Born in Franklin County, Ohio, near Columbus, on the 1st day of March, 1818. When about six years old his father moved to Hamilton County, the same State, to the village of New Haven, which was the precinct or voting place for Crosby township, where our subject lived until his thirteenth year. His father sent him and his younger brother, Hiram to Augusta College Kentucky, where he remained for about four years, or until the spring of 1834, when he returned and began reading medicine in his father's office, and so continued until the spring of 1887, when he came to Iowa, at that time a Territory. He came to what is now Van Buren County, in April 1, 1887, and in the faIl of that year located at Benton's Post and began the practice of his profession. On the 17th day of June, 1838, our subject married Sarah Ann Sullivan, and continued to reside in the same county, at several different places, until the spring of 1843, when he came to his present location, where he continued to reside, engaged in practice in connection with his farm, until 1865, when his hearing became so much impaired that he quit the practice. Mr. Comstock never took much interest in political affairs, never seeking office, but was on a nonpartisan vote, elected to represent Wapello County, in 1841, in the first Legislature of the State of Iowa, he being a Whig. The election in 1848, party lines being drawn, showed the county to be Democratic by a large majority. Dr. arid Mrs. C. have had twelve children born to them.