- WAYNE L. KELLOGG, one of the settlers of Rock County of 1854,
and a leading farmer of
- Plymouth Township, residing on section 10, is a native of
the Empire State, having been born in 1824. He is the second
in a family of seven children, whose parents were Ralph and Clarissa
(GRIDLEY) KELLOGG, and but three of that number are yet living:
Lucinda, the eldest, is now deceased; Wayne is the next in order
of birth; Adelina makes her home with our subject; Sarah and
Semore have also passed away; George died in the year 1840, and
Chancey, who for some time was Judge of the Surrogate Court,
twelve miles from Junction City, is now engaged in farming in
connection with our subject.
- Wayne KELLOGG was reared to manhood in his native State,
and there continued to reside until
- thirty years of age, when he resolved to try his fortune
in the West. In 1854 he left his Eastern home and came to Rock
County, Wis., and the following spring purchased a farm in Plymouth
township, which continues to be his home. It comprises 152-1/2
acres of land. The many fine improvements are all due to his
efforts, and in connection with his other labors he has engaged
quite extensively in stock-raising, making a specialty of the
breeding of fine horses, in which he has been quite successful.
He is one of the self-made men of the county, having started
out in life with no capital, yet continuing good business ability
with industry and enterprise, has become one of the well-to-do
men of the community. He has shared in the trials and privations
of frontier life, when conveniences were few, markets far distant,
and the implements of farming were very rude in comparison with
the highly improved machinery of today. He has mowed his whole
farm with a scythe, mowing twenty acres per week.
- Adeline, now Mrs. PENTECOST, the sister of our subject, is
keeping house for her brother. She
- was born on the 6th day of January, 1823, in the State of
New York, and was married April 17, 1860, becoming the wife of
Philip PENTECOST, who was a native of England. Five children
were born of their union, four of whom are now living: Lucian,
who resides in Oto, Woodbury Co., Iowa, married Olive SMITH,
by whom he has five children; Ida B. is special agent of the
Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance Company, with headquarters
at 143 LaSalle Street, Chicago, Ill. Clara A. married Almon
NEWTON, a resident of Beloit Township; Hattie M. is still with
her mother; Harriet Byron died in Beloit in 1863.
- In his political views Mr. KELLOGG is in sympathy with the
Republican party. He is a
- public-spirited man, but has never sought office, choosing
rather to attend strictly to his private affairs. He is of a
genial and pleasant dispotion, and is held in high regard by
his friends and acquaintances.
-
- Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of
Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, p. 920.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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