William Wright Collins and Selina Hibbert, Immigrants
and some of their Descendants
Third Generation

ELIJAH WILLIAM3 COLLINS (Henry2, William1) was born at Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island, on 16 April 1873, a son of Henry Collins and his wife Elizabeth Hollingworth. He died at Montrose, in the town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York, on 2 September 1954. He married at London, Middlesex County, England, on 9 July 1897 EDITH LILIAN BAGSTER. She was born at London on 12 June 1874, a daughter of Robert Bagster and his wife Catharine Jane Toms. She died at New York on 27 January 1965.[1] Following marriage they combined their surnames as Bagster-Collins.

Elijah Collins grew up in Pawtucket, the second of four children of a successful proprietor of a machine shop that made machines for the textile mills. Edith Lilian, who usually called herself Lilian, grew up in England, the only child of a successful publisher. She lived with her mother, father, Letty the cook, and a manservant in their home above her family’s “shop” at 15 Paternoster Row, located in the shadow of Saint Paul’s Cathedral.[2] Her family also had a cottage at Shepperton, Surrey, England, about twenty-one miles upriver from Paternoster Row, on the Thames.

Elijah graduated from Pawtucket High School on June 25, 1891 with First Honors. At the commencement ceremony, Elijah gave an oration on “The ‘Tom’ side of Macaulay.” In addition, he performed a piano solo–Ballade, II op. 47, by Frédéric Chopin.[3] Lilian grew up when school attendance was neither free nor compulsory in England. However, she attended Bishopsgate Girls’ School, obtaining her Certificate in February 1891,[4] at age sixteen.

In 1892, Lilian began to make a record of her daily life in a diary. Her diaries from 1892 through 1896 have survived. The events she records show the life of a well-to-do young woman, living in London, who studied voice and languages at the Guildhall School of Music, visited with extended family, attended church every Sunday (Saint Paul’s Cathedral or Littleton when in Shepperton) and traveled to the European continent.[5]

In February 1892, Lilian traveled to Berlin to continue her voice lessons and improve her German language skills. Her traveling companions for this first visit to Berlin were three of her first cousins. Lilian was studying at the Lette Verein, a school of design in Berlin, founded in 1866 by Princess Viktoria of Prussia. In addition to their studies, the young women went for walks, shopping trips and “Kaiser” watching during the days. And attended Music Concerts in the evenings. The women also went to see the sights in the city of Berlin (especially the Zoo), and wrote letters home–activities of carefree young women of means on their first trip abroad. After six months in Germany, Lilian returned to London in mid-August. Her visit that year to Germany set the stage for the eventful year of 1893, as recorded on the flyleaf of her diary for that year: “The year E.L.B.[Edith Lilian Bagster] & E.W.C. [Elijah Willam Collins] met–Jan 10–July 20."

In the fall of 1891, Elijah Collins was accepted into Germany’s Royal Academy of Music in Berlin. He attended piano classes there for two years, until July of 1893.[6]

In 1893 Lilian returned to Berlin in early January to continue her voice and German lessons. She traveled to Germany with her Uncle Bailey (George Bailey Toms, her mother’s youngest brother); Uncle Bailey returned to England after a few days, leaving Lilian on her own. But that loneliness would prove to be short-lived. On January 10, Lilian made the acquaintance of a young American gentleman named Elijah Collins. She did not realize the significance of that meeting at the Berliner Philharmoniker–yet. But on April 8, 1893, Lilian went back to her diary entry for January 10th and added the words–“met Mr. Collins for the first time.”[7] Clearly by April, Lilian was falling in love.

Within two months after their first meeting, Elijah and Lilian were seeing each other nearly every day in Berlin. Their dates that spring consisted of walks through the Tiergarten (Zoo), church on Sunday, tea in the afternoon, and evenings at the Philharmonic or other concert venues–Wagnerian operas were a particular favorite.

According to Lilian’s diary entry of February 2, 1893:

Got up late. Elijah at Philharmonic with Miss Wilkins. A nice young man [who] let me look over his book.[8]
On Sunday, February 5, Elijah and Lillian attended the American Church in Berlin, together with various chaperones. Three Sundays later, Lilian and Elijah were walking home from church together. A month after that, this entry in her diary, Sunday, March 26:
Went to Dom–very uninteresting. Then to the Picture Gallery. Mr. Collins & I for a walk on the Brühl Terrace. In the afternoon we went for a walk & saw Miss Lowe off. In the evening Mr. Collins & I looked at the visitors book [E.L. later added the entry–and held hands under the table!]. After supper (9:30) Miss Wilkins, Mr. Wenzlaff, Mr. Collins & I went for a walk to the Brühl Terrace.[9]

