Nemaha Co, NE: E M. McCOMAS, Brownville, was born in 1826, in Greene County, Ohio. His early life was spent in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he devoted a number of years to the acquirement of a thorough knowledge of the drug business. In 1854, he went to Kansas, and in 1856, located on a farm in Nemaha County, two and a half miles north of his present farm. Selling this, he located in Nemaha City, where he speculated in "corner lots" for a time. In 1859, he located on 320 acres, now known as the Curtis farm, then five miles from any neighbor. Selling this six years later, he located in Brownville, where he was in the drug business till 1868, selling out to H. C. Lett. He then paid $50 per acre for his present farm of 120 acres. This farm is one of the oldest and one of the best in the county, it having been opened up by Uriah Edwards. On this farm, with the help of his sons, Mr. McComas has planted about five hundred apple trees, fifteen hundred peach trees and many shade and ornamental trees and shrubs. His substantial brick farmhouse was built in 1871. Mr. McComas married Elmira Wagner in Miami County, Ohio, in 1852. They have eleven living children, all residents of Nemaha County. Mortimer, the eldest son, is now a substantial farmer in London Precinct, while Robert and Edward are the active partners, with their father, in a fine drug store opened about two years since in Brownville. Mr. McComas is a stanch Jacksonian Democrat of the old school, and though his devoted attention to business duties has prevented active participation in politics, he was elected to the Probate Judgeship in 1871, and served most acceptably until 1876. A. H. McGee, senior member of the firm of McGee & Moore.