- GEORGE J. KELLOGG, farmer and nurseryman, Sec. 12; P.O. Janesville;
born in Onondaga
- Co., N.Y., March 20, 1828; removed to Wisconsin with his
father, Austin KELLOGG, in 1835. George KELLOGG lived in Kenosha
Co. until 1849, when he went to California and remained three
years; returned to Janesville in 1852, and settled on his present
homestead, where he has since been in the nursery business. In
1854, he married Miss Frances, daughter of D. M. PLATT, of Clinton,
Wis. Mrs. K. died in November, 1859, leaving one son - Oro, born
Aug. 6, 1855. Mr. K. married Miss Emily, daughter of Samuel LEWIS,
of Lake Mills, Wis., Nov. 5, 1861. They have four children -
Gertrude A., Leonard L., Edith A. and Marcus S. He owns seventy-one
and one-half acres of land. His experience of twenty-five years
in the nursery business enables him to meet the wants of the
people of the West in the line of hardy fruit trees of all kinds,
which he makes a specialty. He raises evergreen, shade and ornamental
trees; gives special attention to the growing of strawberries,
of which he has about forty varieties. His estimated crop of
strawberries for 1879 is 300 bushels, besides raspberries, blackberries,
currants, cherries and grapes, of which he has the Worden Seedling,
Rogers Hybrids, Concord and Delaware. Mr. KELLOGG has been a
member of the M. E. Church since 1841, and united with the First
M. E. Church in Janesville in 1852. He is a member of La Prairie
Grange; also a Good Templar.
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- Taken from "History of Rock County Wis." (c)1879,
p. 797.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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