

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMINGO, Abram, (1820 - 1889) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMINGO, Abram, a Representative from Missouri; born near Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Ky., January 9, 1820; attended the common and high schools and was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Harrodsburg, Ky., in 1847; moved to Independence, Mo., in 1848 and commenced the practice of law; delegate to the Missouri State convention in February 1861; appointed provost marshal of the sixth district of Missouri in May 1863; elected recorder of deeds of Jackson County in 1868; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; resumed the practice of law in Independence, Mo.; appointed by President Grant in 1876 a member of the commission to arbitrate with the Sioux Indians for the possession of Sioux lands in Dakota bordering on the Black Hills; moved to Kansas City, Mo., in 1881; retired from public life; died in Kansas City, Mo., November 10, 1889; interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
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March 1778
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Conewago, York, Pennsylvania, United States
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1850 |
1850
Age 71
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Brown, Montgomery, Indiana
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1858 |
October 11, 1858
Age 80
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Brown, Montgomery, Indiana, United States
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