Kellogg, Charles L.

KELLOGG, CRIPPEN

Posted By: Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer
Date: 7/1/2019 at 12:05:28

Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa, (Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), p. 473:

"CHARLES L. KELLOGG was born in Onondaga County, New York, October 18, 1822. He married Miss Susan Crippen, April 26, 1853, and came to Garden Grove, Decatur County, Iowa, in March, 1854, becoming here a successful farmer, especially in stock-raising, and in this line excelling, particularly in sheep culture, keeping always the finest stock on hand. Charles Kellogg built the first two-story brick house in Garden Grove, which is still an ornament to the town. He, too, stood high in the estimation of his fellow citizens, as a highly-honorable and public-spirited man, so much so that during the late unpleasantness, at the opening of the civil war, when in 1861 our little army of Iowa Home Guards marched into Missouri he became our General Quartermaster, and in this capacity did always take good care of us, that we and our teams were always well provided for, which is indeed a great step in keeping troops in good spirits, and insuring the good fighting qualities of the boys. Especially will I mention that he always provided us with plenty of real good coffee, in those days a costly rarity for backwoods farmers, and which was a better, more healthy and more cheering refreshment than nasty, doctored whisky. We Europeans were especially surprised by these coffee rations, who, in the campaigns in the old country, never saw the like of distributing coffee to the soldiers. After the civil war Charles Kellogg moved away from Decatur County to Eastern Tennessee, there to engage on a grand scale in sheep culture, but this enterprise proved to be a financial failure, and he lost there not only money but health, and soon after died, in Hancock County, Illinois, his death occurring December 2, 1866. Charles L. Kellogg, by his marriage mentioned above, had six children -- Fred H., Lucy M., Bird C., Eugenia, Susan T. and Grant, to all of whom he gave a good education, and it is to be hoped they will be a credit to the good name of the noble family to which it is an honor for them to belong."

(Submitted to the Decatur County GenWeb site by Christy Jay, email: Jaygenie@aol.com)