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KELLOGG


KELLOGG


technical papers and articles to and became editor of, Good Health in 1873, Modern Medicine and Bacteriological Revieio in 1892, and the A7nerican Medical Temperance Quarterly in 1895. He is the author of: Text-book and Charts on Physiology for Use of ScJiools; Hotne Handbook of Hygiene and Rational Medicine (1880); Man the Masterpiece; Art of brassage; Rational Hy- drotherapy; Tiie Stomach; and contributions to scientific journals.

KELLOGG, riartin, educator, was born in Vernon, Conn., March 15, 1828; son of Allyn and Eliza (White) Kellogg; grandson of Ebenezerand Abigail (Olmsted) Kellogg, and of Daniel and Eunice (Stanley) White, and a lineal descendant from Elder John White, who came from Essex count}% England, in 1632, and settled in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts Bay colony, on the site of " Gore Hall,"' the library building of Harvard university. Martin Kellogg prepared for college

it Williston seminary, Easthampton, Mass., and

was graduated from Yale A.B. in 1850, as the valedictorian of his class, and from Union The- ological seminary, New York, in 1854. He re- moved to California about 1855 and was installed pastor over a church in Grass Valley, Nevada county. From there he Avas called to the Col- lege of California as professor of Latin and math- ematics, which post he filled, 1860-69. Wlien the college merged into the university he was appointed pi'ofessor of Latin and Greek, and served, 1869-76. He was professor of Latin language and literature, 1876-94; was made chairman of the academic council of the univer- sity in 1888, and was acting president of the university, 1890-93, when he was formally in- ducted into the office of president and served, 1893-99. He was married, on Sept. 3, 1863, to Louisa Wells, daughter of the Hon. John Hall Brock way of Ellington, Conn. In September, 1899, he resigned the presidency of the University of California and started on a tour round the world, this being his third trip of foreign travel, the first made in the earlier j'ears of university life, the second 1888-90, when he spent two years in study, one in Berlin, the other in Bonn. He was succeeded in the office of president by Ben- jamin Ide Wheeler, the foi'mer head of the de- partment of Greek in Cornell university, Ithaca, N.Y. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1853, and that of LL.D. from Yale in 1893.

KELLOGG, Olin Clay, author, was born in Spafford. N.Y., April 21, 1870; son of William Silas and Olive Clorinda (Churchill) Kellogg, and grandson of Frederick Kellogg and of Chauncey Churchill. He was graduate<l at Syr- acuse university. A. B., 1892, A.M.. 1893, Ph.D., 1894 (English literature). He was instructor in


elocution, English criticism and rhetoric in Caze- novia seminary, N.Y., 1892-96, after which he travelled for three yeai's as a reader and imper- sonator and also gave private instruction in lit- erature and expression. In 1899 he became in- structor in the English language at Northwestern university. He was married, July 25, 1894, to Effie A., daughter of Albert N. Wheelock, of New Woodstock, N.Y. He is the author of: Englisli Literature from Its Origin to the Close of the Elizabethan Age{lSd'S)\ English and American Novelists (1894); American Literature (1894); and contributions to educational journals.

KELLOGG, Samuel Henry, missionary, was born in Westhampton, L.I., N.Y., Sept. 6, 1839: son of the Rev. Samuel and Mary P. (Henry) Kellogg; grandson of Seth Shore and Jlatilda (Lockwood) Kellogg, and a descendant of Daniel Kellogg of Norvvalk, Conn., 1660. He was grad- uated from the College of New Jersey in 1861, and from the Princeton Theological seminary in 1864, and was tutor in mathematics at the Col- lege of New Jersey, 1863-64. He was ordained as an evangelist by the pi'esbytery of Hudson, April 20, 1864, and received an appointment as missionary from the Presbj'terian Board of Foreign Missions. He was a missionary in India at Futteligurh, 1865-71, visiting the United States in behalf of the missionary cause, and in 1872 returned to India, and took up his residence in Allahabad, the capital of the northwestern pro- vinces, in order to assume the work assigned to him by the synod of India as instructor in the theological training school. He resigned mission- ary work in 1876, returned to the United States and was pastor of the Third Presbyterian church, Pittsburg, Pa., 1876-77. He was professor of didactic and polemic theology and lecturer on comparative religions in the Western Theolog- ical seminary, Allegheny, Pa., 1878-86; stated supply at East Libertj' church, Pittsburg, Pa.,^ 1881-82, and at the First Presbyterian church, Pittsburg, Pa., 1884-86; and pastor of St. James Square church, Toronto, Canada, 1886-92. He resumed his missionary work at Landour, North India, in 1893, and engaged with two other eminent scholars in translating the Scripture into the Hindi language. He was married, Maj' 3. 1864, to Antoinette Whiting, daughter of Phi- lander R. Hartwell of Minisink, Orange county, N.Y. She died in India, in March, 1876; and in 1879 he was married to Sara C, daughter of James M. Macrum of Pittsburg, Pa. He was corresponding member of the American Oriental society, 1872-99, and an associate of the Philo- sophical society. Great Britain, 188.5-99. He re- ceived the honorary degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1877 and that of LL.D. from the University of Wooster, Ohio, in 1892.