Biographical Sketch of Charles G. Comstock, Gentry County, Missouri

>From "History of Gentry and Worth Counties", Biographical Sketches of
the Bench and Bar,  St. Joseph, Mo.: National Historical Company, 1882.

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Colonel Charles G. Comstock.  The subject of this sketch was born in
Putnam County, New York, October 8, 1836.  He was the second child of
William and Maria Comstock, his mother's maiden name being Falconer.
He received his collegiate education at College Hill, Poughkeepsie,
New York.  He attended Fowler's Law School at the same place in 1856-
57.  In the summer of 1857, he was admitted to the practice of law by
the Supreme Court, which was at the time in session at Newbury, in
that state.  In the fall of 1857, he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 
where he began the practice of his profession.  He remained in Milwau-
kee until March, 1859, when he came to Albany, Gentry County, Missouri
where he resumed the practice of law.  In May, 1862, he was appointed 
Judge of the Probate Court of Gentry County, which position he held
until November, 1862.  He was elected clerk of the circuit court in
November, 1864, for two years, and about the year 1864-65, he held the
position of county attorney by appointment.  In 1864, he became inter-
ested in the publication of the Grand River News, at Albany, the second
newspaper enterprise inaugurated at this place, but disposed of his
interest in the same during the following year.  He served as captain
in the state militia from August, 1862 till early in 1865, when he was
commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Thirty-Fourth Regiment, Missouri
Militia.  Soon thereafter the war closed, and the regiment was not 
called into active service.  In 1876, he was chosen a delegate to the
National Republican Convention, which met in the city of Cincinnati,
Ohio, to nominate a candidate for President of the United States. 
Since 1866, Colonel Comstock has been engaged almost exclusively in the
real estate and banking business in Albany, where he has continuously
resided since 1859.  He possesses business tact and talents of a high
order, and has been wonderfully successful in all of his business
enterprises.  He has made the subject of real estate a careful study
for many years, and by his own efforts has done much to bring to the
notice of emigration the fine lands of Gentry County and of Northwest
Missouri.  On the 5th day of December, 1864, he married Miss Lizzie
Miller, of Caldwell County, Missouri.  By this union they have had two
children: Claude N. and Elizabeth R.

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