pioneer banker, b. Amherst, Mass. He moved to Wisconsin in 1852, settling in Oshkosh. He was one of the founders (1852) of the first bank in Oshkosh: Darling, Wright, Kellogg and Co. In 1856 the bank was reorganized as Kellogg and Fitzgerald; in 1857 it became the Bank of Oshkosh, and in 1863 the First National Bank of Oshkosh. Kellogg was president of the bank from 1857 until his retirement because of ill health in 1865. Biog. Dict. . . . Wis.... (Chicago, 1895); C. F. Karstaedt, ed., Oshkosh . . . [Oshkosh, 1953); T. Hopkins, Kelloggs in the Old World and the New (3 vols., San Francisco, 1903).Learn More
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