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- From Bell's History of Northumberland County 1891: Joshua Wright Comly, who was admitted to the bar of Northumberland County on the 17th of November, 1830, and has survived all the officers of the court and attorneys of this bar at that date, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 16, 1810, son of Charles and Sarah (Wright) Comly, and a descendant of Henry Comly, an English Friend, who immigrated to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1682. He was reared in the Quaker faith, attended the local schools and the College of New Jersey at Princeton, and in 1827 began the study of law at Milton under Samuel Hepburn. After his admission to the bar he located at Orwigsburg, Schuylkill county, but subsequently removed to Danville, where he has since resided, although his practice for some years embraced many of the most important cases in Northumberland County. In 1851 he was the Whig candidate for judge of the Supreme court.
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Biography |
- JOSHUA WRIGHT COMLY, attorney at law, Danville, was born at Philadelphia, Penn., November 16, 1810, a son of Charles and Sarah (WRIGHT) COMLY. The father was a native of Pennsylvania, died January 9, 1840; the mother was born in New Jersey, and died March 4, 1879. They were married February 19, 1807, and eight children were born to them, six of whom arrived at maturity, but all are now deceased, except our subject and his brother. Joshua W. was reared in the Quaker faith, attended the schools of his neighborhood, and also Princeton College. In 1827 he began the study of law at Milton, Northumberland Co., Penn, in the office of Samuel HEPBURN, Esq., and three years later, November 17, 1830, was admitted to the court of common pleas of Northumberland County. In 1833 he was admitted to the supreme court of Pennsylvania, and has made law the business of his life. He practiced in three counties for many years, traveled and did a large practice in several other counties. In 1851 he was the Whig candidate for judge of the supreme court, and in May, 1882, retired. He is descendant of Henry and Joan COMLY, who with their son, Henry, came to America with William Penn. They were members of the Society of Friends. Henry was a weaver by trade, settled in Bucks County, Penn. Charles COMLY (subject's father) is the son of Ezra COMLY, formerly of Philadelphia, and Hannah Iredell, his wife. Ezra was a son of Robert COMLY, late of Byberry, Philadelphia, and Sarah JONES, his wife. Robert COMLY was the son of Robert COMLY, Sr., and Jane CADWALLADER, his wife. Robert COMLY, Sr., was the second son of Henry COMLY of Bucks County, Penn., and Agnes HEATON, his wife. Henry COMLY was the son of Henry COMLY, Sr., and Jane his wife, who came from England to Pennsylvania in 1682.
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