From Memorial and Genealogical Record of Dodge and Jefferson Counties, Wisconsin, 
publ. 1894 - Page 44-45
 
ULRICH HABHEGGER.  To supply the community in which he resided with the 
necessaries of life was the business to which Mr. HABHEGGER devoted his time and 
attention, and it is no more than justice to say that he made it a point to keep an extensive 
and pure line of goods and to sell them at prices within the reach of all.  His emporium 
was popular and well patronized for obvious reasons, and to his credit be it said that his 
patronage was constantly on the increase.  He is a product of Canton Bern, Switzerland, 
the eldest of eleven children born to the marriage of John HABHEGGER and Barbara 
LUETHY, with whom he came to the Untied States of America in boyhood and with 
them settled in the town of Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis., in 1853.  He continued to 
remain with his parents until 1856, when he decided to make a start in life for himself, 
and for this purpose went to Iowa and bought a farm in Polk Count, that State, which he 
tilled with reasonable success for five years.  He then returned to the Badger State and 
turned his attention to the grocery and commission business, as a more congenial (to him) 
and profitable employment and was successfully engaged in this occupation until 1893, 
with the exception of two years, which were spent in farming in Emmet Township, 
Dodge County, Wis.  In 1893 the infirmities of increasing years, and the fact that he had 
accumulated a comfortable competency, cause him to retire from the active duties of life, 
and he took up his residence in the city of Watertown where he had so successfully 
conducted his mercantile operations.  The prosperity of the section in which he has made 
his home for so long has always been of great interest to him and he has done all in his 
power to aid improvements and enterprises that had for their object the good of the 
county, and has been elected to various honorable official positions, such as alderman, 
supervisor and school commissioner, positions which he filled several terms each.  He is 
president of the Watertown Shoe Company.  At the Democratic convention held 
September 21, 1894, he was nominated for county treasurer of Jefferson County, and was 
elected to that office November 6, 1894, by a large majority, a fact which spoke 
eloquently as to the popularity and esteem in which he was held.  He was a faithful and 
capable official and won universal respect as an officeholder.  On the 31st of January, 
1857, he was united in marriage with Miss Lina GFELLER, and their union has resulted 
in the birth of six children, four daughters and two sons: Sophia, Eliza, Lina, Lillie, Emil, 
and Albert.
 
Mr. HABHEGGER and his family are members of the German Protestant Church, and 
socially he is a member of the I.O.O.F. at Watertown.  He is of the material of which 
useful and honorable citizens are made, and it is to such men as he that Uncle Sam 
extends a cordial welcome to this country.