- WILLIAM DEWITT KELLOGG, a leading attorney at law of Beloit,
Wis., and Special Agent
- and Adjuster for the Citizens' Insurance Company of Pittsburgh,
is a native of Massachusetts, having been born in Lee, Berkshire
County, on the 4th day of April, 1858. He is a son of Leroy
and Julia (STEADMAN) KELLOGG, the former a native of Southwick,
Hampden Co., Mass., and the latter of Berkshire County. They
were the parents of two children who are yet living - William
of this sketch, and M. Isabel, the latter being a lady of culture
and the possessor of superior ability as a poetess, many of her
productions having been published in Harper's Magazine. Leroy
KELLOGG was for many years a prominent merchant of Lee, Mass.,
and in politics was a staunch Democrat, and well posted on all
the affairs of the country. He possessed a splendid physique,
and at one time was the strongest man in Massachusetts.
- The subject of this sketch was reared to manhood in his native
State. He received his literary
- education at the Academies of Stockbridge, Mass., and Suffield,
Conn., after which he took a preparatory course at Fort Edward
Institute, New York. In 1877, he entered Yale College, graduating
from the literary department of that celebrated institution with
the highest honors, after which he took a course in the law department,
ranking third in scholarship in a class of 180. After leaving
Yale, he traveled extensively throughout the North and Southwest,
thereby gaining much information of the world, and in October,
1882, finally located in Beloit, where he has been in active
practice continuously since.
- Mr. KELLOGG was joined in wedlock in Beloit, in 1887, with
Miss Tedie R. ROOD, a graduate
- of the Beloit High School and a daughter of J. F. ROOD, one
of the early settlers of Rock County.
- Politically, our subject is a stalwart supporter of the Democratic
party, following in the footsteps of
- his father and grandfather, who were also faithful adherents
to the principles of that organization. Although a young man,
he ranks high among his brethren at the bar and bids fair to
become a prominent man in his profession. His natural abilities
have been supplemented by the best educational advantages and
he is thoroughly conversant with the law in all its departments.
His arguments are logical and conclusive, and, speaking without
an apparent effort, he convinces his hearers of the correctness
of his statements and commands the respect of all. Socially,
he is connected with the Knights of Pythias, being Chancellor
Commander of that order, and is also a member of the Masonic
fraternity, being a thirty-second degree Mason and member of
the Mystic Shrine of Milwaukee.
-
- Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of
Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, pp. 810-811.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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