Karl Heinrich "Charles Henry" Ahrens

1803 - 1854  (51 years)

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• Name	Karl Heinrich "Charles Henry" Ahrens
  Born	13 Jan 1803	, Holstein, Germany   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Residence	1841	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  Occupation	1842	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7]
  	carpenter
  Occupation	1843	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  	carpenter
  Christened	1847	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [9]
  Gender	Male
  Business	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Doering & Ahrens
  Business	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Huber and Ahrens
  Residence	1847	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [9]
  Public Service	1850	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [10]
  	Treasurer - Waterloo Township
  Name	Carl Henry Ahrens  [11]
  Name	Charles Henry Ahrens  [12]
  Occupation	1851	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [13]
  	general store owner
  Occupation	1852	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [14]
  	merchant
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-26666P
  Died	21 Aug 1854	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 3, 4, 5, 15]
  Buried	Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  Person ID	I26666	Generations
  Last Modified	11 Jun 2024

  
  

  Family	Elisabeth Gaukel,   b. 17 Jan 1819, , Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 24 Oct 1879, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 60 years)
  Married	14 Mar 1837	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [16]
  Children	1. Herman Frederick Ahrens,   b. 27 Sep 1837, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 10 Jul 1875, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 37 years)   2. Theodor Ahrens,   b. 29 Mar 1840, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 24 Jul 1841, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 1 years)   3. Carolina Catharine Ahrens,   b. 24 Jan 1844, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 3 Mar 1885, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 41 years)   4. Emmanuel Ahrens,   b. CALC 17 Aug 1846, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 17 Jun 1848, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 1 years)   5. John Emanuel Ahrens,   b. 28 Oct 1848, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 22 Feb 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 22 years)   6. Alfred Ahrens,   b. 9 Jan 1850, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Nancy Ahrens,   b. 13 Feb 1853, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 23 Mar 1929, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 76 years)
  Last Modified	11 Jun 2024
  Family ID	F6976	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  King Street, Kitchener Next easterly were the foundry buildings of Huber & Ahrens, operated from 1840 to 1853. There were four separate buildings, 30 or 40 feet back from the King Street line. In the moulding shop, Mr. Stroh remembers seeing the glittering metal run out from the cupola, at casting time, when he was a boy. The woodworking and power building was a two-storey brick structure with a smoke stack about 50 feet high. The second floor of the building was used for painting and finishing. On the Foundry Street side there was an outside stairway and incline to let down finished machinery. A third building was used for making agricultural machines, threshing cylinders and ploughs. Separators were not made at that time. Near Foundry Street there was a two-storey building with gable toward King Street, used also for woodworking and for the office. In this building three pianos, the first to be made in Berlin, were turned out in 1852. These were upright pianos, hand-made all except the keyboard. The artisan was J. Maas and he made the pianos, one for Charles Ahrens, one for Henry S. Huber and one for Charles Hendry of Conestoga. This latter building was later moved alongside of Winger's pump shop and used as a cigar factory for a time; eventually it was converted into a dwelling. The moulding shop of the foundry was later used as an ashery. After Mr. Ahrens died m 1853 the foundry buildings were sold by auction to Sheriff Davidson who owned them for a number of years. REMINISCENCES OF BERLIN (NOW KITCHENER) By JACOB STROH Contributed by Joseph M. Snyder. Part I. Settlement - Early Villagers and Buildings, Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1930 ___________________ King Street , North Side Queen St. North. On the corner there was a frame building lengthwise with King Street, occupied by J. U. Tyson, dealer in groceries, wines, liquors and meats, erected about 1833. In 1841 Sheriff George Davidson bought this building and in it opened the first Post Office in 1842. His brother William was associated with him. Probably during 1845 Doering & Ahrens occupied the premises as a general store. A little later the firm was Huber & Ahrens. Mr. Huber acted as magistrate for a number of years, in which occupation he was popular and had much to do, people coming from small surrounding villages to Mr. Huber for fair trial. He was the second reeve in Berlin. Next came a barber shop occupied by George A. Fischer who also served as dentist and as fruit dealer. A house erected by C. A. Ahrens of Huber and Ahrens. Mr. Ahrens had a brick vault at the back of his kitchen, lined with an iron chest and considered fire proof. He was the first treasurer of Waterloo County and had this vault for safe keeping of his books and papers. The house was later occupied by Dr. Mylius. Louis Breithaupt, who came from Buffalo in 1861 after having started his tanning business in Berlin in 1857, previously bought the corner of King and Queen Streets, and erected there the first section of the American Block in 1862. Next to the Dr. Mylius house there was a two story brick building erected about 1855. It was occupied by Baedeker and Steubing who had a considerable business as book sellers and stationers, also as dealers in wallpaper, etc., besides doing some publishing. This business, moved later to the corner of King and Frederick Streets, continued until Mr. Steubing's death. In his younger years Mr. Baedeker was a carpenter and had cut his knee with an adze, necessitating amputation and substitution of a cork leg. On the site of the present Steel's store, George Davidson, later sheriff, erected a building in 1845 and moved the Post Office there when Doering and Ahrens occupied the corner store. Mr. Davidson also had a general store in this new building. About 1855 Kranz & Stroh occupied the building as a general store. Next came a building occupied at first by George Klein and later the site of Henry Knell's jewelery shop. John Winger's pump shop. Wooden pipe called pump logs were of about ten-inch timber, tamarack or pine logs with a bore of about 3". The pumps were mostly finished square and surmounted with turned tops. A two story frame building painted white. John Winger's house. Eby's history mentions John Winger as having come from Pennsylvania in 1836. A ten-foot lane leading back to the Public School grounds and into Winger's yard. The highest ground in this vicinity was in Winger's yard. Children were in the habit of sliding down the hill in winter to King Street. In 1840 Mr. Bentler erected a building and occupied the second floor as dwelling and shoe shop. Martin Messner had a music store on the ground floor which was a few steps above the street level. In 1855-6 Andrew Nicolaus took over the Winger house and changed it to a hotel. The first considerable street grading operation in Berlin was the lowering of the corner of King and Frederick and vicinity 8 to 10 feet. This put the St. Nicholas Hotel, as it was called, under the necessity of being extended downward one story and this lower part became the hotel office and bar room. At the westerly end of the hotel there was a shed and stable for horses. Over the shed, approached by a stairway, there was a hall known as St. Nicholas Hall used for concerts, balls and entertainments generally. At the rear of the adjoining St. Nicholas Hall there was a building on the high ground known as the Turner Hall and used as German Turnverein. REMINISCENCES OF BERLIN (NOW KITCHENER) By JACOB STROH Contributed by Joseph M. Snyder. Part I. Settlement - Early Villagers and Buildings, Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1930 ____________________ In 1840, Karl went into a partnership with Henry (Heinrich) Huber and began operation of a foundry on Foundry (now Ontario) Street in Berlin,, Ontario. By 1851 it was steam powered and employed 11 people. There were four buildings 30 or 40 feet back from the King Street line. Berlin's first fire pumps were made in the Huber and Ahrens Foundry.

