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'''Henry Stephen Clubb''' (1827–1922) was an English-American [[Bible Christian Church (vegetarian)|Bible Christian]] minister, activist, journalist, author, Civil War veteran, and [[Michigan state senator]]. Born in [[Colchester]], England, Clubb emigrated to the United States in 1852, where he became an advocate for various social justice causes, including [[Temperance movement in the United States|temperance]], [[abolitionism]], and [[Vegetarianism by country|vegetarianism]]. Clubb also led the Bible Christian Church in Philadelphia and founded the Vegetarian Society of America, where he served as president. In 1903, he published his best known work, [[Thirty-nine Reasons Why I Am a Vegetarian|''Thirty-nine Reasons Why I Am a Vegetarian'']].
'''Henry Stephen Clubb''' (June 21, 1827 – October 29, 1921) was an English-American [[Swedenborgian]], [[Abolitionism|abolitionist]], [[Chartism|chartist]], journalist and author, who was state senator for Michigan, and founder and first President of the Vegetarian Society of America (VSA).


== Biography ==
== Biography ==


=== Early life and background ===
Clubb was born on June 21, 1827, in [[Colchester]], England.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Henry S. Clubb letterbook; Payne and Swiney letterbook 1836-1840, 1865|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-1898clu?byte=1594752;focusrgn=bioghist;subview=standard;view=reslist|access-date=2020-07-06|website=William L. Clements Library}}</ref><ref name=":4" /> He had at least one brother, Robert, and one sister, Sarah Anne. His father, Stephen Clubb, was a Swedenborgian and raised his son in the same faith. Both of his parents were vegetarians for a time;<ref name=":0" /> they were also members of the [[Vegetarian Society]].<ref name=":2" /> Clubb was inspired to become a vegetarian by [[W. Gibson Ward]]'s visits to his father's home, where he listened to Ward's vivid descriptions of the horrors and cruelties of the [[slaughterhouse]].<ref name=":2" />
Henry Stephen Clubb was born on 21 June 1827, in [[Colchester]], England.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Henry S. Clubb letterbook; Payne and Swiney letterbook 1836-1840, 1865|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-1898clu?byte=1594752;focusrgn=bioghist;subview=standard;view=reslist|access-date=2020-07-06|website=William L. Clements Library}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2017-03-20 |title=Henry Clubb, 1827-1921 |url=https://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/henry-clubb-1827-1921/ |access-date=2024-08-17 |website=Chartist Ancestors |language=en-GB}}</ref> He was the youngest of the nine children of Stephen and Elizabeth Clubb. His parents were first [[Unitarianism|Unitarians]], then became [[Swedenborgians]]. They were also [[Vegetarianism|vegetarians]] for a time and were members of the [[Vegetarian Society]], as we as his brother Robert. Clubb's education, similar to that of many English boys of the time, was obtained from various sources, including attending evening school and studying [[William Cobbett|Cobbett]]'s Grammar and [[Pitman shorthand|Pitman's phonography]] until the age of twelve.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/historyofphilade00phil |title=History of the Philadelphia Bible-christian Church for the First Century of Its Existence, from 1817 to 1917 |publisher=J. B. Lippincott co. |year=1922 |location=Philadelphia |pages=67–89}}</ref>


=== Early dedication to social causes ===
Clubb was working as a clerk at the post office when he heard about a London-based commercial traveler named William Ward about a community called the Concordium and practicing an alternative lifestyle. This community, later called [[Alcott House]] was found in [[Ham Common, London|Ham Common]], and influenced by [[transcendentalism]]. In 1842, Clubb joined this community. His journey there was via London, his first visit to the English capital and his first journey by train. After the project failed, he moved to London and worked with [[James Simpson (Bible Christian)|James Simpson]], a cowherdite and vegetarian. In 1850, he joined the [[Bible Christian Church (vegetarian)|Bible Christian Church]], a sect founded by [[William Cowherd]]. He also became the local secretary of the [[Vegetarian Society]] in [[Salford]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Gregory|first=James|date=Summer 2001|title=A Michigander, A Patriot and Gentleman|url=https://www.kancoll.org/voices_2001/0701gregory.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020728221439/http://www.kancoll.org/voices_2001/0701gregory.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2002-07-28|access-date=2020-07-06|website=KanColl's Online Magazine}}</ref>
At the age of 13, Clubb became a clerk at the Colchester post office.<ref name=":6" /> While working there, he heard about a London-based commercial traveler named [[W. Gibson Ward]] about a community called the Concordium and practicing an alternative lifestyle. This community, later called [[Alcott House]] was found in [[Ham Common, London|Ham Common]], and influenced by [[transcendentalism]].<ref name=":1" /> Clubb was inspired to become a vegetarian by Ward's regular visits to his father's home, where he listened to Ward's vivid descriptions of the horrors and cruelties of the [[slaughterhouse]].<ref name=":2" />


