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Show FAMOUS PLD SOLDIER LAID AT REST. A ; . Today in the Cypress Bills cemetery, Brooklyn, the remains of Hiram Cronlc, the last survivor of the Var of 1812, will be tenderly, and Teverently laid at rest and the old veteran will henceforth sleep by the side of more than half a "hundred of his fellow soldiers, who have gone before. . & Nothing has been left undone by the people of the )d soldier's home State to evidence the esteem and ;honor in which he was held. Months before his death, and at a time when it appeared as if h might be spared for years to come, the Board of Aldermen of New York City quietly perfected elaborate plans lor the disposition of his body after death. . 7 Iliram Cronk has occupied a unique place in American history. ; Born at Frankfort, Herkimer county, N. Y., more than 105 years y . ' ago, he enlisted in the War of 1813 as a mere boy and was discharged dis-charged in 1814 at the age of fourteen years, after a brief but honorable hon-orable service. ' ' ' ' -' ' ' After the war, Mr. Cronk learned the shoemaker's trade and in this manner gained a livelihood for many years. During the latter part of hia lif e? when e was no longer able to earn his" bread by the sweat of his brow, he received a pension of "72 a month from the State of New Yofk, in addition to the pension which he received f rom the Federal Government as a war veteran. ; " v Prpblably, noman of which history tells has seen the march of progress witnessed by Hiram Cronk during his long and busy life. y He was 1 "year oldwhen Thomas Jefferson was first inaugurated President, and was 3 years old when the, Louisiana Purchase was made. The first boat propelled by steam power was run from New York to Albany when Cronk was a. boy of 7, and a log cabin was erected upon the present site of Rochester, N.-Yi, the same year. - Young Oronk was 20 years of age when the first locomotive was used in the United States, and was approaching the meridian of the average life when Morse invented the telegraph. He was 23. years of age when the first steam power printing press was operated in this country and the first three-story house' erected in Brooklyn. A few years later matches took fte place of the old tinderbox, flint and steel and the Erie canal was completed. |