Sebulon Olson
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Sebulon (also written as Zebulon) Olson (1862-1933) was born in Sweden and emigrated in 1886. He was a hoisting engineer and probably worked on Nils I. Nelson's crew setting most of the marble. Olson and his wife Signe raised their family on St. Paul's East Side while he worked as a hoisting engineer. Hosting engineers were unionized in St.
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Zebulon Olson's home at 862 Magnolia Street, St. Paul
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Olson at Mississippi River lock where he set stones
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Stone Cutters, reported to have been taken at Minnesota State Capitol groundbreaking ceremony, May 6, 1896
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