Karl Heinrich "Charles Henry" Ahrens

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• Business: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Doering & Ahrens
• Business: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Huber and Ahrens
• Name: Carl Henry Ahrens
• Name: Charles Henry Ahrens
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-26666P
• Residence: 1841, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1842, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; carpenter
• Occupation: 1843, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; carpenter
• Residence: 1847, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Public Service: 1850, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Treasurer - Waterloo Township
• Occupation: 1851, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; general store owner
• Occupation: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; merchant

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

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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

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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.

Karl married Elisabeth Gaukel 14 Mar 1837, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Elisabeth (daughter of Friedrich "Frederick" Gaukel and Polly Kaufman) was born 17 Jan 1819, , Pennsylvania, USA; was christened 19 Mar 1836, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 24 Oct 1879, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-26668
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]

Herman married Isabella Penelope Laird 25 Dec 1860, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Isabella (daughter of Joseph Laird and Isabella Gatherer, daughter of Joseph Laird and Isabella) was born 21 May 1841, Grange, Banffshire, Scotland; was christened 30 May 1841, Grange, Banffshire, Scotland; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-183873

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• Name: Carolina Catharine Hughes
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-26669
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]
• Residence: 1867, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Carolina married Dr. Samuel Lount Hughes 27 Jun 1867, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Samuel (son of George Hughes and Arminta Hawke) was born CALC 4 Aug 1838, Bronnsville, York Co., Ontario; died 6 Nov 1870, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-183891

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-81314
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-81315
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]

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• Name: Nancy Roschman
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-26699
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; New Swedenborgian
• Residence: 1929, 825 King St. W., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Nancy married Richard Roschman 31 Dec 1874, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Richard (son of Augustin Roschman and Juliana Uebele, son of August Rorchmann and Julia) was born 26 Mar 1848, Ulm, Baden, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died 17 Feb 1930, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Carl Henry Ahrens
• Name: Charles Henry Ahrens
• Occupation: artist
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-46864
• Birth: 22 Feb 1862, Winfield, Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario
• Occupation: 1886, Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska, USA; surgeon dentist
• Artifact: CA 1910; "The Indian Camp"
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

"Carl Ahrens was born in Winfield, near Elora, Ontario. He moved to Berlin, Ontario where he attended school until his father's death in 1875. He later lived in Winnipeg and travelled extensively in the American and Canadian west. Returning to Berlin, he worked as a dyer in a button factory, where he began his mastery of colour. In his early twenties he began to paint from his Toronto studio. His first exhibition was at the Ontario Society of Artists in 1889. In 1891 he was elected associate painter of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He later studied painting and sculpture in New York. From 1900 to 1902, Ahrens lived in New York State where he helped to start the Roycroft pottery. In 1922, after a sojourn of several years in the U.S., he and his family moved back to Toronto, and soon after settled in a farmhouse near Galt, Ontario, which Carl named "Big Trees". Here he painted and taught, often entertaining Homer Watson, a lifelong friend. A childhood bout of tuberculosis in the hip left him an invalid in his later years, although he continued to paint until his death in 1936 at the age of 73"


Waterloo Region Hall of Fame

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Personals

Carl Ahrens, the artist, of Toronto, has taken up his abode at Doon, where he thinks of remaining. He is much improved in health and a corresponding increase of vigor and dash is noticeable in his work. His pictures have been winning much attention of late and a number of them go to the World's Fair [Chicago] In Doon, Mr Ahrens will find a genial comrade in Mr. Homer Watson, and many picturesque spots in that vicinity from which he can draw inspiration for his brush. Mr. Ahrens is one of the best story tellers one could wish to meet.


The Berlin Daily Record 26 Apr 1893

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The Old Story

Says the Chicago Canadian American: - "Doctor C. A. Ahrens, a rising young dentist of Nebraska city, Neb., and an old Berlin, Ont., boy, a few days ago did what thousands of other young Canadian Americans have done \endash went across the line and took unto himself a life companion in the person of Miss Emily Carroll, of Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Ahrens passed through Chicago last week en route to their western home, where we trust every happiness will attend them."

Galt Reporter Sep 17 1886 pg 1

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Here is a list of his children with Emily Carroll

Carl Herman Ahrens born 23 Sept. 1887 in Nebraska (Christening records) and died 18 March 1960 in Rochester, NY (Social Security Death records)

Robert Laird Ahrens - born 20 Nov. 1888 in Toronto (Christening records), died June 1969 in Florida (Social Security Records)

Rosa Pauline Grier Ahrens - born 7 June 1892 in Toronto (Christening records) unsure of when she died.

List of children with Martha Niles

He married Martha Niles (my great grandmother) on October 10, 1906 in San Francisco, CA according to her repatriation papers after his death.

Laird Joseph Ahrens born 18 November 1906 in Corte Madera, CA (according to Martha's memoirs) and died on 5 April 1986 in Mayfield, Michigan (Social Security Death Index)

Penelope Elizabeth Ahrens born 8 April 1908 in Meadowvale, Ontario and died December 12 1910 in Toronto (death records)

Sigrid Diane Ahrens - born 5 Jan 1911 in Toronto (according to Martha's memoirs) and died 13 October 1998 in White Rock, British Columbia (according to her children)

Chloris Ahrens (my grandmother) born 2 August 1912 in Lambton Mills, Ontario (birth certificate) and died 21 July 1982 in Santa Monica, CA (death cert)


Kim Bullock

Carl — Martha Elizabeth "Madonna" Niles. Martha was born 14 Oct 1882, Philmont, Columbia, New York, USA; died 6 Jan 1976, San Clemente, Orange, California, USA; was buried , Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto, York Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

Carl married Emily Marion Carroll 25 Aug 1886, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada. Emily was born 1861, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Alena Hughes
• Name: Elisabeth Alena "Alena" Waelchli
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-135415
• Residence: 1889, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian

Elisabeth married Rev. Frederick Edwin "Fred" Waelchli 25 Apr 1889, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Frederick (son of John Waelchli and Mary Schaefroth) was born 14 Sep 1865, Sardis, Monroe, Ohio, United States; died 22 Aug 1942, Abington, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States; was buried , Bryn Athyn Cemetery, Bryn Athyn, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-29207
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; bookkeeper, button factory
• Residence: 1949, 269 Mary St., Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Samuel — Wilhelmina "Minnie" Glebe. Wilhelmina (daughter of Adam Glebe and Elise "Elizabeth" Zinkann) was born 16 Jan 1878, Lisbon, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 31 Mar 1878, Church Of New Jerusalem, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 13 Aug 1930. [Group Sheet]

Samuel married Gladys Gwendolyn Hines 1935. Gladys (daughter of John Hines and Sarah Ann Alway) was born 2 Jan 1907, Windsor, Berkshire, England; died 22 Mar 1966, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39301
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; New Swedenborgian

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39302
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-188269
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; New Swedenborgian

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• Business: 25 Regina St. S., Waterloo, Ontario; Roschman Button Factory
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39303
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manager, Button Factory
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; New Swedenborgian

Carl — Vera Irene Reid. Vera (daughter of Edward Reid and Francis Emily Crowe) was born 21 Jun 1895, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39304

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• Name: Angelina Nanneta Kuhl
• Name: Evangelina Roschman
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39305
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; New Swedenborgian

Angelina — George Harold "Harold" Kuhl. George (son of Theobold S. Kuhl and Laura Lydia Rothaermel) was born 27 Aug 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Frieda Victoria Stroh
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39306

Frieda — Nathaniel C. Stroh. Nathaniel (son of Jacob Gaukel Stroh and Elisabeth "Lizzie" Seiler) was born 8 Feb 1891, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 21 Mar 1891, Church Of New Jerusalem, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 2 Jul 1964; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Freda Victoria Stroh
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-188273
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; New Swedenborgian

Freda — Nathaniel C. Stroh. Nathaniel (son of Jacob Gaukel Stroh and Elisabeth "Lizzie" Seiler) was born 8 Feb 1891, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 21 Mar 1891, Church Of New Jerusalem, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 2 Jul 1964; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-326131
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-182109
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Sales Lady, Retail Store
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian

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• Residence: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: Cincinnati, Parke, Indiana, United States
• Residence: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 820 King St., W., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-182110
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Rubber Maker, Rubber Works
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, 29th Regiment / Greys Horse, Service #751657
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Private, 24th Regiment / 118th Battalion

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-182111
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-182113
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-182114
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-182115
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-182116
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian