Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Krauss, Frederick George May 6, 1870 - 
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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

FREDERICK GEORGE KRAUSS, Agriculturist. For a quarter of a century Frederick 
G. Krauss has devoted his efforts to the improvement of agricultural 
conditions in Hawaii as college professor, farmer, special investigator and 
consulting agriculturist. Coming here Aug. 1, 1901, as instructor in 
agriculture for the Kamehameha Manual School, Prof. Krauss has since remained 
in Hawaii. He had been superintendent of seed-growing and breeding for the 
Sunset Seed and Plant Co., Menlo Park, Cal., in 1899, and in charge of crop 
experiment and instructor in botany and plant propagation at the University of 
California in 1900 and 1901.
  Until 1906 he was agricultural instructor at Kamehameha School and in 1909 
he was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate the 
rice, cotton and sedges of Japan and China, acting also on this trip as seed 
collector for the territorial Board of Agriculture and Forestry. He became an 
agronomist at the Hawaii Experiment Station in 1906 and was appointed to the 
post of professor of agriculture at the then College of Hawaii in 1911. In 
1915 he became superintendent of the agricultural extension division of the U. 
S. Department of Agriculture at Haiku, Maui. He also established the New Era 
Homestead Farms at Haiku, and was acting dean of country farm agents for the 
territory for many years.
  Born in San Francisco, May 6, 1870, he is the son of Frederick Herman and 
Johannah (Kindevater) Krauss. He was educated in the schools of San Francisco, 
Stanford University and the University of California. In 1921 the University 
of Hawaii conferred upon him the honorary degree of D. Ac. Professor Krauss is 
a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member 
of the American Society of Agronomy, American Genetic Association, American 
Farm Economic Association and Association of Hawaiian Sugar Technologists. On 
Oct. 20, 1897, he married Elizabeth Hilmer at Petaluma, Cal. They have four 
children, Dorothea H., Beatrice H., Frederick H., Jr., and Noel H. Krauss.



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