Background
Becker, Nils Folke was born on November 7, 1891 in Jönköping, Sweden. Son of Alfred Victor Leonard and Elisabeth Augusta (Herlin) Becker.
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Nils Folke Becker
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Educated Aase Foss, private grammar and highschool, Oslo, Norway. Graduate chemical engineer, Stadtischer Friedrichs Polytechnikum, Cöthen, Germany, 1912.
Career
Came to the United States, 1914, naturalized, 1919. Chemist, Riegel Paper Company, 1914-1916. Rebuilt Westfield River Paper Company, Russell, Massachusetts, 1916, operated plant as superintendent, 1917, vice-president and general manager, 1919-1925.
Construction engineering for several paper mills, 1925.
With Rhinelander Paper corporation since 1926, superintendent, 1926-1928, general manager, 1928-1935, president and general manager since 1935. President Merchant State Bank, Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
Director Old Lincolnshire Life Insurance Company, Milwaukee.
Achievements
Membership
Served with Swedish Army, 1913. State chairman Wisconsin Cancer Drive. Member technical committee American Pulp and Paper Association.
Club: Union League (Chicago).
Connections
Married Alice Marguerite Ewing, June 28, 1916. Children: Elisabeth Ewing (Mistress Dickson Smith), Jane (Mistress John Robert Tomek), John Ewing, Nils Folke.
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