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A Ontrf'miariuii.The Grant's Pass Courier has the following regarding a survivor of the warof 1^2:Hosea Brown, the only survivor of the war of 1812 on the Pacific coast,celebrated his 103d birthday at thehome of his grandson, Orr Brown,near Wilderville, Lane county, on the 19th of this month. The old gentleman was born in New Hampshire and came west into Ohio when about twenty years of age. He was only some 20 days in actual service in our second war with Johnny Bull, but the government gives him $50 a monthpension. He has been helpless now for about eight years, and when Harrison was elected in 1S3S Hosea was brought to the polls in a chair to vote for him. being preceded by a band of music. This was at Drain in this state. The centenarian, although very deaf, loves to talk of old times when he was a boy, and has a memory as perfect as in childhood. He was never married but once, hi9 wife leaving him for the great beyond at the age of 05, some 35 years ago.
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Dalles Times Mountaineer
Dalles, Oregon, US
Sat, Jul 27, 1895
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