Oliver C. Comstock, Jr.
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N 42° 16.255 W 084° 57.250
16T E 668713 N 4681883
Quick Description: Located on the east side of Marshall Avenue, just south of Green Street. Streetside parking available.
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 3/15/2007 6:54:46 PM
Waymark Code: WM1AGH
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Long Description:Oliver C. Comstock, Jr. (1806-1895) built this Gothic Revival house
between 1849 and 1856. Comstock, born in Fairfield, New York,
migrated to the Marshall area in 1836. He left a well-established
medical practice in Trumansburg, New York, to start anew on the
Michigan frontier. Later that year, he erected the first brick
business building in Calhoun County on Exchange Street. It housed
his pharmacy and office.
(SIDE TWO) Oliver C. Comstock, Jr., served as the state's third
superintendent of public instruction (1843-45). In 1847 he was one
of the abolitionists who prevented Kentucky slaveholders' taking
the fugitive slave family of Adam Crosswhite. In 1848 he and
several prominent Marshall citizens were convicted and fined for
conspiracy to harbor the fugitives. Comstock was superintendent of
the construction of the Michigan Central Railroad between Jackson
and Kalamazoo and a founder of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical
Society.
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