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56TH CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
2d Session. I No. 2020.
ISABELA MYERS.
JANUARY 24, 1901.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. GALLINGER, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 11680.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R.
11680) granting an increase of pension to Isabela Myers, have examined
the same and report:
The report of the Committee on Invalid Pensions of the House of
Representatives, hereto appended, is adopted and the passage of the
bill is recommended.
HOUSE REPORT.
George W. Myers, the soldier named in this bill, is shown by the records of the
War Department to have served as a private in the Second Battery, Connecticut
Light Artillery, from August 6, 1862, to August 9, 1865; and the files of the Pension
Bureau show that he was a pensioner under the general law on account of chronic
rheumatism and resulting disease of heart. He died December 11, 1891, of disease
of the heart and lungs, due to the causes for which pensioned, and Isabela Myers,
as his widow, and who married him April 11, 1859, was pensioned in May, 1895,
under the general law, at $12 per month, and $2 per month additional on account of
two minor children of the soldier, namely, Richard E. and Frank H., born August
10, 1876, and-April 17, 1884, respectively, such additional pension ceasing April 16,
1900, when the youngest child became 16 years of ago, and said widow is now in
receipt of said pension of $12 per month.
Testimony filed in the Pension Bureau in 1893 shows that said boy was then a help-
less cripple, and the statements of Judge Wheeler, of the superior court of Con-
necticut; of Hugh Stirling, the present mayor, and P. Coughlin, an ex-mayor, of the
city of Bridgeport, Conn., and of Dr. F. B. Downs, of said city of Bridgeport, filed
with your committee, show that the said boy Richard, when about 8 years of age,
had an attack of chronic rheumatism of the form known as arthritis deformans, which
attacked nearly every joint of his body, resulting in total helplessness, with inability
to walk a stop or to do anything to help himself; that the case is of hereditary origin,
the father having suffered with rheumatism many years; that the mother of the boy
has to lift him from bed to chair, etc.; that she is breaking down under the strain,
being also a sufferer from disease of heart; that she has no means of support except
what she can earn by her own exertions.
Following precedents in like cases, your committee recommend that the pension of
the mother of the beneficiary be increased on account of said helpless boy; and the
bill is reported back with the recommendation that it pass.
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