While a law student, Hoover became interested in the career of Anthony Comstock, the New York City United States Postal Inspector, who waged prolonged campaigns against fraud and vice, and also was against pornography and birth control.

The discovery of silver at the Comstock Lode in 1859 led to a population boom that was an impetus to the creation of Nevada Territory out of western Utah Territory in 1861.

The arrest was arranged by Anthony Comstock, the self-appointed moral defender of the nation at the time.

Two months after the conclusion of the Chicago trial, Anthony Comstock ( 1844 – 1915 ), a self-appointed crusader against " vice ", threatened a New York City art dealer who was displaying the painting in his window.

They talked about options for draining the mines, and found the only system available for pumping water out of mines below was the Cornish engine which had been used at the Comstock Lode in the 1870s.

When the Comstock Lode discovery took place, the town of Markleeville was founded on the Marklee property.

The first Quaker meeting house was built on the corner of Comstock Avenue and Wardman Street in 1887.

The factory was in desperate need of low-cost labor, and as a result, many immigrants from Italy and Poland came to work for Comstock, Cheney & Co. around the turn of the 20th century.

The first sawmill in Kalamazoo County opened here along Comstock Creek in 1831 and a gristmill was build soon after in 1832.

Comstock Township was organized by an act of the Territorial Legislature in 1834.

In June 1832, Richland Township was set off, consisting of Richland, Ross, Charleston, and Comstock townships.

On March 7, 1834, Comstock township was set off, comprising Comstock and Charleston townships and also Climax Township, which had been set off from Brady Township.

Climax was set off from Comstock on December 30, 1837, and Charleston in 1838.

The Comstock Fire and Rescue department was established in 1924.

In June 1832, Richland Township was set off, consisting of Richland, Ross, Charleston, and Comstock townships.

Adrian was founded on June 18, 1826 by Addison Comstock, promoter of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad, and was originally named Logan.

The village of Adrian was platted under the name " Logan " in 1828 by Addison J. Comstock, but was soon renamed " Adrian " after the Roman Emperor Hadrian at the request of Comstock's wife.

A rail depot was built with donations from area farmers, and in 1881 C. B. Comstock built a store and warehouse.

Timber was required for the mines during the mining boom in the late 1800s of the nearby Comstock Lode in Virginia City.

In November 1968, the new library building on the corner of Scotland Road and Comstock Place was dedicated.

Solomon Gilman Comstock ( 1842-1933 ) was born in Argyle but moved to Minnesota, where he became a U. S. Congressman ( 1889-91 ).

All of this material was defined as " lewd " by Comstock's very broad definition of the term — which he and his associates successfully lobbied the United States Congress to incorporate in the Comstock Law.

The organization, founded in 1947 by late West Virginia historian and publisher Jim Comstock, voted to move its offices to the A – B campus in 1976 where it has met annually ever since.

I-196 / US 16 continued eastward around the north side of the metro area through the suburbs of Walker and Comstock Park.

Comstock ... ( with ) Map showing the intrenchments around Wilmington.

* Daniel Frost Comstock ( 1883 – 1970 ), U. S. physicist und engineer

* Isaac N. Comstock ( 1808 – 1883 ), New York politician and prison warden

Following the discovery of gold and silver in 1859 on the nearby Comstock Lode, Carson City's population began to rise.

This matter has been the subject of a number of cases before the Supreme Court, most notably Kansas v. Hendricks and United States v. Comstock in regard to the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which does not require a conviction on sex offences, but only that the person be in federal custody and be deemed a " sexually dangerous person ".

George F. Comstock, a member of the new University's Board of Trustees, had offered the school of farmland on a hillside to the southeast of the city center.

Comstock intended Syracuse University and the hill to develop as an integrated whole ; a contemporary account described the latter as " a beautiful town ... springing up on the hillside and a community of refined and cultivated membership ... established near the spot which will soon be the center of a great and beneficent educational institution.

* Comstock Program Center, on Cayuga Lake, New York

Great houses, such as the Dickinson Mansion on North Main Street in Essex Village, to the mansions of A. W. Comstock ( currently the Copper Beech Inn ) and R. H. Comstock in Ivoryton, may stand in sharp contrast to the smaller capes in Centerbrook and the factory dwellings in Ivoryton, but they are all equally important in telling us of our past.

* East Comstock is a named place located just east of the community of Comstock on M-96, near the dam forming Morrow Lake on the Kalamazoo River at.

The CDP area includes land in Comstock Charter Township on the west and Charleston Township on the east.

She is shown to be the sole child of a deceased mining magnate from San Francisco modeled on the " kings " of the Comstock Lode.

Under the Comstock laws that prevailed before Roth, articulated most famously in the 1868 English case Regina v. Hicklin, any material that tended to " deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences " was deemed " obscene " and could be banned on that basis.

One of the most notable applications of Comstock was Roth v. United States, in which the Supreme Court affirmed Comstock, but set limits on what could be considered obscene.

This landmark case represented one of the first notable revisions since the Hicklin test, and the evolving nature of the laws on which Comstock was conceived.

The Comstock Act clearly hinges on definitions, particularly of obscenity.

Under the Comstock laws, postal inspectors can bar " obscene " content from the mails at any time, thus having a huge impact on publishers of magazines.