The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-10

Here Cornelius took his first lessons
in theoretical and practical phar-
macy. At the age of twenty-three
he left the avocation of teaching and
having sold his interest in the drug
and book store to his brother, Or
landa H., he entered the employ of
the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.
as a civil engineer, first carrying the
axe and chain. At the end of three
months he was promoted to the
head of party, and remained in the
employ of the company until he
took a position as mining engineer
with Edward Jones & Co., at Oily
phant, Pa. During this time he
purchased a half interest in a con-
tract for furnishing coal to the Della
eral and long continued strike
among the miners took place and
fearing that his venture would not
terminate proftably, he sold his in
terest and returned to Carbondale
and took charge of his brothers, o.
II. Jadwin, drug store.
On May s, 1862, he and o. H.
bought the drug business of Pur-
don & Seely, at Honesdale, Pa, and
commenced business under the
firm name of Jadwin & Bro. This
store was under the sole supervision
of c. c. Jadwin, and continued as
partnership business until Novem
Der, 1868, when c. c. Jadwin pur-
chased his brothers interest and be-
came sole proprietor. In 1869 Mr..
Jadwin and S. A. Terrell built the
block, on the corner of Eighth and
Main streets, known as the Masonic
Hall building.
In politics Mr.. Jadwin is a consist
ent Republican, and since 1865 he
has been very active and influential
in the management of the affairs of
the party in Wayne county, having
acted for several years as chairman
of the Republican County Commit
tee, and having been delegate to the
county conventions, and also Repre-
sentative or Senatorial delegate to
state conventions.
Since 1872 he has been a member
of the local Board of Education
nearly the whole time, and for sew
eral years was President of that
body. In 1880 he was elected del
-egate to the National convention of
the Republican party at Chicago and
the same fall was elected to repre-
sent the district COMPOSED of Brad
ford, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyo-
ming counties in the forty-seventh
Congress. In Wayne county he ran
eight hundred and twenty-eight
votes ahead of Garfield for Presi-
dent, receiving eighteen thousand
two hundred and twenty-three votes
in the district against thirteen thous-
and six hundred and two for Robert
nj
and sixty-siX for j. Burrows, Green
back candidate, and two hundred
and sixteen for l.. Smith, Prohibi-
zionist.
He made a consistent and hon
orable record in Congress, familiar
izing himself promptly and thor
oughly with the processes of legis-
lation, zealously guarding the inter-
ests of the constitution, writing and
replying to about seven thousand
letters during his term.
He was a member of the commit
tee on the revision of the laws and
on war claims.
In 1882, by virtue of the tradition
airy custom of his party, a renomina-
ton to Congress was due to Mr..
Jadwin, but through the machina-
tions and devices Of ambitious mem
bers of the party, who lulled his
suspicious by assurances of fidelity
and the certainty of his renomina-
tion, he was defeated and Colonel
Edward Overton, of Bradford coun-
ty, was nominated. Mr.. Jadwin's S
Wayne county friends bolted this
nomination and reconvened their
county convention, but put him in
nomination as an Independent can
didate.
The result was that Mr. Jadwin
received 910l votes, Colonel Over
ton 5675, and George A. Post, OF
Susquehanna county, the Demo
cratic candidate, ,555 votes and
was elected. Jadwin received more
votes than OVerton in Bradford
county (his home county, and four
! times as many as he did in Wyo-
ming county. Overton only had one
hundred and twenty votes in Wayne
county where Jadwin ran one thous-
and one hundred and two ahead OF
| his ticket. This was considered by
all his friends a sufficient vindica-
| tion of his record and a we'll de-
served rebuke to the unfair methods
by which he had been deprived oi
the nomination.
In 1867 Mr.. Jadwin originated the
scheme and raised the subscription
| for the publication of the Honesdale
| Citizen and was chosen as one oi
the five managers OF the paper, and
remained in charge until it was
passed over to Wilson & Penniman
Nevada Solid For Taft.