Background
Traxler was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on 25 July 1928 to Ralph N. and Mabel (Barnett) Traxler.
Traxler was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on 25 July 1928 to Ralph N. and Mabel (Barnett) Traxler.
And Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.
He received his Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts He served in the United States Army during the Korean War and retired as a major after twenty-three years of reserve service in the military. Beginning in 1958, Traxler taught at the University of Southwest Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana for thirteen years, earning a distinguished faculty award from the university in 1965 for his research on petroleum degradation. He joined the faculty of the University of Rhode Island in 1971 as a professor of microbiology, founding the biotechnology program at the university in 1986.
He was also active in the local community in Kingston serving as president of the Tavern Hall Club in He retired from the university in 1998, and died on 5 December 2010 at his home in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
Traxler had been chairman of two different departments at the University of Rhode Island: Plant Pathology and Entomology, and Food Science and Nutrition, and he was a member of American Society for Microbiology and the Society for Industrial Microbiology.