Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Swezey, Otto H.  June 7, 1869 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

OTTO H. SWEZEY, Entomologist. Arriving in Hawaii when the leaf-hopper pest was 
menacing the future existence of the sugar industry, Otto H. Swezey has spent 
the past score of years in combatting that and other threatening elements 
until the present time, when the sugar cane insect pest situation is under 
satisfactory control.
  Mr. Swezey arrived in Honolulu on Aug. 12, 1904, to accept a position as 
entomologist at the experiment station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ 
Association, where he has been since. He has published numerous papers on 
economic entomology and the native Hawaiian insect fauna in the publications 
of the experiment station and in the proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological 
Society.
  Born on June 7, 1869, in Rockford, Ill., to A. J. and Malinda B. Swezey, his 
degree of A.B. was received from Lake Forest College, Ill., in 1896. 
Northwestern University granted him the degree of M.S. in 1897.
  Mr. Swezey holds membership in the Hawaiian Entomological Society, the 
Hawaiian Botanical Society, American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, American Association of Economic Entomologists and the Entomological 
Society of America. In Honolulu he is a member of the Pan-Pacific, Outrigger 
Canoe and Trail and Mountain clubs. He is consulting entomologist at the 
Bishop Museum and has been editor of the annual proceedings of the Hawaiian 
Entomological Society since 1905.
  He married Mary H. Walsh on July 20, 1904, and they have one child, Joseph 
A. Swezey.

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