1905 Payroll,1902 and 1905 St. Paul City Directory. Simon (listed in some records as "Swan") Tollefson (1869-1926) was born in Sweden and emigrated in 1887. He first worked as a laborer at the Capitol in 1902. He continued to work as a laborer in construction, raised his family on the East Side of St. Paul and died here in 1926.