Charles Christian Georgeson

Charles Christian Georgeson (1851 to 1931) was a Danish-American agronomist and plant breeder. Born on Langeland in Denmark, he emigrated to the United States in 1873 to attend college and graduated from Michigan State College in 1878. From 1886 to 1889 he was professor of agriculture at Tokyo Imperial University, and he then became professor of agriculture and superintendent of the farm at Kansas State University. In 1898 he was appointed Special Agent in Charge of the United States agricultural experiment stations and sent to Alaska, where he developed the region's agriculture until he retired in 1927. He developed the Sitka hybrid strawberry, served as associate editor of the Rural New Yorker from 1878 to 1880, and is commemorated by the Georgeson Botanical Garden.