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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  Sherman Kellogg, a prominent citizen of Stanley, has been a resident of the
Sunflower State for over a half a century, and is well known in Johnson county.
He is a native of Vermont, and was born in the mountains of that State at
Rochester, May 5, 1833, and is a descendant of prominent New England familes
[sic] who trace their lineage back through an honorable line of ancestors for
many generations. Sherman Kellogg is a son of Sherman and Rebecca (Eaton)
Kellogg, also natives of the Green Mountain State. Sherman Kellogg was a
Congregational minister, born at Castleton, Vt., January 11, 1797, and married
Rebecca Eaton, September 6, 1821. She was a native of Castleton, Vt., born
February 20, 1798. Sherman Kellogg, the father of the subject of this sketch,
was a son of Saxton Kellogg and Sally Fuller, the latter being a descendant of
Benjamin Franklin. The first record that we have of the Kellogg family appears
among church records of the fourteenth century at Strathford, England. There is
some evidence of the name back as far as the invasion of William the Conqueror,
but this is not authenticated. Nicholas Kellogg, of Strathford, was born in
1488, and married Florence Hall, of Debden, Essex county, England, and the
Kellogg family was founded in America in 1637; Joseph, Daniel and Samuel Kellogg
came from England and settled in Connecticut, that year, and the 25,000
Kelloggs, more or less, that are scattered throughout this country are
descendants from those three brothers. Rebecca Eaton, the mother of Sherman
Kellogg, the subject of this sketch, was a daughter of Daniel Eaton and Nancy
Chester. The former was born in Vermont, February 23, 1762, and was a soldier in
the Revolutionary war. His wife, Nancy Chester, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland,
August 22, 1764, and was a descendants of the Stuart family that was banished
from Scotland on account of religious controversies. Rev. Sherman Kellogg, the
father of our subject, preached in Hubbardtown, Orwell, Rochester, Montpelier
and Norwich, Vt., and Whitehall, N. Y., and died at Farmington, Ill., in
October, 1848, and his wife died March 3, 1856. They were the parents of the
following children : Cloe Eaton married William Badgers; Harriett Chester
married Albert Johnson; Mary Emeline married Ira Winchell; William Pitt married
Mary Emily Wills; Sherman, the subject of this sketch; Sarah Rebecca married
Dennis Winchill; and Adelia Adelaide married Oliver Coomes. William Pitt
Kellogg, an older brother of Sherman, was for a number of years a prominent
factor in national affairs and a leading attorney who now resides in Washington,
D. C. He was colonel of the Seventh regiment, Illinois cavalry, and became a
brigadier-general. He was one of the electors for Lincoln from Illinois in 1864,
and was appointed chief justice of Nebraska Territory by President Lincoln, and
in 1865 was appointed collector of the port of New Orleans by Lincoln, and his
commission as such was signed by Lincoln on the afternoon of the day that he was
assassinated and is said to have been the last document signed by the martyred
President. William Pitt Kellogg served two terms in the United States Senate and
also was United States representative from Louisiana and served as the governor
of that State from 1872 to 1877. Sherman Kellogg received his education in the
public schools of Vermont and attended Norwich University, and in 1848 went to
Illinois with his parents, and there followed farming. In 1856 he went to Iowa,
locating in Jasper county. He bought a quarter section of land there, twenty
miles east of Des Moines, for $1.25 per acre. After improving this he sold it
for $10.00 per acre in 1864 and came to Kansas, locating in Atchison county. He
bought a mill near the Kickapoo Indian reservation and sawed lumber and ground
corn, most of his customers being Indians. About this time he joined the Kansas
militia and was ordered to Fort Leavenworth on account of General Price's
threatened invasion. His enlistment was dated May 14, 1864, and he was
discharged, October 27, 1864. He was a member of Company G, Twelfth regiment,
Kansas cavalry, and participated in the battle of Westport. In April, 1867, he
came to Johnson county, locating at Stanley where he engaged in the dairy
business and manufactured butter for four years. He made a special high grade
and has sold butter in Kansas City, for which he received as high as forty-five
cents per pound. In 1887 he engaged in the hotel business at Stanley, having
erected a new building there for that purpose. He still conducts the hotel at
Stanley and is one of the veteran hotel men of Johnson county. Mr. Kellogg has
been twice married. He was first married to Miss Lydia Margaret Graham at
Prairie City, Iowa, in 1857. She was born February 13, 1841, and died January 6,
1871. The following children were born to this marriage: Horace Morrell, born
July 31, 1860, married Dora Bell Brackenridge, is a carpenter and resides at
Stanley; William Pitt, died in infancy; Ernest Atherton married Ella M. Porter
and resides at San Antonio, Texas; Clarence Herbert married Minnie Orlena
Perrin. now resides at Charles City. Iowa; Charles Cushman married Effie Graham
and lives at Kansas City, Mo.; and Frederick William married Mabel Brown and
resides in Oklahoma. Some time after the death of his first wife, Mr. Kellogg
married Mrs. Mary Jane (Kennedy) Nuckols, a native of Crawfordsville, Ind., and
to this union were born two children: Maude Elizabeth married George H. Grigsby,
Stanley, and Claude Sherman married Pansy C. Tinsley, Stanley. Mr. Kellogg is a
Republican and has always taken active interest in political affairs and shortly
after coming to Kansas, was elected justice, of the peace in Atchison county and
served four years, and after coming to Johnson county he was elected to that
office and has served in all, forty-nine years, as a justice of the peace in
Kansas. While Mr. Kellogg has heard and decided hundreds of law suits in all
these years, it is a safe guess that he prevented more law suits than he has
decided. He believes in arbitrations and has always used his influence [sic] to
bring about an amicable settlement of any differences between neighbors and is
known in his bailiwick as the peacemaker. He is a member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, having been associated with that organization for
twenty-nine years.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915



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