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BOEHLER, C. A. - Was born in Baden, Germany, August 31,1836, and was raised and educated at Waldshut. He remained there until 17 years of age, following the hotel and post-office business, and in 1853 emigrated to the United States, landing in New York, where he resided six years. He was there engaged in the hotel and restaurant business, and then went to Newark, N. J., remained there one year, and thence to New Orleans; was there at the opening of the war, and went into the service as sutler in the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth New York volunteers under Lieutenant Colonel J. P. Foster. He participated in the battles of forts Hudson and Donelson and the Red River expedition. In 1864 he came to this city, and in 1865 engaged in his present business, saloon and billiard hall. He was married in New York City , June 12, 1859, to Miss Louisa Brutsche, a native of the same place as himself. They have five children: Louisa, Albert, Annie, Nettie, and Andrew; have lost two: Emma and Louie.