Individual Details

William graduated from Yale Scientific School in 1879, having a fellowship at Johns Hopkins. He studied for five years with Von Bayern at the University of Munich.
Note: This was apparently Adolf von Baeyer, the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He became a Professor at the University of Munich in 1875

His widow said to living in Hamden, CT in 1933.

Google Books
Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College: Deceased During the Academic Year, Morehouse & Taylor, 1921, p.517-8
Sheffield Scientific School
William James Comstock, Ph.B. 1879
Born June 15, 1860 in Toledo, Ohio
Died January 24, 1922, in New Haven, Conn.
William James Comstock, the son of James Mussy Comstock, a merchant, and Lydia Ladd (Watkins) Comstock, was born in Toledo, Ohio, June 15, 1860. He was of Welsh descent on the paternal side (NOT true) tracing his ancestry to Jared Comstock, who settled in Massachusetts about 1640 (Also wrong - his descent was from Samuel Comstock of Providence, Rhode Island - there was no Jared Comstock in his direct line) His earliest American ancestor on his mother's side of the family was Nathaniel Watkins, who came from England to Little Compton, RI in 1695. His father was the son of Nathan and Mary (Staples) Comstock, and his mother's parents were Thomas and Mary (Davis) Watkins. He was of Quaker descent on both sides of the family; his maternal grandmother, Mary Davis Watkins, was a preacher (Quakers do not have preachers).
He received his preparatory training at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. His course in the Sheffield Scientific School was that in chemistry. He received premiums for the best entrance examination and for excellence in chemistry, and also won a prize for excellence in German. In Freshman year he was secretary and treasurer of his class.
He remained at the Scientific School for two years after his graduation in 1879, spending one year as a graduate student and another as an assistant in analytical chemisty. In 1881 he went to Baltimore as a Fellow in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, and from 1882 to 1887 he continued his studies abroad, chiefly in Much with vonBayer. He became an instructor in organic chemisty at Yale in 1888, serving in that capacity until 1893, and again from 1896 to 1917. During the World War he was connected with the Council of National Defense in Washington as a chemist. He had contributed various scientific articles to magazines. He had been vice-president of the Graduates Club in New Haven.
He died in New Haven, January 24, 1922, after an illness of several months, due to sarcoma (cancer). He was buried in the Grove Street Cemetery.
Mr. Comstock was married February 9, 1895, in New York City, to Mary King, daughter of Rear Admiral Francis Marvin Bunce, who received the honorary degree of M.A. at Yale in 1899, and Mary E. (Bull) Bunce. Mrs. Comstock survives him with their four children: Mary, who was married on November 15, 1921, to John VanVorst Vredenburgh; Margaret, Vassar, 1920; Francis Bunce, a member of the Class of 1923; and Stephen, a student at the Taft School.

Birth	15 Jun 1860	Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio
Marriage	9 Feb 1895	New York City, New York - Mary King Bunce
Death	24 Jan 1922	New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut

Spouse	Mary King Bunce (1867 - )
Child	Mary Comstock (1895 - )
Child	Margaret Comstock (1898 - )
Child	Francis Bunce Comstock (1900 - )
Child	Stephen Comstock (1903 - )

Father	James Muzzey Comstock (1818 - 1870)
Mother	Lydia Ladd Watkins (1825 - )