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Comstock, Andrew

elocutionist, author, was born in 1795 in New York.

He was a professor of elocution, a lecturer on oratory, and is the author of a New System of Phonetics, Phonetic Speaker, Phonetic Testament; Reader; Historia Sacra; and Elocution.

COMSTOCK, ANDREW WESTBROOK, pioneer, lumber manufacturer, was born Oct. 5, 1838, in Port Huron, Mich. He has been mayor of Alpena, and is now president of the Alpena Banking Co., and a partner in H. S. Robinson and Co., manufacturers of boots and shoes, as well as in a warehouse firm. His lumber firm operate not only in Alpena but in Canada and Mississippi.

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