“The History of Dodge County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1880.


Township:  Shields

ULRICH HAGMANN,  telegraph operator and agent of the Chicago, 
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, also express agent at Richwood; born in 
Switzerland in 1843; came to America in 1864, locating soon after at 
Arena, Wis.; in September, 1864, he went to Houston Co., Minn., 
working in a flouring-mill until February, 1865, when he enlisted in the 
1st Minn. Heavy Artillery, and was stationed at Chattanooga, Tenn., till 
the close of the war; on his return, on account of ill health, he paid a 
short visit to friends in Illinois, spending the winter at Arena at school; 
worked the next summer on a farm in Sauk Co., Wis., attending the 
winter school in Sumpter Township; after spending a short time in 
Chicago, Mr. Hagmann obtained a position as an assistant in the 
Jacksonville Insane Asylum.  In 1872, he married Miss Friederika 
Paulus, of that city, soon after removing to Mazo Manie, Wis., going 
from there to Arena, where he did his first railroad work; was in the 
depot during the winters of 1872-73; he taught the school in Honey 
Creek, Sauk Co., Wis.; the next fall he again obtained a place in the 
Arena depot, and by faithful attention to his business was, at the end of 
three years, made station agent; Mr. Hagmann learned operating during 
the winter of 1879, and was appointed agent at Richwood in March, 
1879.  Mr. and Mrs. Hagmann have four children – Ulrich R., Bernard 
C., Carl H. and Meta C.  Mr. Hagmann is a Republican in politics; and a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.


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