Cornelius Comegys Jadwin (March 27, 1835 – August 17, 1913) was a

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member of the U.S. House of Representatives from

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Biography

Cornelius Comegys Jadwin was born in

Carbondale, Pennsylvania Carbondale is a city in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. Carbondale is located approximately 15 miles due northeast of the city of Scranton in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 8,828 at the 2020 census. The land area th ...

. He attended the common schools and taught school for four years. He studied

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and pharmacy. He was engaged as a civil and mining engineer from 1857 to 1861. He entered the drug business and located in

Honesdale, Pennsylvania Honesdale is a borough in and the county seat of Wayne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The borough's population was 4,458 at the time of the 2020 census. Honesdale is located northeast of Scranton in a rural area that provides many recr ...

, in 1862. He served on the board of education of his district for nine years and was president for three years. He was a delegate to the

1880 Republican National Convention The 1880 Republican National Convention convened from June 2 to June 8, 1880, at the Interstate Exposition Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Delegates nominated James A. Garfield of Ohio and Chester A. Arthur of New York as the off ...

. Jadwin elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress. He was an unsuccessful Independent candidate for reelection in

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. He continued the drug business in Honesdale until his death there in 1913. Interment in

Glen Dyberry Cemetery Glen Dyberry Cemetery is located in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Description The cemetery, alongside the Dyberry Creek, was granted organization in 1854 and features meandering pathways, hillside plots, and many ornamented burial markers. The cemete ...

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1835 births 1913 deaths People from Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania American pharmacists Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American legislators {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub