Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2025 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of Buffalo & Pepin Counties, Wisconsin - Vol. 1 pub. H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Winona, MN - 1919 [page 179-180] OLE J. PAULSON, register of deeds for Buffalo county, and a man highly esteemed throughout the county for his many likable qualities, was born on his parents' homestead n Dover township, this county, Jan. 16, 1874, son of JOHN and MARGARET (OLSON) PAULSON. The parents were native of Norway who were married in Dover Township, where the father is still living, the mother having passed away March 10, 1916. OLE J. PAULSON was the se- cond born in a family of six children. He acquired his elemen- tary education in the district school and later attended Red Wing Seminary for four winters, from 1895 to 1899. After that he worked on the home farm until he was no longer able to do hard work because of an injury of the knee joint. For two months thereafter he had charge of the post office at Osseo, but had to give up even that comparatively easy job on account of his knee. On Jan. 7, 1902, he went to the hospital for treatment, which was long continued, but without avail. The doctors, seeing no help for him except through the amputation of his leg, so ad- vised him, and in March, 1905, the operation was performed. In January, 1906, MR. PAULSON, finding it advisable to qualify him self for a business career of some kind, entered the Wisconsin Business University at La Crosse, where he was graduated in May, 1906. He then made his first campaign for the office of register of deeds and was elected on the Republican ticket. Since then he has continued to hold the office through successive re-elec- tions, having proved his capacity and faithfulness to the satis- faction of the citizens of the county generally. At the primary in September, 1918, he received the nomination for his seventh term and was elected by a larger majority than at any previous election. His religious affiliations are with the Norwegian Lutheran Church. MR. PAULSON was united in marriage June 17, 1913, with ESTELLE KITTLESON, of Lac Que Parle, Minn., daughter of C. E. and JULIA (SIMMONSON) KITTLESON. Her father was a farmer at Russell, Trempealeau Co., Wis., who, in 1904, engaged in mer- cantile business in Lac Que Parle County, Minn., and is now engaged at farming in Macoun, Saskatchewan, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. PAULSON are the parents of one child; MURIEL GENEVIEVE, who was born April 5, 1917, at the Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, and who at the age of 5 1/2 months was awarded first prize in a contest on the most normal baby, at the Buffalo County Fair the next fall. MRS. PAULSON is a member of the Royal Neighbors. ===========================================================================