. A Biographical history of Nodaway and Atchison counties, Missouri : compendium of national biography. or a short time he was em-ployed at farm work until he took up histrade again at Atchison, Kansas. Not longatterwanl. however, he relumed east as faras Cleveland, and for some five years workedin the chair factory of W. D. Toiler & Son,of that city. Desiring to see and knowmore of the far west, he took a trip to Cali-fornia, and visited all the larger cities ofthat state, remaining on the Pacific coastnearly two years. Ipon his return to theMississi])pi v;illcy be traveled for a whileas sale


. A Biographical history of Nodaway and Atchison counties, Missouri : compendium of national biography. or a short time he was em-ployed at farm work until he took up histrade again at Atchison, Kansas. Not longatterwanl. however, he relumed east as faras Cleveland, and for some five years workedin the chair factory of W. D. Toiler & Son,of that city. Desiring to see and knowmore of the far west, he took a trip to Cali-fornia, and visited all the larger cities ofthat state, remaining on the Pacific coastnearly two years. Ipon his return to theMississi])pi v;illcy be traveled for a whileas salesman for .Vdam , the famouswine-maker of Doniphan, Kansas. In 1882,\\ilh a capital approximating sixteen hun-dred tlollars, he formed a i)artnership withPeter Quast and they rented the buiklingwhere the Maryville Bottling Works nowstand and engaged in the bottling prosperity of the business of Quast &Kuchs was a source of gratification, notonlyto its founders but also to their fellow towns-men as well, for in their many years resi-dence at Maryville they made themselves. PAUL R. KUCHS.


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