From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 

Typed by Linda Fluharty. 

Pages 554-555

AUGUST YAHRLING, a gentleman well known in Wheeling, where he has always
lived, is the proprietor of a fish, oyster and poultry market at No. 1004
Market street.  He was born in Wheeling December 27, 1852, and is a son
of Fred and Caroline (Tice) Yahrling.
     Fred Yahrling was born in Munich, Germany, December 4, 1818, and died
May 9, 1892.  He came to America in 1835, landing in Baltimore, and then
came to Wheeling.  He completed a course in Latin at the age of eleven
years, and was a good scholar in German, French and Latin, and fairly good
in English. He was sixteen years of age when he began clerking in Crum-
backer's drug store and followed that line of business nearly all his life.
He owned and conducted a drug store for more than fifty years, and then
became identified with the revenue office at Wheeling.  In September, 1844,
he was joined in marriage with Caroline Tice, a daughter of Waldheim and
Catherine (Amos) Tice.  She was one of three children, the others being
Lizzie wife of George Eckhardt; and Valentine, who served four years in
the army during the Civil War, and shortly after returning died from disease
contracted in the service.  Mrs. Yahrling was born in the Kingdom of Bavaria,
and at the age of seventeen years came to America.  In 1840, she and others
were engaged in stringing buckeyes fir a period of six weeks, in preparation
for the visit of Gen. W. H. Harrison, who, with thousands of others, took
dinner on the hill east of the wire bridge.  As a school girl, this is one
of her proud recollections of the stirring campaign of the log cabin and
hard cider.  Mr. and Mrs. Yahrling became the parents of nine children,
as follows:  Fred, who enlisted in the army in 1861, as hospital steward,
and later served four years as inspector in the state of Virginia; August,
the subject of this personal history; Robert and Elias, twins, who are
employed in Pollack's cigar factory; Virginia, Louisa, George W., Caroline,
deceased; and Gertie, who is the wife of Emil Haas, and resides at Bloom-
ington, Illinois.
     August Yahrling obtained his mental instruction in the public schools
of Wheeling, and after his school days was connected with a nail factory
for more than twenty years.  In 1890 he embarked in his present line,
dealing in fish, oysters, and all kinds of poultry.  He has a flourishing
trade, and stands high among the business men of the city.
     Mr. Yahrling was joined in marriage, at the age of twenty-one years,
with Mary Ann Staley, by whom he had four daughters, namely:  Pearletta,
wife of John Jennis, of Canal Dover, Ohio; Lucy May; Mamie; and Blanche.
Mrs. Yahrling died in February, 1884, at the age of thirty years.  Mr.
Yahrling is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  In politics he
votes the Republican ticket, although not active in party affairs.