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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsLinus Bacon COMINS
(1817-1892)
COMINS, Linus Bacon, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Charlton, Mass.,
November 29, 1817; attended the common schools at Brookfield,
Mass., and was graduated from Worcester County Manual Training High
School; engaged in manufacturing in Roxbury, Mass.; member of the
Roxbury city council 1846-1848 and served as its president in 1847
and 1848; mayor of Roxbury in 1854; elected as a candidate of the
American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to
the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); resumed
manufacturing pursuits; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1860; died in Jamaica Plain, Mass., October 14, 1892;
interment in Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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