Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Paulsen, Claus 1841 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

CLAUS PAULSEN. The German-American citizens of this county have an excellent 
representative in the person of Mr. Paulsen, a successful farmer of Washington 
Township. His pleasant homestead is located on sections 25 and 36, and 
consists of one hundred and sixty broad and fertile acres, supplied with all 
the needful buildings erected substantially and designed attractively. When 
the present owner took possession of the place in 1863, there was but a small 
piece broken, the rest being wild land. He put forth his best efforts to make 
of it a home suited to his taste and the needs of his family, and well has he 
succeeded. The natal day of Mr. Paulsen was February 25, 1841, and his 
birthplace Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is the youngest child in a family 
circle that included nine brothers and sisters, but four of whom are now 
living. He and two sisters came to America. The parents, John and Catharine 
(Brandt) Paulson, passed their entire lives in their native kingdom, Schleswig-
Holstein. He of whom we write grew to man's estate in the land of his birth, 
gaining a good education under its excellent school laws. When twenty-one 
years old he determined to seek a home in the land across the sea, of whose 
advantages he had heard. Setting sail from Hamburg in April, 1862, on 
the "Otseal" Mr. Paulsen spent eight long weeks on the broad Atlantic ere 
landing was made at New York. Thence he went to Chicago and into Kankakee 
County, where he labored about a twelvemonth. He then came to Will County and 
in Monee Township spent some time as a farm hand. Ere long he determined to 
have a home of his own and therefore began to improve the land, which now 
rewards his efforts with an abundance of the fruits of the earth. The 
efficient helpmate and companion of Mr. Paulsen in his labors to secure a 
competence was known in her maidenhood as Miss Sophia Hack. She is a daughter 
of Ernest and Sophia (Recopf) Hack, natives of Mecklenburg, Germany, who came 
to America in 1864, following some of their children across the sea. They 
settled in Will County, Ill., and here both died well advanced in years. They 
had six children, Mrs. Paulsen being the youngest; she was born in 
Mecklenburg, May 19, 1842, and was consequently twenty-two years old when she 
came to the United States. She has borne her husband nine children, two of 
whom died in infancy. The surviving members of the family circle are: Bertha, 
wife of Henry Wherman, a farmer in Washington Township; John, Herman, Carrie, 
Henry, Louis and Emma, who are yet living under the parental roof. Mr. and 
Mrs. Paulsen belong to the German Evangelical Church, and politically, he is a 
stanch Republican.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 

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