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may enter and grasp to themselves all knowl-
edge necessary to fit themselves for victorious
battle when they must enter the business
world.

In 1884, my husband, Prof. W. S. Paulson opened
a normal school and business college at Coun-
cil Bluffs. He had no capital, so to speak, having
spent what he had accumulated by Teaching
in Travelling with a consumptive wife in search
of health. He had returned from the Pacific
Coast where he taught three years in (I believe)
the Oakland schools and he buried his wife in
Omaha.

His college prospered for several years and he
and I (I taught with him) were the means of
aiding many young men and girls to fit them-
selves for useful careers in the school room, or in
business life. When the depressing period of Cleve-
land's second term came, money being scarce
our school became less prosperous. Six years a-
go they elected in our county (Pottawattamie)
a superintendent of schools, who, for a commiss-
ion sent as many students of the county as
he could influence to Fremont, Neb. He would
agree to give them a first grade certificate
without examination if they would attend
at Fremont Normal College for three or six
months. If they could not come and the
necessary means he would give them an