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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Comegys, Cornelius George, physician,

5, 1837, near Morrisville, Pa. He invented a great many mechanical devices. He served throughout the civil war; and attained the rank of major. In 1896-98 he was United States consul in India. He was interested in the manufacture of agricultural machinery and in producing oil. Comfort, Aaron Ivins, physician, surgeon, was born March 4, 1827, in Penn's Manor, Pa. Ho received his education in the public schools, Williston college, and the university of Pennsylvania He was assistant instructor of the classics and higher mathematics, and as assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the university of Pennsylvania, and consuming physician of the Southern dispensary of Philadelphia. During the civil war he was captain and assistant surgeon of the United States volunteers; and acting assistant surgeon United States army during 1865-92. He is now first assistant surgeon in the National home for disabled volunteer soldiers in Milwaukee, Wis. Dr. Comfort has contributed monographs on Indian mounds to Smithsonian institution. Comfort, Mrs. Anna Manning, physician, author, poet, was born Jan. 19, 1845, in Trenton. N.J. In 1871 she married George F. Comfort, the noted educator and art critic of Syracuse, N.Y. She 1865 graduated in from the first class of the New York medi-

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turer, author, was born July 33, 1816, in Cherbourg, Del. He was professor of the institutions of medicine in Miami medical college. In 1857 he became a lecturer on clinical medicine in the Cincinnati hospital, where he was later president of the hospital staff. For over thirty years he was director of the university of Cincinnati; was president of the board of trustees; and filled numerous other important positions. He was conspicuous as an author; and in 1855 translated from the French Reuounard's History of

Medicine and other works. Ho was the author of The Pathology and Treatment of Phthisis; Cool Bathing iu the Treatment of Entoro-Colitis; and numerous other medical Monographs. He died Feb. 10, 1896, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Comegys, Cornelius P., governor, was born in Delaware. He was the sixteenth governor of Delaware in 1837-40. He died in Delaware. Comegys, Joseph Parsons, lawyer. United States senator, was born Dec. 29, 1813, in St. Jones's Neck, Del. He was a member ot the Delaware house of representatives in 1842 and 1848. In 1851 he was appointed one of a. committee of three to revise the statutes of the state; and in 1856-57 he was United States senator to fill a vacancy.

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died Feb. 1, 1893 in Dover, Del. Comer, Braxton Bragg, merchant, banker, governor, was born Nov. 7, 1848, at Spring Hill Ala.

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of Georgia. In 1885 he became a member of the firm of Trapp and Comer, wholesale merchants of Anniston, Ala.; and five years later became a resident of Birmingham, Ala. He was there made president of the City national bank; and also became president of the Center cotton mills of Cylaeauga. In 1907 he became governor of the state of Alabama for a four year term ending 1911. Comer, Mrs. Camelia Atwood Pratt, journalist, critic, author, was born in Bryan, Ohio. She is editorial writer on the St. Paul Globe and Seattle Post-Intelligence; and a, popular magazine writer. She is the author Book af The Daughter of a Stoic; and of Martyrs.

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Comingo, Abram, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 29, 1820, in MerCer county, Ky. He was elected a member of the Mis-

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Comer, Thomas, actor, was born Dec. 19,

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medical graduate to practice in the state of Connecticut. She subsequently became a lecturer in the New York medical college for women and is a specialist in gynecology in New York City and Syracuse. She is the author of Woman's Education and Woman's Health; and articles in prose and poetry contributed to American litera-

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 23, 1734, in Old ReAmerica. He died

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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 Nov. 27, 1862, in Boston, Mass.

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souri state convention in 1861; and appointed provost-marshal in 1863. In 1871-75 he was a representative from Missouri to the forty-second and forty-third congresses. He died in Independence, Mo. Cominus, Linus B., manufacturer, congressman, was born Nov. 29, 1817, in Charlton, Mass. He was a member of the Eoxbury city council in 1846; in 1847-48 was president of the council; and in 1854 was mayor of Roxbury. In 1855-59 he was a representa-