81 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AND 24 DAYS.

BORN IN PEORIA NOVEMBER 4, 1858, SON OF FREDERICK AND ELEANORA HARTMAN, HE LIVED THERE UNTIL 14 YEARS OF AGE WHEN THE FAMILY REMOVED TO A FARM NEAR EUREKA, WHERE HE WORKED FOR HIS FATHER 12 YEARS.

ON JANUARY 18, 1885, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MARY STEFFEN, AND THREE YEARS LATER THEY MOVED TO A FARM NEAR STRAWN, WHERE MRS. HARTMAN PASSED AWAY JUNE 2, 1911, LEAVING BESIDES HER HUSBAND FIVE SONS AND THREE DAUGHTER.

MR. HARTMAN ON NOVEMBER 20TH 1913, WAS MARRIED TO ANNA DATWEILER. THEY RESIDED ON THE FARM NEAR STRAWN FOR SIX YEARS, MOVING TO THIS CITY IN THE WINTER OF 1919.

AT THE AGE OF 23 YEARS MR. HARTMAN BECAME A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, REMAINING A FAITHFUL AND ACTIVE MEMBER IN THAT CHURCH FOR 59 YEARS.

SURVIVING BESIDES THE WIDOW ARE EIGHT SONS - SILAS AND DAVE, STRAWN; EDWAED, JR., OF CHICAGO; EZRA, LEIPSIC, O.; JEFF, LLOYD AND ALVIN, ALL OF FAIRBURY, LEROY OF MORTON; THREE DAUGHTERS - MRS. JOHN ALT, OF CISSNA PARK; MRS. FRED KARLE, OF PAYNE, O.; MRS. HOWARD HAY, OF CHICAGO. ALSO SURVIVING IS A SISTER, MRS. LYDIA MANGOLD, OF ROANOKE. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A DAUGHTER, LOIS.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT ONE O’CLOCK WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MRS. EDWARD HARTMAN

MRS. EDWARD HARTMAN PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME SOUTHEAST OF FAIRBURY LAST FRIDAY MORNING AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS OF A FEW DAYS. HER DEATH WAS A GREAT SHOCK TO THE MANY FRIENDS OF THE DECEASED AND CAUSED MUCH SADNESS TO ALL WHO KNOW HER, FOR SHE WAS AN EXCELLENT WOMAN AND STILL IN THE PRIME OF LIFE.

MARY STEFFEN WAS BORN NEAR MACKINAW, ILL., AUG. 31, 1865. SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD AT HER BIRTHPLACE AND JAN. 16, 1888, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO EDWARD HARTMAN. THEY LIVED IN WOODFORD COUNTY FOR THREE YEARS AND THEN MOVED TO THE FARM, SOUTHEAST OF FAIRBURY, WHERE THEY HAVE SINCE RESIDED. MRS. HARTMAN WAS A MOTHER OF NINE CHILDREN, EIGHT OF WHOM SURVIVE, FOUR GIRLS AND FOUR BOYS, LILLY, MARY, ESTER, SILAS, DAVID, EDWARD, JEPTHA AND EZRA, WHO WITH THE BEREAVED HUSBAND, HER FATHER, TWO SISTERS, ONE BROTHER AND NUMEROUS FRIENDS SURVIVE AND MOURN HER DEATH. THE DECEASED WAS A WOMAN WHO WAS ESTEEMED BY ALL. IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE SHE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED AND DEEPLY MOURNED FOR HER LIFE WAS ONE OF SELF SACRIFICE AND DEVOTION TO HER LOVED ONES.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE SOUTH CHURCH MONDAY AFTERNOON. REV. HUBER OF KANSAS, OFFICIATING. THE SERVICES WERE ATTENDED BY A LARGE CONCOURSE OF PEOPLE. TWO COACH LOADS OF FRIENDS ARRIVED ON THE MORNING TRAIN FROM THE WEST, COMING FROM ROANOKE, EUREKA, GRIDLEY AND OTHER POINTS. A LARGE NUMBER WERE ALSO PRESENT FROM EASTERN POINTS.

THE BEREAVED HUSBAND AND FAMILY HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF ALL IN THEIR GREAT LOSS.