In 1842, at the age of 15, Clubb joined the Concordium. His journey there was via London, his first visit to the English capital and his first journey by train. After the dissolution of the community, he remained in London and became proficient in Pitman's shorthand, which had been advocated by progressives like the Concordists as a tool for the 'new age'. He initially worked as a shorthand teacher before taking on the role of secretary to [[James Simpson (Bible Christian)|James Simpson]], the affluent leader of the early English vegetarian movement.<ref name=":1" />
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In 1853, Clubb emigrated to the United States and initially found work as a journalist in New York, where he worked alongside [[Charles Anderson Dana|Charles A. Dana]] for the ''[[New-York Tribune]]''.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=A.|first=E.|date=January 1896|title=The Rev. Henry S. Clubb|url=https://ivu.org/history/societies/clubb.html|journal=Vegetarian Messenger|location=Manchester}}</ref> As an abolitionist and pacifist, he lectured against slavery.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Iacobbo|first1=Karen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0AiAz62C_jcC|title=Vegetarian America: A History|last2=Iacobbo|first2=Michael|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2004|isbn=978-0-275-97519-7|location=Westport, Connecticut|pages=89–91|language=en}}</ref>


In 1850, he joined the [[Bible Christian Church (vegetarian)|Bible Christian Church]], a sect founded by [[William Cowherd]].<ref name=":1" /> He also became the local secretary of the Vegetarian Society in [[Salford]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Gregory|first=James|date=Summer 2001|title=A Michigander, A Patriot and Gentleman|url=https://www.kancoll.org/voices_2001/0701gregory.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020728221439/http://www.kancoll.org/voices_2001/0701gregory.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2002-07-28|access-date=2020-07-06|website=KanColl's Online Magazine}}</ref> and wrote for the ''Vegetarian Advocate'' newspaper.<ref name=":6" /> Around this time, Clubb and his family participated in a shorthand and vegetarian community in [[Stratford St. Mary|Stratford St Mary]] ({{Circa|1848–1851}}), near Colchester.<ref name=":1" />
[[File:Clubb-family.jpg|thumb|Henry S. Clubb with his wife and daughters]]

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Clubb married Anne Barbara Henderson on November 15, 1855, in [[Allegan, Michigan]];<ref name=":2" /> they had three daughters.<ref>{{Cite web|title=1896 Rev. Henry Stephens Clubb Autographed Photo, Vegetarian Activist|url=https://ancestorville.com/products/rev-henry-stephens-clubb-genealogy|access-date=2020-07-06|website=Ancestorville Genealogy}}</ref>
By 1848, Henry Clubb had joined the [[Chartism|Chartist]] movement. Clubb played a key role in uniting the Chartist localities and land plan branches in the region into what became known as the Essex and Suffolk Chartist Union. However, his involvement appears to have been brief. The following year, he was elected president of a dietetic class at the Library Institution in Salford and was earning a living through lecturing and writing on vegetarianism across the country.<ref name=":6" />

=== Career in the United States ===
[[File:Portrait of Henry S. Clubb.png|thumb|Portrait of Clubb]]
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In 1853, Clubb emigrated to the United States and initially found work as a journalist in [[New York City|New York]], where he worked alongside [[Charles Anderson Dana|Charles A. Dana]] for the ''[[New-York Tribune]]''.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=A.|first=E.|date=January 1896|title=The Rev. Henry S. Clubb|url=https://ivu.org/history/societies/clubb.html|journal=Vegetarian Messenger|location=Manchester}}</ref> As an [[Abolitionism|abolitionist]] and [[Pacifism|pacifist]], he lectured against slavery.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Iacobbo|first1=Karen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0AiAz62C_jcC|title=Vegetarian America: A History|last2=Iacobbo|first2=Michael|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2004|isbn=978-0-275-97519-7|location=Westport, Connecticut|pages=89–91|language=en}}</ref>


