Oliver C. Comstock, Jr.
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N 42° 16.255 W 084° 57.250
16T E 668713 N 4681883
Located on the east side of Marshall Avenue, just south of Green Street. Streetside parking available.
Waymark Code: WM1AGH
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 03/15/2007
Views: 45
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.
Historical Name: Oliver C. Comstock, Jr., Adam Crosswhite
Parking nearby?: yes
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Registered Site #: Local Site #0783
Historical Date: Not listed
Description: Not listed
website: Not listed
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