Frank Comstock (politician)

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Frank Comstock
14th Mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut
In office
1889–1889[1]
Preceded byWilliam B. Hubbell
Succeeded byEdwin Wilcox
Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk
In office
1893– [2]
Personal details
Born(1856-08-19)August 19, 1856[3][4]
Wilton, Connecticut, US[3][4]
DiedOctober 6, 1914(1914-10-06) (aged 58)
Political partyRepublican[3]
SpouseSarah Berry (d. November 13, 1888)[5]
Residence(s)South Norwalk, Connecticut, US
OccupationHatter[3]

Frank Comstock (August 19, 1856 – October 6, 1914) was an American politician and one-term Republican mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut in 1889. He was born in Wilton in 1856. He was the son of John R. Comstock and Helen Eugenia Whitney.[4] He served for three years as a Burgess of the Borough of Norwalk.[3] Comstock served in the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1893.[2]

In 1882, Comstock founded, along with Samuel Raymond, the Raymond & Comstock Company, a hat factory at 50 Day Street, in Norwalk.[3][6]

References

  1. ^ List of mayors of Norwalk, Connecticut Archived June 26, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b Connecticut Register and Manual
  3. ^ a b c d e f Biographical Sketches
  4. ^ a b c Phoenix, Stephen Whitney (1878). "The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and Its Affiliations: Being an Attempt to Trace the Descendants, as Well in the Female as the Male Lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878".
  5. ^ New York Times - Obituary
  6. ^ The Norwalk Hour


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