banker, agriculturist, philanthropist, b. Amherst, Mass. He graduated from Amherst College (1858) and in the same year moved to Oshkosh to take a position in the bank of his brother, Ansel Wales Kellogg (q.v.). In 1863 he became cashier of the First National Bank of Oshkosh, a position that he held until his brother's death in 1870. In 1873 he moved to Green Bay, where in 1874 he was one of the founders of the Kellogg National Bank. He was its president from 1874 to 1891. After 1882 he gave up active management of his business affairs to devote himself to a model stock farm which he established near Allouez. The farm became famous for the breeding of thoroughbred Percheron horses. Kellogg was also an organizer (1878) of what became the First National Bank of De Pere, and was a stockholder in banks in Oshkosh, Chicago, Menominee, and Fond du Lac, as well as the Clark Manufacturing Co. of Catlett. Kellogg was noted for his philanthropy, and was chiefly responsible for creating (1888) the Kellogg Library in Green Bay, to which he donated large sums of money and numerous books. He was a trustee of Amherst College (1875-1885), and contributed a substantial sum to establish the Kellogg Fellowship at that institution. T. Hopkins, Kelloggs in the Old World and the New (3 vols., San Francisco, 1903); D. B. Martin, Hist. of Brown Co. (2 vols., Chicago, 1913); Biog. Dict... . Wis. . . . (Chicago, 1895); Green Bay Daily State Gazette, Oct. 1, 1891.Learn More
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