Dexter Kellogg

Brief Life History of Dexter

When Dexter Kellogg was born on 10 January 1813, in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Joel Kellogg, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Alexander, was 30. He married Mary Towne on 11 February 1839, in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Wendell, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States in 1850. He died on 27 January 1862, in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 49.

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Family Time Line

Dexter Kellogg
1813–1862
Mary Towne
1813–1886
Marriage: 11 February 1839
Benjamin Franklin Kellogg
1840–1916
Elizabeth Marsh Kellogg
1842–1844
Mary Elizabeth Kellogg
1844–1925
Kellogg
1844–
Lucy Ellen Kellogg
1846–1852
Kellogg
1851–1852
Kellogg
1852–1852
Kellogg
1852–1852
William Henry Kellogg
1855–1857

Sources (38)

  • Dexter Kellogg, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Dexter Kellogg, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Dexter Kellogg, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"

World Events (5)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

Name Meaning

English (London): nickname for a pig-slaughterer, from Middle English kille + hog(ge).

History: Daniel Kellogg (1630–88), from Great Leighs, Essex, England, settled in Norwalk, CT, in 1656. His son, Edward (1790–1858), was a financial reformer and the intellectual father of Greenbackism (a movement favoring promotion of economic growth by increasing the paper money supply, regardless of the inflationary side effects).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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