Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Cropp, Ernest George March 3, 1879 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, published by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

ERNEST GEORGE CROPP, Retired Plantation Manager. Associated with the sugar 
industry on the island of Kauai for twenty-three years in various capacities 
from timekeeper to the responsible position of plantation manager, Ernest G. 
Cropp was in a large measure responsible for the success of the Koloa Sugar 
Co. from the time he became its manager in 1913 until his retirement in 1922.
  His first sugar experience was gained with that company in 1899 when he came 
to the islands from his native Germany to join his uncle, the late Antone 
Cropp, for many years manager and part owner of the Koloa Sugar Co. Beginning 
as a timekeeper, he worked into the position of overseer and then joined the 
Hawaiian Sugar Co. plantation at Makaweli, Kauai. Returning to the Koloa Sugar 
Co., he served as chemist for that plantation and the Lihue plantation for 
five years, and for the succeeding four years was a section overseer for the 
Hawaiian Sugar Co. From 1910 to 1913 he was section luna and head overseer on 
the Oahu Sugar Co. plantation, and in September, 1913, returned again to the 
Koloa plantation as manager.
  Born in Oldenburg, Germany, on March 3, 1879, he is the son of John and 
Johanna (Greve) Cropp. He attended the Gymnasium in Oldenburg, the University 
of Berlin and Bonn University, where he specialized in agricultural chemistry. 
He became an American citizen in 1905.
  In 1917 Mr. Cropp married Johanna Lulu Weber of Lihue, Kauai, and they have 
two children, Helen Elizabeth and Ernest George Frederick Cropp. Mr. Cropp is 
a member of the Honolulu Ad Club.


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