The Firelands Pioneer Volume 7

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1894 Excerpt: ... MARTIN KELLOGG. From the Norwalk Reflector. Martin Kellogg, of Bronson township, Huron county, probably the oldest of Ohio's millions of inhabitants, died on Wednesday, August 17th, 1892, about 5 o'clock p. m., upon the farm where he had resided for upwards of three-quarters of a century, at the remarkable age of 105 years, 10 months and 27 days. He had been in his usual health up to within a week when he became unable to eat or sleep. The deceased was the son of Martin Kellogg and Lucy Dunham, and was born September 21st, 1786, in Bethel township, Windsor county, Vermont. He was married December 7th, 1809, to Lucy Fay, of Barnard township, the next south of Bethel, Mr. Kellogg's birthplace. On the 17th of June, 1815, with his wife and three children, Mr. Kellogg left the Green Mountain state for Ohio. They first stopped at Avery, then the county-seat of Huron county, but shortly after moved onto the Underbill farm, just west of Norwalk. On the 17th of June, 1816, the family moved into a log house located on the site of the house in which Mr. Kellogg died. There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg twelve children, eight of whom are now living, viz.: Mrs. Mandana Harding, of Furniss county, Nebraska; Mrs. Lucy Thompson, of Norwalk; Mrs. Polly Thomas, of Elmore, Ohio; Aaron F. Kellogg, of Greenfield, Huron county; Mrs. Eleutheria Familiar, of Fairfield, Huron county; Lyman Kellogg, of Norwalk; Mrs. Harriet L. Thayer, of Bronson; Anson Kellogg, of Norwalk. Mr. Kellogg's first presidential vote was cast for James Madison, in 1808. Upon the birth of the Republican party he became an active and earnest member of that organization, and continued to vote with that party until 1876 when he voted for Peter Coope the Greenback candidate for president. He united with the...