newspaperman, businessman, b. Walterlingen, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. He migrated to the U.S. and to Wisconsin in 1855, settling in Waumandee, Buffalo County. During the next year he moved to La Crosse, and in 1857 became editor of the German-language weekly, Nordstern, in La Crosse. Ulrich became owner of the paper a few years later, and was its editor from 1857 to 1883. Ulrich was also La Crosse alderman, and in 1875 was appointed receiver in the federal land office in La Crosse, a position that he held until his death. He was also president (1886-1887) of the La Crosse Linseed Oil Co., and a member of the La Crosse Board of Trade. B. F. Bryant, ed., Memoirs of La Crosse Co. (Madison, 1907); La Crosse Daily Press, Dec. 27, 1894.Learn More
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