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David Paulson

David Paulson was a physician, minister, lecturer, and founder of Hinsdale Hospital, Illinois, USA. Married to Mary Paulson, MD.

David Paulson, MD (1868-1915) was born near Raymond, Wisconsin and reared from the age of six on a farm near Vermilion, South Dakota.

Between 1893 and 1903, Dr Paulson worked tirelessly for the poor and sick in Chicago's slums alongside William Sadler, MD and Lena Sadler, MD and John Harvey Kellogg, MD, founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.

In 1904 he co-founded Hinsdale Sanitarium and Benevolent Society (now Hinsdale Hospital), in DuPage County, Illiniois where it is the largest licensed hospital. The Paulsons also founded the Good Samaritan Inn, the Life Boat Rescue Home, and founded and for thirteen years edited the Life Boat magazine.

Source: David Paulson, MD, Footprints of Faith (Hinsdale, Illinois: Life Boat Publishing Co., 1921)