Hugh Comer

Hugh Moss Comer (1842 – February 26, 1900) was an American businessman. He was a president of the Central of Georgia Railway and co-founder of Bibb Manufacturing Company, in addition to having several directorships and self-owned companies.

One of his former residences, located at 2 East Taylor Street, in Monterey Square in Savannah, Georgia,

Early life

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. 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.