Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Comstock, Ezra B. 1838 - 
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  EZRA B. COMSTOCK. Among the well known popular educators and school teachers of
Meeker county, there is, perhaps, no better representative than Mr. Comstock, a
resident of Ellsworth township, living in the village of Greenleaf. He is a native
of Canada, having first seen the light October 8, 1838, in Brown county, in the
province of Quebec, and is the son of Anson and Hannah (Constadt) Comstock, both of
whom have passed to their reward in the land beyond the river of death.

   Our subject received the benefits of a primary education in the district schools
of his native county, and knowing the advantages to be derived from it, for two
years was a student at Browne College, from which he was graduated in 1858. His
studies for a time were in the direction of civil engineering, but meeting with an
accident to one of his limbs, which disqualified from the labors incident upon that
profession, he gave it up and turned his attention to “teaching the young idea how
to shoot.” He commenced his life’s labors as pedagogue in his native land. He came
to the State of Minnesota in 1869, and for some four years presided over the studies
of a large school. From there he came to Meeker county, locating, for the nonce in
Cedar Mills township, where he remained, following his profession, for some four
years, and then removed to his present residence, in Greenleaf.

   May 21,1861, Mr. Comstock was united in marriage with Miss Eliza Cook, a native
also of the Dominion of Canada, with whom he had been to school in his youth. Her
parents, both of whom were born in the same section of country, are both dead, the
mother dying when Mrs. Comstock was but a child, and the father in June, 1867. By
this union Mr. and Mrs. Comstock have one child— Myrtie M., who was born in Meeker
county, this State, May 12, 1875.

   In his political views, Mr. Comstock coincides with the republican party,
although not blindly partisan. His judgment and own intelligence are what he mostly
depends upon. He has held many of the more important township offices since coming
here, and always with honor. He has been a constant resident since 1873, except that
during the year 1879 when he was teaching in St. Paul, he has taken a deep interest
in the advancement of educational matters, and to him is due a share of the progress
made in this direction by Ellsworth township. Mr. Comstock at present holds a
commission as notary public.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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