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Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin; published in 1891; page 289.



                      William W. KUEHLING
                         Abbeville, LA
William. W. Kuehling, planter, of Ward 2. was born in Virginia,
October 8, 1849.  He  is the son  of.John N. and Anna C.
Kuehling.  His father was a native of Strasburg, Germany, and re-
Moved to American  when a younger man. He married in
Washington City, and afterward removed to Virginia, where he
became a prosperous planter.   Mrs. Kuehling is still living and
is a resident of Fairfax county, Virginia.  William Kuehling is
one of a family of five children, now livng.   In 1872,
he removed from Virginia to Louisiana, locating in Vermilion
parish,. Here he married, October 16, 1881, Miss Leontine Loquex,
a native of New Orleans. Mr. Kuehling was appointed sheriff of
Vermilion parish in 1882, and under President Cleveland's
administration, served as inspector of customs for  this
section of Louisiana. Since 1881 he has conducted a 
mercantile business at Bayou Ligre. He also owns nine hundred
acres of land, sixty of which he cultivates in cotton and corn.
His place is well improved, and he has on it an orange grove of
one hundred and fifty trees, besides a variety of other fruit.
Mr. Kuehling is a member of the K. of H., at Abbeville, and is 
a member of the M. E. Church South. His wife is a member of the
the Catholic church.  They are the parents of six children, three
of whom are livings viz.: Bertha, Warren W.. Esther.  Those
deceased are, William W.. Lionel, Leloa.