John Harvey Kellogg

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was a medical doctor in Battle Creek, Michigan who ran a sanitarium using holistic methods, with a particular focus on nutrition, enemas and exercise.

Biography

Dr. Kellogg was born in Tyrone, New York in 1852 to John Preston Kellogg (1807-?) and Ann Janette Stanley (1824-?). The family had moved to Battle Creek, Michigan by 1860 where his father set up a broom factory. John later worked as a printer's devil in a Battle Creek publishing house.

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Tyrone, New York - 1852 - 1807 - 1824 - Battle Creek, Michigan - Printer's devil

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Kellogg went to the Battle Creek public school system, then attended the Michigan State Normal School (since 1959, Eastern Michigan University), and finally New York University Medical College at Bellevue Hospital. He graduated in 1875 with a medical degree.

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1959 - New York University - 1875

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He married Ella Ervilla Eaton (1853-1920) of Alfred Center, New York, on February 22, 1879. They did not have any children of their own, but raised over forty children, legally adopting seven of them, before Ella died in 1920.

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1853 - 1920 - February 22 - 1879

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The adopted children include: Agnes Grace Kellogg; Elizabeth Kellogg; John William Kellogg; Ivaline Maud Kellogg; Paul Alfred Kellogg; Robert Moffatt Kellogg; and Newell Carey Kellogg.

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Kellogg died in 1943 and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek.

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