Bio: Comerford, James (1881)
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 207.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JAMES COMERFORD.

JAMES COMERFORD, County Clerk, Chippewa Falls, came here in April, 1866, and was employed as a clerk for about twelve years In 1878, he was elected County Clerk, and re-elected in 1880. He was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, Jan. 28, 1832, and came to America in the Summer of 1854, locating in New York City. He went then to Otsego County for four years. In 1861, he enlisted in the 2d N. Y. Artillery, and served until the close of the war. He was ten months a prisoner. He was married in Chippewa Falls, Feb. 3, 1868, to Annote E. Cruttendon, who was born in Otsego County, N. Y. They have two children—Annie Mary and William H.