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Belle Jessie Wood
b.20 Nov 1880 Fargo, WI
  • F.  William Wood (add)
  • M.  Martha Whipple (add)
m. Bef 1880
  1. Belle Jessie Wood1880 - 1961
m. 27 Jun 1907
  1. Oliver Pierson Comstock1917 - 1938
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Name Belle Jessie Wood
Gender Female
Birth? 20 Nov 1880 Fargo, WI
Marriage 27 Jun 1907 St. Joseph, MIto Daniel Delos Comstock
Occupation? doctor and author of many medical advice books
Death? 22 May 1961 Willows, CA? or Los Angeles?

Belle Wood Comstock was a doctor and author of numerous health and nutrition books. She was a member of the American Medical Association, Los Angeles County Medical Society, Los Angeles County Medical Woman's Society, and Head of the Nutrition Clinic at the White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles.N2 Her books included:

  • The Home Dietitian or Food and Health: Scientific Dietetics Practically Applied (Review & Herald Pub, 1922)
  • Through Early Childhood: The Care and Education of the Child from Three to Nine (volume 3 of the Christian Home Series, with Arthur Whitefield Spalding, Pacific Press, 1930)
  • Three Times A Day (Review & Herald Press, 1937)
  • Is Love Enough? A Discussion of the Problems of the Home and of Married Life (Pacific Press, 1940)
  • Plain Facts for Girls and Young Women (Pacific Press, 1938)
  • All About the Baby: The Beginnings of Human Life with Early Needs (volume 2 of the Christian Home Series, with Arthur Whitefield Spalding, Pacific Press, 1944)
  • Growing Boys and Girls (volume 4 of the Christian Home Series, with Arthur Whitefield Spalding, Pacific Press, 1947)
  • Questions Girls Have Asked (Southern Publishing, 1962, pub'd posthumously?)
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  1.   California Death Records Index. (rootsweb.com)
    Comstock, Belle W.

    b 11/20/1880, mother maiden Whipple, sex F, birthplace WI, deathplace Los Angeles (70), death date 5/22/1961, age 80 yrs,

  2.   From the title page of The Home Dietitian, third edition.