Professor William George Kaiser

1887 - 1963  (75 years)

• Name	William George Kaiser
  Title	Professor
  Birth	10 Jun 1887	Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 May 1963	Glen Ellyn, Illinois
  Burial	Glen Ellyn, Illinois, Forest Hill Cemetery
  Person ID	I0062	William Kaiser Genealogy
  Last Modified	7 Feb 2011

  
  

  Father	William Frederick Kaiser,   b. 19 Apr 1858, Freeport, Illinois d. Feb 1936, Sutherland, Iowa (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Emma Rose Schauer,   b. 12 Sep 1860, Reading, Pennsylvania d. 16 Jul 1957, Cherokee, Iowa (Age 96 years)
  Marriage	1 Mar 1881	Freeport, Illinois   [1]
  Notes	According to notes compiled by Blythe V. V. Poage Kaiser, in 1966: " The William F. (Emma) Kaiser family lived on a farm north of Sutherland most of their lives. Moved to Sutherland to retire. Son, Charley Kaiser, still has the old home farm in 1966."
  Family ID	F108	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Blythe Viola Victoria Poage,   b. 10 Nov 1891, Baxter, Iowa d. 19 Aug 1988, Lake Bluff, Illinois (Age 96 years)
  Marriage	11 Nov 1915	Baxter, Iowa
  Notes	The following are notes written by Blythe V.V. Poage Kaiser in 1966: "William and Blythe lived for a short time in Ames, Iowa where William was on the Agricultural Engineering Faculty. They went to Chicago, Illinois in January, 1917 and spent the next few years in the city but moved to the suburb of Glen Ellyn in March, 1920 where they have lived ever since. William was an executive of the Portland Cement Association and a consulting Agricultural Engineer. Blythe is a member of several Patriotic Societies: DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) and DAC (Daughters of American Colonists) and is also a Master Judge of Flower Shows accredited through the National Council of State Garden Clubs. Both William and Blythe have degrees from the Iowa State University - Ames."
  Children	+ 1. Robert Poage Kaiser,   b. 31 Jul 1916, Ames, Iowa d. 14 May 1990, Libertyville, Illinois (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F027	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  1930 census - William/blythe/robert

  
  

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• Notes

  The following is an obituary taken from the Sutherland Courier, Iowa, June, 1963: WILLIAM G. KAISER 1887-1963 William George Kaiser was born June 10, 1887, on a farm near Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois, and died suddenly May 28, 1963 at his home 468 Hill Avenue, Glen Ellyn, Illinois of a coronary. Before he was a year old the family moved to O'Brien County, where he attended rural district school and the Sutherland high school. His parents were Mr. & Mrs. William F. Kaiser. He was active in debate and sports in high school, and at Iowa State College, he won varsity letters for track in his junior and senior years. He graduated from Iowa State College, Ames, in 1914, and was valedictorian of his class. He took his bachelor's degree in Agricultural Engineering, followed by the professional degree in 1919. He was married to Blythe Poage on November 11, 1915. They have one son, Robert P. Kaiser, who is vice president of the American Concrete Corporation, Waukegan, Illinois. Robert and his wife, Doris, who live at Lake Bluff, Illinois, have four children, Kenneth, Allan, Caryl Jean, and Donald. In 1917 he became associated with the Portland Cement Association, and the same year became a member of the A.S.A.E. Since then the agricultural engineering of the company has been pretty much the same as the career of Mr. Kaiser. He organized a farm building plan, prepared illustrated articles for the farm press and among other activities supervised the over-all strategy of the industry's farm extension program. From 1933 to 1945, Mr. Kaiser had charge of the Association's work for the extension of concrete dwelling house construction, was manager of Cement Producer Bureau in P.C.A. and he served as chairman of a committee on concrete building units in the American Society for Testing Materials. In 1935 he became a member of the American Concrete Institute, and among his duties was service on the committee which developed recommended practices for the construction of farm silos. He served as president of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, as well as holding other positions. He was officially retired from Portland Cement Association in 1952, but continued to work there as a consulting engineer for five years. One of his assignments during this time was an extensive concrete housing survey in Florida. Because of his work on a similar committee in the American Society of Agricultural Engineers he served for about 10 years on the Farm Equipment and Structure Research Advisory Committee of the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1946 he was awarded the Cyrus Hall McCormick medal presented for his consistent career of worthy work in the engineering of agriculture. Besides his wife, son, and grandchildren, Mr. Kaiser is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Emma Hill and Mrs. Agnes Duncan of Sutherland, Iowa, Mrs. Lillian Bundy of Hacienda Heights, California, and Mrs. Myrtle Miller of Sunland, California; and three brothers, Levi of Lake Park, Walter of Blencoe, and Charley of Sutherland, Iowa.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] William F Kaiser obit, (Sutherland Courier 13 Feb 1936) (Reliability: 2).