Between 1856 and 1857, he was involved with Charles DeWolfe and John McLaurin in building a utopian community known as [[Octagon City, Kansas]]. This project was originally designed as a vegetarian colony, but changed its focus to promoting a highly moral society with the octagon as its basic architectural structure, as propagated by [[Orson fowler|Orson Fowler]]. The project failed due to mosquitoes, malnutrition, grain thefts and general exhaustion in the inhospitable terrain.<ref name=":1" />
Between 1856 and 1857, he was involved with Charles DeWolfe and John McLaurin in building a utopian community known as [[Octagon City, Kansas]]. This project was originally designed as a vegetarian colony, but changed its focus to promoting a highly moral society with the octagon as its basic architectural structure, as propagated by [[Orson fowler|Orson Fowler]]. The project failed due to mosquitoes, malnutrition, grain thefts and general exhaustion in the inhospitable terrain.<ref name=":1" />
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Living in [[Grand Haven, Michigan]], he published the Grand Haven Herald newspaper, and served as state senator from the [[Michigan's 29th Senate district|29th District]] from 1873 to 1874.<ref>''Michigan Official Directory and Legislative Manual 1923-24'' (section: "Members of Michigan Legislature from 1835 to 1922 Inclusive", pp. 94–190; Clubb is on p. 97). Lansing, Michigan: Published by the State of Michigan Under the Direction of Charles J. DeLand, Secretary of State</ref>
Living in [[Grand Haven, Michigan]], he published the Grand Haven Herald newspaper, and served as state senator from the [[Michigan's 29th Senate district|29th District]] from 1873 to 1874.<ref>''Michigan Official Directory and Legislative Manual 1923-24'' (section: "Members of Michigan Legislature from 1835 to 1922 Inclusive", pp. 94–190; Clubb is on p. 97). Lansing, Michigan: Published by the State of Michigan Under the Direction of Charles J. DeLand, Secretary of State</ref>


=== Vegetarian Society of America ===
He briefly returned to England in 1901, visiting Salford. In 1907, he decided to write a history of vegetarianism, to be published in the ''Chicago Vegetarian Magazine''.<ref name=":1" /> Clubb's wife died in 1915.<ref name=":2" />
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Clubb founded the Vegetarian Society of America (VSA) in 1886 and became its first president. He published a cookbook for the organization and founded its magazine ''Food, Home and Garden''.<ref name=":1" /> In 1893, Clubb was largely responsible for the success of the International Congress for Vegetarians at the [[Chicago World's Fair (1893)|Chicago World's Fair]].<ref name=":2" />


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In 1900, the VSA merged with the [[Chicago Vegetarian Society]].<ref name="Puskar-Pasewicz 2010">Puskar-Pasewicz, Margaret. (2010). ''Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism''. Greenwood. p. 180. {{ISBN|9780313375569}}</ref> The VSA's ''Food, Home and Garden'' was renamed ''The Vegetarian and Our Fellow Creatures'' (1901–1903), ''The Vegetarian Magazine'' (1903–1925), ''The Vegetarian Magazine and Fruitarian'' (1925-1926) and ''The Vegetarian and Fruitarian'' (1926–1934).<ref name="Puskar-Pasewicz 2010" />
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Clubb died in [[Philadelphia]], on October 29, 1921, at the age of 94.<ref name=":2" /> He is buried at Oakwood Cemetery, [[Sharon, Pennsylvania]], with his wife and daughters.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|date=2017-03-20|title=Henry Clubb, 1827-1921|url=http://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/henry-clubb-1827-1921/|access-date=2020-07-06|website=Chartist Ancestors|language=en-GB}}</ref>


== Vegetarian Society of America ==
=== Later life and death ===
[[File:Clubb-family.jpg|thumb|Clubb with his wife and daughters]]Clubb briefly returned to England in 1901, visiting Salford. He published ''[[Thirty-nine Reasons Why I Am a Vegetarian]]'' in 1903, describing his reasoning for following a vegetarian lifestyle.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Clubb |first=Henry Stephen |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thirty-nine_reasons_why_I_am_a_vegetarian |title=Thirty-nine reasons why I am a vegetarian |date=1903 |publisher=Vegetarian Society of America}}</ref> In 1907, he decided to write a [[history of vegetarianism]], to be published in the ''Chicago Vegetarian Magazine''.<ref name=":1" />


