Bio of GELMAN, Sander Boris (b.1854), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

SANDER B. GELMAN (Sander Boris Gelman) - Vol III, pg 505-506
Prominent in the business circles of Minneapolis is Sander B. Gelman, founder of
the family in this country and active in the conduct of the Flour City Paper Box
Company, in association with his two sons, Meyer and John. He was born in
Odessa, Russia, in 1854, and came to America in 1892. He had received a good
public school education in his native country and after coming to America
immedi­ately entered the business world. He made his home in Minneapolis from
the start, working for some time for the Heywood Manufacturing Company.
Subsequently he engaged in the wall paper business for himself but in 1898 began
box making. He disposed of that business after a short time, however, and
resumed the wall paper business until 1903, when he bought an interest in the
Flour City Paper Box Company and a year later purchased his partner's interest.
In 1905 he took his son, Meyer Gelman, into partnership and later his other son,
John. Upon the ad­mission of John Gelman into the company a printing department
was added. The growth of this business has been remarkable. When Mr. Gelman took
over the Flour City Paper Box Company the factory was located at No. 109 North
Wash­ington avenue. As the business grew they moved to No. 903 North Fourth
avenue, in 1905, and in 1907 to No. 620 Oak Lake avenue. In 1914 they located at
their present address, No. 123 North Washington avenue, where they have a well
equipped and up-to-date plant.
In Rostof, Russia, in 1883, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Gelman to Miss
Esther Berkowitch and to their union three children have been born: John Z., who
in 1919 was married to Miss Mathilda Brown; Anna E.; and Meyer. Both sons are
prominent and progressive business men and have many friends in this city. They
are members of the Masonic fraternity, holding membership in Henne­pin Lodge,
No. 4; Minneapolis Consistory; have attained the thirty-second degree of the
Scottish Rite; and Zuhrah Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
S. B. Gelman is a strict adherent of the republican party and the principles for
which it stands. He is a member of the Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Association
and as a public-spirited citizen his influence is ever on the side of
advance­ment and improvement. Along strictly business lines he is identified
with the Box
Makers Association. Mr. Gelman well merits the success he has achieved in life
for it is the result of his own labors. His public spirit is a stimulus and
inspiration; his patriotism, local and general, is genuine, practical and
intense; and he is a liberal contributor to all worthy agencies at work for the
good of his community.