Robert W. NelsonROBERT W. NELSON, HARTFORD: President Thorne Type-Setting Machine Company. R. W. Nelson was born in Granville, Washington county, New York, September 20, 1851. He was educated at the Union School of Schenectady, learned the printer’s trade, became an associate publisher of the Joliet (Ill.) News, spent some years in Chicago, was for two years a merchant, and in 1882, in connection with Major O. J. Smith and O. W. Cummings, organized the American Press Association of New York city, with which he was connected for five years. He was doubtless largely instrumental in accomplishing the phenomenal success which has attended that association’s progress almost from the outset. He personally introduced the patent stereotype plate matter of the association to hundreds of established newspapers throughout the country; and through his agency, and by the aid of such "matter," additional hundreds of new periodicals were started, many of which have since come into prominence and success. Five years ago, while still connected with the American Press Association, Mr. Nelson became interested in the ingenious Thorne Type-Setting Machine, then manufactured in a small way in Hartford by its inventor and patentee, Joseph Thorne. He acquired first a one-half interest in the enterprise, and a year or two later bought out Mr. Thorne altogether, and proceeded, with the aid of expert assistants to improve and at length to perfect the machine.
Mr. Nelson is married and has one child. He is a member of the Asylum Avenue Congregational church, the Hartford Club, and the Aldine Club of New York city.
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