History of Westhampton, (Suffolk County) New York United States of America

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Samuel Henry Kellogg, missionary, was born in Westhampton, L.I., N.Y., Sept. 6, 1839; son of the Rev. Samuel and Mary P. (Henry) Kellogg; grandson of Seth Shore and Matilda (Lockwood) Kellogg, and a descendant of Daniel Kellogg of Norwalk, Conn., 1660. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1861, and from the Princeton Theological seminary in 1864, and was tutor in mathematics at the College of New Jersey, 1863-64. He was ordained as an evangelist by the presbytery of Hudson, April 20, 1864, and received an appointment as missionary from the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. He was a missionary in India at Futtehgurh, 1865-71, visiting the United States in behalf of the missionary cause, and in 1872 returned to India, and took. up his residence in Allahabad, the capital of the northwestern provinces, in order to assume the work assigned to him by the synod of India as instructor in the theological training school. He resigned missionary work in 1876, returned to the United States and was pastor of the Third Presbyterian church, Pittsburg, Pa., 1876-77. He was professor of didactic and polemic theology and lecturer on comparative religions in the Western Theological seminary, Allegheny, Pa., 1878-86; stated supply at East Liberty church, Pittsburg, Pa., 1881-82, and at the First Presbyterian church, Pittsburg, Pa., 1884-86; and pastor of St. James Square church, Toronto, Canada, 1886-92. He resumed his missionary work at Landour, North India, in 1893, and engaged with two other eminent scholars in translating the Scripture into the Hindi language. He was married, May 3, 1864, to Antoinette Whiting, daughter of Philander R. Hartwell of Minisink, Orange county, N.Y. She died in India, in March, 1876; and in 1879 he was married to Sara C., daughter of James M. Macrum of Pittsburg, Pa. He was corresponding member of the American Oriental society, 1872-99, and an associate of the Philosophical society, Great Britain, 1885-99. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1877 and that of LL.D. from the University of Wooster, Ohio, in 1892. He is the author of: Hindi Grammar (1875); The Jews, or Prediction and Fulfillment (1883); The Light of Asia and the Light of the World (1885); From Death of Resurrection (1885); Are Premillennialists Right? (1885); An Exposition of the Book of Leviticus (1891); The Genesis and Growth of Religion (1892); Handbook of Comparative Religions (1899). He fell over a precipice while cycling in the Himalayas, the accident resulting in his death near Landour, India, May 3, 1899.

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

History of Westhampton, (Suffolk County) New York

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