GUSTAF EMANUELSON.

  Gustaf Emanuelson figures in the business circles of New Haven as a wholesale baker and as vice president of the American Bank & Trust Company. He is a native of Sweden, born September 8, 1865, and is a son of Peter and Christina (Magnuson) Emanuelson. The father was a successful farmer and prominent citizen of Gislaved, Sweden. He paid several visits to America and became a citizen of this country but he and his wife now reside in their native land at Gislaved. They are parents of four children, two sons and two daughters: Peter, who became a citizen of the United States but passed away in Sweden; Emma, the wife of A. Martinson, of Sweden; Gustaf; and Ida, the wife of Charles Johnson, of Collinsville, Connecticut.

  Gustaf Emanuelson was educated in the schools of his native city, where he remained to the age of nineteen years, living upon the home farm with his father. He then started out in the world on his own account and crossed the Atlantic to America, arriving in New York city on the 4th of April, 1885. The following day he came to New Haven and soon secured work as a farm hand at Woodbridge. He continued to engage in agricultural pursuits, however, for only four months, after which he learned the trade of making rubber boots and followed that pursuit in New Haven for five years. He then established a baking business, starting with a cash capital of twenty-six dollars in the fall of 1891. From that humble beginning he has developed what is today the third largest enterprise of the kind in New Haven, conducting a wholesale business at No. 292 Blatchley street, where he owns the property that he occupies. His plant has an output of seventy-five hundred loaves of bread daily. He carries on a strictly wholesale business, selling only to the local trade. The plant is supplied with the latest and most modern equipment and the most cleanly and sanitary conditions prevail. During the Bakers’ Exposition in Boston on the 21st of May, 1909, he was awarded the medal, for a perfect loaf, winning over six hundred competitors, including many of the leading bakers of the country. He employs on an average seventeen people and the conditions of the bakery are entirely satisfactory as regards the relations of employer and employe, for he is at all times just and is ready to recognize merit by promotion. He is also the vice president and a director of the American Bank & Trust Company and has made for himself a most creditable position in the commercial and financial circles of New Haven.

  On the 16th of May, 1890, in New Haven, Mr. Emanuelson was married to Miss Matilda Hanson, a native of Sweden and a daughter of Mons and Elania (Swenson) Hanson. Her father is still living in Sweden but her mother passed away June 16, 1895, at the age of fifty-eight years. To Mr. and Mrs. Emanuelson have been born three children. Elias Le Roy, who was born September 8, 1891, is now in the employ of his father. He is a graduate of the Hopkins grammar school and of the Yale Conservatory of Music. Herbert, born October 3, 1897, and Ebba Mildred, born January 19, 1902, are still at home.

  The parents are members of the Swedish Lutheran church, in the work of which they take an active and helpful interest, Mr. Emanuelson now serving as chairman of the board of trustees. In politics he is a republican but is not ambitious to hold office. He landed in New York with a cash capital of five dollars but with an unlimited amount of hope and determination. He attributes not a little of his success to the assistance and encouragement of  his wife, who has indeed been a helpmate to him. His own labors have enabled him to overcome many difficulties and obstacles, and unfaltering perseverance and capable management have brought him to the creditable position which he now fills as a leading business man of his adopted city.
 

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