When James Warren Comstock was born about 1858, in Wisconsin, United States, his father, George Edward Comstock, was 31 and his mother, Cornelia M. Durfee, was 29. He married Edith May Briggs on 27 December 1883, in Filer City, Filer Township, Manistee, Michigan, United States. He lived in Igo, Shasta, California, United States in 1900 and Oakland, Alameda, California, United States for about 30 years. He died about 1942, at the age of 86, and was buried in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English (Devon): habitational name from Clumstock (Devon). This surname is now rare in Britain.
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