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The Cape Girardeau County Genealogical Society was organized in May 1970, a non-profit organization, its primary purpose is education in the field of genealogy. Membership is open to individuals upon payment of the annual dues of $10, or a couple for $15, per year, beginning in May. Life membership is available for a one-time payment of $250. Web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocgcgs/index.htm The CGCGS Library is located in the Research Room at the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center, 112 East Washington, Jackson, MO and is open during regular Archive Center hours. Our meetings are held at The Cape Girardeau County Archive Center, 112 East Washington in Jackson, MO, bi-monthly in January, March, May, July, September, and November on the fourth Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., unless announced otherwise. CGCGS publishes this quarterly, THE COLLAGE OF CAPE COUNTY, in March, June, September, and December, sent free to members. All members are encouraged to submit articles for publication. Submissions on disk (MS Word, rich text, or text files) or by email (text or rich text format) are encouraged, but not essential. Mail to Bill Eddleman, 1831 Ricardo Drive Cape Girardeau, MO 63701 (email: [email protected]).

TABLE OF CONTENTS Dr. Patrick Gilroy: Cape Girardeau Physician and Post Surgeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 16 On the Shelf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32 Library Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32 Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 32

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Dr. Patrick Gilroy Cape Girardeau Physician and Post Surgeon

By Ray Nichols, Marble Hill, Missouri

[Editor’s Note: We are particularly proud to publish this contribution from member Ray Nichols for several reasons. It is a high-quality summary of the life of an important figure in Cape Girardeau during the Civil War. The article is also very well-documented, and contributes to local genealogy and history. Finally, it makes full use of the Cape Girardeau Weekly Argus, which the Society helped to purchase for the Southeast Missouri State University Archives some years ago. Thank you very much to Mr. Nichols!] Patrick Gilroy was born during March 1827 in Ireland and his future wife Catherine Mooney Gilroy was also born in Ireland in 1827. The Find a Grave website lists Catherine as being born two years earlier but all census records show them as being the same age or a one year difference in age.1 Sometime before June 1848, they immigrated to the United States and settled in Piqua, Miami County, Western Ohio. It was there in June of 1848, their first son Thomas P. Gilroy was born. To date the family has not been found on a passenger list.2 On August 8, 1850, the family was living in Piqua, Washington Township, Miami County, Ohio. They were the 497th family to be enumerated by the census taker but he spelled their surname Killroy. Patrick was a 26 year old carpenter and Catherine was 26 years old. Thomas Gilroy was two years old. Living with the family was Bridget Mooney, Catherine’s eight year old sister who was born in Ireland and had attended school within the year. 3 Medical education in the United States in the early years “was about differences that were both accepted and practiced among all manner of healers.” But, until the 1870s several movements occurred that changed traditional medicine and its therapeutic practices into the “professional schools modeled on the German ideal.” 4 These movements included “democratic medicine” which included commercialization of medical education. The College of Medicine of Maryland in 1807 was the first medical institution formed outside the colleges and universities and medical societies. Competition to this “democratic medicine” soon appeared and among the first was the practice of allopathy, from the Greek word allos, or different, and pathos, meaning disease. In short, allopathy meant treating a disease with remedies that would act contrary to the disease. Competing with this school was Homeopathy or similia similibus curantur meaning like cures like. Homeopathy led to using purgative medicines to treat diarrhea, emitting remedies for vomiting, and opium and other astringents for constipation. Then, the school of botanics entered the scene. This resulted in the use of herbal medicines. The Thomsonians originated with Samuel Thomson (1769-1843) but little was new except for the substitution of botanic medicines for mineral-based drugs. Yet another movement, the eclectics came out of the botanic movement in the 1820s.5 The eclectic movement must have impressed Irish immigrant Patrick Gilroy because some time during 1851-52 he decided to leave the carpentry business and pursue a medical degree from the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. 6

1 www.findagrave.com (January 2015) 2 www.findagrave.com (January 2015) 3 Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.. Roll: 711; Page: 349A. 4 Haller, John S., Jr. Kindly Medicine. Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911. (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1997), 1. 5 Ibid. 2, 7-9, 11, 13, 18. 6 Felter, Harvey, Wickes, MD. History of the Eclectic Medical Institute Cincinnati, Ohio 1854-1902. (Cincinnati: Alumnal Association of the Eclectic Medical institute, 1902), 172.

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When Patrick Gilroy enrolled, the college had already “rid itself of Homeopathy.” However, historically the first Homeopathic physicians in the West graduated from the Eclectic and Homeopathic Institute. Gilroy was not able to study under then famous president, Dr. Thomas Vaughan Morrow who died July 16, 1850. Following Dr. Morrow’s death financial concerns caused the Institute to contact the Memphis, Tennessee Medical Institute resulting in five of the members of that faculty resigning and joining the Cincinnati Institute. 8 Upon enrollment, Gilroy was faced with fees of $100, or a well-indorsed note of $125, for a ticket to a full course of lectures, a matriculation fee of $5, a graduation fee of $15 and a Demonstrator’s ticket of $5. The course of lectures included: Theory and Practice of Medicine, Pathology, Surgical Practice and Operative Surgery, Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Anatomy, Materia Medica and Medical Botany, Chemistry, Pharmacy and Toxicology. 9

Sometime between his graduation and early 1855 the Gilroy family moved to Appleton, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. On January 29, 1855, Patrick Gilroy purchased and paid $50 cash to Singleton H. and Sarah G. Kimmel, for the following property in Appleton:

“Beginning at a stone being the northeast corner of a lot heretofore conveyed to one Martin Born now deceased, thence west along said Born’s line to a stone being the northwest corner of said Born’s lot, thence northeast to the line dividing lots 6 and 7 in the northeast corner of Section 4, in Township 33 North, [Range] 12 East, thence east along said line to the road or street, thence south to the beginning.”

