Hugh Comer

Comer was born in 1842 to John Fletcher Comer (1811–1858) and Catharine Lucinda Drewry (d. 1898). He had five brothers: John Wallace Comer (1845–1919), St. George Legare Comer (1847–1870), U.S. senator and Alabama governor Braxton Bragg Comer (1848–1919), John Fletcher Comer, Jr. (1854–1927) and Edward Trippe Comer (1856–1927). There was also at least one daughter in the family. Comer's father was a cotton planter who also owned a lumberyard and a corn mill. He married Catharine Drewry in 1841, but left her a widow with six children when he died in 1858. ==Career==

In addition to his presidency of the Central of Georgia Railway, Comer co-founded Bibb Manufacturing Company in Macon, Georgia, was a director of Banking Company of Georgia and president of Savannah Cotton Exchange and Ocean Steamship Company. He was also partner in the fertilizer firm Comer, Hull & Co. ==Personal life==

Comer married Mary E. Bates in or before 1868, the year they moved to Savannah, Georgia, where he quickly became a prominent businessman. One of their children was Annie Comer, who married Clark Howell five months after her father's death. They also had a son, Hugh M. Comer, Jr. == Death ==

Comer died on February 26, 1900, aged 58, after a long illness. After a funeral service at Savannah's St. John's Episcopal Church, he was interred in Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery. ==References==