Elisha W. McComas

Elisha Wesley McComas (* around 1820 in Cabell County , Virginia (now West Virginia ), † March 11, 1890 near Fort Scott, Nebraska ) was an American lawyer, officer , editor, writer and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

Elisha Wesley McComas attended Ohio University in Athens ( Ohio ). He studied law and began practicing law in Virginia in 1841 after his admission to the bar. After the outbreak of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) he enlisted in the 11th Infantry Regiment of Virginia, where he held the rank of captain . During the war he was wounded and taken prisoner. He was only released after the end of the war on July 20, 1848. He then resumed his practice as a lawyer, but also pursued a political career. McComas was a member of the General Assembly . In 1855 he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, a position he held from 1856 until his resignation in 1857, which was due to health reasons. McComas moved to Chicago ( Illinois ), where he over time editor of the Chicago Times was and still worked as a lawyer. There he also spent the subsequent years of the American Civil War . During this time he was responsible for greeting the Prince of Wales who visited Chicago once. After the war he moved back to his old home, which was now part of West Virginia. He lived there until 1868, during which time he took care of his father's business. After his death he moved with his family to Nebraska, where he first settled on a farm near Omaha and finally in 1870 in Fort Scott. In the following time he worked as a writer. He was also the first president of the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce, but his poor health prevented him from seeking a second term. Shortly before his death, he moved out of town to a farm six miles north of Fort Scott that belonged to his son Gordon.

Works

• A Rational View of Jesus and Religion
• The Divine Problem
• A Concept of the Universe

Individual evidence

1. ^ National Intelligencer Newspaper Abstracts. 1847 by Joan M. Dixon, Heritage Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7884-4475-3 , page 206
2. ^ West Virginia Archives and History
3. ↑ Official website of the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

literature

• Massacre on the Lordsburg Road: A Tragedy of the Apache Wars by Marc Simmons, Volume 15, Texas A&M University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-58544-446-5

Web links

• Elisha Wesley McComas on archive.org
• Elisha Wesley McComas on the Skyways side