Shep's Place Family Tree

When New Haven was laid out in about 1860, Mr. Juhling was one of the first settlers in that town, opening a general merchandising business. Sometime during the mid-1860s he moved to Hartford where he built and operated a general store. This is the building where in the 1970s J.H. Smith lived and operated a store.

In 1875 Charles Juhling purchased coal lands and opened the California Coal Mine, later changed to the Juhling Brothers Mine.

In 1852 he married Mahala Hoffman. She was born in Virginia in 1831 and died in 1897. She is buried on Brown's Hill in Hartford.

Charles and Mahala were the parents of four children: William, Albert, Lewis and Alice. Both Albert and Alice died young. It was to his remaining two sons, William and Lewis, that he turned over his business affairs when he retired, after the death of his wife.

At the time of the federal census on the 8th of June 1880 Charles 46 years and Mahala 46 were living in Hartford where Charles was a merchant. He and his parents had been born in Saxony; whereas Mahala and her parents had been born in Virginia.

Son William 24 years old was working as a book keeper, while Lewis 20 years was a merchant.

By the 1900 census it was only Charles and son Lewis at home. Charles is 79 years old, widowed and an invalid. Son Lewis is 40 years and single. His occupation is "Capitalist." Charles was a naturalized citizen of the United States.