Rowland Case Kellogg (December 31, 1843 Elizabethtown, Essex, New York – January 15, 1911, Elizabethtown, Essex Co., NY) was an American lawyer and politician from

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Life

He was the son of Congressman Orlando Kellogg (1809–1865) and Polly (Woodruff) Kellogg (1817–1884). During the

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he enlisted as a private and rose to the rank of brevet major, being commissary of subsistence of different army formations, lastly as Division Commissary of the

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. He married Mary E. Livingston (1842–1887), and they had several children. He was Supervisor of the Town of Elizabethtown from 1869 to 1873; Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Essex County for two years; District Attorney of Essex County from 1877 to 1885; and a member of the

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(19th D.) from 1886 to 1889, sitting in the 109th, 110th, 111th and

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s. On November 13, 1895, he was appointed by Gov.

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as Judge of Essex County to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of

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who had been elected to the

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. He was buried at the Riverside Cemetery in Elizabethtown.

Sources

''The New York Red Book''
compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; pg. 403)
Biographical sketches of the members of the Legislature
in ''The Evening Journal Almanac'' (1888)
''KELLOGG A COUNTY JUDGE''
in NYT on November 14, 1895

at RootsWeb

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kellogg, Rowland C 1843 births 1911 deaths Republican Party New York (state) state senators People from Elizabethtown, New York Union Army officers County district attorneys in New York (state) 19th-century American legislators