HON. ABNER KELLOGG.  Abner Kellogg was born in Alford, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, Jan. 8, 1812.  He was the fourth of nine children, five sons and four daughters.  The oldest, Laura, born Aug. 4, 1806; married to Dr. Greenleaf Fifield, of Conneaut, Feb. 28, 1830; now living in Conneaut a widow.  Second, Louisa, born Jan. 22, 1808; married to S. B. McClung, Nov. 23, 1826, who died May 22, 1829; again married June 23, 1832, to James M. Bloss, since deceased.  Third, Walter, who died in infancy.  Fifth, William, born in Salem, Ohio, July 8, 1814.  Sixth, Lucius Dean, born in Salem, June 9, 1816; studied medicine; attended medical and surgical lectures, and graduated at Geneva, New York, in 1840; now living in East Ashtabula, Ohio.  Seventh, Clarissa, born Oct. 12, 1819, in Monroe; married Jan. 16, 1841, to Robert Lyon, of Conneaut; now living a widow.  Eighth, Amos, died in infancy; and ninth, Pauline, born in Monroe, Jan. 13, 1824; married to William B. Dennison, Jan. 3, 1844, and died in the city of Buffalo, New York, Sept. 10, 1844.
     Like boys of his age in those early times, Abner attended the common schools of the district, sustained by the voluntary contributions of the patrons according to the number of pupils sent, for a few months during the winter; attended a district school taught by the late Hon. B. F. Wade for one term, and labored on the farm during the summer until, at the age of eighteen years, he graduated, after six weeks' attendance as the old Jefferson academy, under the instruction of L. M. Austin, Esq., of Austinburg.  In his early manhood his business occupations were keeping a village tavern, farming, buying and driving cattle to an eastern market for sale.  In December, 1834, was elected a justice of the peace for Monroe township, re-elected in 1837, and resigned Nov. 13, 1840.
     He was one of the early anti-slavery men of the county, and an ardent Whig, and, at the Whig County Convention of 1839, with the late Colonel G. W. St. John, of Morgan, was nominated as a candidate for a member of the legislature, a nomination by the Whig party at that time being regarded as equivalent to an election.  The ticket presented by that convention to the people of Ashtabula County for their support and approval contained the names of the late Benj. F. Wade, for State senator; Colonel Gains W. St. John and Abner Kellogg, for members of the house of representatives; Platt R. Spencer, for county treasurer; and Flavel Sutliff, then the law partner of Hon. J. R. Giddings, and a younger brother of Judge Milton Sutliff, of Warren, for prosecuting attorney, with others for the different offices, - all of whom were then known as anti-slavery Whigs.  Upon the nomination of this ticket some disaffected Whigs, with the few Democrats then in the county, united in calling a union convention, and nominated a ticket made up of Whigs and Democrats, each one of whom was then regarded as a pro-slavery man.  And, what may now be regarded as a singular fact, the opposition to the agitation of the slavery question was such at that time in Ashtabula county that the entire Whig ticket, with B. F. Wade at its head, was defeated at the election, and pro-slavery men elected instead.
     In 1843 he was again nominated as a candidate for a member of the house of representatives by the Whigs, and elected by his party.  In the spring of 1845 he exchanged property in Kelloggsville for farm lands in Sheffield, to which he removed with his family in the early part of April of that year, where for the next four years, he engaged in farming and making lumber.  In 1846 he was appointed, and performed the duties of, one of the appraisers of real estate in the county, and in November, 1847, was elected justice of the peace for Sheffield, which office held until the spring of 1849.  As the spring term of the court of common pleas in 1849 he was appointed clerk of that court, and in May of that year removed from Sheffield to Jefferson, where he has since resided.  Under this appointment he held the office of clerk until the adoption of the new constitution, in 1852, when he was elected to the same office, and re-elected in 1855.
     At the September term of the district court, 1857, he was admitted to the bar, and in the spring of 1858 commenced the practice of his profession in company with the late Colonel A. S. Hall and Judge D S. Wade, which partnership continued until the retirement of Colonel Hall and the election of Wade to the office of probate judge, when, in the autumn of 1860, he formed a partnership and is now doing business with E. Jay Pinney, Esq.
     At the general election of 1863 he was elected a member of the house of representatives, where he served two sessions.  On the expiration of his term in the house he was elected to the State senate, when, on the first day of the first session of the senate of 1866, he, among other things, introduced his resolution to amend the State constitution by striking the word "white" from article five, section one, thereby giving the elective franchise to the colored men, which resolution was adopted by the requisite two-thirds majority, with an objectionable amendment at the close of the session of 1867, submitted to the people and defeated the same year; thus showing that as late as 1867 the people of Ohio refused to give the elective franchise to the colored man, thousands of whom had volunteered and been accepted to fight the battles of the War of the Rebellion and save the nation from dissolution and ruin.
     On the expiration of his term in the senate, in 1867, he retired from political life, since which time he has devoted his time and attention to private business and that connected with the Second National Bank of Jefferson, of which he is and for some years has been director and president.  Being uncompromisingly hostile to human slavery and ardently attached to the Union, and believing from the first that the Rebellion would ultimately work the extinction of slavery from all our fair and proud land, he gave the best energies of his mature manhood towards raising men and means for the support of the government, and contributed of his time and money for that purpose.  Politically a Whig, Free-soiler, and Republican successively, he always attached himself to and acted with the spirit of the constitution and the natural rights of man, and gave his earnest and active support to Mr. Greeley, for President, in 1872.
     Making no profession of any distinctive religious faith or dogma, he for many years contributed of his means to the support of that branch of the church known as Congregational.  Mr. Kellogg died, suddenly and unexpectedly, on the 27th day of April, 1878.