  
  

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  [S459] Cemetery - Loose stones at the Doon Heritage Crossroad Archives. Karl H. Arhrens/ starb den 21 Aug 1854/ 51 Jahre 7 ___ 8 Tage/ [German verse] [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 15. Charles H. Esq. AHRENS Merchant Holzstein 49 Sweborgian b. 14-Mar Elisabeth AHRENS USA 35 Sweborgian b. January Herrman AHRENS Moulder Canada 15 Sweborgian b. 27-Sep Carolina AHRENS Canada 8 Sweborgian b. 24-Jan John AHRENS Canada 4 Sweborgian b. 28-Oct Alfried AHRENS Canada 2 Sweborgian b. 9-Jan Simon ROY Clerk Scotland 31 Sweborgian b. 18-Oct John GIRLIN Founder England 30 Church of England b. 21-Apr Alexander MILHORN Moulder Scotland 23 Presbyterian b. 24-Dec Henry KOCH Teamster Germany 22 Lutheran b. 6-Sep Rubertas JUNG Labourer Germany 35 Roman Catholic b. Elisabeth BROMER Germany 19 Lutheran b. Date given 14 Mar differs from 13 Jan calculated from his tombstone (poor condition) [S1085] News - ON, Wellington, Elora - The Elora Backwoodsman - Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths 1852-1858, Newspaper Date: 31 Aug 1854. Charles H. Aherns aged 51 died 1854 [S244] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Deutsche Canadier (1841-1865) - Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages Announced in the Deutsche Canadier, Berlin, Canada West. originally indexed by Simone Nieuwolt and Sylvie Kuppek..organised by Rosemary Ambrose, 24 Aug 1854 Page 34. Carl H. Ahrens Died 21 Aug 1854 Waterloo. Age 51 years, 7 months, 8 days. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32540773. [S244] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Deutsche Canadier (1841-1865) - Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages Announced in the Deutsche Canadier, Berlin, Canada West. originally indexed by Simone Nieuwolt and Sylvie Kuppek..organised by Rosemary Ambrose, 30 jul 1841 pg 31. Theodor, a son of Mr. Carl H. Ahrens in Berlin, died at age 16 months [S13] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - Wellington District Marriage Register Part 1 1840-1852. Rev'd Frederick W. Bindemann, Minister Of The German Evangelical Church, , At Green Bush, Waterloo Township, 31 Aug. 1841 To 31 Aug. 1842 John Henry Bothermel, Carpenter, To Elisabeth Metz, Both Of Waterloo. Wit. Carl H. Ahrens, Carpenter, Of Waterloo And Henry Herber, Yeoman, Of Wilmot [S13] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - Wellington District Marriage Register Part 1 1840-1852, Rev'd Frederick W. Bindemann, Minister of The German Evangelical Protestant Lutheran Church, At Greenbush, Waterloo Township, Halton County, 1 Sept. 1843 to 1 July 1844 report 32. Christoph Nahrgang, Taylor, to Elisabeth Zinkan, both of Waterloo. Wit. Charles H. Ahrens, Carpenter and Joseph Sniyder Farmer, both of Waterloo. [S2] Church Records - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian), pg 3. by Pastor John Harbin [S1449] Book - Grassroots Government Biographies of Waterloo Township Councillors. [S2] Church Records - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian), Vol 1 pg 5. [S2] Church Records - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian), Vol 1 pg 7. List of Baptisms by Thomas Wilks 1855. [S2070] Directory - Ontario Directory for 1851. [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 15. [S229] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 40. [S9] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Canada Museum und Allgemeine Zeitung (1835-1840), 30 Mar 1837:16. 14 Mar 1837 Rev F.W. Bindemann m. Carl Heinrich Ahrens to Elisabeth Gaukel, both of Waterloo

  
  

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  Married - 14 Mar 1837 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1841 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - carpenter - 1842 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - carpenter - 1843 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Christened - 1847 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Business - Doering & Ahrens - - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Business - Huber and Ahrens - - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1847 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Public Service - Treasurer - Waterloo Township - 1850 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - general store owner - 1851 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - merchant - 1852 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 21 Aug 1854 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth