Biography:

Teacher; lecturer. Born– July 25, 1850, Spring Lake, Mich. Parents– John H. and Frances (Sinclair) Newcomb. Married– S. Huntington Comings, 1902 ( died  1907). Education– Graduated from Mrs. L. H. Stone’s Seminary in Kalamazoo, Mich. Taught at the Ravenswood (Chicago) Public School, 1876-1885; taught at the Moravian Seminary, Bethlehem, Pa., 1895-1898; lecturer on physical culture, dress, voice and kindred subjects, after 1899. Cofounder of the School of Organic Education in Fairhope, Ala., and president of its Board of Trustees. Founder and President of the Baldwin County Historical Society.  Died September 21, 1946.

Source:

Woman’s Who’s Who of America, 1914-1915.

Publication(s):

Industrial and Vocational Education, Universal and Self Sustaining. Boston; Christopher Publishing Co., 1915.

Muscular Exercises for Health and Grace. New York; E. S. Werner, 1893.

Joint_Publications;

A Brief History of Baldwin County.  Fairhope, AL:  Baldwin County Historical Society, 1928.