Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Davis, Dr Oliver Comstock 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

Dr. Oliver Comstock Davis, a homeopathic practitioner of medicine and surgery 
in Joliet, was born in Channahon, Will county, Illinois, April 12, 1857. His 
father, George B. Davis, a farmer by occupation, was born in the state of New 
York in 1821 and in 1837 came to the middle west, remaining a resident of 
Joliet to the time of his death, which occurred in 1901. His wife, who bore 
the maiden name of Olive Comstock, was born in Tompkins county, New York, in 
1S24, was brought to Joliet in 1S36 and in 1842 gave her hand in marriage to 
Mr. Davis. She died in the year 1891. She was a daughter of Dr. Alexander M. 
G. Comstock, one of the pioneer physicians of Will county, who ably engaged in 
the practice of medicine in Joliet from 1836 until 1854. He served as a 
surgeon in the war of 1812 and was also an ordained minister of the Methodist 
church. In the family of George B. and Olive Davis were four children who are 
yet living, namely: George Henry, who is in charge of the store department of 
the Pullman Company at Pullman, Illinois; Sadie, residing in Joliet; Wilbur 
B., who resides on the old homestead at Channahon; and Oliver Comstock. In 
taking up the personal history of Dr. Davis we present to our readers the life 
record of one widely and favorably known in Will county, where the greater 
part of his life has been passed. He attended the common schools through 
successive grades and was a high-school student at Channahon, after which he 
matriculated in the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, where he 
spent the year 1875-6. He then took up his medical studies in the Chicago 
Homeopathic Medical College and also received three years practical training 
and experience in the prison hospital at Joliet, there remaining from 1878 
until 1881, after which he continued his course in the Chicago Homeophatic 
College and entered upon the practice of his profession at Lockport, where he 
remained from 1882 until 1885. In that year he sought a broader field of labor 
and came to Joliet, where he has remained continuously since, and a growing 
patronage is indicative of the confidence reposed in his professional skill 
and ability. Dr. Davis was married in Joliet, on the 15th of March, 1882, to 
Miss Carrie L. Sandiford, a daughter of Roger Sandiford, of this city, whose 
parents were natives of England and in 1854 became residents of Joliet. The 
Doctor and his wife have two children: Olive Caroline, born June 11, 1887, and 
now a student in the Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio; and Mildred 
Jane, who was born July 3, 1897, and is attending school in Joliet. Doctor and 
Mrs. Davis, during the years of their residence in this city, have gained a 
wide circle of friends and his professional prominence is acknowledged by the 
public and the members of the medical fraternity. He maintains in his practice 
a high standard of professional ethics and is a close and discriminating 
student of various publications bearing upon his chosen calling and which 
render the labors of the medical fraternity more effective. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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