Francis William Kellogg

Francis William Kellogg (* May 30, 1810 in Worthington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; † 13 January 1879 in Alliance, Ohio) was an American businessman, army officer and politician ( Republican).

Career

Francis William Kellogg attended the community school. Then he moved in 1833 to Columbus (Ohio ) and from there in 1855 to Grand Rapids ( Michigan), where he followed the wood trade in Kelloggville. Kellogg also pursued a political career. He worked in the years 1857 and 1858 in the House of Representatives from Michigan. Then he was elected to the 36th U.S. Congress and reelected to the two succeeding U.S. Congresses. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 March 1859 to 3 March 1865. He also introduced at the behest of the War Department during the American Civil War, the 2nd, 3rd and 6th Regiment and was then appointed Colonel in the 3rd Regiment. Kellogg was appointed by U.S. President Johnson to the tax collector for the Southern District of Alabama on April 30, 1866, a post he held until July 1868. At that time he lived in Mobile ( Alabama). After the resumption of Alabama into the Union, he was re-elected in the 40th U.S. Congress, where he remained from July 22, 1868 to March 3, 1869. He then moved to New York City and from there later to Alliance (Ohio ), where he died in 1879. He was buried at the Fulton Street Cemetery in Grand Rapids.