History of New Hartford, (Litchfield County) Connecticut United States of America

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Albert Kellogg, botanist, was born in New Hartford, Conn., Dec. 6, 1813. He was a brother of George, and uncle of Clara Louise Kellogg. He attended Wilbraham academy, Mass., removed to Kentucky and was graduated from the Transylvania university, M.D., in 1834. He travelled in the western states, and made the earliest scientific description of the big trees of California, which appeared in 1845 in John C. Fr?mont's "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-44." Mr. Kellogg explored the republic of Texas with John J. Audubon, at the time of its annexation to the United States, and later made botanical explorations along the western coast of America from Terra del Fuego, to Alaska, In 1867 he visited Alaska in the capacity of botanist of the special expedition under Prof. George Davidson, of the U.S. coast survey, and made large collections of the plants of the coast region, of which he furnished complete collections to the Smithsonian Institution, the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, and the California Academy of Sciences, of which last he was a founder. He contributed largely to scientific journals and to state and national reports. His more important work consists of beautifully drawn figures of the West American Oaks (1889), and at the time of his death he had in preparation a similar series, of the West American Pines. He died in Alameda, Cal., March 31, 1887.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

George Kellogg, inventor, was born in New Hartford, Conn., June 19, 1812. He was graduated from Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn., in 1837, and .was married, Aug. 25, 1837, to Jane Elizabeth Crosby of Middletown. He was principal of Sumter academy, S.C., 1838-42; was a manufacturer of pins in Birmingham, Conn., 1842-44, and in that year invented the jack-chain machine, applied to the manufacture of well-chains. He went to England with the jack-chain, hook and eye, and pin machines in 1844 and established a manufactory of hooks and eyes with American machinery in Redditch, England. He engaged in the manufacture of surgical instruments at Birmingham, Conn., 1846-55, and in the latter year, in order to give his daughter, Clara Louise ,the advantages of superior musical instruction, removed to New York city, where he was a manufacturer of dental supplies, l856-62. He was the defendant's expert in the suit of the Singer vs. the Grover & Baker and Wheeler & Wilson companies in 1857. He was U.S. revenue officer in New York, 1863-60, and was employed as plaintiff's expert in the phonographic copyright suit of Graham vs. Pitman in 1864. He accompanied his daughter to Europe in 1867 and in 1868 established in London a manufactory of hats. On his return he resided in Cold Springs, N.Y. Among his inventions are a dovetailing machine (1849), a type-distributing machine (1852), obstetrical forceps (1853), and adding apparatus (1869). He died in New Hartford, Conn., May 6, 1901.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

David Belden Lyman, missionary, was born in New Hartford, Conn., July 28, 1803; son of David and Rhoda (Belden) Lyman; grandson of David and Mary (Brown) Lyman, and a descendant of Richard Lyman, 1631. He was graduated from Williams college in 1828 and from the Andover Theological seminary in 1831; and was ordained as a missionary of the A.B.C.F.M. at Hanover, N.H., Oct. 12, 1831, he was married Nov. 3, 1831, to Sarah Joiner of Royalton, Vt., and on November 26 they sailed from New Bedford, Mass., with a large reinforcement for the Sandwich Islands. The company arrived at Honolulu, May 17, 1832, after a passage of 172 days. Mr. Lyman and his wife were subsequently signed to the station at Hilo, one of the remotest of the group. He was placed in charge of the church at Hilo and its outlying missions where he labored with success for several years. Upon the arrival of Titus and Fidelia Coan in 1836, he turned over his mission to Mr. Coan, and with the assistance of his wife, established an academy for young men, the pupils cultivating farm and thus supplying the school with food. In 1873 Mr. Lyman retired from active work in the school. He died in Hilo, Hawaii, Oct. 4, 1884, and his wife Dec. 6, 1885.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor