Cornelius Comegys Jadwin (March 27, 1835 – August 17, 1913) was a Republican member of the

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Biography

Cornelius Comegys Jadwin was born in

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

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and

pharmacy Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medication, medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it ...

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

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, 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

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. 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. He was interned in Glen Dyberry Cemetery.

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