Captain George Comer in front of the Comer house, Mount Parnassus Road, East Haddam

• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1933
• Subjects: Whaling masters; Whalers (Persons); Sealers (Persons); Dwellings; Comer; George; Comer family; Arctic; Bedford; New Bedford
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:2590

A man identified as Captain George Comer stands in front of the Comer house on Mount Parnassus Road, East Haddam. The porch is visible behind him. Hanging in front of the scrollwork at the top of the porch pillars are running lights. Mrs. Comer's head is partially visible above the porch railing on the left. 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. Running lights on porch are said to be from the whaling schooner Era.