Biography of Emanuel Ulm, page 339/ 340.  History of Northeast Indiana; 
LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial 
supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and William H. 
McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1920.

   Emanuel Ulm is one of the oldest native born residents of Spencer 
Township, DeKalb County. He was born in that locality more than seventy 
years ago.  He participated in some of the pioneer events in that section of 
the country and at the age of fourteen was delegated as a employ of Uncle 
Sam to carry the mail from Spencerville to Butler three time a week. He 
began his independent career with only a common school education and with no 
capital except his own good will and energy, and has made himself one of the 
prosperous and influential citizens.  During the late war Mr. Ulm was a 
subscriber to Liberty Bonds to the extent of $1,600.
   Mr. Ulm, whose farm is a mile and a half north of Spencerville, was 
born in the same locality, December 22, 1847.   Some of the interesting 
pioneer incidents of old Concord Township, now Spencer Township, revolve 
around his father, Nelson Ulm, who came to the county in 1834.  Nelson Ulm 
was born in Knox County, Ohio, lost his father when he was six years of 
age and was then bound out.  He came to DeKalb county at the age of 
sixteen with Daniel Rhodes, another  pioneer settler, and lived with and 
worked for Mr. Rhodes until he was twenty-one.  Nelson Ulm and the Rhodes 
family arrived in 1834, and Nelson Ulm located on the present site of 
Spencerville.  In the fall of that year he drove from Fort Wayne the first 
hogs and cows ever brought to Spencerville, and during the following winter 
he took two bushels of corn on a hand sled to mill at Fort Wayne. Out of 
one of his experiences in the woods of this section he gave the name Buck 
Creek to one of the streams of DeKalb County. He married Elvira Lockwood, 
a native of Vermont.  He was a democrat, and both were members of the 
Methodist Church.  In the Ulm family were ten children, the two now living 
being Emanuel and Harlow, the latter of St. Joe, Indiana.
   Emanuel Ulm attended common schools to the age of fourteen and after 
that worked for his living.  He made his first purchase of land when he 
bought twenty acres, and his present farm comprises ninety-five acres.  He 
is a general farmer, and out of the land he has earned his prosperity. He 
is a stockholder in the bank of Spencerville and his good business judgment 
has caused him to be called upon to settle several estates.  He is a 
democrat in politics.
   April 15, 1872, Mr. Ulm married Mary A. Dill.  She was born in Stark 
County, Ohio, and was educated in the common schools. They had two sons. 
The older, John E., is a farmer in Spencer Township. Walter E., who died 
at the age of twenty-six, was a graduate of high school, attended college 
at Valparaiso and was a teacher.

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