On May 17, it is apparent that the relationship had gotten quite serious. A note in Lillian’s diary reads: “Mr. Collins talked of my living in the USA for the 1st time.”[10]

On June 12, Lilian’s 19th birthday, Mr. Collins brought her a bouquet of yellow roses[11] [A petal from these roses has been saved in the diary]. On July 4th, Lilian had her first American Independence Day celebration with Mr. Collins and his American friends. Here is her diary entry for the day:

Got up at 7:15, left at 9:0, steamer started at 10:30, reached Grünau at 12.0, had lunch, watched football & baseball, had ride on merry-go-round, short trip on boat, returned to dinner at 4:30, went in with Mr. Collins, songs & speeches between courses, over at 8:00, let off firecrackers, Mr. Collins & I went for a row, came home & sang college songs, let off fireworks, left for home, & reached home about 1:00 a.m. Lovely day.[12]
Following are her diary entries for July 19 and 20:
(19th) Packed. Mr. Collins came up for supper. Also Herr Friedelberg. Mr. Collins came to say good-bye to me. [E. L. Left a rose petal & two leaves in her diary at this page].
(20th) Left Berlin. Mr. Collins saw us off.
[13
Elijah finished hs classes at the Academy of Music on July 27, 1893. He left Berlin himself later that summer, and began to attend Brown University in Providence in the Fall of 1893.[14]

In March 1894, Lilian returned to the continent for a holiday for pleasure. She traveled with her Aunt Flo (Dr. Florence Nightingale Boyd) on a three week trip to Paris, Milan, Venice and Rome.[15]

In the summer of 1894, “Lige” (Elijah’s nickname, as he was now known in Lilian’s diary) came across to England to visit Lilian. He arrived in England on July 6 and departed on August 30 for his return to Rhode Island. On Sunday, 15 July 1894, Lilian and "Lige" went for a walk along the river after church; Lige proposed marriage, and Lilian accepted. The couple spent their days in carefree activities, divided between London, where they went to museums and attended plays in London’s West End at night, or at the Bagster family cottage at Shepperton, where many hours were spent rowing on the Thames. Lilian continued her voice and language lessons (this time in nearby Guildhall School) and added drawing and painting lessons to her repetoire.[16]

In 1895, Lilian made her way across the Atlantic Ocean to meet Elijah’s family in Pawtucket, accompanied by her father Robert. On March 13, Lilian, her father, and a Mr. Potts “set sail” for Pawtucket from Liverpool, Lancashire, England, on the White Star liner, Majestic. The Bagsters arrived in New York on March 21, where they were met by Lige, and had lunch at a Fifth Avenue hotel before proceeding to Pawtucket.[17] Robert Bagster returned to England in April, arriving at Liverpool on 17 April 1895.[18] Lilian remained until late June, arriving at Southampton, Hampshire, England, on 4 July 1895.[19] She then resumed her normal summer activities at the family home in Shepperton.

Lilian’s diary of 1896 is shorter than her previous years, has far fewer entries, mentions no trips or excursions, and, most curiously of all, makes no mention of Lilian’s upcoming wedding, for which there must have been many preparations made. Therefore, it is not known whether Lilian and Lige visited each other at all during the last year of their engagement. Elijah graduated from Brown in 1897.[20] On July 9, 1897, Lilian and Elijah were married at Saint Nicholas Cole Abbey in London. The best man at the wedding was John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a close friend of the groom.[21] From there, the couple moved to New York City to begin their new life.


Lillian Bagster and Elijah Collins on their wedding day
from Bagster-Collins collection of Elaine Shisler Smith

The tradition in the family is that Elijah and Lilian gave themselves a hyphinated surname Bagster-Collins, because the Bagster family had no male descendants to carry on the name, and so the hyphinated surname kept the Bagster name alive.

The couple began married life in New York City, living at 2016 Seventh Avenue. The 1900 Census reported them at this address. The family then consisted of Elijah [called Bagster Collins in the census], 27, teacher, Edith, 26, Ashlyn, 10 months, and Selma Whitehead, 21, servant.[22]

Lilian made frequent trips back to London in the early years of her marriage Indeed, Lilian made the crossing with regularity after her marriage, with at least 23 trips to Europe and back, the last in 1956 when she was 82 years old. What makes the number of trips even more remarkable is that she did not travel at all during two world wars–a total period of ten years.[23]

Lilian's first two children were born in England. It is not clear why she did this, or how long her birthing stays in England lasted. Nine months before second son Denzil's birth, on 20 June 1900, Elijah, Lilian, and one-year-old Ashlyn arrived at London on the Mesaba.[24] The couple’s eldest son, Ashlyn Hilary, was born at Lilian’s childhood home of Paternoster Row, London on 1899. Their second son, Denzil (confusingly, Denzil later added Robert to his name, in honor of his grandfather, and then dropped it), was also born at the London family home, on 1901.[25] Both were baptized at the Saint Nicholas Church in Surrey,[26] near the family home in Shepperton. Five years later, on 1906, the youngest, Jeremy Felix, was born, in New York City, New York.


The Bagster-Collins children
from Bagster-Collins collection of Elaine Shisler Smith

After his marriage to Lilian, Elijah continued his education at Columbia University, where he was awarded a Master of Arts in German.[27] In 1900, Elijah took a position as an Assistant Professor of German at Teacher’s College, Columbia University. In 1903, he was promoted to Associate Professor, and he continued to serve in that capacity until his retirement in 1938 at age 65.[28]

Around 1906, Elijah and Lilian had moved the family to Montrose, Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York. They lived in a home named “Boulder Cottage,” in an enclave of university professors, nicknamed the Montrose Colony, which included psychologists Edward Thorndyke, Robert S. Woodward, and Leta Hollingsworth, as well as Frederick Paul Keppel, Dean of the Teachers College at Columbia University. Thorndyke had purchased a large tract of land along the Hudson and he sold parcels to his Columbia colleagues, who desired to move their young families out of Morningside Heights to a more affordable and family suitable neighborhood only a 40 mile commute by the New York City Railroad.[29] The 1910 Census reported the family at the town of Cortlandt, consisting of Elijah, 37, professor at Columbia College, Edith, 35, Ashlyn, 10, Robert D. [Denzil], 9, Jerry, 3, and Harriet Lawrence, 38, servant cook.[30]

During the First World War, Elijah was appointed a Captain in the Military Intelligence branch of the Army on August 17, 1918, due to his German language fluency. Elijah served in Washington, D.C. on the General Staff, under Major General Henry Pinckney McCain (uncle of Senator John McCain). He was discharged from his duties on February 1, 1919.[31]

While at Columbia, Elijah founded the Modern Language Journal, and became managing editor of the German Quarterly. (Both of these publications are still active today). He also wrote several books about German instruction in schools, including, The Teaching of German in Secondary Schools (1904, 1910, 1915, 1916) First Book in German (1912, 1916, 1917), and History of Modern Language Teaching in the United States (1930).[32]

The 1920 Census found the family at Cortlandt, with the same composition, except no servants. Elijah, 47, was a college professor; all three sons were in school, and Ashlyn, 20, also worked as an automonile salesman.[33]

In 1930, Elijah, Lillian and Jeremy continued to live at Montrose. Elijah was a university professor and a veteran of the World War. Jeremy, 23, was still in school.[34] Ashlyn lived nearby - next to his parents in the census - He was 30, and a buyer of tobacco. With him were his wife Mary, 27, and a servant, Beatrice Law, 22.[35] Denzil (called Robert by the census taker) lived at Kent, Litchfield County, Connecticut, where he taught in a private school. He was 28, his wife, Emilie, 20.[36]

The 1940 Census reported E. W. Collins-Bagster, 67, and his wife Lilian, 65, still at Station Hill Road, Montrose, in the town of Cortlandt. They had no occupation listed.[37] Also on Station Hill Road were Ashlyn, 40, buyer for a tobacco company, and his wife Mary, 38.[38] Denzil and family had resided at Plattsburg, Clinton County, New York in 1935, but by 1940 had settlred at Keuka Park, town of Jerusalem, Yates County, New York. He was 39 years old, a college professor. The family had grown, and included his wife, Emilie, 30, and children Phyllis, 9, Marie, 7, and Richard, 5.[39] Jeremy and his wife, Mary, had lived in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania in 1935, but by 1940 resided at 21 West Eighth Street, New York City. Jeremy was a teacher.[40]

One of the Bagster-Collins family's favorite family pastimes was their frequent trips to Switzerland for the Winter Carnival. For many years, they would make the trip to Grindelwald for skating, skiing, and sledding. The family was often joined by the boys’ grandmother, Catherine Jane (Toms)Bagster. Their preferred hotel was the Hotel Schweizerhof; they became good friends with the owner. Even after the boys were grown, Elijah and Lilian stell returned to their favorite place for many year.[41]


Elijah and Lilian Bagster-Collins
from the Bagster-Collins collection of Elaine Shisler

Elijah died of a heart attack at his Montrose home on September 2, 1954, at the age of 81. His service was held at the Church of the Divine Love, an Episcopal Church in Montrose. He is buried in the church’s Sunset Cemetery.[42] His wife Lilian died on January 27, 1965, at the age of 91.

