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Romance of a Co*«”Q** Man.Comrade Amos Yonkel, it for in or member of the same company* ami originally a Greenville boy, but now it resident of Philadelphia, sends its a copy of the liccortl of that city, of date of May 27, 1894, containing nit account of a strange episode In the life of Com-ratio Patrick M'Catin* n former member of tho company aboyo mentioned, which was organised in Greenville* Pa., in August, 1862, by tho Into Capt. W.h’D.bbeeb I tigbthe*1nftW. W. Wood, Co. 0, 145th P. V., townorwhich I ho writer hereof and n nuni betI W 1of other old boys of this place and t0J vicinity belonged, who will romember # Comrade McCann as a Philadelphia |f) recruit, and one of tho kind that staid.! mo Uclow wo givo the account: ]Patrick McCann, tho onc-nnuod vet- Mi eran who formerly ownod tho nows- Silt; stand at Viue street am) Franklin Square, dropped out of sight suddenly St in 1886. Yesterday Pension Agent wi Mul ho I hind paid out oyoi' |4200.on McCann’s account, eyldeiico proving he- th yond doubt tlmt tho pensioner is very | J-t much alive, although under restraint at Norristown. McCann was entitled to a pension of $36 a year, and drew his quarterly payments with unfailing! regularity until 1886, when ho myster- Si jo^ly disappeared,.during tho month 111 of J une or July.‘•in 1889, nothing being hoard from l« him, his name was dropped from tho faioila
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Shenango Valley News
Greenville, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Jun 08, 1894
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