EDWARD HARTMAN 1858 - 1940

(WIFE) MARY (STEFFEN) HARTMAN 1895 - 1911

(DAUGHTER) LILLIAN (HARTMAN) ALT / KELLERHALE 1886 - 1969

(DAUGHTER) LOIS HARTMAN 1877 - 1910

(SON) SILAS HARTMAN 1890 - 1968

(SON) DAVID HARTMAN 1892 - 1971

(SON) EDWARD HARTMAN JR. 1895 - 1971

(SON) JEPTHAH "JEFF" HARTMAN 1898 - 1969

(DAUGHTER) MARY (HARTMAN) KARLE / BAUMGARTNER 1900 - 1974

(SON) EZRA HARTMAN 1903 - 1976

(DAUGHTER) ESTHER (HARTMAN) HAY 1906 -????

RITES TADAY FOR FORMER FAIRBURIAN, MRS. KELLERHALS, 83

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. LILLIAN KELLERHALS, 83, OF CISSNA PARK, FORMERLY OF FAIRBURY, WILL BE HELD AT 10 A.M. TODAY, THURSDAY, SEPT. 18, 1969, AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF FAIRBURY. BURIED WILL BE IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY.

SHE DIED AT 6:05 A.M. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1969 AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL.

MRS. KELLERHALS WAS BORN FEB. 14, 1886 AT EUREKA, A DAUGHTER OF EDWARD AND MARY STEFFEN HARTMAN. SHE WAS MARRIED TO JOHN ALT NOV. 7, 1920 AT STRAWN. HE DIED IN DECEMBER 1947. SHE WAS THEN MARRIED TO FRED KELLERHALS IN OCTOBER, 1963, AT CISSNA PARK.

SURVIVING ARE HER HUSBAND; A SON EDWARD ALT. CISSNA PARK; THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. MARY STOLLER, GRIDLEY; MRS. MARGARET SCHUMACHER, PEORIA; MRS. EUNICE FRANK, WASHINGTON; TWO STEPDAUGHTERS, MRS. LAURA LOCKHART, WELLINGTON; MRS. BERTHA BENCHEIMER, COLUMBUS, OHIO; FIVE STEPSONS, WALTER KELLERHALS, ROSSVILLE; ALBERT AND EDWARD KELLERHALS, BOTH OF MILFORD; ROBERT KELLERHALS, CISSNA PARK; ARTHUR KELLERHALS, WATSEKA.

ALSO TWO SISTERS, MRS. ESTHER HAY, CHICAGO; MRS. MARY BAUMGARDNER, BLUFFTON, IND.; SIX BROTHERS, DAVID HARTMAN, FAIRBURY; EDWARD HARTMAN, DUNEDIN, FLA.; EZRA HARTMAN, BLUFFTON, OHIO; LLOYD HARTMAN, AURORA; ALVIN HARTMAN, WELLESLEY HILLS, MASS.; LEROY HARTMAN, PEORIA; 18 GRANDCHILDREN AND 15 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF FAIRBURY.

LOIS HARTMAN DEAD

LOIS HARTMAN, DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. EDWARD HARTMAN, LIVING SOUTH OF FAIRBURY, DIED WEDNESDAY MORNING OF TYHOLD FEVER, AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS. MISS HARTMAN WAS 23 YEARS OLD AND HAD BEEN IN DELICATE HEALTH THE GREATER PART OF HER LIFE.

THE DECEASED WAS AN EXCELLENT YOUNG LADY AND HER DEATH IS DEEPLY DEPLORED BY ALL. SHE WAS BORN IN THIS LOCALITY AND LIVED HERE ALL HER LIFE. THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD AT THE SOUTH CHURCH THIS AFTERNOON.

HARTMAN RITES HERE SUNDAY

THE FUNERAL FOR SILAS HARTMAN, 78, OF FAIRBURY WAS HELD 1 P.M. SUNDAY AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. BURIAL WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MR. HARTMAN DIED AT 12:32 A.M. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1968, AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL, WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT FOR TWO WEEKS. HIS BODY WAS TAKEN TO COOK FUNERAL HOME.

HE WAS BORN FEBRUARY 11, 1890, AT STRAWN, A SON OF EDWARD AND MARY STEFFEN HARTMAN. HE MARRIED ELIZABETH KUENZI APRIL 12, 1920, AT PONTIAC, AND SHE DIED SEPTEMBER 14, 1945. HE FARMED IN THE STRAWN AREA UNTIL 1951, WHEN HE MOVED TO FAIRBURY.

