George Ayers Comer on porch of the Comer house, Mount Parnassus Road, East Haddam

• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1910
• Subjects: Whaling masters; Whalers (Persons); Sealers (Persons); Dwellings; Comer; George; Comer family; Arctic; Bedford; New Bedford
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:1411

An infant identified as George Ayers Comer, grandson of Captain George Comer, sits on the porch of the Comer house. A woman is partially visible in the right background. Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Captain George Comer (1858-1937) was a sealer and whaling captain from East Haddam. He went to sea while still in his teens and was later master of vessels from both New London and New Bedford, and participated in voyages involved in polar expeditions. Comer was noted for his studies of Arctic peoples and their environment. He and Julia Chipman married in 1878. On rear, in ink: "George Ayers Comer/ &/Gramma Comer". Mount dimensions: 6 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.