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[3][4]
DiedOctober 6, 1914(1914-10-06) (aged 58)[5]
Political partyRepublican[3]
SpouseSarah Berry (d. November 13, 1888)[6]
ResidenceSouth Norwalk, Connecticut
OccupationHatter[3]

Frank Comstock (August 19, 1856 – October 6, 1914) was a 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][7]

References

  1. List of mayors of Norwalk, Connecticut Archived June 26, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 Connecticut Register and Manual
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Biographical Sketches
  4. 1 2 3 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. "Frank Comstock (1856-1914) - Find a Grave". Find a Grave.
  6. New York Times - Obituary
  7. The Norwalk Hour


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