ULYSSUS M. HUNGERFORD, farmer; P. O. Blue River; a son of Isaiah and Elizabeth Hutchinson, natives of Connecticut, but located at Livonia, Livingston Co., N. Y., where Ulyssus was born April 12, 1834, where he was educated; learned the carpenter trade with his father; came to Illinois in March, 1854, and located at Kankakee; the following year came to this State, locating on Sauk Prairie, Dane Co.; the following spring he moved to Crawford Co., entering forty acres of land; remained there one and a half years; he then came to this town and engaged as a farm hand until the breaking-out of the war; Dec. 28, 1863, he enlisted in the 6th Wisconsin Light Artillery (Burnett's Battery); he served with the battery until the close of the war, and was mustered out with them at Madison in July, 1865; he had four brothers in the service; Eugene, the oldest, enlisted while attending the University at Madison, in 1861, in the 5th W. V. I., participating in all the battles with the regiment until May 3, 1863, when he was killed while storming the heights at Fredericksburg; Edwin enlisted in August, 1862, and died in the hospital at Corinth Nov. 9, 1862; Thomas J. enlisted in the 6th Wisconsin Artillery Oct. 1, 1861, when the battery was organized, and was in active service until his term of enlistment expired, in October, 1864, when he came home. Addison enlisted in 1864 in the 47th W. V. I., and served until the close of the war. At the close of the war, Ulyssus moved upon the farm where he now lives. He married Miss Sarah Carson, who was a native of Indiana, and came to this State with her parents in 1854. He has always been in active life, and accumulated an estate through his personal industry.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.