Individual Details
Anthony Comstock
(7 Mar 1844 - 21 Sep 1915)
Anthony married on 25 Jan 1871 to Margaret Hamilton. They had no children. He served in the Civil War. Anthony was Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice and a noted reformer.
There is a lengthy article on Wikipedia and a picture of this man.
In 1873 he influenced Congress to pass the Comstock Law which made illegal the delivery by US mail, or other modes of transportaion any "obscene, lewd or Lascivious" material and prohibiting any production of publication of information pertaining to the procurement of abortion, the prevention of conception and the prevention of veneral disease.
Events
| Birth | 7 Mar 1844 | ||||
| Death | 21 Sep 1915 | Summit, Union County, New Jersey |
Families
| Father | Thomas Anthony Comstock (1812 - 1881) |
| Mother | Polly Ann Lockwood ( - 1854) |
