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Show one renMon Bock Closed. Pension Agent Clemens a few days ago drew a red line through the last name upon the 1812 record, and the book was finally closed. News had been received re-ceived that Benjamin Churchill of Gales-burg, Gales-burg, Ills., the last veteran on the list at this agency, had died on Tuesday at an age of nearly 100 years. Little was known of him personally at the agency here, as all his communications with the office were through the mail. The record shows briefly that he was a private in Captain E. Wheeler's company of New York militia. His birthplace was Alixis, N. Y. Veterans of 1812 usually receive a pension of $12 a month. By a special act of congress Churchill drew 430 a month. "When we came into office three years ago," said Mr. Clemens, "there were 12 pensioners of the war of 1812. Now the last one has gone to his well earned rest." Chicago Herald. |