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Clubb died in [[Philadelphia]] on 29 October 1921, at the age of 94, due to [[chronic gastritis]] and [[dementia]].<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=Mercer County, Pa. |url=https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ME-buried.html#cms00728 |access-date=2024-08-17 |website=The Political Graveyard}}</ref> He was buried at Oakwood Cemetery, [[Sharon, Pennsylvania]],<ref name=":7" /> with his wife and daughters.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|date=2017-03-20|title=Henry Clubb, 1827-1921|url=http://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/henry-clubb-1827-1921/|access-date=2020-07-06|website=Chartist Ancestors|language=en-GB}}</ref>
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Clubb founded the Vegetarian Society of America (VSA) in 1886 and became its first president. He published a cookbook for the organization and founded its magazine ''Food, Home and Garden''.<ref name=":1" /> In 1893, Clubb was largely responsible for the success of the International Congress for Vegetarians at the [[Chicago World's Fair (1893)|Chicago World's Fair]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/historyofphilade00phil|title=History of the Philadelphia Bible-christian Church for the First Century of Its Existence, from 1817 to 1917|publisher=J. B. Lippincott co.|year=1922|location=Philadelphia|pages=67–89}}</ref>


=== Personal life ===
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In 1900, the VSA merged with the [[Chicago Vegetarian Society]].<ref name="Puskar-Pasewicz 2010">Puskar-Pasewicz, Margaret. (2010). ''Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism''. Greenwood. p. 180. {{ISBN|9780313375569}}</ref> The VSA's ''Food, Home and Garden'' was renamed ''The Vegetarian and Our Fellow Creatures'' (1901–1903), ''The Vegetarian Magazine'' (1903–1925), ''The Vegetarian Magazine and Fruitarian'' (1925-1926) and ''The Vegetarian and Fruitarian'' (1926–1934).<ref name="Puskar-Pasewicz 2010"/>
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Clubb married Anne Barbara Henderson on 15 November 1855, in [[Allegan, Michigan]]<ref name=":2" /> and they had three daughters.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=1896 Rev. Henry Stephens Clubb Autographed Photo, Vegetarian Activist |url=https://ancestorville.com/products/rev-henry-stephens-clubb-genealogy |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408094222/https://ancestorville.com/products/rev-henry-stephens-clubb-genealogy |archive-date=2023-04-08 |access-date=2020-07-06 |website=Ancestorville Genealogy}}</ref> His wife died in 1915.<ref name=":2" />


== Selected publications ==
== Selected publications ==
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Latest revision as of 11:43, 17 August 2024

The Reverend
Henry S. Clubb
Born
Henry Stephen Clubb

(1827-06-21)21 June 1827
Colchester, England
Died29 October 1921(1921-10-29) (aged 94)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Resting placeOakwood Cemetery, Sharon, Pennsylvania, U.S.
40°01′23″N 75°06′03″W / 40.0231018°N 75.1007996°W / 40.0231018; -75.1007996
Occupations
  • Minister
  • activist
  • journalist
  • author
  • politician
Notable workThirty-nine Reasons Why I Am a Vegetarian
Spouse
Anne Barbara Henderson
​
​
(m. 1855; died 1915)​
Children3
Signature

Henry Stephen Clubb (1827–1922) was an English-American Bible Christian minister, activist, journalist, author, Civil War veteran, and Michigan state senator. Born in Colchester, England, Clubb emigrated to the United States in 1852, where he became an advocate for various social justice causes, including temperance, abolitionism, and vegetarianism. Clubb also led the Bible Christian Church in Philadelphia and founded the Vegetarian Society of America, where he served as president. In 1903, he published his best known work, Thirty-nine Reasons Why I Am a Vegetarian.

Biography

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Early life and background

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Henry Stephen Clubb was born on 21 June 1827, in Colchester, England.[1][2] He was the youngest of the nine children of Stephen and Elizabeth Clubb. His parents were first Unitarians, then became Swedenborgians. They were also vegetarians for a time and were members of the Vegetarian Society, as we as his brother Robert. Clubb's education, similar to that of many English boys of the time, was obtained from various sources, including attending evening school and studying Cobbett's Grammar and Pitman's phonography until the age of twelve.[3]

