History of Reno County, Kansas; its people, industries and institutions . n a farm in McDonough county, that state, July 21, 1857, son of Nicholasand Mary (Kohule) Comes, both natives of Germany, the former born inCoblenz, Prussia, and the latter in Wittenburg, who became pioneers ofReno county and substantial and influential residents of \^alley township. Nicholas Comes, who was Ijorn in 1829, left his native land in 1854,in order to escape the hated military system of that country, and landed inNew York with just three marks (seventy-five cents) in his pocket. For ayear thereafter he worked
History of Reno County, Kansas; its people, industries and institutions . n a farm in McDonough county, that state, July 21, 1857, son of Nicholasand Mary (Kohule) Comes, both natives of Germany, the former born inCoblenz, Prussia, and the latter in Wittenburg, who became pioneers ofReno county and substantial and influential residents of \^alley township. Nicholas Comes, who was Ijorn in 1829, left his native land in 1854,in order to escape the hated military system of that country, and landed inNew York with just three marks (seventy-five cents) in his pocket. For ayear thereafter he worked in the woods in the Schenectady district, at a wageof nine dollars the month, and then began working in a glove factory atGloversville, where he met Mary Knhule. who also had come from Ger-many in 1854. and who was working in the same factory. They were mar-ried in the early spring of 1856 and straightway came West, settling inMcDonough count)-. Illinois, where they liought a farm of one hundredacres in 1862 and there made their home until 1876. in which year Mr. Comes. JOHN W.
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