- ELISHA ULLOM. Prominent among the surviving old settlers
of Cadiz township, Green county,
- stands the venerable gentleman whose name here appears, and
who is now living retired. Born Dec. 4, 1819, in Greene county,
Penn., Mr. ULLOM is a son of Peter and Mary (CATHER) ULLOM, natives
of Pennsylvania, the former of German origin. Peter and Mary
ULLOM had a family of four children: Elizabeth (who married Samuel
RAYMER), Nancy (Mrs. John ROBSON), Elisha and Harrison, all now
deceased except Elisha. He commenced life a poor boy, and with
but little education, most of his boyhood days being passed in
assisting on the home farm. In 1842 he came to Wisconsin and
settled on an uncleared farm in Cadiz township, at one time owning
over 400 acres of land. This, by assiduous labor and persevering
industry, he soon made to "blossom as the rose," and
become one of the finest farms in the county. Mr. ULLOM is now
living retired, esteemed and respected as only one who has led
so long and useful a life could be. Sober and temperate in al
his habits, neighborly and kind in his treatment of all, devoted
to his home and family, his career has been one of honor in all
the relations of life. He possesses a retentive memory, a special
blessing to one who has such ripe stores of experience to draw
on.
- Mr. ULLOM was married in Ohio, to Miss Julia KERR, of Knox
county, that State, who was a
- daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (McCULLOUGH) KERR, her parents
being among the early settlers of Ohio. Ten children blessed
this union, viz.: Ellen, who is deceased; Minerva, Mrs. William
DENISTON, of Stafford, Kans.; Frank; Elmira, wife of Henry SHANK,
a farmer of Cadiz township; Joseph, of Missouri; William, of
Jo Daviess county, Ill.; Charles, of Missouri; Homer, of Kansas;
Adeline, deceased wife of H. H. PUTERBAUGH; and Laura B., who
died unmarried. Mr. ULLOM's posterity includes thirty-two living
grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Mrs. ULLOM, who
was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1822, passed away April 10,
1891, at the home in Cadiz township. She was a thorough Christian
woman, a loving wife and mother, and was sincerely mourned throughout
the community.
- Our subject is a stanch Democrat, of the Jeffersonian stripe,
and has supported that party for the
- past sixty years. He has served his fellow citizens faithfully
in various local offices, having been a member of the township
board, school director, treasurer and assessor. For many years
he has been a consistent member of the German Baptist Church.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 759-760.
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- Courtesy of Carol.
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