KROZBER, kro'ber, Alfred L., American anthropoligist: b. Hoboken, N. J., 11 June 1876. He was graduated 0896) at Columbia Univer sity, receiving the Ph.D. diploma (1901) and was appointed instructor (1901-06) at the Uni versity of California, became assistant professor of anthropology (1906-11), associate professor in 1911. He was curator of anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences in 1900 and 1903-11 and curator of the Museum of An thropology from 1908. He was founder of the American Anthropological Association, be coming its president in 1917. In 1906 he was president of the California branch of the American Folklore Society and is correspond ing member of the Anthropological Society, Washington, member of the American Ethno logical Society of Japan, Fellow of the Ameri can Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a frequent contributor to the periodicals on the subjects anthropology, folklore, etc.
KROL, Sebastian Jansen (Bastiaein Jansz Krol), church officer, commissary and vice-director in New Netherland: b. Harlingen 1595; d. after 1645. Appointed in Holland by the Classis of Amsterdam, 12 Oct. 1623, he sailed 25 Jan. 1624. In November of same year he was in Holland again pleading for ministers to serve in the new colony. In 1625 be was again in New Netherland, as "Kranken bezoelserD or comforter of the sick, whose office in the Reformed Church was to minister to the poor, to those in sickness or trouble, or in absence of the "voorsangerD (precentor) to read from the desk under the pulpit the commandments and the creed, and to marry the living or bury the dead. In many cases these officers read sermons and conducted divine service when there was no minister. For over
two centuries this functionary was regularly supplied by the Classis of Amsterdam for the Dutch churches in the West and East Indies. Krol, with great efficiency, labored at Fort Orange (Albany), in behalf of the West India Company, to make the settlement of the Wal loons and Dutch successful. In 1628, under Domine 3,fichaelbus, he was made an elder and member of the Consistory of the Reformed Dutch (now the Collegiate on Fifth avenue) Church inside the fort, on Manhattan. He crossed the ocean four or five times and acted as agent for Van Rensselaer in his manor. According to local tradition, during one winter, when provisions were scarce, he made a nourishing and palatable fried cake of flour and honey, which took its name from his, the cruller. The word is unknown in Holland and the pronunciation, very similar in the personal name and •the actual thing, points to the prob able origin of this American delicacy. On Van Twiller's arrival, in 1633, he was succeeded in the command of Fort Orange by Hans Jorissen Houten. On 28 Sept. 1645 he was at holy communion in the church in Amsterdam, Hol land. A handsome memorial of this zealous and efficient pioneer has been erected in the Reformed Church edifice on Second avenue in New York Consult Van Laer, the Wan Rens selaer-Bower Manuscripts,' published by the State (1906); and Ecichoff, (Bastiaen Jansz. Krol' (1910) ; Hofstede, 'Oost Indien Kerk Zaken,' Rotterdam (1779), and 'Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York' (1901).