SURVIVING ARE: FIVE SONS WAYNE, RACINE, WIS.; ARTHUR, COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.; DONALD, NORMAL; WARREN, STRAWN; AND VERNON, FAIRBURY; FOUR DAUGHTERS, MRS. CAROLYN SCHAFFER, FORREST; MRS. MARJORIE SCHAFFER, FAIRBURY; MRS. GLADYS MEMLER, ROCKFORD; AND MRS. BETTY HIBNER, ELWOOD; SIX BROTHERS, DAVE, FAIRBURY; EDWARD, DUNEDIN, FLA.; EZRA, BLUFFTON, OHIO; ALVIN, SCARSDALE, N. Y.; LEROY, PEORIA; AND LLOYD, AURORA; AND THREE SISTERS, MRS. LILLIAN KELLERHALS, CISSNA PARK; MRS. MARY BAUMGARTNER, BLUFFTON, IND.; AND MRS. ESTHER HAY, CHICAGO; AND 29 GRANDCHILDREN AND THREE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

ONE SISTER PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

RITES TODAY FOR DAVID HARTMAN, 79, OF FAIRBURY

DAVID HARTMAN, 79, FAIRBURY, DIED AT 8:20 P.M. MONDAY NOV. 8, 1971, IN FAIRBURY HOSPITAL, WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT TWO DAYS. HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT IN CARLE HOSPITAL, URBANA, FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS AND IN FAILING HEALTH THE PAST FOUR YEARS.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 10 A.M. TODAY, THURSDAY, NOV. 11, AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, FAIRBURY, WITH MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

VISITATION WAS HELD AFTER 6 P.M. WEDNESDAY AT THE STIVER HOME FOR FUNERALS AND WILL BE HELD AN HOUR BEFORE SERVICES AT THE CHURCH ON THURSDAY.

HE WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 12, 1892, IN FAYETTE TOWNSHIP, A SON OF EDWARD AND MARY STEFFEN HARTMAN. HE ATTENDED RURAL STRAWN SCHOOLS.

HE MARRIED MARY PETERS IN 1915 IN JOLIET. SHE DIED AUGUST 30, 1952. HE THEN MARRIED ADA FARNEY MILLER IN OCTOBER, 1953, IN BURLINGTON, OKLA.

HE FARMED IN THE STRAWN AREA UNTIL MOVING TO FAIRBURY IN 1943. HE WAS DISTRIBUTOR FOR BACHTOLD WEED MOWERS FOR 20 YEARS.

SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE: TWO SONS, MELVIN OF FAIRBURY, HARVEY OF WATSEKA; TWO STEPSONS, GODFREY MILLER OF EL DORADO, KANS., AND DR. R. J. MILLER OF PEORIA; FOR DAUGHTERS, MRS. MABEL SPRINGS OF BURLINGTON, OKLA.; MRS. LUCILLE SCHURTER, CHICAGO; MISS RUTH HARTMAN, PEORIA; MRS. EVELYN MALAIMARE, VENTURA, CALIF.; ONE STEPDAUGHTER, MRS. DORISBAHR, BURLINGTON, KANS.; FOUR BROTHERS, EZRA, BLUFFTON, OHIO; LLOYD, KANKAKEE; ALVIN, WELLESLEY HILLS, MASS.; LEROY, PEORIA; TWO SISTERS, MRS. MARY BAUMGARDNER, BLUFFTON, IND. AND MRS. ESTHER HAY, CHICAGO; 15 GRANDCHILDREN AND TWO GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE INFANT SON, TWO SISTERS, THREE BROTHERS, INCLUDING EDWARD, WHO DIED 12 DAYS AGO IN FLORIDA.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF FAIRBURY.

HOLD FLORIDA RITES FOR ED HARTMAN, 76

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR ED HARTMAN, 76, OF DUNEDIN, FLA., FORMERLY OF STRAWN, WERE HELD AT 2 P.M. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1971, AT THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL. HE HAD BEEN ILL SEVERAL YEARS.

HE WAS BORN MARCH 19, 1895, AT STRAWN, THE SON OF MR. AND MRS. ED HARTMAN SR. HE MARRIED LIBBIE LEVE IN CHICAGO.

SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE; THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. MILDRED KRISOR AND MRS. DOROTHY ERICKSON, BOTH OF MOUNT PROSPECT; AND MRS. VIRGINIA JENKINS, HOT SPRINGS, ARK.; ONE SON, RUSSELL, MOUNT PROSPECT; TWO SISTERS, MRS. ESTHER HAY, CHICAGO; AND MRS. MARY BAUMGARDNER, BLUFFTON, IND.; TWO BROTHERS, DAVIS, FAIRBURY; AND EZRA, BLUFFTON, OHIO; THREE HALF-BROTHERS, LLOYD, KANKAKEE; LEROY, PEORIA; AND ALVIN, MARTYLAND; 15 GRANDCHILDREN; AND 12 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

RITES HERE FOR J. A. HARTMAN, 71

THE FUNERAL FOR JEFF A. HARTMAN, 71, OF PEORIA WAS HELD HERE TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 22, 1969, AT 2 O’CLOCK IN THE STIVER HOME FOR FUNERALS. BURIAL WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MR. HARTMAN, WHO WAS A RESIDENT OF FAIRBURY UNTIL 29 YEARS AGO, DIED AT 4:50 A.M. SUNDAY IN UNITED METHODIST HOSPITAL, PEORIA. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE ENDSLEY AND SON FUNERAL HOME AT PEORIA.

HE WAS BORN JANUARY 10, 1898, AT STRAWN, A SON OF EDWARD AND MARY STEFFEN HARTMAN. HE WAS MARRIED TO PEARL WILLIAMS NOVEMBER 10, 1923, AT FORREST. HE WAS A LIVESTOCK AND FEED SUPPLIES SALESMAN UNTIL HE RETIRED TWO YEARS AGO.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE; SIX BROTHERS, DAVE, FAIRBURY; EZRA, BLUFFTON, OHIO; EDWARD, DUNEDIN, FLA.; LEROY, PEORIA; LLOYD, AURORA AND ALVIN, WELLESLEY HILLS, MASS.; AND THREESISTERS, MRS. ESTHER HAY, CHICAGO; MRS. MARY BAUMGARDNER, BLUFFTON, IND.; AND MRS. LILLIAN KELLERHALS, CISSNA PARK.

A BROTHER AND A SISTER PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

STRAWN NATIVE, MRS. MARY BAUMGARTNER, 73, DIES FEB. 27

MRS. MARY BAUMGARTNER, 73, BLUFFTON, IND., A NATIVE OF STRAWN, DIED WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27, 1974. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD MARCH 2 AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OF WHICH SHE WAS A MEMBER. BURIAL WAS AT LATTY, OHIO.

SHE WAS BORN IN NOVEMBER, 1900, AT STRAWN, A DAUGHTER OF EDWARD AND MARY STEFFEN HARTMAN. SHE MARRIED FRED KARLE IN FEBRUARY, 1938. HE DIED IN 1951. IN AUGUST, 1960, SHE MARRIED LOUIS BAUMGARTNER, WHO DIED IN DECEMBER, 1966.

SURVIVING ARE FOUR STEPCHILDREN, HARRY AND ROGER BAUMGARTNER, LUCILLE STEFFEN AND MABEL HEYERLY, ALL OF BLUFFTON, IND.; ONE SISTER, ESTHER HAY, CHICAGO; FOUR BROTHERS, EZRA HARTMAN, BLUFFTON, OHIO; LLOYD HARTMAN, SIDNEY; ALVIN HARTMAN, BOSTON, MASS.; AND LEROY HARTMAN, PEORIA.

RITES TODAY FOR EZRA HARTMAN, 72

ERZA HARTMAN, 72, BLUFFTON, OHIO, FORMERLY OF FAIRBURY, FORREST AND STRAWN, DIED AT 6:10 A.M. TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1976, AT BLUFFTON, OHIO.

HIS FUNERAL WAS HELD AT 3:30 P.M. MAY 20 IN THE DILLAR FUNERAL HOME IN BLUFFTON, OHIO. BURIAL WAS ALSO IN BLUFFTON.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY FOUR BROTHERS, SILAS, DAVE, JEFF AND EDWARD HARTMAN.

HE WAS BORN IN 1904, AT STRAWN, THE SON OF EDWARD AND MARY STEFFEN HARTMAN. HE MARRIED MARCIA HOPKINS AT FORREST. SHE SURVIVES.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE A SON, ROBERT, AT HOME; ONE SISTER, MRS. ESTHER HAY, CHICAGO; THREE BROTHERS, LLOYD, SIDNEY; LEROY, PEORIA, AND ALVIN, IN MASSACHUSETTS.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH.

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