The deed was recorded May 19, 1857. Born bought his lot from Kimmel August 2, 1844, and was a blacksmith. The area was settled in 1824 by John McLane and John Scholtz. Located on Apple Creek in Northern Cape Girardeau County, it was first known as Apple Creek Village and later as Appleton. The town was laid out by John McLane and recorded in the Cape Girardeau County Recorder’s office April 2, 1847. The village soon became populated and “…was an active business point during the 50s.” Catherine’s

7 Ibid. pp. 26. 8 Ibid. pp. 31. 9 Ibid. 32, 35.


sister, Bridget made the move with them. The Gilroys would sell the Appleton property to a Samuel Doeing in June of 1863.10

Appleton Town Layout April 1847 (Cape Girardeau County Archives) A second son, John Alfred Gilroy was born in 1858, and then a daughter Katherine Macceutia “Kate” Gilroy was born in March 1860, both in Appleton, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. 11

10 Cape Girardeau County Recorder’s Office, Deed Book T, 379; Eddleman, Bill, Abstr. Abstracts of Cape Girardeau County Deeds, Books M-O, 1846-1850. (Jackson, MO: Cape Girardeau County Genealogical Society, 2013), 21, abstracted from Deed Book M, page 281; Goodspeed. History of Southeast Missouri. (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1888), 43; Deed Book Volume 2, pp. 692-3. 11 www.findagrave.com (January 2015)


September 8, 1860 found 36 year old Patrick Gilroy practicing medicine in Appleton, Apple Creek Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. He had accumulated a wealth of $1000 in Real Estate and $1000 in Personal property. Thirty-five year old Catherine is shown on the census along with sons 12 year old Thomas W.[P] Gilroy and three year old John A. Gilroy, six-month old daughter Catherine Gilroy and 15 year old sister-in-law Bridget Mooney. Thomas was in school at the time.12 Eighteen sixty-one saw the war clouds hover over the United States and Southeast Missouri did not escape the coming storm. Being close to the Perry County line, Patrick Gilroy, along with several other Cape Girardeau County men, enrolled in Samuel P. Simpson’s Union 4th Regiment Missouri Six Months Militia Infantry at Perryville, Missouri, on October 10, 1861 and was appointed surgeon in the unit. Simpson’ s regiment served at Pilot Knob and Ironton, Missouri until February 25, 1862, when it was mustered out at Ironton. 13 Upon mustering out of the Six Months Militia Dr. Gilroy moved his family to Cape Girardeau in 1862 and according to an article in the Southeast Missourian took up residence at 223 South Spanish, a two-story brick house. According to the article the “shutters and balcony are original (1972) and are of a design similar to ones found on homes in [the] New Orleans’ French Quarter.” However, the 1912 Cape Girardeau City Directory lists the residence as 221 South Spanish. Other sources list it as 227 South Spanish.14

Soon after settling in Cape Girardeau Dr. Gilroy returned to Federal service. He joined Colonel William H. McLane’s 56th Regiment Enrolled Missouri Militia Infantry at Cape Girardeau on October 4, 1862 and was appointed Regimental Surgeon.

15 However, Dr. Gilroy was treating soldiers at the Cape before his enlistment in the 56th E.M.M. On September 2, 1862, he reported the death of Private Joseph Etchin, of Company B, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, of chronic laryngitis. The death was reported at the Post Hospital. The location of this Post Hospital is not known, but may have been in the St. Charles Hotel as records of other soldiers indicate that location. The first known death of a Federal soldier at the Cape was Private Richard Russell, Company D, 8th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, who died of typhoid fever on August 11, 1861. Twenty-four deaths were reported during 1861.16 Early in 1862 the Provost Marshal supplied a list to headquarters in St. Louis of 66 men noting their post office address, political view [party] prior to 1861, political view [Doubtful, Rebel, Union, or Sympathizer] in 1861, political opinions Jan. 1862 [Doubtful, Radical or Conservative] and occupations. Dr. Gilroy was

12 Eighth Census of the United States, 1860; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.Roll: 611, page 432. 13 www.sos.mo.gov/Archives/Military/ (January 2015). 14 Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, MO, November 16, 1972, p. 4, col. 3; Cape Girardeau City Directory, 1912, 118. 15 Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Missouri for the Year Ending December 31, 1865. (Jefferson City, MO. Emory Foster, Public Printer, 1866), p. 582. 16 Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, compiled 1861–1865. Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780's–1917. Record Group 94. National Archives at Washington, D.C. Wisconsin Register A-G, 130 and Death Registers for Missouri, Illinois and Iowa; Returns From U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916, M617, Roll 180, Cape Girardeau, MO, August 1861-July 1865; Compiled Service Records M405, Roll 456, Eighth Infantry, Ro-Sn.


