Nellie Daniel Kellogg 1875-1909

DANIEL, KELLOGG, MOORE

Posted By: Volunteer - Rich Lowe
Date: 6/22/2014 at 08:08:09

Nellie Daniel Kellogg.

Nellie Daniel Kellogg died in New Britain, Conn., yesterday afternoon, the result of appendicitis, with only a single day’s warning to her family. She was one of the most popular girls ever reared in Keokuk.

For some time she had been suffering from appendicitis, although the symptoms were somewhat obscure, and physicians and surgeons disagreed about the advisability of an operation in the past. She became apparently well, and it was believed that she had recovered. Then suddenly the inflammation lighted up again and was followed by peritonitis to which she quickly succumbed. The best medical science was utilized without being able to save her life, and she died Monday afternoon.

Nellie Daniel, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Daniel, was born here in 1875 and grew up here into a glorious young womanhood. Her character matched her face in beauty and she was easily one of the most popular girls in Keokuk ever had. She was noted for her kindliness to everybody and the friends of her own circle at most worshiped her. After attending Keokuk schools she went to a school in Chicago and studied music there for some time, afterward going to New York to study under Danirusch. Highly cultivated in mind and music, and with her strong and lovely character she grew into a girl of great charm who made for herself a place in Keokuk society which is rarely filled. Her last visit here was last May.

While studying music in New York she met Dr. Kenneth E. Kellogg of Hartford, Conn., and their wedding occurred here in October of 1901. The went to New Britain to live and their home was an ideal one. Dr. Kellogg being one of the most prominent physicians of Connecticut. They have a son 6 years old, who with the husband and parents are her surviving relatives. She was a member of the Episcopal church.

Last Saturday she wrote her parents here a sunny, happy letter telling them how well she was and how much pleasure she anticipated from a contemplated visit to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel which she would make soon. That letter reached her father and mother yesterday morning. In an hour came a telegram saying she was seriously sick; in another hour was delivered another telegram saying she was sinking and in a very dangerous condition. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel hurried east on the 2 o’clock train at at 4 o’clock came a telegram to Mrs. Kellogg’s aunt, Mrs. John S. Moore, telling that she was dead. This last message was forwarded to her parents enroute and they received it in Illinois while hurrying to reach their daughter before she died. — Constitution Democrat.

[Note: handwritten at top “2-8-09”]

Source: Entler Scrapbook Collection, vol 5, Iowa Historical Library, Iowa City, IA