SUMMIT COUNTY OHIO 
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1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA
F.A. Battey & Co., 1882

	HENRY J. ULMER, son of George T. and Julia A. Ulmer, was born in Summit 
County, Ohio, December 31, 1829. His parents came to Indiana in November, 
1836, and located on eighty acres of Government land in Allen Township. He 
is a native of Maine, and is now living in Kansas at the age of 
seventy-four or seventy-five. His wife, who was a native of Connecticut, 
died in this county. Henry Ulmer lived on his father's farm until 
twenty-five years of age, when he was married to Miss Sarah W. Cowley, 
daughter of Stpehen M. and Catharine Cowley, December 7, 1854. The ensuing 
year, Mr. Ulmer was engaged in running a saw-mill in this county, then 
removed to Pretty Prairie, lived on rented property one and a half years, 
then removed to Lima and resided about seven years. During four years of 
this time Mr. Ulmer carried the mails from Lima to Albion once a week and 
devoted the remaining time to farming, and for eleven seasons ran a 
threshing machine with his father; he purchased eighty acres of property 
adjoining Lima. He next went to Ligonier, and worked in his father's 
grist-mill one and a half years, farmed two years, then, with his father 
and another partner, engaged in the mercantile business. In 1870, they were 
burned out, with considerable loss, and our subject then came to his 
present farm of eighty acres, where he has been quite successful. His wife, 
who was a native of New York and a member of the Free-Will Baptists, died 
in October, 1879. There are three children -George C., Kittie A. and Bertha.

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