listed as a Benton Democrat prior to 1861, Union sympathizer in 1861, and politically a Radical in 1862. His occupation was listed as M.D. 17 On October 16, 1862, Zalma Block was ordered to turn over the Johnson House Hotel to the US Army to serve as a Post Hospital. While serving with the 56th EMM, Dr. Gilroy was assigned to the Cape Girardeau Johnson House Post Hospital as Assistant Post Surgeon serving under Surgeon David Abbey. Dr. Abbey was Assistant Surgeon of the 29th Missouri Volunteer Infantry and was also serving as Post Surgeon at the time. Dr. Abbey served as Post Surgeon until relieved on November 12, 1862. 18 With Dr. Abbey’s relief as Post Surgeon, Dr. Gilroy took possession of the Post Hospital until November 24, 1862, when Surgeon Henry M. Matthews of the 12th Missouri State Militia Cavalry was appointed by Headquarters as Post Surgeon. Patrick Gilroy returned to the position of Assistant Post Surgeon. 19 During this short period of service as Post Surgeon, not all patients were satisfied with Dr. Gilroy’s treatment. On November 14, 1862, Dr. Gilroy wrote to General John Davidson in St. Louis, recommending 1st Lieutenant Robert S. Widdicombe, Company A, 29th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, who had been suffering from typhoid fever for five weeks, should, “in order to save his life, go north for thirty days.” Lieutenant Widdicombe, writing from Hudson, New York, on November 30th, to his commander Colonel John S. Cavender, stated, “I also informed you [November 15th], I should have been with the regiment had I not have been maltreated by an illiterate quack. I have suffered ten deaths unnecessarily on account of the maltreatment. Had I had a skillful surgeon like Dr. Morgan, I should have escaped much of the suffering I have gone through.” Widdicomb, who had a post office address of Washington, DC, would resign July 18, 1863.20 On December 16, 1862, a third son, James William, was born to Doctor and Catherine Gilroy in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. 21 In the year 1862, 78 deaths were reported at Cape Girardeau, 27 by Acting Assistant Surgeon Gilroy. 22 During December 1862 and January 1863, Dr. Matthews remained as Post Surgeon and Dr. Gilroy assisted him as Assistant Post Surgeon, still serving in the 56th EMM during this time. Surgeon Matthews remained as Post Surgeon until February 15, 1863, when he was replaced by Surgeon Tarrant A. Perkins, ordered to the Cape by Dr. Madison Mills, Department Medical Director. 23 After February 1863 Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons were no longer entered on the Post Returns. Sometime during late April and early May Dr. Perkins was replaced by Surgeon Henry A. Martin of the U.S. Volunteers as Post Surgeon at the Cape. Dr. Martin reported his first death at the Cape on May 6, 1863. Dr. Patrick Gilroy again began to report deaths at the post July 3, 1863. 24 During July 1863 the local newspaper ran an article on Dr. Patrick Gilroy being appointed Assistant Surgeon at the Post:

We learn that Dr. P. Gilroy has received the appointment of Assistant Surgeon at this Post. We congratulate the Dr., and hope he may prove as successful in his military

17 Missouri State Archives, Union Provost Marshal’s File of Two or More Citizens D1583, Record 542. 18 Cape Girardeau Post Returns; Compiled Service Records M405, Roll 600, Twenty-ninth Infantry, A-Cl. 19 Cape Girardeau Post Returns. 20 Compiled Service Records, Missouri, M405, Roll 605, Twenty-ninth Infantry, Sm-Z. Doctor John C. Morgan was the Regimental Surgeon of the 29th Missouri Infantry. 21 www.findagrave.com (January 2015) 22 Death Registers for Missouri and Wisconsin. 23 Cape Girardeau Post Returns; Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Missouri. M 405, Roll 264, Twelfth State Militia Cavalry, He-N. 24 Death Registers for Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois.


practice as he has heretofore with all patients whom he has attended in the “Cape.” We predict for him a brilliant career, and recommend him to his military patients as a skillful surgeon, and a gentleman in every respect. 25

By the middle of August Dr. Henry A. Martin was ordered to Pilot Knob and according to the local newspaper, Dr. Gilroy was appointed Post Surgeon:

Post Surgeon

Dr. P. Gilroy, who was lately appointed Assistant Surgeon at this post, has received the appointment as Post Surgeon and has entered upon his duties. We hope to see the Doctor rise to the rank of Medical Inspector General. Henry A. Martin, late Post Surgeon, has been relieved of duty at this post, and ordered to report to General Fisk, at Pilot Knob. He is appointed Medical Director for this District. 26

During 1863, 77 deaths were reported at the Cape. Dr. Gilroy reported 23 of the total. 27 In October 1863 the Cape Girardeau Post Return does not show deaths at the Post but Death Registers show six enlisted men died at the post during October. A report in the local newspaper by Dr. Gilroy confirms the six deaths:

Monthly Hospital Report

We are indebted to Dr. P. Gilroy, the efficient surgeon in charge of the Post Hospital at this place for the following statement of mortality at this institution for the past month:

William Miller, Co. I, 2nd Missouri Artillery, died October 16th William Bresshors, Co. I, 2nd Missouri Artillery, died October 22nd Patrick Leonard, Co. I, 2nd Missouri Artillery, died October 25th John Edwards, Co. I, 2nd M.S.M. Cavalry, died October 21st Charles Reise, Co. D, 2nd M.S.M. Cavalry, died October 21st B.M. Hall, Co. E, 2nd M.S.M. Cavalry, died October 27th 28 Early in December Dr. Gilroy gave a tour of the Post Hospital to the editors of the local newspaper. They reported their observations as follows:

The Post Hospital

On Saturday last, in company with Post Surgeon Gilroy, we took a stroll through the Post Hospital at this place. We found the institution managed, in our opinion, equal to any similar institution in the country. It is divided into wards, so that all patients afflicted with similar complaints are kept in rooms together and each room as neat as a new pin. The patients all had good warm fires, and had it not been for the number present, we might have thought ourselves in some private house, so cozy did everything seem. The great dread of being sick in a hospital, that so oppresses almost every one at first, is here done away with, and the

25 Cape Girardeau Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO July 16, 1863, p. 3, col. 1 26 Cape Girardeau Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO August 20, 1863, p. 3, col. 1 27 Death Registers for Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Colored Troops. 28 Cape Girardeau Post Returns; Death Registers for Missouri; Cape Girardeau Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO October 29, 1863, p. 3, col. 1


comforts and surroundings of a home are substituted in its stead. Under Dr. Gilroy’s management all moves like clockwork, free and easy. 29

The December 31, 1863, Cape Post Return shows four enlisted deaths at the post, but other records show five enlisted men died at the post during December. The fifth man shown on the Death Registers and Service Records was 22 year old Private Edward Fannin, Company M, of the 1st Missouri Cavalry, who died December 30 of an accidental pistol shot wound on December 19. Dr. Gilroy reported the Post Mortem. The four deaths accounted for on the Post Return were all members of the 2nd Missouri State Militia Cavalry who died of disease.30 The year 1864 began early on New Year’s Day when young ladies of the Ladies’ Union Aid Society in Cape Girardeau made the rounds of various military offices and stores to collect for a dinner to be given that day for the sick soldiers in the Post Hospital. The local newspaper editors witnessed the collection of $18 in the Post Quartermaster’s office while the editors and soldiers were drinking egg nog. In the same paper a card was printed expressing the sincere thanks of the attendants and patients of the Post Hospital:

A Card CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO., Jan. 4.

