Bio of NELSON, Guy Herbert (b.1872), 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 III, pg 140
GUY H. NELSON
Guy Herbert Nelson, son of Benjamin F. and Martha (Ross) Nelson, was born ir.
Minneapolis, April 16, 1872. His early education, obtained in the public schools
of this city, was rounded out with an academic course of study, following which
he began his active business career in his father's manufacturing plant. In
1893, at the age of twenty-one, he was made vice president of the B. F. Nelson
Manufacturing Com­pany, the office he has continuously held for thirty years.
There is no better known industrial organization in Minneapolis than the B. F.
Nelson Manufacturing Company, one of the largest producers of building paper,
paper boxes and auxiliaries in the United States. Headed by its founder, B. F.
Nelson, its staff of officers is made up of men of high standing in the business
and financial circles of the Northwest. With the increase in the business of the
concern and the advancing years of his father, Guy Herbert Nelson has assumed a
large part of the administrative burden of the company and has proven himself a
worthy son of a distinguished father.
On the 18th of April, 1893, Mr. Nelson was united in marriage to Miss Emma
Bobendier, and they have two sons: Earl P. and Eugene R. Nelson.
In the Masonic fraternity, of which he has long been a loyal member, Mr. Nelson
has attained high rank, his affiliations being with Cataract Lodge, No. 2, A. F.
& A. M.; St. Anthony Falls Chapter, R. A. M.; Darius Commandery and Zuhrah
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His clubs are the Lafayette, Interlachen Country
and Minneapolis Clubs. He is an enthusiastic advocate of all the outdoor sports,
with a partiality for baseball. In politics Mr. Nelson is a democrat, which is a
southern heritage, for his, people for generations before him were southerners
and his father was born in Ken-' tucky. B. F. Nelson, a mere stripling at the
time, fought in the Confederate army during the Civil war. Shortly after the
conflict had ended, however, he came north and settled in Minneapolis, thus
being one of the first to -begin the practical cementing of the north and south
into a social and economic whole. In this city he became a prominent factor in
the development of the business life, first as a lumberman and later as a paper
manufacturer. A sketch of this remarkable man appears elsewhere in this work.