(Sergeant) Winfield S. Kellogg, b. 15 Aug 1842

PRIOR, WATTS

Posted By: Donna Moldt Walker (email)
Date: 2/21/2004 at 11:40:43

Sergeant W.S. Kellogg, of Van Buren Township operates 200 acres of land on sections 25 and 26. He is a native of Ohio and was born Aug. 15, 1842. His father, Charles W., also born in Ohio, came to Iowa in 1853, but in the year 1855 returned to Ohio, where he remained until 1857. He then came back to Iowa, but died in 1858, at which time Winfield S. assumed the responsibilities of the household and homestead. The mother is still living and is now seventy-two years old. They were the parents of ten children, four of whom are living and of whom Winfield S. is the eldest. The maiden name of the mother was Jerusha Prior.

Mr. Kellogg came to Iowa when a boy and was graduated from the Mt. Algor School. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in Company A, 24th Iowa Infantry, and was mustered into service in August, 1862. After drilling two months Mr. Kellogg was taken ill, given a furlough, returned home and recovered. Then, against the advice of his friends, he rejoined his regiment at Helena, Ark., and participated in the Red River expedition. In the battle at Champion Hills he was shot in the knee. He was promoted to Corporal at Helena, Ark. After returning from the Red River expedition the troops were ordered to Washington and then sent into the Shenandoah Valley. Mr. Kellogg was in the siege of Vicksburg and all the battles of that campaign. In 1864 he was under Sheridan, and on September 16, that year, received on the battle field a flesh wound in both legs. He continued fighting, however, but later was taken to the hospital in Philadelphia, receiving a furlough and returned home in time to cast his Presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln.

After his recovery our subject rejoined his regiment, March 12, 1864, and the close of the war which soon followed he was mustered out at Savannah, Ga., and received his discharge at Davenport, Iowa, Aug. 10, 1865. In 1873 he was married to Miss Permelia, daughter of John Watts, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Kellogg was born in Van Buren Township, this county, and proved a most devoted wife to her husband. She became the mother of four children - Hannah, Scott, Arta and Nina, and died in 1888. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Kellogg, politically, is a stanch Republican and in all respects the friend of education and progress. He is a firm advocate of temperance, a man domestic in his tastes and greatly attached to his home. Socially he belongs to Alf Scofield Post, G.A.R. at Miles, and is a member of the A.O.U.W.

("Portrait and Biographical Album of Jackson County, Iowa", originally published in 1889, by the Chapman Brothers, of Chicago, Illinois)