Preceded by Edward Overton, Jr. Role U.S. representative Name Cornelius Jadwin | Political party Republican Succeeded by George Adams Post Party Republican Party | |
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Born March 27, 1835
Carbondale, Pennsylvania ( 1835-03-27 ) Died August 17, 1913, Honesdale, Pennsylvania, United States | ||
Cornelius Comegys Jadwin (March 27, 1835 – August 17, 1913) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Cornelius Comegys Jadwin was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and taught school for four years. He studied civil engineering 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, 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.
Jadwin elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress. He was an unsuccessful Independent candidate for reelection in 1882. He continued the drug business in Honesdale until his death there in 1913. Interment in Glen Dyberry Cemetery.