Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Kaehlert, Charles W 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

Charles W. Kaehlert, of Joliet, who established a nursery business in 1895 and 
is also making a specialty of the raising of lettuce, mushrooms and parsley, 
together with flowering plants, was born in Germany in 1846 and came from 
Missouri to Will county on the 24th of June, 1869. He had previously served as 
a soldier of the Civil war, having enlisted in 1863 as a member of Company A, 
Thirtieth Michigan Infantry, with which he remained for eighteen months. He 
afterward joined Company F, of the Twelfth Missouri Militia, of which he 
became first sergeant. This command was engaged in hunting bushwhackers and 
the company was one hundred and sixty strong for a year and a half. Following 
his removal to this state Mr. Kaehlert worked as a stonemason and was employed 
in a rolling mill. In the former connection he assisted in the building of the 
opera house and St. Mary’s church. He also built one of the finest homes in 
the city—a stone structure for P. C. Haley. He was engaged in contracting for 
ten years as a stonemason and quarryman, on the expiration of which period he 
turned his attention to the nursery business, in which he is still engaged. He 
did a jobbing business and four years ago began the cultivation of flowers. He 
raises all kinds of plants and flowers and sells cut flowers. He also is known 
as a specialist in the production of lettuce, mushrooms and parsley, and as 
the years have passed he has built up an excellent business, his trade having 
steadily increased until it has now reached extensive proportions. Mr. 
Kaehlert was married in Missouri, in 1867, to Miss Constance Schneider, who 
was born in Germany, and they have three sons, Charles, William and Edward. 
Mr. Kaehlert owns and occupies a fine residence, which he erected in the year 
1892, doing all the work himself. It is twenty-one by ninety-six feet and is 
heated by hot air and hot water. His political allegiance is given to the 
democracy, but he has neither time nor inclination to take, an active part in 
politics as an office seeker, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his 
business affairs, in which he is now meeting with a goodly measure of 
prosperity. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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