Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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LORENZO KELLOGG

Lorenzo KELLOGG (Portrait), banker of Dunlap, Iowa, as well as a heavy real estate owner, and extensive business man in general, was born, January 2, 1829, at West Springfield, Hamden County, Mass., where he remained until he was twelve years of age, when his parents removed to Ellington, Conn., and from there to Rockville, where he spent a number of years, up to 1857, when he came to Harrison County, Iowa, arriving April 25, since which time this has been his home.

When he came to the township the only tract of land under cultivation was one hundred and sixty acres on the northwest corner of section 33, and a farm on section 22. He located on section 28, where he took claim of eighty acres, on the east half of the southwest quarter, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres on the same section, making two hundred and forty acres in all. Here he made it his home for twenty-six years, at which time he moved to Dunlap. From time to time he has added to his landed estate, until he now possesses nine hundred and sixty acres, located on sections 20, 21, 28 and 29, all of which he improved himself. During his quarter of a century of farm life in Harrison County, besides devoting his time, to the carrying on of his farm and stock-raising, he also operated quite extensively in real estate. He has been a very successful business man, and being among the pioneers of the county he has assisted largely in the building up and development of the same. In 1871, in company with D. F. CLARK, of Magnolia, and G. W. THOMPSON, he organized the Dunlap bank, with which concern he is still associated, and has been President of it since 1879, at which time the bank was reorganized.

Policitally, Mr. KELLOGG is at present an Independent. He has officiated as County Supervisor and in other minor offices, but has always preferred to keep out of politics, as much as possible.

Of his parentage, it may be said, that he is the son of Israel and Jerusha (PEASE) KELLOGG, natives of Connecticut, who were of a combination of Scotch, English and Irish extraction, but were among the early pioneers of the East. On the mother's side they date back to the coming of the Mayflower. The parents of our subject died in Connecticut and were parents of eight children -- six sons and two daughters. The latter are deceased while the former all all living. Lorenzo and his brother T. P., are the only members of the family who came to this part of the country. His brother is a resident of Douglas Township.

Mr. KELLOGG was married April 4, 1854, to Mary B. GAGER, a native of Connecticut and the daughter of John W. and Ann (BRIGHAM) GAGER, of English, French and Spanish extraction. The grandfather, Don BRIGHAM, was a drummer in the Revolutionary War. Mrs. KELLOGG was born 1834. By her marriage with Mr. KELLOGG, four children have been born -- Helen E., wife of B. J. MOORE, of Harrison Township; Clara W., wife of Q. W. TAYLOR, a resident of Dunlap; Mattie P. and Lillian B., deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. KELLOGG are acceptable members of the Congregational Church, and are active members of the religious and social world in which they move.

Men like the trees of a forest have various capacities and proportions, and it will not be in the least underrating the achievements of other men to state that our subject, like some sturdy forest king, has made a steady substantial growth in all that goes toward making up the life of a successful and useful member of society.

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