Biography of Edwin Harrison Webster



Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary. 

Vol XII., State Printing Office, Topeka, Kansas 1912.



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EDWIN HARRISON WEBSTER was born near Yates Center, Woodson county, Kansas, February 25, 1871. His father was Rufus D. 

Webster, born in New York state in 1839, and his mother Harriet Edwards, born in Indiana in 1850. The father died at 

Fairfax. Va., December, 1910; the mother is still living. Edwin Harrison Webster graduated from the Kansas State 

Agricultural College in 1896. He has done scientific work as professor of dairying, Kansas State Agricultural College, and 

chief of Dairy Division, United States Department of Agriculture. He is now director of Experiment Station, Kansas State 

Agricultural College. He married, April 10, 1900, Eleanor Fryhofer, of Randolph, Kan. They have one daughter. His father's 

people came from England sometime between 1620 and 1700, settling in New England. His mother's people came from Wales about 

1800.



(Included with the article "Fifty Years of Kansas History", page 60)