Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Comstock, George Cary 
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Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897
Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson

HEADS OF INSTRUCTIONAL FORCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OE WISCONSIN.
GEORGE CARY COMSTOCK, Director of Washburn Observatory, was born in 1855, at 
Madison, Wis. Was educated in common schools and University of Michigan, 
graduating from the latter in 1877. Recorder and Assistant United States Lake 
Survey seasons of 1874-77. Assistant in Observatory of the University of 
Michigan, 1878. Assistant engineer, United States Improvement of the 
Mississippi River, 1879. Assistant in Washburn Observatory, University of 
Wisconsin, 1880-83. Graduated from Law School, University of Wisconsin, 1883. 
Computer, Nautical Almanac Office, Washington, 1883-84. Astronomer, Washburn 
Observatory, 1884-85. Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Ohio State 
University, 1885-87. Professor of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin and 
Associate Director Washburn Observatory, 1887. Director Washburn Observatory,
1889. Visited the principal European observatories, 1890 and 1894. Published 
five volumes of Publications of the Washburn Observatory. Method of Least 
Squares, 1889. Numerous scientific papers in the Astronomical Journal, Sidereal 
Messenger, Astronomy and Astro-Physics, Astronomische Nachrichten, 
Astrophysical Journal, etc.



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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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