John Kellogg 1808-1881

KELLOGG, UPHAM, SHELLEY, BROWN, HOLBROOK, MCKINNEY, WEBSTER, CULVER

Posted By: cheryl Locher moonen (email)
Date: 9/24/2019 at 21:44:00

The following is from the 1882 History of Floyd County Iowa.
"John Kellogg Page 1017

(Deceased), farmer, section 1, north of Charles City, was born March 28, 1808 in Vermont. He was the son of Jonathan and Hannah (Upham) Kellogg, both of whom were born in Vermont. They moved to Ohio, where the father died. The mother removed with our subject to Floyd County in 1854, he having entered his land the year previous. She died in Floyd County.

He was married in Ohio, in 1832 to Rachel Shelley, a native of Connecticut. They had a family of nine children, eight of whom are now living - Eliza (now Mrs. John Brown), William, Matilda (now Mrs. William E. Holbrook), Lyman, Mary (now Mrs. James McKinney), Harvey S., Edwin, Jennie (now Mrs. Harvey Webster), and Emily (deceased). John Kellogg died April 20, 1881. His wife still resides on the home farm with her son Edwin. The latter was married June 2, 1877, to Abbie S. Culver, a native of Iowa. They have two children - Guy H. and Daisy. Politically Mr. Kellogg is a Republican."