K. Paulson

PAULSON

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 6/28/2005 at 22:34:06

K. Paulson was born in Norway in 1831. In 1853 he came to the United States, locating in Rock Co., Wis. On his arrival he was owing $32, which he had borrowed on the road. He engaged at farming, which business he followed during that summer, when he entered the employ of Sanderson & Co., of Milwaukee, to buy grain, which he followed until spring, after which he engaged in farming. That summer he moved to Iowa county, where he was married March 25, 1856, to Gro Sanderson, born in Norway, after which he engaged in farming until the spring of 1874, when he came to Worth county and engaged in partnership with Ole Oreson in the mercantile business at Fertile. He remained in partnership with Mr. Oreson one year, when he sold his interest to his father and returned to Wisconsin, where he remained until his return to Fertile in the spring of 1882, when he erected a store building and again embarked in the mercantile trade, which business he still follows. Mr. Paulson has considerable land in the township, besides owns several lots in the village plat. He enlisted March 18, 1864 in the 37th Wisconsin volunteer Infantry, served until December 15 of the same year, when he was severely wounded by a gun-shot, which passed through his body from left to right, for which he received his discharge and from which he now draws a pension.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 761