R. H. Kellogg
R. H. Kellogg, a well-known business man and progressive and enterprising citizen of Delaware, which city has been his home for a number of years, has been connected with the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company since 1880. Mr. Kellogg was born at Erie, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Dr. S. R. and Lucy (Church) Kellogg.
On both sides Mr. Kellogg comes from old Colonial families whose names have been connected with New England history for generations. Dr. S. R. Kellogg was born at Sheffield. Massachusetts, as was his father, Silas Kellogg. The latter, with four brothers, served in the Revolutionary War and prior to that, Lieut. Joseph Kellogg, of Deerfield, Massachusetts, was a noted Indian fighter and the old Kellogg homestead, on which land stood the block house, at Sheffield, was once the scene of many savage conflicts. This land has never gone out of the family nor has the old Indian title been changed.
R. H. Kellogg completed his High school education at Hartford, Connecticut, and then studied pharmacy, but before he had an opportunity to practice his profession to any great degree, the Civil War came upon the country. and in 1862 he enlisted as a private in the Sixteenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, made up at Hartford. This regiment became a part of General Burnside's corps, and saw service in Virginia and the Carolinas, principally. Mr. Kellogg participated in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Suffolk and the siege of Plymouth. At that point the whole regiment (excepting one company) was captured by the Confederates and he remained a prisoner of war for nearly eight months, confined mainly at Andersonville. He was finally paroled and exchanged and subsequently was mustered out of the service in June, 1865, having been in the army three years, lacking a few days. His rank was then that of sergeant-major, following promotion from private and sergeant.
After the close of the war, Mr. Kellogg followed the drug business for about one year and then became interested in life insurance, and with the exception of seven years, during which he was engaged in the manufacture of paper, in Connecticut, he has been in insurance. After his appointment as general agent he worked as such for the Connecticut Mutual until 1883, when he came to Cincinnati as a general agent of Ohio, and in 1886 his powers wire further extended, he being made district superintendent of agencies for Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia, a position be still fills.
In 1868, Mr. Kellogg was married to Amelia C. Gallup, and they have four children. namely: Florence; Emily, who married Charles W. Riddle, residing at Delaware; Anna F., who is a teacher in the Delaware public schools; and Rossiter, residing at Toronto, Canada, where he is in a machinery business. Mr. Kellogg and family belong to the Presbyterian Church and he is a member of the board of trustees. His fraternal relations include the Royal Arch Masons and he belongs also to the Grand Army of the Republic, the New England Society, and the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut. His business offices are at No. 56½ North Sandusky Street.
From 20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Edited and compiled by James R. Lytle, Delaware, Ohio, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908