Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-05-03
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When the war broke ont, in 1861, Mr.. kel
logg was editor and publisher of a small
country paper in Wisconsin, The Baraboo
Republic. His printer enlisted one day, and
left him without a typesetter. The chance
was that he would be unable to get his paper
out on the publishing day. He cast hurriedly
about him to know what to do, as the time
was short. The Madison Daily Journal pub
lished a weekly supplement in addition to its
regular sheet, and in his dilemma it occurred
to Mr.. Kellogg that he could buy an edition
Of these Supplements, fold them in with his
own paper, and send the double sheet out to
his subscribers. He had that week a half
sheet OF bis own paper. This was done.
Next it occurred to Mr.. Kellogg that this
might be done every week, and that
the sheet might CONF to him printed on one
side, leaving the other to be filed in and
printed in his own office. This too was done.
When he saw how much time, labor and ex-
pense We're saved by this plan, the mex link
in the chain of new ideas came to him. He
would print a sheet of newspaper upon one
side, filing it with choice reading matter,
and sell it to country editors who had been
harassed as he had been. Hence arose the
patent outside. and Mr.. Kellogg's fortune
was made. The matter was sold to only one
newspaper in a place, so there could be no
conflict. The idea started in Chicago and
| spread like wildfire. Other and greater i'm
provements have been made in the direction
of newspaper cooperation since, but to him
the credit of its founding belongs.
AT this time nearly five thousand news
papers il. this country use ready prints or
Mr.. Kellogg's plan, and of these more than
one-third are supplied from the Kellogg
houses, which are located in Chicago, st.
Louis, Kansas City, Memphis, Cincinnati
and Cleveland. This system has also been in
troduced in England, though it has neyet
! taken deep root there.
Mr.. Kellogg was born March 90, 1882, at
Reading, Pa, and graduated in 1852 from
Columbia college, New York city. He was
the son of Frederick Kellogg, and the young
est of six children. He married Annie j.
Barnes at Baraboo, WIS, Aug. 81, 1859.
He was generous and kindly in nature,
warmly devoted to his family, earnest even
in his animosities and true and steadfast to
his friends.
He had great executive ability, and
was a remarkable mathematician. His for
tune was seriously impaired by the great
| Chicago fire; but he went to work with
characteristic energy and enthusiasm and
more than regained all lost ground. Mr..
Kellogg was of delicate physique, and in his
later years ON invalid. Few men of weak
bodies have accomplished SO much. He trav-
eled extensively in Europe with his family in
the vain search for the health which heso much
coveted. While in Chicago he was a regular
attendant at Professor Swings services, and
on his removal to New York he allied himself
with the Episcopal church. In politics he
was Republican, having identified himself
with that party at its organization. His life
was one of unusual rectitude and purity, and
his daily walk was a constant example to
those with whom he came in contact. He
leaves a wife and two adult daughters, with
whom he lived a life Of great felicity, and the
close attention given by them to his every
want undoubtedly prolonged his life. His re-
mains wero taken to New York for inter
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