newspaperman, b. Reading, Pa. He graduated from Columbia College, N.Y. (1852). In 1854 he moved to Wisconsin, settling in Portage where he worked on the Northern Republic. In 1855 he moved to Bamboo; there, he edited and published the Baraboo Republic in partnership with H. A. Perkins (1856-1860), and was sole owner from 1860 to 1862. In 1861, due to the shortage of help caused by the Civil War, Kellogg made one of the first uses of the "patent inside," utilizing printed pages of war news from the Wisconsin State Journal. Patenting this idea, he moved to Chicago in 1865 where he formed the A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Publishing Co., which supplied printed pages of national and foreign news to weekly newspapers. He also published the Western Railroad Gazette in Chicago (1866-1870), and the Railroad Gazette in New York (1870-1873). He died in Georgia. Madison Wis. State Journal, Mar. 25, 1886; Baraboo Daily News, Sept. 16, 1920; T. Hopkins, Kelloggs in the Old World and the New (3 vols., San Francisco, 1903); Catalogue Newspaper Files . . . State Hist. Soc. Wis. (Madison, 1911); Donald E. Oehlerts, comp., Guide to Wis. Newspapers (Madison, 1958); WPA MS.

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