U.S. Postal Inspector, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, proponent of Comstock laws and eponymous "comstockery" (publicly-enforced Victorian morality).
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19982/anthony-comstock : accessed 07 April 2022), memorial page for Anthony Comstock (7 Mar 1844–21 Sep 1915), Find a Grave Memorial ID 19982, citing The Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA ; Maintained by Find a Grave .
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DS-CD7 : 12 April 2016), Anthony Comstock in household of Thomas A Comstock, New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States; citing family 201, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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