Christian K. Nelson

(1893-1992) lived in Lincoln, Thedford, and Omaha. Educator, businessman, known as inventor of first chocolate-coated ice cream bar in 1920 at Onawa, Iowa, and a year later in Omaha he called it Eskimo Pie; he co-founded Eskimo Pie Corporation which helped create an industry, and was credited with pioneering the use of dry ice shipping containers in the dairy industry, and co-developed machine to mass produce Eskimo Pie-size bars. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, January 27, 1985, pp. 6-7 and obituaries in Omaha World Herald, March 10, 1992, p. 7 and U.S. News & World Report, March 23, 1992, p. 24 and International Directory of Company Histories, Vol 21 (St. James Press, 1998) 218-220.

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