Publication Date
Spring 1992
Abstract
George N. Comer was a practitioner and educator in Nineteenth Century Boston. He established a proprietary school, Comer's Initiatory Counting-Room, in 1840 in Boston and taught commercial writing, arithmetic and bookkeeping. He also taught navigation at the same address, 139 Washington, in what was advertised as the Comer's Nautical Institute. Comer's enterprise, which later was named Comer's Commercial College and located at: 323 Washington Street, is indicative of the origins of accounting education in the United States. The proprietary schools provided the primary means of accounting education to well into the Twentieth Century.
Recommended Citation
Slocum, Elliott L.
(1992)
"Comer's Initiatory Counting-Room,"
Accounting Historians Notebook: Vol. 15:
No.
1, Article 14.
Available at:
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aah_notebook/vol15/iss1/14