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JOHN I. ULRICH, an industrious and thrifty farmer of Elm Creek township, Buffalo county, was born on the third of March, 1834, in Prussia, of German parentage. His father, Joseph Ulrich, was a man who commanded the highest respect of every one. He was a wagon-maker by trade, and also engaged in farming. For over twenty years he faithfully served the public as justice of the peace. He was a good man, and from childhood was a devoted member of the Catholic church. In 1828, at the home of her father, he was married to Miss Margaritte Meir, who was born in Prussia, in 1801, and, with her husband, was a very consistent member of the Catholic church. She was a very kind, tender and loving wife and mother.

John I. Ulrich came to America in the summer of 1850, and worked at his trade in Dayton, Ohio, and at Fort Wayne, Ind. When the cholera broke out at the latter place, he went to Green Bay, Wis., and there continued at his trade for sixteen years. In 1873 he joined the tide of emigration, and settled in Elm Creek, Buffalo county, on section 6, township 8, range 18 west. He shared the common fate during “grasshopper times,” and was left so destitute that he would very quickly have returned had it been possible. But he staid through, and since then has had good crops every year but one. He has owned 1,340 acres, including the 880 acres given to his two elder sons, and upon which he has built two houses, and provided each son with all necessary farming implements. Politically, Mr. Ulrich is independent. In January, 1858, Mr. Ulrich was married to Miss Euphrosina Karcher, a native of Baden, Germany. She was born in 1836, and came to America in 1857, settling in Green Bay, Wis., and was married at New Franken, Brown county, that state. Both she and her husband are devoted members of the Catholic church, and at the present writing, Mr. Ulrich is causing to be built an addition to the church, which has become too small for present use.

Mr. and Mrs. Ulrich are the parents of eleven children, viz. — Joseph, in Buffalo county; Caroline (Mrs. Riger), in California; August, in Buffalo county; Anna (died 1861); Theresa (Mrs. Swayne), in Dawson county; one still-born; Conrad (died 1867); and Mary, Ursula, Eva and William, still at home.