The New York Times noted the death of Elijah in its 4 September issue:[43]

Peekskill, N.Y. Sept. 3--Elijah W. Bagster-Collins, Professor of German at Teachers College, Columbia University, from 1900 until he retired in 1938, died of a heart attack at his home at nearby Montrose yesterday afternoon. His age was 81.

Mr. Bagster-Collins, who was graduated from Brown University, was founder and managing editor of Modern Language Journal and managing editor of the German Quarterly for many years. He was the author of several books. During World War I he was a Captain in the intelligence corps.

Surviving are his widow, the former Lillian Bagster, and three sons.

Ashlyn and Mary Bagster-Collins
from the Bagster-Collins collection of Elaine Shisler Smith
Jeremy Collins
from the Bagster-Collins collection of Elaine Shisler Smith

Eldest son Ashlyn Hilary, was employed in the tobacco business. It is possible that he worked for Imperial Tobacco of England–both his great uncle and first cousin of the Gunn family were employed by this firm. However, the name of his company is unknown to us.

It is likely that he met his wife, Mary Ellen Drumm, while on business for his company, since she was born and raised in North Carolina. Mary was a teacher, a Red Cross volunteer during World War II, and a member of the Peekskill Garden Club. She graduated from Catawba College, and attended the University of Virginia. They married on 1925.

The circumstances of their wedding are a bit unusual, since it appears the plans were hastily put together. Ashlyn’s parents were visiting relatives in England when the wedding date was announced for three weeks hence. Therefore, neither Elijah nor Lilian were in attendance for the wedding.[44]

Jeremy Felix the youngest son of Elijah William and Lilian Bagster-Collins, attended Kent School in Connecticut, and later Brown University, where he majored in English and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.A. from Columbia University. Jeremy's wife, Mary Treat Kunkel was a portrait painter, who graduated from the Holmquist School, in New Hope, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and attended Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, Westchester County,and L’Institute Esthetique Contemporaire in Paris, France.

Jeremy met Mary when he was a member of the English Department at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where her father was chair of the Biology Department. In 1938, Jeremy took a position at Finch Junior College for Girls in New York City. In 1946, his doctoral thesis on English playwright, George Colman the Younger, was published as a book. Jeremy retired from Finch in 1972.[45]

From 1935 to 1938, prior to her marriage to Jeremy, Mary Kunkel was romantically involved with the American poet, Theodore Huebner Roethke. Mary met Roethke in the summer of 1935 at Lafayette College–he was looking for work, as the school had not renewed his position for the upcoming year. Roethke suffered from manic depression. As a result of his illness, he had trouble keeping a faculty position–in the fall of 1936, he went to Michigan State, but his illness prevented him from finishing the school year. In the fall of 1936, he accepted a position at Penn State. His correspondence with Mary continued infrequently until 1938, and then stopped when Mary became involved with her future husband Jeremy Bagster-Collins. Roethke won a Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for his book, The Waking. Theodore, Mary and Jeremy remained friends. The letters between Mary and Ted (124 in total) were donated to the University of Washington in 1990 by Mary’s sister, Sarah Kunkel Stafford.[46]

Elijah and Lilian Bagster-Collins had the following children:

  1. ASHLYN HILARY4 BAGSTER-COLLINS b. at London on 11 July 1899; d. at Annsville, Oneida County, New York on 12 October 1962; m. at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, on 9 July 1925 MARY ELLEN DRUM, b. at Newton, Catawba County, North Carolina, on 22 February 1902, d. at Millbrook, Dutchess County, New York, on 24 April 2001; child of Commodore and Ferebee (Caldwell) Drum.[47]
  2. DENZIL4 BAGSTER-COLLINS b. at London on 26 March 1901.
  3. JEREMY FELIX4 BAGSTER-COLLINS b. at New York, New York, on 12 November 1906; d. at New York on 8 May 1978; m. at Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, on 1 April 1939 MARY TREAT KUNKEL, b. at Connecticut on 15 March 1912, d. at New York on 10 December 1981, child of Beverly W. Kunkel and Caroline Jennings.[48]


