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Show FINDS FATHER WHO WAS THOUGHT DEAD Tarrytown. N. Y.. Aug. 22. Mrs Miller French of ClaUkanie, Ore, left here today with her aged lather, froni whom she has been separated lor 53 years, believing him dead. The discovery dis-covery that he was still alive came about recently when Mrs French attempted at-tempted to secure a pension as the daughter of a supposedly deceased veteran of the (i!l war. Her fathejfr Louis B. Hunt, had parted from Ins wife when he enlisted at Buffalo Ii '61. when his daughter was. al two years old It was reported later that he had been killed In the war. but ho returned in '65 to the amazement of his friends who told him that his wife had believed him dead and had married another man Like Enoch Arden. he turned his back on Buffalo, Buffa-lo, leaving his wife in ignorance, and to the new happiness she had found He did not dare even to communicate communi-cate with his child Recently, after 53 years had elapsed, without his knowing whether his daughter was still alive he learned from the pension pen-sion bureau that she was applying for a pension upon the supposition that he was dead. The reunion followed and Captain Hunt, who is now M years old. and feeble, will make hi$ home for the rest of his fife with his daughter in Oregon. |