Albert W. Duncan Needs a Guardian

“The infirmary directors have made application for the appointment of a guardian for Albert Duncan, a soldier confined in the infirmary. Duncan draws a pension and spends same for intoxicants, then depends on the county to keep him. The idea is to have a guardian to draw his money and so issue it to him that it will go further and more to his advantage.”¹

Albert W. Duncan’s Veterans’ Adminstration Pension Payment Card ²

1. Needs a guardian. (1899, May 26). Portsmouth Daily Times, p. 1.
2. “United States records,” images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-XZ3D-MP?view=explore : Sep 11, 2025), image 460 of 740; United States. National Archives and Records Administration.
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