El Paso civic leader and cigar manufacturer born in Prussia

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1857, Ernst Kohlberg was born in Beverungen, Westphalia, at that time a province of Prussia.
He left home in 1875 with Solomon C. Schutz, who had business interests in the El Paso area.
Kohlberg agreed to work for Schutz without salary for six months to a year in order to defray the costs of his passage to Texas.
The two reached Franklin, as El Paso was then called, by stagecoach. Continued