HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1176-77.        [Campbell County]

GEORGE H. AHLERING--For a period of more than thirty years Mr. George H.
Ahlering has been engaged in the practice of law in his native town of
Newport, where he was born August 1, 1845.  His parents, Henry and Mary
(Abring) Ahlering, were both natives of Hanover, Germany, whence they came
to the United States when young, the former having made the long and weary
trip alone, at the age of fifteen years, and the latter in the company of
her parents, at which time she was a child of seven years.  Both located
in Newport, Campbell county, Kentucky, where they were reared, eventually
met and where their marriage was solemnized in the year 1844.  Mr. Ahlering
became a contractor of prominence in his adopted home and laid many of the
early streets of Newport, besides which he constructed various wharves on
the Ohio river.  On the inception of the Civil war he served for a short
time in a Kentucky regiment, mostly on guard duty.  He was summoned to
eternal rest in 1904, at which time he had attained the venerable age of
eighty-two years, and he was deeply mourned by relatives and a wide circle
of loyal friends.  He survived his cherished and devoted wife by two years,
her death having occurred in her seventy-ninth year.  Mr. and Mrs. Ahlering
became the parents of nine children, five of whom are now living, the
subject of this review being the first born.
     George H. Ahlering received his preliminary education in the public
schools at Newport, and he later supplemented this training by a course in
the Commercial Business College, at Cincinnati.  When twenty-one years of
age he engaged in the grocery business at Newport, but disposed of this
business at the end of one year, at which time he removed to Cold Springs,
this county, where he followed the same business for several years and
while a resident of this place he served most efficiently in the capacity
of postmaster.  He also served here as magistrate.  In 1878 he began
reading law in the offices of Judge McKibben, of Newport, and so rapid
was his progression in the absorption and assimilation of the science of
1879.  He immediately began the practice of his profession at Newport,
where he controls a large and representative clientage and where his
success has been on a parity with his well directed efforts.  For several
years he maintained an office in the cities of Newport, Kentucky, and
Cincinnati, Ohio, in partnership with C. L. Raison, under the firm name of
Raison and Ahlering.  In politics Mr. Ahlering gives an uncompromising
support to the principles and policies of the Republican party, on whose
ticket, in 1891, he was elected mayor of Newport.  He served in this
capacity for one year, when the change was made from the old to the new
constitution.  During his regime as head executive of the city the first
brick-paved streets and the main sewers of Newport were constructed.
During Governor Bradley's administration he served on his staff as
aide-de-camp for a period of four years, with the rank of colonel, and he
was also incumbent of this position during the short administration of
Governor Taylor.
     During the Civil war Mr. Ahlering performed guard duty as a member of
the Kentucky state troops.  He participated in the engagement at Cynthiana
against General Morgan.  Here he was captured and later paroled, in June,
1862.  In 1863 he became connected with the commissary department of the
Mississippi fleet, and after serving nine months he was discharged on
account of disability.  In September, 1864, he enlisted in Company F,
Fifty-third Kentucky Mounted Volunteer Infantry, and served as orderly
sergeant about six months.  Later he served in the same capacity under
Colonel True, until his honorable discharge, in September, 1865.  He saw
much active service during the memorable Saltville raid.  Mr. Ahlering has
ever retained a deep interest in his old comrades in arms and the same is
shown by his membership in William Nelson Post of the Grand Army of the
Republic.  In a fraternal way he is affiliated with Eureka Lodge, Knights
of Pythias.
     Mr. Ahlering has been thrice married.  He first wedded Miss Nannie
Niles, in 1868, who was born and reared in Campbell county and who bore him
two children--Walter H. and Daisy G., the latter of whom is the wife of
Thomas Waters, of Kansas City.  Mr. Waters is a traveling freight solicitor
for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.  The second marriage of Mr. Ahlering
was solemnized in the year 1883, at which time he was united to Miss Mary
Moore, a native of Lexington, this state.  She is survived by three
daughters, namely--Nettie E., who remains at the paternal home; Lucy E.,
who is the wife of Harry O. Power and who resides in Zanesville, Ohio; and
Viola, who is attending school at Fort Wayne, Indiana.  His present wife,
to whom he was married in 1895, was the widow of Fred Nash at the time of
her marriage to Mr. Ahlering.  Her maiden name was Minnie Perry and she is
a native of Newport.  Her mother was a direct descendant of William
Washington, brother of General George Washington.  No children have been
born to the last marriage, but Mrs. Ahlering was the mother of two children
by her first marriage, one of whom is living--Bettie Nash, who resides
with her mother.  Colonel Ahlering is a member of the Lutheran church,
while his wife holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal church.  The
only son of Mr. Ahlering enlisted in the Second Kentucky Infantry during
the Spanish-American war and served during the entire campaign in Porto
Rico.  He is now engaged in farming at Dupont, Indiana.

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