Bio of PAULLE, Leonard (b.1855), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 671-672
LEONARD PAULLE
Through the legitimate channels of trade and commerce Leonard Paulle has become
an outstanding figure in industrial circles as the president of the L. Paulie
Company, manufacturers of show cases and store fixtures. His business,
established in 1876, has grown steadily under his systematic methods and wise
direction until it is one of the important productive industries of the city.
Moreover, his life record indicates what can be accomplished through consecutive
effort and indefatigable energy, as he started out in the business world
empty-handed.
Leonard Paulle is a native of Buffalo, New York. He was born April 23, 1855, and
his ancestry in the maternal line is traced back to Germany, while in the
paternal line the dominating strain is French. His parents were Joseph and
Rosalia (Bauer) Paulle and the father served in the wars of France in the
campaign of the great Napoleon. He afterward took up his residence in Bavaria,
where he met and married Rosalia Bauer, a native of that country. Joseph Paulle
came of a family noted for longevity and he had reached the age of more than
ninety years when his life's labors were ended. The removal of the parents to
the new world was followed by the estab­lishment of the family 'home in Buffalo
and there in his youthful days Leonard Paulle attended the public schools to the
age of twelve years, when his textbooks were put aside and he started out to
provide for his own support, entering upon an apprenticeship that brought him in
the beginning but two dollars and a half per week, though diligence later won
him an increase in salary to the munificent sum of four dollars.
In 1865 the family came to Minnesota, settling in St. Paul, but after four years
returned to Buffalo, where Leonard Paulle was again a resident until 1872, when
he once more sought the opportunities of the growing west. He was then a youth
of seventeen years and it was his purpose to engage in buying land and raising
cattle in Minnesota. Accordingly he secured acreage in Sherburne county, but
three months' experience of this kind convinced him that he preferred urban life
and he came to Minneapolis, where he has now made his home for more than a half
century. Progress has actuated him at every point of his business career. While
his start in manu­facturing circles was a humble one, he has steadily advanced
and is today at the head of a large and important manufacturing concern of the
city. By industry and economy he secured a capital of five hundred dollars,
earned in the employ of Jesse Copeland & Sons, and this constituted his first
investment in the show case and store fixture business, his original tactory
being located at No. 311 Nicollet avenue, where he employed but three men.
Something of the steady growth and development of his trade is indicated in the
fact that his business today represents an investment of more than one hundred
thousand dollars, while his employes number about one hundred and twenty-five
and his annual sales amount to approximately two hundred thousand dollars. He
has a splendidly equipped plant at No. 26 North Second street and the
progressive methods which he has always followed and the enterprise and thorough
reliability which have always characterized his activities have made his
business one of the most important in this line in the Northwest. As he has
prospered in his undertakings Mr. Paulle has also erected a number of business
blocks in Minneapolis, the rental from which adds in substantial manner to his
annual income.
In 1905 Mr. Paulle was married in Minneapolis to Miss Minnie Crozier of La
Crosse, Wisconsin. Fraternally Mr. Paulle has been a Mason since 1876 and is one
of the oldest thirty-second degree Masons in the city. He has also taken the
degrees of the York Rite, and is a member of Zuhrah Temple, Mystic Shrine. He
took an active part in promoting the building of the Masonic Temple and has
served for a considerable period on its board of directors. In club circles his
membership is with the Commercial, Elks, Athletic and Automobile clubs. He turns
for recreation to outdoor sports and finds particular enjoyment in hunting. His
political allegiance is given to the republican party, but without aspiration
for office, yet he is never remiss in the duties of citizenship and his
cooperation can always be counted upon to further those plans and projects which
are looking to the continued development and benefit of the city. His enterprise
and activity have found their chief expression in the upbuilding of the business
of which he is now the head and his entire com­mercial career is measured in the
terms of success.