FAMILY HISTORY

COMINOLI FAMILY HISTORY
Last Updated 04/16/07

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Spouse 		Sibling
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Spouse
Johann
Cominoli 		         
Christina G.
Baumann
  		         
Andrew R.
Cominoli 		  Anna
Cominoli 		     
Mary
Rieff
  		         
John A.
Cominoli 		  Charles E.
Cominoli 		Christina M.
Cominoli 		   
Barbara R.
Carignan
  		  Janis George
Nardacci 		   
John A.
Cominoli 		  Nancy A.
Cominoli 		Barbara M.
Cominoli 		Christina A.
Cominoli 		Anthony J.
Cominoli
Barbara J.
Boivin 		  Michael
Cowles 		Daniel
St. Claire 		James K.
Crocker 		Laurie
Pratt

In 1902, John (Johann) Cominoli and along with his wife Christina Baumann first came into this country from Switzerland. He was born in Austria in 1862. Christina Bauman was born in Germany in 1869. John Cominoli was a mason contractor for many years. One of his most notable projects was the Poets Seat Tower, an historic stone edifice erected in 1912. It was at the this sight in Massachusetts where Greenfield's poet, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, was inspired. John died in 1935 and Christina in 1952. Little is known about John's ancestory, but it believed that his family originated from Ponte di Legno, in the Brescia Province of Italy.
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John and Christina had a daughter, Anna and a son, Andrew. Andrew was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1897. He enlisted in the Army in 1918. He married Maria (Mary) Rieff in 1921 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Andrew was machinist for the Threadwell Tap and Die Corporation in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Andrew died in 1976 and Mary in 1994.
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While in living in Greenfield, Massachusetts, Andrew and Mary had two sons, Charles and John, and a daughter Christina. Charles was employed as typesetter in Brattleboro, Vt. Christina was a nurse in Greenfield, Ma.
John served in the Navy during World War II serving aboard the U.S.S. Wasp and reached the rank of gunner's mate third class. He retired from the Bendix Corporation and specializing in the manufacturing of taps and dies. John married Barbara R. Carignan in 1954 in Turners Falls, Ma.
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While in living in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, John and Barbara had two sons, John and Anthony, and three daughters, Nancy, Barbara and Christina. John is currently serving in the United States Navy in Virginia Beach, Va. Nancy works as a paralegal in Springfield, Ma. Barbara and her husband run a custom home building business near Irving, Tx. Christina is a homemaker  in Benardston, Ma. Anthony works as a Information Systems Technician near Greenfield, Ma.
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