1903 City Directory. August Okoniewski was born in Poland in 1869 and emigrated in 1888. He worked on the Capitol as a laborer but later became a blacksmith and worked at that trade in St. Paul for many years. In the 1930 Census he gave his occupation as "blacksmith" working at a an auto repair shop.
Axel Olson was born in Sweden in 1860 and came over in 1890.
1902 City Directory. Frank Warpecha and several other Capitol workers also lived here.
1905 Butler Bros Payroll and Census. Carpenter John L. Olson was born in Sweden in 1866 and emigrated in 1886. He was a member of Carpenters Local 87. In 1900 he was living at a boarding house at 607 Jackson St. with fellow Capitol workers Ole Moe and Alfred Magnuson at the time Magnuson fell to his death.
John Olson worked as a sawyer. John, who was born in Norway in 1880, was the only one of the two living here when the 1900 Census was taken.
Oscar Olson was a laborer.
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.
1903 City Directory. Carpenter Joseph Orr was born in 1850.
