San Diego County Biographies
 
DANIEL OLSON

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the proprietor of the San Diego Steam Laundry, was born in Sweden, in September, 
1849. He was educated in the common schools and under the Lutheran Protestant 
religion; his father was a farmer. The subject of this sketch was mail carrier 
in Sweden for about two years, at the age of from fifteen to seventeen. He 
emigrated to the United States in 1868, landing in New York. He then went to 
Chicago, where he worked five years in the dry-goods business, and then started 
a laundry, which he continued for fifteen years, with good success. He came to 
San Diego in January, 1887, and bought one end of a block on B street, between 
State and Columbia. He built a laundry building on the corner of State and B 
streets, 47 x 75 feet, two stories in height, and in the rear he built stables, 
and houses for his help. His laundry plant is valued at $8,000, and has 
facilities to do all kinds of plain and fancy laundry work. He employs from 
twenty to twenty-five hands and runs four wagons; it is the leading laundry in 
the city.
        Mr. Olson was married in Chicago, in 1875, to Miss Hattie Hultgren. They 
have two children, both of whom are living.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  137