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Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Bailey, M. Benjamin Bairos September 17, 1876 - 
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Source: the Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

M. BENJAMIN BAIROS, Pure Food Expert. Safeguarding public health is the 
service rendered Honolulu by M. B. Bairos, A.B., food commissioner and 
analyst, in charge of enforcing the territorial food and drug bureau 
regulations and assisting in maintaining sanitary conditions where foodstuffs 
are distributed. Mr. Bairos entered this work in 1916 as a deputy 
commissioner, being promoted to his present position in 1918. He is also 
collaborating chemist in Hawaii for the United States Bureau of Chemistry of 
the Department of Agriculture.
  Arriving in Hawaii in 1910, Mr. Bairos was instructor in charge of the 
science department of McKinley High School until 1916. Before coming to the 
islands he had wide experience in scientific work, being connected with the 
California state board of health and acting as director of the state 
sanitation exhibit in 1909. He was field agent in charge of a campaign against 
malaria mosquitoes at Oroville, Calif., in 1910 until coming to Hawaii.
  Born at Biggs, Butte Co., Calif., Sept. 17, 1876, Mr. Bairos is the son of 
A. and Marie Bairos. He was graduated from the State Normal School at Chico, 
Calif., in 1899 and after teaching school for a number of years attended 
Stanford University, where he received an A. B. degree in 1909.
  Mr. Bairos and Rose L. Shafsky were married in Honolulu, Aug. 17, 1913. They 
have four children, Margaret Cheva, Ellen Louise, Jean Seymour and Marion June 
Bairos. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Honolulu Ad 
Club.


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