Gustaf Aspelin
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Jonas Gustaf Samuel Aspelin (5 February 1857 – 8 May 1917) was a Swedish-Norwegian mining engineer, entrepreneur, wholesaler and consul.
Aspelin was born at Kristianstad in Skåne County, Sweden. He was a son of Jonas Aspelin (1811–82) and Catharina Charlotta Björklund (1817–91).[1]
In 1883 he married Elisa Holmboe (1865–1926), a daughter of Jens Anton Holmboe (1828–92) and Karen Dorothea Biørn (1830–70).[1] His wife was a granddaughter of Leonhard Christian Borchgrevink Holmboe, half-sister of Carl Fredrik Holmboe and first cousin of Cornelius Holmboe.[2] The couple had the son Jonas Aspelin, who at Gustaf's death took over the family company, later with another son Knut as partner.[3] Their daughter Karen married Ragnar Sommar Bruzelius(1869-1956), mayor of Kristianstad.[4]