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Comegys, Cornelius P – Comstock, Addison J

Comegys, Cornelius P

governor, was born in Delaware. He was governor of that state from 1837 to 1840.

Comegys, Joseph Parsons

lawyer, United States senator, was born Dec. 29, 1813, in St. Jones's Neck, Del. He was elected a member of the house of representatives of the state in 1842 and 1848. In 1851 he was appointed one of a committee of three to revise the statutes of the state and in 1856 was chosen to fill a vacancy in the United States senate.

Comer, John

clergyman, was born in 1704 in Boston, Mass. He left a diary in manuscript, which contains interesting information of the early history of the baptists in America. He died May 23, 1734, in Old Rehoboth, Mass.

Comer, Thomas

actor, was born Dec. 19, 1790, in England. In 1827 he came to the United States, and was successively musical director at the Tremont theater, the Museum, and the Boston theater.

His forte was acting eccentric parts and Irish impersonations. He was also skilled in musical composition. He died July 27, 1802, in Boston, Mass.

Comfort, George Fisk

educator, author, was born in 1833 in New York.

He has been a professor at Syracuse university since 1872; and has published a series of German text-books and The Land Troubles in Ireland.

Comingo, Abram

lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 29, 1820, in Mercer county, Ky. He was elected a member of the Missouri state convention in 1861; appointed provost-marshal in May, 1863; and was elected to the forty-second and forty-third congresses.

Comins, Linus B

manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1817 in Charlton, Mass. He was a member of the Roxbury city council in 1846, and in 1847 and 1848 was president of the council; and in 1854 was mayor of Roxbury. He was soon after elected to congress from Massachusetts, and continued in that position to the close of the thirty-fifth congress, serving on the committee on commerce.

Comly, John

educator, author, was born in 1774 in Pennsylvania. He was a Pennsylvania educator among the Friends, who prepared a speller that was phenomenally popular, and also a grammar and other text-books. He died Aug. 17, 1850, in Ryeberry, Pa.

Commager, Henry S

soldier, was born about 1825. He was a prominent democratic politician in Toledo, Ohio; and in 1864 was an unsuccessful candidate for congress. He was colonel of the sixtyseventh Ohio regiment during the civil war, and in 1865 was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers. He died Sept. 5, 1867, in Galveston, Texas.

Commons, John Rogers

educator, author, was born in 1862 in Ohio. He has been a professor of sociology at Syracuse university since 1895; and is the author of The Distribution of Wealth; Social Reform and the Church; and Proportional Representation.

Compton, Isaac M

legislator, was born March 30, 1832, in Hamilton county, Ohio. In 1876 he was elected to the state legislature; and re-elected in 1878. He was the author of Compton's ventilation bill.

Comstock, Addison J

pioneer, was born Oct. 17, 1802, in Palmyra, N. Y. In 1826 he built the first log house and sawmill in Adrian, Mich.; and in 1828 laid out the town of Adrian. He was appointed postmaster in 1829, and in 1832, with his father, projected the Erie and Kalamazoo railroad. He was elected mayor of Adrian in 1853. He died Jan. 20,