Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Ullman, William April 9 1837 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   WILLIAM ULLMAN, one of the leading citizens and merchants of Selma, Ala., was
born in Bavaria, Germany, April 9, 1837. In his native land he received a
liberal education, studying both French and English, and at the age of seventeen
he left the Fatherland and emigrated to the United States. Having selected
Alabama for a home he commenced business at Oxford, and remained there until
some time after the breaking out of the Civil war. He then cast his lot with the
people among whom he made his home, and, joining the army, he was enrolled as a
private soldier in the Eighth Confederate cavalry, under Gen. Joseph Wheeler.
His record in the army is one of which he need not be ashamed, and he is held in
affectionate remembrance as a good soldier, as a faithful comrade, as always
ready for service, and as remaining in the army continuously from the time he
enrolled to the close of the war. About one year ago there was made a call upon
the veterans to write out reminiscences of the war, and Mr. Ullman, complying
with the request, wrote a paper, entitled : "My Recollections of the War." This
paper Mr. Ullman read at a meeting of the veterans, and, though unpretentious,
was yet a very interesting one. It related many incidents of the war, and
recalled many events dear to the old soldier. It was received with much
enthusiasm. When the war closed Mr. Ullman located at Selma and entered upon a
successful business career. The oldest and one of the most reliable business
firms doing business at Selma is that, of Oberndorf & Ullman, of which firm Mr.
Ullman is a member. Messrs. Oberndorf & Ullman began business in 1865, and they
have conducted a large and prosperous wholesale and retail dry goods business
ever since, not only securing a handsome competence for themselves, but also in
largely contributing to the upbuilding of the city of Selma. Mr. Ullman has
three times been a member of the Selma city council, and for many years has been
a member of the school board. From the time of its organization Mr. Ullman has
been an efficient member of the Hebrew congregation, Mishkan Israel of Selma.
Before the annual meeting of the congregation in January, 1890, Mr. Ullman
delivered an address which was subsequently published in pamphlet form by
request or the congregation. This may be justly considered an expression of
their high appreciation of the general merit and wisdom of the address. In
January, 1892, he delivered, before the annual meeting of the congregation, an
address, the subject being: "Baruch Spinoza, the Hero of Modern Philosophy," in
which he reviewed the life, character and teachings of Spinoza in a manner that
indicated thorough research, learning and ability. Mr. Ullman is logical and
philosophical, and is a clear and deep thinker. Still later he spoke with both
knowledge and wisdom on the subject of “The Stage, as Viewed from its Moral
Aspects," before the Young Men's Hebrew association, of Selma. His first public
address was delivered before the Hebrew Sunday-school, in the form of a paper
upon the proper mode of teaching children at Sunday-school, with a view of
encouraging the study of the great men of Israel, and the making of them the
ideal of our life. This paper was received with much popular favor, and was
published in pamphlet form and in the newspapers. Other addresses followed in
rapid succession, among them being an address before the congregation Mishkan
Israel on the occasion of the celebration of the centennial of the adoption of
the constitution of the United States, and another before the junior high grade
of the Dallas academy on Grecian mythology. Mr. Ullman is a ready, learned and
pleasing writer. He is unpretentious and unostentatious, and in bearing toward
his fellow-men he is fair, just, polite and courteous. His conversation is lofty
and pure; his language chaste; his life exemplary. He is esteemed as a citizen,
trusted with abounded confidence as a business man, and respected by all for his
high moral character.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 922,925
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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