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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 803.

City of La Crosse

MATTHEW UHL, M. D., residence and office corner of Sixth and Main streets; has been practicing medicine in La Crosse since 1865. He was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, Aug. 22, 1808; graduated in 1831 from the University of Tubingen, and practiced medicine in Torrweil from 1832 to 1851, when he came to America, and practiced in New York City fourteen years. In 1865, he came to Wisconsin, and practiced in La Crosse till 1868; then went to Indianapolis, Ind., where he remained till 1878; then returned to La Crosse, and has practiced here since. His first wife, to whom he was married in Germany, died in Indianapolis in 1870. He there married, in 1872, Miss Emma, daughter of Charles Beyslachag, formerly editor and proprietor of the Ulmer Donan Zeitung, of Ulm, Germany, and at that time editor of the Indianapolis Telegraph.

 


From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 803.

City of La Crosse

JOHN ULRICH, editor of the Nordstern; was born in Switzerland, Europe, 1828; came to this country in 1855, and to La Crosse in April, 1856. In March, 1857, he bought the Nordstern; became its editor and publisher, and continued as such ever since; that is, up to the present time, May, 1881. He served the city as Alderman and School Commissioner, and is at present also Receiver of the United States Land Office, to which position he was appointed by President Grant in the year 1875.

 


From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 828 & 831.

Town of Hamilton

WILLIAM L. UPTON, farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. West Salem. Born in Vermont in 1827; removed to Massachusetts, and came to La Crosse, April 1, 1857, where he worked at the business of carpentry. He came to West Salem in August, 1858. He worked at the business of wagon-making for several years; settled on his present farm, October, 1870, which he purchased of Mr. J. D. Lawton. His first wife was Anna Horton, daughter of Milton Horton; present wife was Mrs. Mary Williams Motte, born in Oneida Co., N. Y.; has one son by first marriage - Wellington, and one by present wife - Morris Ray. Farm contains about 100 acres.

 


From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 803.

City of La Crosse

ELLIS B. USHER, proprietor of the Morning Chronicle; was born in Buxton, York Co., Maine, June 21, 1852; came West with his parents when a child of 2-1/2 years; was a resident of Muscatine, Iowa, one year, when the family removed to Wisconsin. The first winter in this State was spent in Clark Co., where his father, Isaac L. Usher, was engaged in lumbering, and, in the spring of 1856, the family moved to Onalaska, La Crosse Co., and since that time the subject of this notice has been a resident of this county. In 1862-63, the family lived in the city, and the remaining time, with the exception of a few months prior to 1868, upon a farm about a mile east of the village of Onalaska. In 1867, the family moved to the city, and since that time have resided here. The subject of this notice has had only a limited common school education. In 1868, he began to earn his own living, and has since then been employed as book-keeper and clerk until 1873, when he was employed as a local reporter for about six months upon the Republican and Leader. A change in the management dropped him out, and he was otherwise employed until April 1, 1875, when he purchased a half-interest in the Evening Liberal Democrat with Mr. John Symes. It was made a morning paper a year later. Two years later, Mr. Robert F. Howard purchased Mr. Symes' interest, and the name of the paper was changed to the Chronicle by the new firm, and, a year later, Mr. Usher purchased the interest of Mr. Howard, and has since been its sole proprietor.

 

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