History of Vernon, (Tolland County) Connecticut United States of America

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Martin Kellogg, educator, was born in Vernon, Conn., March 15, 1828; son of Allyn and Eliza (White) Kellogg; grandson of Ebenezer and Abigail (Olmsted) Kellogg, and of Daniel and Eunice (Stanley) White, and a lineal descendant from Elder John White, who came from Essex county, England, in 1632, and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay colony, on the site of "Gore Hall," the library building of Harvard university. Martin Kellogg prepared for college at Williston seminary, Easthampton, Mass., and was graduated from Yale A.B. in 1850, as the valedictorian of his class, and from Union Theological seminary, New York, in 1854. He removed to California about 1855 and was installed pastor over a church in Grass Valley, Nevada county. From there he was called to the College of California as professor of Latin and mathematics, which post he filled, 1860-69. When the college merged into the university he was appointed professor of Latin and Greek, and served, 1869-76. He was professor of Latin language and literature, 1876-94; was made chairman of the academic council of the university in 1888, and was acting president of the university, 1890-93, when he was formally inducted into the office of president and served, 1893-99. He was married, on Sept. 3, 1863, to Louisa Wells, daughter of the Hon. John Hall Brockway of Ellington, Conn. In September, 1899, he resigned the presidency of the University of California and started on a tour round the world, this being his third trip of foreign travel, the first made in the earlier years of university life, the second 1888-90, when he spent two years in study, one in Berlin, the other in Bonn. He was succeeded in the office of president by Benjamin Ide Wheeler, the former head of the department of Greek in Cornell university, Ithaca, N.Y. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1853, and that of LL.D. from Yale in 1893.

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

History of Vernon, (Tolland County) Connecticut

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