Background
Kraybill, Henry Reist was born on May 1, 1891 in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Snyder and Mary Garber (Reist) Kraybill.
Kraybill, Henry Reist was born on May 1, 1891 in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Snyder and Mary Garber (Reist) Kraybill.
Bachelor of Science, Pennsylvania State College, 1913. Master of Sciences, University of Chicago, 1915, Doctor of Philosophy, 1917.
Assistant chemist Pennsylvania State College Agricultural Experiment Station, 1913-1915. Instructor in agricultural chemistry, Pennsylvania State College, 1915-1917. Teaching fellow, University of Chicago, 1916-1917.
Assistant physiologist United States Department of Agriculture, 1917-1919.
Professor agricultural chemistry and head of department, University of New Hampshire (U.S.), 1919-1924. Also state chemist, New Hampshire (U.S.), 1919-1924.
Biochemist, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, 1924-1926. Professor agricultural chemistry, Purdue, 1926-1943 and head of department of agricultural chemistry, 1934-1943.
Also state chemist and seed commissioner of Indiana, 1926-1943.
Scientific adviser to Frasch Foundn. Research in Agricultural Chemistry, 1939-1947. Director research and education American Meat Institute Foundation, 1947-1955, vice president and director research and education, since 1955, also director department scientific research, since 1941.
Professorial lecturer department of biochemistry, University of Chicago, since 1941.
Consultant East.C.A. Mission to Greece, 1949.
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Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute Chemists. Member American Institute of Nutrition, American Chemical Society (division of agriculture and food chemistry 1934-1935, chairman 1936-1938), Botanical Society America, American Society Plant Physiologists (secretary-treasurer 1928-1929. Mason.; Clubs: Quadrangle, Chaos, Chicago Chemists.
Married Ruth Grove, June 9, 1916. Children: Henry Lawrence, Richard Reist, Robert Grove (killed in action serving in South Pacific area), Donald Philip.