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Comstock Lode. 1. the most valuable deposit of silver ore ever recorded, discovered in 1859 by Henry T. P. Comstock near Virginia City, Nevada.
Anthony Comstock (March 7, 1844 â September 21, 1915) was a United States Postal Inspector and politician dedicated to ideas of Victorian morality. The terms comstockery and Comstockism were used for his extensive campaign to censor materials he considered indecent and obscene, such as birth control information.