Early dedication to social causes

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At the age of 13, Clubb became a clerk at the Colchester post office.[2] While working there, he heard about a London-based commercial traveler named W. Gibson Ward about a community called the Concordium and practicing an alternative lifestyle. This community, later called Alcott House was found in Ham Common, and influenced by transcendentalism.[4] Clubb was inspired to become a vegetarian by Ward's regular visits to his father's home, where he listened to Ward's vivid descriptions of the horrors and cruelties of the slaughterhouse.[3]

In 1842, at the age of 15, Clubb joined the Concordium. His journey there was via London, his first visit to the English capital and his first journey by train. After the dissolution of the community, he remained in London and became proficient in Pitman's shorthand, which had been advocated by progressives like the Concordists as a tool for the 'new age'. He initially worked as a shorthand teacher before taking on the role of secretary to James Simpson, the affluent leader of the early English vegetarian movement.[4]

In 1850, he joined the Bible Christian Church, a sect founded by William Cowherd.[4] He also became the local secretary of the Vegetarian Society in Salford[4] and wrote for the Vegetarian Advocate newspaper.[2] Around this time, Clubb and his family participated in a shorthand and vegetarian community in Stratford St Mary (c. 1848–1851), near Colchester.[4]

By 1848, Henry Clubb had joined the Chartist movement. Clubb played a key role in uniting the Chartist localities and land plan branches in the region into what became known as the Essex and Suffolk Chartist Union. However, his involvement appears to have been brief. The following year, he was elected president of a dietetic class at the Library Institution in Salford and was earning a living through lecturing and writing on vegetarianism across the country.[2]

Career in the United States

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Portrait of Clubb

In 1853, Clubb emigrated to the United States and initially found work as a journalist in New York, where he worked alongside Charles A. Dana for the New-York Tribune.[5] As an abolitionist and pacifist, he lectured against slavery.[6]

Between 1856 and 1857, he was involved with Charles DeWolfe and John McLaurin in building a utopian community known as Octagon City, Kansas. This project was originally designed as a vegetarian colony, but changed its focus to promoting a highly moral society with the octagon as its basic architectural structure, as propagated by Orson Fowler. The project failed due to mosquitoes, malnutrition, grain thefts and general exhaustion in the inhospitable terrain.[4]

In the American Civil War, Clubb fought for the Union Army as a quartermaster. He took part in the Siege of Vicksburg, with his wife accompanying him. Clubb was hit by a bullet, but survived because the bullet was slowed down when it passed through his pocket which was filled with money and his naturalization papers, which were destroyed.[5]

Living in Grand Haven, Michigan, he published the Grand Haven Herald newspaper, and served as state senator from the 29th District from 1873 to 1874.[7]

Vegetarian Society of America

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Clubb founded the Vegetarian Society of America (VSA) in 1886 and became its first president. He published a cookbook for the organization and founded its magazine Food, Home and Garden.[4] In 1893, Clubb was largely responsible for the success of the International Congress for Vegetarians at the Chicago World's Fair.[3]

In 1900, the VSA merged with the Chicago Vegetarian Society.[8] The VSA's Food, Home and Garden was renamed The Vegetarian and Our Fellow Creatures (1901–1903), The Vegetarian Magazine (1903–1925), The Vegetarian Magazine and Fruitarian (1925-1926) and The Vegetarian and Fruitarian (1926–1934).[8]

Later life and death

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Clubb with his wife and daughters

Clubb briefly returned to England in 1901, visiting Salford. He published Thirty-nine Reasons Why I Am a Vegetarian in 1903, describing his reasoning for following a vegetarian lifestyle.[9] In 1907, he decided to write a history of vegetarianism, to be published in the Chicago Vegetarian Magazine.[4]

Clubb died in Philadelphia on 29 October 1921, at the age of 94, due to chronic gastritis and dementia.[10] He was buried at Oakwood Cemetery, Sharon, Pennsylvania,[10] with his wife and daughters.[11]

Personal life

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Clubb married Anne Barbara Henderson on 15 November 1855, in Allegan, Michigan[3] and they had three daughters.[12] His wife died in 1915.[3]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Henry S. Clubb letterbook; Payne and Swiney letterbook 1836-1840, 1865". William L. Clements Library. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
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  7. ^ Michigan Official Directory and Legislative Manual 1923-24 (section: "Members of Michigan Legislature from 1835 to 1922 Inclusive", pp. 94–190; Clubb is on p. 97). Lansing, Michigan: Published by the State of Michigan Under the Direction of Charles J. DeLand, Secretary of State
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