Linus Bacon Comins

Background

Comins, the son of Mary (Bacon) Comins and Barnabus C. Comins, was born in Charlton, Massachusetts.

Education

Comins attended the common schools at Brookfield, Massachusetts and was graduated from Worcester County Manual Training High School.

Career

He engaged in manufacturing in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was the Mayor of Roxbury in 1854. He was elected as a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress, March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1857, and as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859).

After leaving Congress, he resumed manufacturing pursuits.

He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1860. Comins died in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, October 14, 1892, and was interred at Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain.

Politics

Know Nothing, Republican Party.

Membership

Comins was a member of the Roxbury city council from 1846 to 1848 and served as its president in 1847 and 1848.

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