Nils Leonard Pålsson f.1880

Personanteckningar

Efter storstrejken 1909 hade Nils tröttnat på arbetet som gruvarbetare. I Chicago blev han spårvagnskonduktör och kunde så småningom skicka pengar till biljetterna över till USA

Em. till Chicago USA 1910-06-07

Senast kända Address Culver ,Brown Countu , Indiana

Nils married Alma Cornelia Berglund. He came to the United States by

himself and sent for his family later. His wife and four children came

over on

the Titanic and were of course lost at sea. See Cornelia RIN 613.

He later married a woman by the name of Christina. They had no children.

He

lived in Chicago near the Axel Berglunds. They were friends for many

years but

had a falling out. Nils was a street car motorman until he retired. His

wife

Christina passed away and he moved to Crown Point, Indiana where he later

died

when in his eighties.

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Loses Family by Wreck

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Chicago American

Sunday 21 April 1912

Nels Paulsson, a Chicago man living at 940 Thompson street, had learned to-day that he had lost his wife and four little children in the Titanic disaster. Although he knew that his family had embarked on the boat he had delayed making inquiry at the White Star offices until the Carpathia had brought in the survivors, hoping they would then be found safe and well. When he learned the truth he was prostrated with grief and was placed in the care of a physician. Those drowned were his wife, Alma Paulsson; Danira, eight years old; Folke, six years old; Christina, four years old; and Gustav, a baby of two. The latter was born after Paulssen had left his native village of Helsingborg, Sweden.

Chicago American, Monday, April 21, 1912, p. 2, c. &: