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pgople, and to lecturing. He is the author of : Jie Elm Island Series (1868-70); Pleasant Cove Series (1870-74); Whispering Pine Series (1871- 73); Good Old Times Series (1877-82); The Forest Glen Series (1878), and others. On May 20, 1900, lie celebrateil liis eiglity-seventh anniversary in Harpswell, Me., where lie died March 17, 1901.

KELLOGG, Francis William, representative, was born in Worthington, Mass., May 30, 1810; son of Giles and Eunice (Cottrell) Kellogg ; grandson of Nicholas Cottrell, and a descendant of Lieut. John Kellogg, born about 1627. He re- ceived a meagre schooling in his native place, and was early obliged to earn his own liveli- hood. He removed to Grand Rapids, Mich., and engaged in the business of lumbering at Kei- logville, Kent county. He was a successful tem- perance lecturer, ranking with John B. Gough. He made a tour of England in 1852, lecturing in one place thirty successive nights, and receiving several hundred dollars for each lecture. He was a representative from the second district of Kent county in the Michigan legislature, 1857-58, and a Republican representative from the Grand Rap- ids district in the 36th, 37th and 38th congresses, 1859-65. He was active in raising troops for the Federal army during the civil war, and was ap- pointed by President Johnson collector of inter- nal revenue for the southern district of Alabama in 1865, and resided in Mobile. He was a Repub- lican representative from the first Alabama dis- trict in the 40th congress under the reconstruc- tion act, and served from July 22, 1868, until March 3, 1869. He removed to Alliance, Ohio, where he died in November, 1878.

KELLOGG, George, inventor, was born in New Hartford, Conn., June 19, 1812. He was graduated from 'Wesle3^an university, Middle- town, Conn., in 1837, and was married, Aug. 25, 1837, to Jane Elizabeth Crosby of Middletown. He was principal of Sumter academy, S.C., 1838-42 ; was a manufacturer of pins in Bir- mingham, Conn., 1842-44, and in that year in- vented the jack-chain machine, applied to the manufacture of well-chains. He went to Eng- land with the jack-chain, hook and eye, and pin machines in 1844 and established a manufactory of lioolcs and eyes with American machinery in Redditch, England. He engaged in the manu- facture of surgical instruments at Birmingham, Conn., 1846-55, and in the latter year, in order to give his daughter, Clara Louise (q. v.), the advantages of superior musical instruction, re- moved to New York city, where he was a manufac- turer of dental supplies. 1856-62. He was the de- fendant's expert in the suit of the Singer vs. the Grover & Baker and Wiieeler & Wilson compa- nies in 1857. He was U.S. revenue officer in New York, 1863-60, and was employed as plaintiff's ex-

pert in the phonographic copyright suit of Graham vs. Pitman in 1864. He accompanied his daugh- ter to Europe in 1867 and in 1868 established in London a manufactory of hats. On his return he resided in Cold Springs, N.Y. Among his in- ventions are a dovetailing machine (1849), a type- distributing niacliiiie (1852). obstetrical forceps (1853). and adding apparatus (1869). He died in New Hartford, Conn., May 6. 1901.

KELLOGG, George Ward, journalist, was born in Worthington, Mass., March 28, 1822; son of Giles and Eunice (Cottrell) Kellogg and grandson of Nicholas Cottrell, wdio was with Ar- nold in the attack on Quebec in 1775. His parents removed to Cleveland, Ohio, when he was a boy, and in 1841 he returned to Massachusetts and was graduated at Marlboro academy. In 1849 he went to California and in 1853, returning east, settled in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he estab- lished the lumber firm of Kellogg, White & Co., in connection with his brother, Francis W. Kel- logg, who had a lumbering plant at Kelloggville, Mich. In 1861 he visited Washington, where his brother was a representative in congress, and he was employed in the pension department thirty- eight years, residing in Laurel, Md., and becoming a member of the board of review. He was a Washington correspondent for Michigan news- papers and for the New York Tribune. He was also a talented artist, caricaturist, humorist and poet. He was married to Maria, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Carpenter) Douglass, of Saratoga Springs, and their son, Thomas M. Kel- logg, became a well-known architect in Pliila- delphia. He died in Laurel. Md., Dec. 31, 1S99.

KELLOGG, John Harvey, physician, was born at Tyrone, Mich., Feb. 26, 1852; son of John P. and Ann J. (Stanley) Kellogg ; grandson of Josiah and Hannah (Smith) Kellogg and of Josephuse and Anna (Keith) Stanley, and a de- scendant of Lieut. Joseph Kellogg, Old Hadley, Mass., 1652. He attended the Michigan State normal school and was graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical college, New York city, in 1875, establishing himself in practice at Battle Creek. Mich., in that year. He studied in Europe in 1883, and again in 1889. He became president of the James White Memorial Home for Aged People and of the Haskell's Orphans' Home in 1891 ; superintendent of the Chicago Medical Mission in 1893, also president of the Interna- tional Medical Missionaiy and Benevolent asso- ciation, the American Medical Missionarj' college and the International Healtli association, and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Micro- scopical society, the Americal Medical associa- tion, the Societe Frangaise d'Hygiene. and vari- ous other scientific bodies. He contributed many