Bio of NELSON, Bernard B. (b.1893), 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
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Vol II, pg 577
BERNARD B. NELSON
One of the most progressive young business men of Minneapolis is Bernard B.
Nelson, secretary of the Northland Milk & Ice Cream Company. He was born just
outside of the limits of this city, on the 21st of December, 1893, a son of C.
A. and Amanda (Danielson) Nelson, prominent residents of Minneapolis.
The public schools of Fridley afforded Bernard B. Nelson his early educational
training and subsequently he enrolled in Minnesota College, where he took both a
literary and business course. After putting his textbooks aside he became
associated with his father in the conduct of the Clover Leaf Creamery, of which
the latter is president and with which enterprise he remained for three years.
In December, 1916, Mr. Nelson purchased a half interest in the Modern Milk
Company and became secre­tary and treasurer of the concern. In October, 1922, a
consolidation of the Modern Milk Company, the Quaker Creamery Company, the
Elwell Dairy Farms Company and the Metropolitan Milk Company was made under the
name of the Northland Milk & Ice Cream Company, with Mr. Nelson as secretary.
The company, which is the largest of its kind in the Northwest, was capitalized
for three million, five hundred thousand dollars and operates three plants. Mr.
Nelson has proven a valuable addi­tion to the concern and is discharging the
many duties devolving upon him with great ease and efficiency. The Northland
Milk & Ice Cream Company distributes about twenty-five thousand gallons of milk
daily and five tons of butter. When the United States entered into the World war
Mr. Nelson enlisted in the machine gun brigade on the 15th of August, 1918, and
was stationed at Camp Hancock until receiv­ing his honorable discharge on the
7th of January, 1919.
On the 1st of May, 1918, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Nelson and Miss
Harriet B. Dahl of Minneapolis, and they have become parents of a daughter,
Harriet Marilynn, who was born February 1, 1923. Mrs. Nelson is a woman of much
personal charm and is prominent in the club and social circles of this city.
Since attaining his majority Mr. Nelson has given his political support to the
republican party and the principles for which it stands. Fraternally he is a
thirty-second degree Mason and he holds membership in Plymouth Lodge, No. 160,
A. F. & A. M.; Minneapolis Consistory; and Zuhrah Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
Socially he is connected with the Minneapolis Athletic Club and as a
public-spirited citizen he is affiliated with the Business Men's Association and
the Civic & Commerce Association.