PAULSEN, Peter H. 1872-1959
PAULSEN, HAVEN, FRONING, FREYDEN
Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 9/2/2011 at 04:49:57
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at O'Keefe and Towne Funeral Home for P. H. Paulson, 87, an attorney practicing in Waterloo since 1911.
Dr. Fred Miller pastor of First Methodist Church will officiate.
Mr. Paulsen was born March 17, 1872, in Langevedt, Schleswig, Germany, the son of Hans and Marie Paulsen. He came to the United States at the age of 17 and graduated from Cornell College in 1901 with a liberal arts degree.
He taught school three years in Guttenberg and Oxford Junction and in 1904 was admitted to the bar to practice law in Iowa.
He established a law office in Estherville and in 1911 moved to Waterloo, where he practiced until he retired.
Mr. Paulsen was a member of the Black Hawk County Bar Association, the Iowa State Bar Association, the First Methodist Church. He served for many years on the board of trustees of the church.
In 1956 Mr. Paulsen received a citation for having practiced law in Iowa for more than 50 years.
He married Mabel Haven in Charles City in 1902.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Mary Froning, Des Moines and Mrs. Ruth Freyden, Iowa City; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son.
[Waterloo Courier, Tuesday, September 1, 1959]
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[Black Hawk Co. History]P. H. Paulsen, who came to Waterloo in 1911 and found in this growing and enterprising western city a splendid field for professional activity. He was born in Germany in 1872 and there spent the first sixteen years of his life.
On crossing the Atlantic to America he located in Iowa, settling in the vicinity of Cedar Falls, where he engaged in farming. About three years after arriving here, when but eighteen years of age, he managed an eleven hundred acre farm in Grundy county, where he remained for several years. He was very successful as a farmer, but while he found that work congenial, he had a desire for a more advanced education, so he entered Cornell College, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1900, winning the Ph. B. degree. He then took up the profession of teaching and was superintendent of schools at Oxford Junction for three years. During that period and for some time prior thereto he devoted his vacations and the hours which are usually termed leisure to the study of law and successfully passed the required examination which won him admission to the Iowa bar in 1903. He then located at Estherville, where he practiced until 1911, when he came to Waterloo.
In 1902, Mr. Paulsen was united in marriage to Miss Mabel Haven, of Charles City, Iowa, and they have become parents of three children: Mary Esther. Ruth and Haven.
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Note: Census show his name as Peter H. Paulsen
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