An American educator. He was born at Berkshire, N. Y., and graduated at Wesleyan University in 1857. He was one of the leaders in organizing the American Philological Association (1869) and also in establishing the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (1869–72). From 1872 to 1887 he was professor of modern languages and æsthetics in Syracuse University and in 1872 founded there the College of Fine Arts, of which he was dean from 1873 until 1893. In the latter year he became president of the Southern College of Fine Arts, at La Porte, Tex., and in 1896 organized the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, of which he became the director. He published: Art Museums in America (1869); Modern Languages in Education (1886); Woman's Education and Woman's Health (1894); The Land Troubles in Ireland (1898); and a series of German textbooks.

Sons of George Fisk Comfort and Anna Amelia Manning

• Ralph Manning Comfort 1872
• Frederick Price Comfort 1874
• Arthur Comfort 1876

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Sources

• The New International Encyclopædia. Ed. Frank M. Colby and Talcott Williams. Second ed. Vol. V. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1918. 653-54. Web.