Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Ehrhorn, Edward M. January 24, 1862 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

EDWARD M. EHRHORN, safeguarding Hawaii against the entry here of dangerous 
insect pests is the important duty of Edward M. Ehrhorn, now chief of the 
division of plant inspection for the Board of Agriculture and Forestry. An 
expert entomologist and horticulturist, with wide experience in his profession 
on the mainland, Mr. Ehrhorn came to Hawaii in 1909 to take a position as 
superintendent of entomology with the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, being 
named to his present post when the division of plant inspection was organized 
in 1916. He is in charge of modern laboratories, incinerator and inspection 
plant maintained by the Territory in Honolulu.
  Born in San Francisco, Jan. 24, 1862, Mr. Ehrhorn is the son of Adolphus and 
Louisa Marie (Macfarlane) Ehrhorn. Going to Germany as a child, he received 
his education in German schools from 1871 to 1878. After studying one year in 
Grenchen, Switzerland, he entered Brighton College in England, later taking 
special courses in entomology at Stanford University, California, in 1891.
  Mr. Ehrhorn was employed for one year as assistant entomologist and deputy 
quarantine officer for the California State Board of Horticulture in 1891, and 
was county entomologist and horticulture commissioner for Santa Clara County, 
Calif., from 1892 to 1904, and from 1904 to 1909 was first deputy state 
commissioner of horticulture and horticultural quarantine officer. Since 
becoming associated with the Board of Agriculture and Forestry in Hawaii in 
1909, Mr. Ehrhorn, representing the territorial Board of Health, also is a 
collaborator of the Federal Horticultural Board and the Biological Survey at 
Washington, D.C.
  He is a member of the Association of Economic Entomologists, Entomology 
Society of America, Hawaiian Entomology Society, Pacific Coast Entomology 
Society, California Academy of Natural Sciences, is a fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Hawaiian 
Botanical Society, a Mason, Shriner, Elk and a member of the Commercial Club 
of Honolulu.


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