historian, author, editor, b. Milwaukee. She was the daughter of Amherst Willoughby Kellogg (q.v.). She graduated from the Univ. of Wisconsin (B.L., 1897; Ph.D., 1901), and also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and the London School of History and Economics. In 1901 she was appointed research assistant in the library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and was identified with that institution until her death. During her lifetime, she became recognized as one of the country's leading authorities on the history of the British and French regimes in the Great Lakes region, and as an outstanding historian of the early West. As research and editorial assistant to the Society's executive officer, Reuben Gold Thwaites (q.v.), she assisted in the publication of volumes 17 through 20 of the Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and together they edited three volumes of selections from the Draper manuscripts dealing with the Revolutionary War in the Upper Ohio Valley. She edited two additional volumes in the series after Thwaites' death in 1913, and was widely recognized for her contributions to historical journals and periodicals. Her most important books were The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest (1925) and The British Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest (1935). She also wrote numerous biographies of historical figures of New France for the Dictionary of American Biography. She was president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association (1930-1931). Who's Who in Amer., 21 (1940); Wis. Mag. Hist., 26; W. L. Crow, Wis. Lives of Natl. Interest (Appleton, 1937); Madison Wis. State journal, July 12, 1942; L. P. Kellogg Papers.

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