Comfort, Mrs. Anna Manning – Conant, Edward
Comfort, Mrs. Anna Manning
physician, author, was born in 1845 in New Jersey. She is a physician of Syracuse, who has written Woman's Education and Woman's Health, a reply to Dr.
Clarke's once famous Sex in Education.
Comfort, George Fisk
educator, author, was born in 1833 in New York.
He has been a professor at Syracuse university since 1872; and has published a series of German text-books and The Land Troubles in Ireland.
Comingo, Abram
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 29, 1820, in Mercer county, Ky. He was elected a member of the Missouri state convention in 1861; appointed provost-marshal in May, 1863; and was elected to the forty-second and forty-third congresses.
Comins, Linus B
manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1817 in Charlton, Mass. He was a member of the Roxbury city council in 1846, and in 1847 and 1848 was president of the council; and in 1854 was mayor of Roxbury. He was soon after elected to congress from Massachusetts, and continued in that position to the close of the thirty-fifth congress, serving on the committee on commerce.
Comly, John
educator, author, was born in 1774 in Pennsylvania. He was a Pennsylvania educator among the Friends, who prepared a speller that was phenomenally popular, and also a grammar and other text-books. He died Aug. 17, 1850, in Ryeberry, Pa.
Commager, Henry S
soldier, was born about 1825. He was a prominent democratic politician in Toledo, Ohio; and in 1864 was an unsuccessful candidate for congress. He was colonel of the sixtyseventh Ohio regiment during the civil war, and in 1865 was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers. He died Sept. 5, 1867, in Galveston, Texas.
Commons, John Rogers
educator, author, was born in 1862 in Ohio. He has been a professor of sociology at Syracuse university since 1895; and is the author of The Distribution of Wealth; Social Reform and the Church; and Proportional Representation.
Compton, Barnes
was born Nov. 16, 1830, in Port Tobacco, Md. He was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1859 without opposition; in 1866 was elected state senator for four years; and was elected president of the senate. At the end of two years he was re-elected for a full term and was again elected president of the senate. In 1874 he was elected treasurer of the state, and served by re-election more than eleven years.
In 1877 he became a member of the board of managers of the state hospital for the insane; and in 1879 was made treasurer of the board. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Maryland to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty-second congresses.
Compton, Isaac M
legislator, was born March 30, 1832, in Hamilton county, Ohio. In 1876 he was elected to the state legislature; and re-elected in 1878. He was the author of Compton's ventilation bill.
Comstock, Addison J
pioneer, was born Oct. 17, 1802, in Palmyra, N. Y. In 1826 he built the first log house and sawmill in Adrian, Mich.; and in 1828 laid out the town of Adrian. He was appointed postmaster in 1829, and in 1832, with his father, projected the Erie and Kalamazoo railroad. He was elected mayor of Adrian in 1853. He died Jan. 20,
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.
Comstock, Charles C
manufacturer, congressman, was born March 5, 1818, in Sullivan, N. H. He was elected mayor of Grand Rapids in 1863, and reelected in 1864. He was the democratic candidate for governor of Michigan in 1870, the people's candidate for congress in 1873, and the greenback candidate for congress in 1878, but was defeated in each instance. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Michigan to the fortyninth congress.
Comstock, Cyrus Ballou
soldier, civil engineer, author, was born Feb. 3, 1831, in West Wrentham, Mass. He is a colonel of the engineer corps in the United States army, and brevet major-general of United States volunteers, who has made a number of important government surveys. He is the author of Notes on European Surveys; Surveys of the Northwestern Lakes; and Primary Triangulation of United States Lake Survey.
Comstock, George Carlton
lawyer, was born May 13, 1856, in New York city. He is manager of several large estates, and carries on an extensive court practice. He is president of the B. S.
Comstock Manufacturing company, and the Penobscot Granite company.
Comstock, George Cary
astronomer, was born Feb. 12, 1855, in Madison, Wis. He received his education at the university of Michigan; has gained prominence as a noted astronomer; and is director of the Washburn observatory of Madison, Wis.
Comstock, George F
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 24, 1811, in Williamstown, N. Y. He was appointed reporter of the decisions of the court of appeals, and published four volumes; and in 1852 was appointed solicitor of the United States treasury. In 1855 he was elected judge of the court of appeals, remaining on the bench until 1861, and was chief justice during the last year. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1867.
Comstock, Helen Maria Field
poet, philanthropist, was born Sept. 3, 1840, in Chesterfield, N. H. She attended the public schools, and the academy of her native city. She has been a writer for the Chicago Tribune and other leading publications of the east and west, and her poems have been incorporated in Poets of America and other standard works. Her poems have been collected and published in a large volume, which has called forth favorable comments from the leading newspapers of the west.
Comstock, John Henry
educator, author, was born Feb. 24, 1849, in Janesville, Wis. He is a professor of entomology and general invertebrate zoology at Cornell university; and the author of Notes on Entomology; Report on Cotton Insects; and Introduction to Entomology.
Comstock, John Lee
author, was born in 1789 in Lyme, Conn. He was an educational compiler of Hartford, among whose many scientific text-books are The Elements of Chemistry; Introduction to Mineralogy; System of Natural Philosophy; History of the Precious Minerals; and Natural History of Quadrupeds. He wrote also A History of the Greek Revolution. He died Nov. 21, 1858, in Hartford, Conn.
Comstock, Oliver C
congressman, was born in 1784. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1810 and 1812; a representative in congress from that state from 1813 to 1819; and subsequently officiated as chaplain of the house of representatives. He died Jan. 11, 1860, in Marshall, Mich.
Comstock, Solomon G
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 9, 1842, in Argyle, Maine. He was county attorney for Clay county from 1872 to 1878; was elected a representative to the Minnesota legislature in 1875-81; and state senator from 1882 to 1888, when he resigned.
He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican; and was a member on several imwas portant committees while in congress.
Comstock, Theodore Bryant
educator, author, was born July 27, 1849, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He is a geologist of distinction, professor in Illinois university; and the author of Outlines of General Geology; and Classification of Rocks.
Conant, Alban Jasper
artist, archæologist, author, was born Sept. 24, 1821, in Chelsea, Orange county, Vt. He received a thorough education at the Randolph academy of Vermont, and the Goveneur Wesleyan seminary. He was curator of the state university of Missouri through three administrations eight years in all.
He was chairman of the commission to locate and establish the school of Mines and Metallurgy under the congressional land grant; and was the Delegui correspondent for Missouri of the Institution Ethnographi of Paris, France. Mr. Conant is the author of Footprints of Vanished Races in the Mississippi Valley; Archæology of the Mississippi Valley; and other works. As an artist and archæologist he has attained national prominence, and resides in New York city.
Conant, Edward
educator, author, was born May 10, 1839, in Pomfret, Vt.
His educational work began in 1861 and continued for fourteen years, and became state superintendent for Vermont. He is the author of The Drill Book in the Elements of the English Language; and Conant's Vermont.