At a meeting of the patients and attendants of the U.S.A. Hospital the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That we return our sincere thanks to the Union ladies of Cape Girardeau, and to all who contributed, for the bountiful dinner provided for us on New Year’s Day. Resolved. That the patriotism and liberality of the Union ladies of Cape Girardeau are deserving of the highest praise, and their kindness to us on that occasion, will always be remembered with feelings of deepest gratitude. Resolved, That we also thank the Union citizens of this place for their many former acts of kindness to the sick and wounded of this Hospital. A.M. WHITING, Chairman S.N. Goodhue, Secretary 31

In February 1864 Dr. Gilroy was appointed Pension Surgeon of the Third District, which included Cape Girardeau. The local newspaper regarded it as “a good appointment.” 32 The ladies’ Union Relief Association met in Cape Girardeau on March 23, 1864, and appointed a committee to raise funds for the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair. Included on the committee were the Post Commandant Colonel John B. Rogers, of the 2nd Missouri State Militia Cavalry, and Dr. Gilroy, the Post Surgeon at the time. The Fair was held during May and June of 1864 and raised over $550,000 to aid Union troops. 33 In addition to the duties of Post Surgeon, Dr. Gilroy apparently had responsibility for the treatment of sick refugees too. On June 14, 1864, he advertised in the local newspaper for rations as “the rations supplied by Government being insufficient, a portion of said refugees being women and children, for whom no necessary clothing is supplied,” he asked for contributions from the populace. 34

29 Cape Girardeau Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO December 10, 1863, p. 3, col. 1 30 Cape Girardeau Post Returns; Death Registers for Missouri; Missouri Service Records, M405, Roll 5, First Cavalry, Di-Fe. 31 Cape Girardeau Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO January 7, 1864, p. 3, col. 1, 2 32 Cape Girardeau Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO February 11, 1864, p. 3, col. 1 33 Cape Girardeau Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO March 31, 1864, p. 3, col. 3; St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, May 22, 2011. 34 Cape Girardeau Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO June 16, 1864, p. 3, col. 1


Dr. Gilroy would continue to report deaths at the post until late September 1864, when Assistant Surgeon William A. Wilcox was appointed Post Surgeon. Dr. Wilcox did not retain Dr. Gilroy as assistant. 35 Sixty-one deaths were reported at Cape Girardeau during 1864, 26 of them reported by Dr. Gilroy. 36 By December 1864 Dr. Gilroy was back in private practice as advertised in the local newspaper:

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The Cape Girardeau Argus reported another tour of the Post Hospital in early 1865:

Our Post Hospital

We took a stroll through this institution the other day, and were much pleased with its admirable management under the charge of Dr. William A. Wilcox as Surgeon, assisted by J. W. Murray, as Hospital Steward, and Milton K. Fleming, Clerk. We found about eighty patients under treatment for the various diseases and casualties which war occasions. Each class of patients is kept in separate apartments and each patient is allowed the largest liberty consistent with the nature of his ailing, and the good government of the institution. A sufficiency of good wholesome food is served up in regular hotel style to such patients as are able to take their places at the tables, while the others are carefully cared for by waiters. A splendid dinner of roast turkey and other delicacies were served up them on Christmas and New Year’s Day. From personal observation, we are satisfied that no hospital in the country is better managed than this one. We are under obligations to Dr. Wilcox and his attentive assistants for their courtesy in showing us through the building. 38

Soon after, on February 2, 1865, a daughter Mary was born to Doctor and Mrs. Gilroy. 39 On Monday, February 13, 1865, a special election was held to replace State Senator James B. McCormack, who had resigned from the 26th District. Dr. Patrick Gilroy ran against a Mr. Bowman and was projected to win the seat. However, when the final results were tallied, Mr. Bowman won by one vote:

Gilroy Bowman Cape Girardeau County 283 246 Perry County 82 105 Bollinger County 0 15 Total 365 366

35 Death Registers for Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Colored Troops. 36 Ibid. 37 Cape Girardeau Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO December 15, 1864, p. 2, col. 5 38 Cape Girardeau Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO January 5, 1865, p. 3, col. 1 39 www.findagrave.com (January 2015).


The election was apparently not that important as Bowman is not listed in the Missouri Secretary of State’s on-line listing of Missouri State Legislators, 1820-2000. In fact, the local newspaper stated, “As the seat only lasts a few weeks, we cannot cry for you, Doctor.” 40 Having lost the special election, Dr. Gilroy returned to Federal military service and was appointed Surgeon of the 39th Regiment Missouri Militia of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri on March 25, 1865. This unit was authorized by General Orders No. 3, issued January 30, 1865, by Gilroy’s former first commander in the war, Samuel P. Simpson, now Adjutant General for the State of Missouri. The Commander of the 39th was Colonel George F. Thilenius Gilroy’s previous commander in the 56th EMM, and listed one company on record commanded by Adolph Tacke. Dr. Gilroy’s commission was vacated by Special Order No. 158.