NOTES

1"Passport Applications, 1795-1925," digital image, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 3 February 2021), 1923, no. 281002; Elijah William Bagster-Collins. Rhode Island Town Clerks, "Rhode Island, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1630-1945," digital images, Family SearchAncestry (ancestry.com : accessed 1 April 2021), Elijah W Collins, 1954; Lilian B Collins, 1965. United Kingdom General Register Office, Southport, England., "England & Wales Birth Registration Index 1837-2006," database, Find My Past (findmypast.com : accessed 28 March 2021), v. 1B, Edith Lilian Bagster.
2Elaine Shisler Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too: A Portrait of the Bagster-Collins Family Tree (N.p.: self published, [2010]), 40.
3Pawtucket High School, Graduation Program, 1891. Bagster-Collins papers, privately held by Elaine Shisler Smith, Biglerville, Pennsylvania.
4Bishop's Gate Girls School, Certificate, 1891. Bagster-Collins Papers.
5Lilian Bagster, Diary, 1893-1896. Bagster-Collins Papers.
6Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 11.
7Lilian Bagster, Diry, 1893, April 3. Bagster-Collins Papers.
8Lilian Bagster, Diry, 1893, February 2. Bagster-Collins Papers.
9Lilian Bagster, Diry, 1893, March 26. Bagster-Collins Papers.
10Lilian Bagster, Diry, 1893, May 17. Bagster-Collins Papers.
11Lilian Bagster, Diry, 1893, June 12. Bagster-Collins Papers.
12Lilian Bagster, Diry, 1893, July 4. Bagster-Collins Papers.
13Lilian Bagster, Diry, 1893, July 19,20. Bagster-Collins Papers.
14Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 11.
15Lilian Bagster, Diry, 1894. Bagster-Collins Papers.
16Ibid.
17"Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897," digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2 April 2021), Majestic, 1895, Edith L. Bagster; Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36. National Archives at Washington, D.C. Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 41.
18"United Kingdom and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960," digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 5 April 2021), Teutonic, 1895; citing no. 96334.
19"United Kingdom and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960," Germaine, 1895.
20Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 12.
21Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 41.
22Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Manhattan, New York County, New York, enumeration district (ED) 853, p. 18, household 408, Bagster family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 December 2018); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
23Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 42.
24"United Kingdom and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960," Mesaba, 1900.
25Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 43.
26Ibid.
27Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 42.
28Ibid.
29Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 43.
30Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York, enumeration district (ED) 18, roll 1090, p. 9B, household 176, Elijah W. Bagster-Collins family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 11 March 2018); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
31Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 42.
32Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 44.
33Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York, enumeration district (ED) 14, roll 1275, p. 7B, dwelling 136, family 142, Elihah B. Collins family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 September 2016); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
34Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Montrose, Westchester County, New York, enumeration district (ED) 390, p. 5A, household 123, Elijah Bagster-Collins family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 September 2016); NARA microfilm record group T626; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
351930 Census, Montrose, Westchester County, New York, ED 390, p. 5A, household 124, A. H. Bagster-Collins family.
361930 Census, Kent, Litchfield County., Connecticut, ED 9, p. 6B, household 4, Robert Bagster-Collins family.
37Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York, enumeration district (ED) 69-22, roll 2802, p. 14A, household 292, E. W. Collins-Bagster family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 December 2018); NARA microfilm group T627.
381940 Census, Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York, ED 69-22, roll 2802, p. 14A, household 291, Ashlyn. Collins-Bagster family.
391940 Census, Jerusalem, Yates County, New York, ED 62-14, roll 2817, p. 2A, household 74, Denzil Bagster-Collins family.
401940 Census, Manhattan, New York County, New York, ED 31-895, roll 2645, p. 4A, household 115, Jeremy Bagster-Collins family.
41Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 44.
42Ibid.
43"Elijah Bagster-Collins," obituary, New York Times, 4 September 1954; Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 February 2015), Historic Newspapers, Birth, Marriage & Death Announcements, 1851-2003.
44Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 45.
45Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 46.
46Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 46-47.
47"England & Wales Birth Registration Index 1837-2006," v. 1C; Ashlyn H Bagster-Collins. New York State Department of Health; Albany, New York, "New York State Death Index, 1957-1969," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 4 February 2021), Ashlyn H Bagstercollin. North Carolina County Registers of Deed, North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011, Bagster-Collins - Drum, 1925; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 4 February 2021); North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC., Record Group 048. Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957," digital images, Ancestry, Olympic , 1932, Mary Bagster-Collins. Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 April 2017), Mary E. Bagster-Collins, 070-20-6661.
48"U.S. Social Security Death Index", Jeremy Bagster-Collins, 099-26-7388; Mary Bagster-Collins, 082-22-9021. Smith, History of the Family and Her Story Too, 46. "Mary Kunkel Bride Today," Morning Call, 1 April 1939; Genealogy Bank (genealogybank.com : accessed 4 February 2021), Recent Obituaries. p. 11.


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