Miles Kellogg

KELLOGG, SMITH, GORDON

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/8/2004 at 10:27:18

Miles Kellogg, Scott twp., farmer, Sec. 5; P.O. Winterset; born in Butler county, Ohio, May 5, 1823; when he was about nine years of age his parents moved to Fountain county, Indiana; he was raised there; July 3, 1845, he married Miss Elizabeth Smith; she was born in the same county January 20, 1822, but raised in Fountain county; in 1845 they emigrated to Iowa, stopping in Keokuk about six months, and thence to Mahaska county, where they lived until coming to this county in 1855; they left Indiana in a one-horse wagon and were thirteen days on the road; Mr. Kellogg owns 160 acres of well improved land; they have one son and one daughter: Mary J., now Mrs. J. A. Gordon and James M.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 585