KELLOGG, BIRGE & CO.

KELLOGG, BIRGE, BUCK, FARMER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/4/2019 at 23:54:38

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

KELLOGG, BIRGE & CO., wholesale grocers ; the original firm was established in 1856, and was composed of C. A. Kellogg and C. P. Birge. Wm. E. Kellogg came to Keokuk in 1865, and in the same year became a partner in this house, then the firm name was changed to Kellogg, Birge & Co.; in 1867, C. A. Kellogg retired from the firm ; the business was conducted by the remaining members until 1872, when Asaph Buck and George C. Farmer were admitted to partnership. Their sales are principally in Iowa and Northern Missouri, amounting to about $300,000 per annum.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879