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Thirty-nine deaths were reported at Cape Girardeau during 1865, most of them by Dr. Wilcox. Among those reported were eight members of the 8th Illinois Cavalry who were returning home on the steamboat “Olive.” They were drowned on June 28, 1865, when the steamer hit a snag near the Cape and sank, taking with it numerous horses of the cavalry unit. 42 Following the war Dr. Gilroy’s attentions again turned to politics. On March 26, 1866, the citizens of Cape Girardeau held a meeting at the courthouse to nominate people for the position of aldermen for wards one and two in the city. Dr. Gilroy chaired the meeting, but was not one of the candidates. Then, in September Dr. Gilroy was nominated by the Radical Party to run for the office of County Coroner. Apparently the Conservative Party offered no candidate as the election results show Gilroy received 348 votes with no votes cast for the Conservatives. 43

Eighteen sixty-six was a time of grieving for the Gilroy family as two-year old Mary Gilroy died on November 24th. She was buried in the Old Lorimier Cemetery. Her death notice was carried in the local newspaper. 44

In April 1867, Dr. Gilroy once again turned to politics and ran for the office of City Councilman for Ward 2. Out of seven candidates Dr. Gilroy received 21 votes, which was not enough to be one of the top three to receive the office. 45 While running for Councilman Dr. Gilroy also performed a Coroner’s inquest on Fritz Voester, a German baker. Voester, living back of the courthouse, was found lying dead and it was thought he had committed

40 Cape Girardeau Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO February 9, 1865, p. 3, col. 1, February 16, 1865, p. 2, col. 1, March 16, 1865, p. 3, col. 3; http://s1.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/historicallistings/molegb (March 2015). 41 Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Missouri for the Year Ending December 31, 1865. (Jefferson City, MO. Emory Foster, Public Printer, 1866), p. 665. 42 Death Registers for Missouri and Illinois. 43 The Weekly Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO. March 29, 1866, p. 2, col. 1, September 20, 1866, p. 2, col. 3, November 8, 1866, p. 2, col. 1 44 www.findagrave.com (March 2015); The Weekly Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO. November 29, 1866, p. 3, col. 2 45 The Weekly Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO. April 4, 1867, p. 2, col. 1


suicide so a Coroner’s inquest was requested. Coroner Gilroy instead found the man’s death was the result of “intoxicating liquor.” 46 The year 1868 began with a Coroner’s inquest. Dr. Gilroy was asked to hold an inquest January 1st, on J.H. Preston who was boarding at the Marble City Hotel. Before Dr. Gilroy could arrive Preston expired. He was staying at the hotel awaiting the arrival of a printing press to start another newspaper in the town. He was buried by Gilroy the next day in the Old Lorimier Cemetery. 47 The old Johnson House Hotel that served as the Post Hospital during the war, was now owned by Thomas J. Rodney, Zalma Block’s brother-in-law and was then known as the New Johnson House and in March 1867 became the Marble City Hotel. Zalma Block was now a real estate agent. Z. M. LaPierre and his wife ran the hotel for Rodney.

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In July of 1868, Dr. Gilroy performed another Coroner’s inquest, this time on an un-named Irishman, residence unknown. The Irishman apparently visited Dr. Gilroy at this home and while waiting for the doctor, died. Dr. Gilroy found the cause of death general debility. 49 During September 1868 Dr. Gilroy was announced in the local newspaper as a candidate for Common School Director. A card by “many citizens” proposed him, J.B. Phillipson, Christian Kage and Joseph Lansmon as candidates for the September 12, 1868 election. 50 In the same issue of the newspaper Dr. Gilroy replied to the proposal of himself as a candidate:

For the “Argus”

Mr. Editor: My name appearing as a candidate for Common School Director, and having been twitted by my friends as opposed to the school law, all I have to say is, that I am first,

46 The Weekly Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO. April 4, 1867, p. 3, col. 1 47 The Weekly Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO. January 9, 1868, p. 3, col. 2 48 The Weekly Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO. March 7, 1867, p.1, col. 2; p. 3, col. 2; Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau. MO, January 31, 1959, p 11D; Cape Girardeau County Genealogical Society. Collage of Cape County. September 1989, Vol. 9, No. 2, Inside Front Cover. 49 The Weekly Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO. July 23, 1868, p. 3, col. 2 50 The Weekly Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO. September 10, 1868, p. 2, col. 1


last and all the time, in favor of the education of our youth, economy in the application of the school fund, a preference for home teachers (qualifications being equal), an exhibit, according to law, of the receipts and expenditures of the Board. Respectfully, P. Gilroy 51

All four of the candidates were on the losing ticket and the opposition won by a 3 to 1 margin. The local newspaper commented, “Politics were completely ignored in the contest on Saturday last.” 52 In October of 1868 Dr. Gilroy was again nominated by the Radical Party for the position of County Coroner. He ran against Democrat William Clippard of Apple Creek Township. He defeated Clippard by a vote of 992 to 847. 53

The year 1869 once again became a grievous year as Charles Kavanaugh Gilroy was born to Dr. and Mrs. Gilroy on March 26, 1869. The infant passed away on August 14, 1869. The young Gilroy was buried in the Old Lorimier Cemetery. 54

On January 15, 1870, Dr. Gilroy apparently acted on his first pension case. He certified that Private Ralph P. Ford, Company K, 3rd Missouri State Militia Cavalry had disability and “is total and continuously stricken with chronic hepatitis.” The claimant stated that “while in said service in the swampy regions of Southeastern Missouri in March 1864, he contracted the hepatitis.” However, his invalid pension claim was rejected. 55 The Federal Census, taken on August 10, 1870, lists the Gilroy family as living in the city of Cape Girardeau. Doctor Gilroy was listed as a 45 year old physician born in Ireland and had personal property amounting to $8000 and real estate valued at $2000. His wife Catherine was listed as a 45 year old housekeeper and also born in Ireland. Three children were living with the couple: Thomas, age 22, a lawyer born in Ohio, John A. a 12 year old student, Kate a 10 year old student, and James W., 7 years and a student, with all but Thomas born in Missouri. 56 In December 1870, Dr. Gilroy again ran for the State Senate and was one of three candidates for the seat. He came in last with 302 votes versus George H. Green who won with 1132 votes. Gilroy’s highest vote count came in the Cape Girardeau city but still lost in that township to the other two candidates. 57 Two and a half years later on June 20, 1873, Thomas the 25 year old son and a lawyer died in Cape Girardeau and was buried in Old Lorimier Cemetery. 58 On March 18, 1878, Dr. Patrick Gilroy died in Cape Girardeau and was buried in Old Lorimier Cemetery. In his will Dr. Gilroy specified that his funeral expenses be paid out of his estate. This amounted to $79 to the Carroll Brothers, undertakers: casket $65, robe, $11 and crepe and gloves $3; $8 to Calvin B. Galusha’s livery stable for two funeral carriages; and, $8 to Henry Niswonger for digging the grave and the hiring of his horse.59

51 The Weekly Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO. September 10, 1868, p. 2, col. 4 52 The Weekly Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO. September 17, 1868, p. 2, col. 1 53 The Weekly Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO. October 8, 1868, p. 2, col. 1, November 12, 1868, p. 2, col. 2 54 www.findagrave.com (March 2015); The Weekly Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO. September 2, 1869, p. 3, col. 3 55 Index to the Reports of Committees of the House of Representatives for the First and Second Session of the Forty-Sixth Congress, 1879-1880 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880), Vol. 5, p. 102. 56 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. (NARA microfilm publication M593.) Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Roll: 765; Page: 117A 57 The Weekly Argus, Cape Girardeau, MO. December 22, 1870, p. 2, col. 3. 58 www.findagrave.com (April 2015). 59 www.findagrave.com (April 2015); Cape Girardeau County Archives, Probate File CP1012, Patrick Gilroy; Cape Girardeau County Recorder’s Office, Deed Book 9, 234-5.


Also, in his will, Dr. Gilroy stated,” I will and bequeath to my beloved wife Catherine Gilroy, the house and lot now occupied by me as a house residence on Spanish Street.” He willed his drugstore be sold at private sale, his five acre lot in Ranges L and K in the city of Cape Girardeau, be sold at public sale, his medical books and instruments be sold, all debts of William Moore be collected, to his wife Catherine Gilroy, all his household furnishings (not including the horse and buggy), and all other personal property to be sold and the proceeds be equally divided, one fourth each going to his wife and the three living children. 60 Theodore Doyle, the executor for Dr. Gilroy’s estate, sold his personal property on April 13, 1878. The property included various medical and law books, a mare and colt, another mare, a buggy and the harnesses. The sale totaled $135.50, with Mrs. Gilroy purchasing $80.25 of the total (including the horse and buggy not willed to her). 61 The Federal Census of June 7. 1880, shows Catherine Gilroy as a 56 year old head of household, still living in Cape Girardeau. Her birthplace and both her parents’ birthplaces are listed as Ireland. Twenty-seven year old John A., now a chemist, 20 year old daughter Kate and 18 year old James William (listed as William J)., now a clerk in a store, were all living at home with their mother.62 During August and September 1880, Theodore Doyle, Gilroy’s executor sold all his land but the house on Spanish Street. Doyle placed the following ad in the Bollinger County Weekly Herald beginning on August 5th:

63

60 Probate File CP1012; Deed Book 9 234-5. 61 Probate File CP1012. 62 Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Roll: 678, Page: 290B 63 Probate File CP1012.


Dr. Gilroy had acquired the 160 acres on January 1, 1870, from James McWilliams, a Cape Girardeau attorney, and his wife Mary L. for “medical services and attention to said James McWilliams in the month of August 1869, and medical attention and service to his family before and since that time.” Leo Doyle, the Executor’s older brother was the “highest and last bidder” and for $65 purchased the 160 acres.64 Beginning September 1, 1880, Theodore Doyle placed the following ad in the Cape Girardeau News, a weekly newspaper:

65

The lots were bounded on the West by Sprigg Street, on the East by Frederick, on the South by North Street and on the North by Washington Avenue.

64 Bollinger County Recorder’s Office, Deed Book 4, 397; Deed Book 16, 179-80; James McWilliams had served as a 2nd Lieutenant in Captain Dittlinger’s Company C, Cape Girardeau Battalion Missouri Home Guard. 65 Probate File CP1012.


No deeds could be found for the purchase of the lots. Dr. Gilroy and Catherine had sold part of Lots 35 and 36 to their son Thomas P. Gilroy in March 1869 for “in consideration of natural love and affection and the sum of $1.” In 1870 Dr. Gilroy paid property taxes on all the lots.66 The results of the sale on September 28, 1878 were: “Catherine Gilroy, John A. Gilroy, Kate Gilroy,and William Gilroy, being the highest and last bidders for said real estate at the price and sum of $432, the same was sold to them and stricken off.” 67 Daughter Catherine M. (Kate) Gilroy married Richard Carroll on November 21, 1883, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. 68 Richard Paul Carroll, was born in Ireland, March 7, 1844, and came with his family to the United States when he was three years old in October 1847, arriving at the Port of New Orleans aboard the sailing ship Ashland. When six years old he came with his father Richard Sr., an Irish stock buyer, to Cape Girardeau and spent the rest of his life at the Cape. He was married to the former Anna Warner (1861 - 1878). They had one child Harry J Carroll (1878 - 1878). The mother and child were buried together in the Old Lorimier Cemetery when the child died at thirteen days old. Richard Carroll served with his brother, Barney, during the Civil War in Company C, 2nd Missouri Infantry, U. S. Following the war the two brothers returned to Cape Girardeau, and with a third brother, James, Richard began manufacturing furniture. Richard and James also worked in the undertaking business. Richard died June 9, 1924 in Cape Girardeau and was 66 Probate File CP1012; Cape Girardeau County Deed Books X, 364-65 and Vol. 1, 683. 67 Probate File CP1012; Cape Girardeau County Deed Book Vol. 11, 532-533. 68 Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm


buried in the Old Lorimier Cemetery. (An article on the Carroll Brothers is in process for a future issue of the Collage).69 Richard Carroll and Katherine Gilroy Carroll had three daughters: Kathleen Elizabeth Carroll (1886-1942), Marie Carroll Kennedy (1890-1969), and Helen Courtney Carroll Newport (1892-1958). On December 7, 1884, Catherine Mooney Gilroy died in Cape Girardeau and was buried in the Old Lorimier Cemetery. Her son-in-law provided undertaker services, handling the funeral and charging the estate $95 for embalming, hearse, burial case, robe, crepe and gloves.70 Almost one year to the day, following his mother’s death, John Alfred Gilroy died on December 2, 1885, in Cape Girardeau and was buried in the Old Lorimier Cemetery. 71 The last son, James William Gilroy, died on May 5, 1887, in Cape Girardeau and was buried in the Old Lorimier Cemetery. 72 Katherine Gilroy Carroll, the last survivor of the Gilroy family, died on July 29, 1897 in Cape Girardeau and was buried in the Old Lorimier Cemetery. Her obituary appeared in the Local newspaper:

Mrs. Kate M. Carroll Dead.

The death of Mrs. Kate M. Carroll, which occurred Thursday evening July 29th, 1897, removes from our midst a lady who was recognized as one of the most talented ladies in the city. Mrs. Carroll was the daughter of the late Dr. Patrick Gilroy, a man whose life and interests were identified with the county for a period of over thirty years, and she was the last surviving member of the Gilroy family. Educated in St. Vincent’s Academy she was accomplished as a lady and a scholar, and her pen has on various occasions contributed to the DEMOCRAT papers that were read with interest by our best people. After the death of her father and mother Miss Gilroy was married to Richard Carroll and to them was born three children, all girls. To raise these little girls to womanhood seemed to be the ambition of her life, and knowing for a long time that her days were almost numbered made death a sad, sad thought for her. She did not fear death, for she was a devoted member of the Catholic Church and a pure true Christian, but knowing that she had to depart from her husband and her little innocent girls caused the tears to scald her cheeks for many weeks before death relieved her of her suffering. 73

Richard Carroll lived to the age of 80, raising the three daughters by himself. He died June 9, 1924, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He is buried in the Old Lorimier Cemetery at the Cape. 74 The local newspaper ran his obituary under the following title: RICHARD CARROLL, VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR, DIED AT AGE OF 80 75

All three granddaughters of Dr. Patrick Gilroy lived to maturity.

69 Passenger List for the Ashland October 21, 1847; National Archives. Missouri Compiled Service Records M405, Roll 390, Second Infantry, Bu-Fo; www.findagrave.com (April 2105); Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, MO, Tuesday, June 10, 1924, p. 1, col. 6. 70 www.findagrave.com (April 2015); Cape Girardeau County Archives, Probate File CP1008. 71 www.findagrave.com (April 2015). 72 www.findagrave.com (April 2015). 73 www.findagrave.com (April 2015); The Cape Girardeau Democrat, Cape Girardeau, MO July 31, 1897, p. 5, col. 4. The Carrolls were married before Catherine Mooney Gilroy died, not after. 74 www.findagrave.com (May 2015). 75 Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, MO, Tuesday, June 10, 1924, p. 1, col. 6.


Kathleen Elizabeth Carroll, born March 15, 1886, in Cape Girardeau, lived to be 56 and resided in Cape Girardeau where she worked at the Missouri Utilities Company. She lived in Cape all of her life but the last year. When she became ill, she moved to her sister’s home in St. Louis, Missouri, where she died on February 8, 1942. Her body was returned to the Cape by rail, her funeral was held at St. Vincent’s Catholic Church, and, she was interred in the Carroll family plot in the Old Lorimier Cemetery. 76 The second granddaughter, Marie Carroll, was born in 1890 in Cape Girardeau, attended St. Vincent’s Academy, and the State Normal School. She taught at the old Lorimier School and was an art instructor at the State College in Cape. She was married to William A. Kennedy who preceded her in death. She resided in St. Louis many years where she designed draperies and slip covers. She died December 27, 1969, in St. Louis where a funeral mass was held at the St. Louis Cathedral. Her body was then removed to the Cape and buried in the Carroll family plot in old Lorimier Cemetery.77 The third granddaughter, Helen Courtney Carroll, was born July 3, 1892, in Cape Girardeau. She attended St. Vincent’s Academy in the Cape. She married John Joseph Newport, Jr., in June 1919, and moved to Chicago, Illinois. By 1935 the couple had moved to Houston, Texas, where she resided until her death on April 18, 1958 at age 65. 78 Very little evidence remains of the Gilroy family and its contributions to the city of Cape Girardeau, except in local records and the Old Lorimier Cemetery. However, after all the years of civilian practice in Cape Girardeau and his service as Regimental Surgeon, Assistant Post Surgeon and Post Surgeon, Dr. Patrick Gilroy was overlooked in the Registration Form for placing the Old Lorimier Cemetery on the National Register of Historic Places, both as a civilian and as a Union soldier. The Doctor deserves more and it is hoped this article will bring his name forward to anyone interested in the Civil War and medical history of Cape Girardeau and Southeast Missouri. Acknowledgments: The author would like to thank the clerks in the Bollinger County and Cape Girardeau County Recorder’s offices and special thanks to Steven Pledger for his assistance in maps and probate files at the Cape County Archives.

76 Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, MO, Monday, February 10, 1942, p. 2, col. 6. 77 Southeast Missourian. Cape Girardeau, MO, Tuesday, December 30, 1969, p. 13, col. 4 78 Southeast Missourian. Cape Girardeau, MO, Monday, April 21, 1958, p. 2, col. 3.


