Gazetteer and business directory of Crawford County, Pa., for 1874

page 196

COMER, FRANK, dentist, up stairs, over Savings Bank, corner Spring and Franklin, Titusville

Dr. Frank Comer, Dentist, at Titusville, Pa., whose card appears on page 196, is one of the most enterprising and pleasant young men it has ever been our pleasure to meet. His, the oldest established dental office in the Oil Regions, is one of the most elegantly furnished and fitted of any in the State, outside of Philadelphia, while from the favorable remarks concerning him which we have heard expressed, we could form only the opinion, that he must certainly be the leading dentist in this part of the county.

Frank Comer arrived in Kingston in the summer of 1875:

Training younger dentists:

Dr. F A Duhaney gave his occupation as 'Dentist's Asst to Dr Comer' on his son's birth

certificate in 1878.

Dr. Osmond Fitz-Herbert McPherson said in 1933 'he was not a graduate of a university

but he was a student of the old school of the firm of Comer & Miller of Kingston.'

(McPherson died in 1944.)

(Duhaney and McPherson were the first two dentists registered in 1905 under the

registration law of that year without any academic qualification or an examination, but

solely on the basis of their years of practising as dentists.)

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