Isabella Penelope Laird

Other Events:

• Name: Isabella Penelope Ahrens
• Name: Isabella Penelope Harford
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-33453
• Residence: 1860, Elora, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; FC

Isabella married Herman Frederick Ahrens 25 Dec 1860, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Herman (son of Karl Heinrich "Charles Henry" Ahrens and Elisabeth Gaukel) was born 27 Sep 1837, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 26 Nov 1837, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 10 Jul 1875, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Isabella married Richard W. Harford 5 Feb 1877, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Richard (son of Charles Harford and Eliza) was born 1845, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [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]