Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....COMSTOCK, GEORGE CARY 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT HEADS.

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 Micnigan, 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. Member National Academy of Sciences, 1899.
Published five volumes of Publications of the Washburn
Observatory; Method of Least Squares, 1889; Textbook of
Astronomy 1900; Field Astronomy for Engineers, 1902; numerous
scientific papers in the Astronomical Journal, Sidereal
Messenger, Astronomy and Astro-Physics, Astronomische
Nachrichten, Astro-physical Journal, etc.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and
Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson,
Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069
- 1117.

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