| Last name | McComb |
| First name | William |
| Display name | William McComb |
| Gender | m |
| Affiliations | review |
| Bio notes | Esquire. One ot two brothers from County Antrim in Ireland, who moved to Detroit from Albany, N.Y. around 1770, were real estate speculators and merchants in the British garrison at Fort Detroit. By 1795, the family owned a lot of property in the city as well as most of the islands in the Detroit River. They purchased Belle Isle in 1794 and sold it in 1817. Grosse Ile, for years the family’s home, was acquired in 1776 by treaty with the Potawatomi Indians. |