On the Shelf The following books were added to the Society Library as of August 31, 2015: 1353 AMS Sketches of Louisiana 1835 Suderow/House The Battle of Pilot Knob 1833A Schmidt The Military Destruction of Slavery in SE MO,1861-64 and Rise of the USCT 3700 Smith The Salem Mews Clipping Vol. 1 3700-1 The Salem Mews Clipping Vol. 2 3700-2 The Salem Mews Clipping Vol. 3 3700-3 The Salem Mews Clipping Vol. 4 6100 NYGBS Minisink Valley Reformed Dutch Church Records, 1716-

1830 7144 Bockstruck Virginia's Colonial Soldiers 7875 J.H.S. Silver Arrow, 1935-36, 36-37, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1950 7876 J.H.S. The Magnet, 1920 & 1921 7877 J.H.S. Scrap Book 1945-2009 2 Volumes 8320 Moore The Edmond's Epic 8672 Costner Adam Kastner(Costner) Genealogy

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First of all, we have a collection that was donated to the Archive Center--the Scaggs and Wildman Family along with other related families such as, just to list a few, Luttrell, Roberts, Rice and Hudson. These books are shelved in the back room. Book 2830A was deleted. This book has been missing for a long time and cannot be located (Friedhem Lutheran Church 1848-1992). We pulled a few books from the shelves to be rebound. Some of the books we will combine to make a large book. Total of 13 books will be rebound. Betty Voss and Dorothy Rowley also took 2 Jackson Silver Arrows and 2 Sagamores to the Cape County Historical Museum. Carla Jordan was very happy to receive those books. She wants to work more with the genealogical society after our recent meeting at the museum.She has plans for family displays later on this year. The displays that they have are very nice. Visitors may want to check with her whenever you are in Jackson.

QUERIES ??? QUERIES ??? QUERIES ??? QUERIES ??? QUERIES are FREE to members of the Cape Girardeau County Genealogical Society, and should be sent to: Bill Eddleman, 1831

Ricardo Drive, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701. (email: [email protected]). Please include mailing address if submitting by email.

SHAWAN My gr-grandfather George Washington SHAWAN lived in Cape Girardeau with his wife Erchame Ruhama and daughter Carrie Elmira from 1910 to his death in 1940. George and Ruhama are buried in Cape Giradeau. Why did they move from Ohio to Missouri? Family stories were the Catholic paper Our Sunday Visitor spoke of a Catholic community forming in the area. My grandmother, Carrie married Frederick STRATMANN in 1912. I also have a wood bench and a bust of President McKinley that a beau made for my grandmother. Was there a famous woodworker and artist from the area during that time period? Contact: Candace L. Ulmer; 1880 S. 950 E. Zionsville, IN 46077. Phone: 317-769-3500 (h) or 317-903- 9828 (c). Email: [email protected]

Index – September 2015 Collage

A ABBEY David 20 B BLOCK Zalma 20, 25 BONOUR Jacob 19 BORN Martin 17 BOWMAN Mr. 23-24 BRESSHORS William 21 BRUNNICKE H. D. Jr. 19 C CARROLL Anna 29 Barney 29 Catherine M. 29, 30 Helen Courtney 30, 31 Henry J. 29 James 29 Kate 29, 30 Kathleen

Elizabeth 30, 31

Marie 30, 31 Richard Paul 29,

30 Richard Sr. 29 CAVENDER John S., Col. 20 CLIPPARD William 26

D DAVIDSON John, Gen. 20 DOEING Samuel 18 DOYLE Leo 28 Theodore 27, 28 E EDWARDS John 21 ETCHIN Joseph 19 F FANNIN Edward 22 FLEMING Milton K. 23 FORD Ralph P. 26 G GALUSHA Calvin B. 26 GILROY Catherine 16, 17, 19, 20, 26, 27, 29, 30 Catherine M. 29 Charles Kavanaugh 26 James W. 26 James William 20, 27, 30 John A. 19, 26, 27, 29 John Alfred 18, 30

Kate 18, 26, 27, 29 Katherine Macceutia 18 Mary 23, 24 Patrick, Dr. 16- 31 Thomas 26 Thomas P. 16, 29 Thomas W. 19 William 29 William J. 27 GOODHUE S. N. 22 GREEN George H. 26 H HALL B. M. 21 J JORDAN Carla 32 K KAGE Christian 25 KENNEDY Marie 30, 31 William A. 31 KILLROY _____ 16 KIMMEL Sarah G. 17 Singleton H. 17 L LANSMON Joseph 25

LaPIERRE Z. M. 25 LEONARD Patrick 21 M MARTIN Henry A., Dr. 20, 21 MATTHEWS Henry M. 20 McCORMACK James B., Senator 23 McKINLEY President 32 McLANE John 17 Wm. H. 19 McWILLIAMS James 28 Mary L. 28 MILLER William 21 MILLS Madison, Dr. 20 MOONEY Bridget 16, 18, 19 Catherine 16, 30 MOORE William 27 MORGAN

Dr. 20 MORROW

Thomas Vaughan, Dr. 17

MURRAY J. W. 23

N NEWPORT Helen Courtney 30, 31 John Joseph Jr. 31 NICHOLS Ray 16 NISWONGER Henry 26 P PERKINS Tarrant A. 20 PHILLIPSON J. B. 25 PLEDGER Steven 31 PRESTON J. H. 25 R REISE Charles 21 RODNEY Thomas J. 25 ROGERS John B., Col. 22 ROWLEY Dorothy 32 RUSSELL Richard 19 S SCHOLTZ John 17 SHAWAN Carrie Elmira 32 Erchame Ruhama 32 Geo. Washington 32

SIMPSON Samuel P., Gen.

19, 24 STRATMAN Carrie Elmira 32 Frederick 32 T TACKE Adolph 24 THELENIUS G. C. 19 THILENIUS George F., Col. 24 THOMSON Samuel 16 U UHL Casper 19 ULMER Candace L. 32 V VOESTER Fritz 24 VOSS Betty 32 W WARNER Anna 29 WHITING A. M. 22 WIDDICOMBE Robert S., Lt. 20 WILCOX William A., Dr. 23, 24

Cape Girardeau, Missouri, from Harper’s Weekly, 1861

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