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- GEORGE J. KELLOGG, one of the early
- settlers of Wisconsin, who dates his residence back to 1835,
is now living on section 12, Rock Township, this county. He was
born in the State of New York, in 1828, and is a son of Austin
and Armenia (HOWE) KELLOGG. The family is of English descent,
the paternal grandfather, Helmont KELLOGG, having emigrated from
England to America prior to the Revolutionary War, in which he
served as a soldier, and for his services drew a pension until
his death. Austin KELLOGG was a blacksmith by trade, but also
engaged in milling. In
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- the summer of 1835, he emigrated to Wisconsin, locating near
Kenosha, where he was among the first settlers, and there made
his home for many years. He was accompanied by his wife and five
children: namely, Artemecia H., who became the wife of Alonzo
BURGESS, of Racine County; Mary S., who married the Rev. John
CRUMMER, who is now living in Iowa; George J., of this sketch;
Maria F., now the wife of Dr. James OZANNE, a practicing physician
of Somers, Wis.; and Martha A., who became the wife of Hiram
BALCOLM, deceased, now living in Iowa. After their arrival in
this state another child was born, Wilbur F. who is now engaged
in farming near Red Cloud, Neb.
- Our subject was but seven years of age when his parents emigrated
to Wisconsin. He was
- reared to manhood upon his father's farm, and at the age
of eighteen went to work at lumbering in the northern part of
the State. He also taught school for several terms, but in 1849,
with an ox team, made an overland trip to California, reaching
his destination after one hundred and forty-six days of travel.
He engaged in gold mining, in which he was reasonably successful,
until July 1852, when he returned to Wisconsin, coming by way
of the Isthmus of Panama, and located in Rock County. Purchasing
forty acres of land, he began its cultivation, and in 1854 embarked
in the nursery business, which he has since continued.
- In 1854, Mr. KELLOGG was united in marriage with Frances
M. PLATT, a native of New
- York, and to them was born one child, O. G., who is now living
in Chicago. The death of the mother occurred in 1859. He was
again married, in 1861, becoming the husband of Miss Emily LEWIS,
who was also born in the Empire State, of English and Scotch
ancestry. The second union has been blessed with a family of
four children, namely: Gertrude, a successful teacher, who is
now employed in the schools of Minneapolis, Minn.; Leonard F.,
Edith A. and Marcus L.
- Mr. KELLOGG is a member of the Wisconsin Horticultural Society,
the Rock County
- Agricultural Society and the Farmer's Institute, in which
he has been engaged for three winters, delivering short talks
on horticulture and several valuable papers. He is also a correspondent
of the Farm, Field and Stockman, The Prairie Farmer, The Western
Rural and other papers on horticulture which are published in
the East. He takes great interest in the work, knows more than
he did twenty-five years ago, but not half as much as he thought
he did then. He has added to his original purchase until his
farm now comprises seventy-one and a half acres, most of which
is devoted to this special work. Mr. KELLOGG has ever taken a
deep interest in all public enterprises, and has held several
local offices in this community, and is now Justice of the Peace.
He and his wife are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and have taken a prominent part in the work of both church and
Sunday school, and are devoted Christian people. He has served
as chairman of the Board of Trustees, and has also held the office
of Superintendent of the Sunday school for many years. In his
political sentiments he is a Prohibitionist, and has the entire
respect of the community in which he resides.
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- Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of
Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, pp. 765-766; lithographs from
same book.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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