Johannes Paulson

May 23 1832 Johannes Paulson Birth Kristianstad Sweden
May 5 1856 Marriage to Christin Clementsson Kristianstade Sweden
March 25 1857 Edith Paulson born Skane Sweden
Oct 1860 Emmigrate to USA Brooklyn NY Edith 3 yrs old
1861-1865 Served in the Civil War
Oct 4 1866 Hulda Paulson born Brooklyn NY Edith 9 yrs old
Moves to Welch Minnesota Vasa church bricks
Dec 16 1866 Hulda Paulson dies in Vasa MN
Apr 25 1867 Christin dies in Vasa MN Edith 10 yrs old

                          Johannes cotton gin  NY then Louisiana

               1867   Marries 2nd wife  kirsten makes no sense marries andrew

Oct 5 1869 Hilda Paulson born Vasa?
1872 Takes Edith back to Brooklyn NY
1870 obit mentions edith going to Star Prarie step mom 2 half sis
wrong date since Carrie not born yet
Apr 15 1872 Carrie Wilhemina Paulson McMytrie born in Louisiana

This is the Johannes nephew Edward Paulson mentioned in Edith obituary. Only the beginning of her obit is entered here.. Eversgreen Cemetery, Brooklyn New York
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209721335/edward-paulson

Who is 2nd Mrs Paulson mentioned in Obit from Louisiana that went to Star Prairie? There is a mixup
with Carrie Libby and a Carrie Paulson? St Croix Republican marriage note mixes up Kerstin Arnquist (Andrews wife) and Christin Jansdotter Paulson who is in Vasa Cemetery that Johannes built.

Edith Petranella Arnquist, the daughter of John and Christine Clemence Paulson was born in Skone, Sweden on March 25th 1857. When she was only three, her parents brought her to the new world where they settled on a little piece of land outside Brooklyn, New York. That was the year of Lincolns election when the railsplitter was declaring that the Union could not exist half slave and half free. John Paulson's loyalty was immediately transferred to the land of his adoption. He shouldered his musket and enlisted in '61; he served continously for the next four years, thrice he was seriously wounded in action, but remained at home with his wife and two little daughters, Edith and Hulda, only long enough for his wounds to heal partially. After Lee's surrender at Apppmattox. John Paulson took his wife and two daughters to the Middle West to life in the Swedish community at Vasa, near Red WIng, Minnesota, where he was both a merchant and a maker of bricks. It was in his kilns the bricks were made for the great church that stands today at Vasa, a monument to his craftsmanship. He was of a mechanical turn of mind and, at odd moments, busied himself with invention of a machine to separate the seed from the cotton bolls.
His (John) wife (Christine) died in Vasa; so did his younger daughter Hulda. In '72 he took his motherless daughter Edith back to New York, where he secured a patent on his invention. Then they went south to the land of cotton with his model to try out it merits. He set up the machine in Carroll Parish, Louisiana near Baton Roughe, But before its success could be measured Mr Paulson died on July 31, 1872 of malarial fever - indirectly of his old army wounds which had so weakened him that he fell an easy victim to fever. His invention was left to rust until the patent expired when someone else made a fortune on it.

[Note; who is the second Mrs Paulson, ie step mother?]
The second Mrs Paulson whom he had married in the meantime went north to relative at Star Prarie; Edith for awhile in Dixie, then went to live with a pastors family in Chicago where she was confirmed. In 1870, Edith came north to join her step-mother and two half sisters at Star Prarie - a lovely olive skinned girl in smart clothes who dazzled her country relations. Two years later, she was married to John M Arnquist. His sister Mrs August Anderrson, the only member left of the original Arnquist family, baked the wedding cake and recalls the simple dignity of that marriage service on March 23, 1878.