     Matilda Kellogg, his wife, was born at Vernon, Trumbull county, Ohio, Oct. 4, 1815; was the daughter of Allen and Maria Spencer, and granddaughter of General Martin Smith who emigrated from Hartland, Connecticut, to Vernon, with his family, in 1799, and died at the age of ninety-five, after a long, useful and exemplary public and private life.  The mother of Matilda dying in her infancy, and her father contracting a second marriage, after a few years spent with her father and step-mother in Hartford, Trumbull county, Ohio, and the death of her father in 1830, went to Kelloggsville, and remained with an aunt until she was married to the subject of this sketch, Oct. 2, 1834, at the age of nineteen years.
     Having a delicate physical organization   able to resist the demands and strain made upon it by the rearing of a family, and the cares, labors, and responsibilities incident thereto, her life has been one of much pain and suffering, all of which she has borne with great fortitude and patience, and discharged all the duties of an affectionate and devoted wife and a wise and conscientious mother, regardless of any and all consequences to herself, and is still living at the age of sixty-three years, the mother of three sons and three daughters all living.
Source: 1798 History of Ashtabula County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Pioneers and Most Prominent Men by Publ. Philadelphia - Williams Brothers - 1878 - Page 106

LUCIUS DEAN KELLOGG.  Born June 9, 1816, in Salem (now Monroe), Ohio, his education was acquired at the common district school and the old Jefferson academy.  In early life he served as clerk in a country store; subsequently studied medicine with Dr. Greenleaf Fifield, of Conneaut, Ohio and graduated at Geneva, New York, medical college in the spring of 1839.  In the same year commenced the practice of his profession at Albion, Pennsylvania.  Removed to Williamsfield in this county in 1840.  Married Dec. 16, 1841, to Miss Emily R. Castle, daughter of Amasa and Rosalind Castle, at Ashtabula.  Remained in Williamsfield, to the practice of his profession, until 1851, when he removed to Conneaut to occupy the place left vacant by the death of Dr. Fifield, where he remained until 1855, when he removed to Canton, Fulton county, Illinois, where he practiced his profession until June 1, 1861, when he received the appointment of surgeon of the seventeenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, then in camp at Peoria, Illinois; soon after which the regiment was ordered to the front in Missouri.
     The first battle in which it took an active part was at Fredericktown, Missouri.  It afterwards participated in the battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, Tennessee.  From Donelson ordered to Pittsburg Landing, and took part in the fearful struggle of two days at Shiloh, in which engagement probably each of the contending armies suffered greater loss in killed and wounded, in proportion to the number engaged, than in any other engagement during the war.  After marching and countermarching over a large part of western Tennessee and northern Mississippi, the regiment embarked at Memphis for Vicksburg, in the siege of which, being little less than a continuous battle for weeks, it participated until its fall and final surrender, in all of which engagements and service the surgeon of the regiment was at his post of duty in the field and hospital, serving most of the time as brigade-surgeon.  At Memphis he received the appointment of division surgeon-in-general, McArthur's division, which he held until the corps was reorganized, when, on account of ill health, he resigned and left the service.  On regaining his health, in June, 1865, he was appointed by the then secretary of the treasury assistant appraiser of merchandise for the port of New Orleans, the duties of which office he discharged under that appointment until April 10, 1867, when he received a commission for the same office signed by Andrew Johnson, as President, and Hugh McCullough, secretary of the treasury.  Continued to discharge the duties of the same office until Apr. 21, 1869, when he was commissioned by President Grant as general appraiser of merchandise for the south, which position he held, with headquarters at New Orleans, until the autumn of 1871, when, on account of protracted and dangerous sickness consequent upon the miasmatic and unhealthy character of the climate, he resigned the position and returned to his home in Canton, Illinois; soon after which, on account if inability to resume the practice of his profession, by reason of ill health, he disposed of his property in Canton and returned to his native State and the county of his birth.
     As an evidence of his reputation for official integrity, it was once said to the writer of this by a former resident of this county, whose public and private character for honesty and integrity is above reproach or suspicion, after a visit to New Orleans, "I believe he," referring to the subject of this sketch," is the only man connected with the custom-house at New Orleans who is not charged, and probably truthfully, with peculation and fraud.
     Politically he is a supporter of President Hays, his southern policy, and administration.  As a religionist, not zealous or bigoted; is willing that each shall enjoy his own faith, and demands the same tolerance from others, always regarding the moral obligation to do unto others as he would that others should do unto him.
     He now resides in East Ashtabula, on the premises formerly owned and occupied as a homestead by the late Amasa Castle, Esq., with health restored, in an independent and pleasant retirement, not permitting the common vicissitudes and perplexities of life to harass or disturb him.
     His wife, Emily R., daughter of Amasa and Rosalind Castle, born in Ashtabula, Aug. 15, 1823, married in the township of her birth, December 16, 1841, was with her husband during most of his military service and residence at New Orleans, and probably saved his life by hastening, unattended, from Ashtabula to New Orleans, in July, 1870, to nurse and care for him during a dangerous illness consequent upon the unhealthy climate of that locality.  Without waiting or hoping for his recovery in that climate, she at once procured his removal to a steamboat and proceeded to the north.  Her treatment of the case proved to be judicious, and from the time of her assuming its management he began to mend, and continued to improve until final recovery.
     A lady of refinement, she calls around and attracts to herself the best society of her neighborhood, and makes her home the resort of the intelligent and refined.  She is the mother of Augustus G. Kellogg, lieutenant-commander, United States navy, at present on duty at Portsmouth navy yard, an only child.  And during all the years of her married life she has been an affectionate and exemplary wife and mother.
Source: 1798 History of Ashtabula County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Pioneers and Most Prominent Men by Publ. Philadelphia - Williams Brothers - 1878 - Page 120