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Daniel Webster Comstock
1840–1917
A Civil War veteran, Indiana judge, and briefly a member of Congress, he built a public life that stretched from local law practice to national office. His story is one of steady service, shaped by the legal and political world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Ninth Cavalry: One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment Indiana Volunteers
by Daniel Webster Comstock
About the author
Born in Germantown, Ohio, on December 16, 1840, he graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1860, studied law, and soon began practicing in New Castle, Indiana. During the Civil War he served in the Union Army, an experience that became part of the public identity he carried into later legal and political work.
Over the years, he became well known in Indiana as a lawyer and jurist. Reliable biographical sources describe him as a judge as well as a prominent local public figure, with a career rooted in Henry County and the surrounding region.
In 1916 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana and took office on March 4, 1917. His time in Congress was very short: he died in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 1917, only a few months into his term. Even so, he left the picture of a man whose career was defined less by celebrity than by long, consistent public service.