Charles Kellogg (October 3, 1773

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– May 11, 1842

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) was an American farmer, merchant and politician from

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. From 1825 to 1827, he served one term in the

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Life

He was the son of Asa Kellogg (1745–1820) and Lucy (Powell) Kellogg (1746–1816). He attended the common schools. In 1787, he removed to

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where his father had settled as a pioneer seven years before. On October 21, 1794, he married Mary Ann Otis (1774–1844), and they had eleven children, among them Day O. Kellogg (b. 1796; assemblyman 1839). In 1796, the couple removed to Marcellus, in 1797 to

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, and in 1799 to Sempronius. There they founded Kelloggsville, a hamlet situated in that part of Sempronius which was in 1833 split off to form the Town of Niles, and engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits.

Judicial career

He was an associate judge of the Cayuga County Court and a

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. He was a member of the

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in 1808–09, 1810, 1820–21 and 1822. He was the first Postmaster of Kelloggsville, in office from 1814 to 1825. In 1823, he opened a

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in the neighboring hamlet of New Hope. The mill was sold in 1851.

Congress

Kellogg was elected as a Clintonian/Federalist to the

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, holding office from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1827.

Later career and death

Afterwards, he resumed his agricultural pursuits. In 1839, he removed to

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, died there three years later, and was buried at the Fairview Cemetery.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 71, 182f, 197f and 285; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
''FAMILY MEETING OF KELLOGGS''
in ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'' (1858; Vol. 12; pages 199ff)
''Funeral of the Rev. D. O. Kellogg''
his grandson's obit in NYT on January 29, 1904

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