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 792 HISTOEY OF GOODHUE COUNTY having retired from active business. Mr. and Mrs. Olsen have no children. Mr. Olsen is an independent voter, and is one of the volunteer firemen. Being an active church worker, he is presi- dent of the Young People's League of Land's (Norwegian Lu- theran) church, which he and his wife attend. He owns two lots in town and has a substantial home on "West avenue. John and Ingebor Olsen, parents of John 0. Olsen, and" natives of Norway, came to America in 1872, locating in Chicago, where the father engaged in the custom tailor's business until 1885, when he re- moved his family to Znmbrota, following the same trade. Both parents are still living. Paul Paulson, of Zumbrota village^ was born in Wanamingo township, November 1, 1877. son of Bottolf and Julia Foss Paul- son, both natives of Norway, who came to America in the early sixties, locating in Wanamingo township and purchasing a farm of 120 acres, which the father cultivated and improved, residing here until 1893, when he sold the farm and moved to Zumbrota, vdiere he purchased 168 acres of fine farm land. There he has since resided, carrying on general farming. Paul received his education in the public schools of Wanamingo and remained at home assisting his father until he was twenty-two years of age, when he went to Stevens county and engaged in farming until 1906. He then came 1o Zumbrota and took up the threshing business, which he has followed until the present time. He is also manager of the Hulbert Mills for the First State Bank of Zumbrota. Mr. Paulson was married December 24, 1899, to Emma Siebrecht, daughter of Henry and Catherina (Augustine) Sie- brecht, natives of Germany, who for many years resided in Pine Island townslfip, where the father is engaged in farming, the mother having died July 17, 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Paulson have four children: Luella, Joseph, Roy, and Norman, all living at homo. Mr. Paulson is a Republican and he and his family attend the German Lutheran church. He has never sought public office, devoting all his time to his family and farm. Henry L. Pengilly, of Zumbrota township, was born in July, 1839, and came to Racine, Wis., April 7, 1849. He received his education in the schools of Racine county, and after leaving school took up farming until in 1861. He cast his first vote in 1860 for Abraham Lincoln, and November 8, the next year, en- listed in Company G, Second Wisconsin Cavalry, as private. He Avas discharged December 8, 1863, for injury received by falling from a horse at Springfield, Mo. He then returned to Union Grove, where he had enlisted, and September 3, 1864, re-enlisted in Company H, First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, and served un- til the end of the war, receiving his discharge July 13, 1865, at Milwaukee, Wis. He was wounded several times. After the