Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-01-24
Token of Appreciation.

A few words respecting Mrs. Kellogg.
who on Monday, January 18th, was
brought here for burial, may not be un-
acceptable to those among whom she
lived SO long. They seem, at any rate,
to be due to her memory and to hcr
family.
Julia NJ, the only daughter of George
W. and Julia X. Cutter, was born in
Middlebury, December 2, 1888, and died
in Englewood, N. j., January 10. 1908.
| Her father and brother died while she
was a mere child and she grew up to
womanhood with her mother only. Both
were members of the Episcopal church
and regular attendants at st. Stephens.
She was educated partly in Middlebury
and partly at Mrs. Worcester's school in
Burlington, living, while there, in the
family of Mr.. Horace Loomis, whose
wife-daughter of Col. John Chapman,
the first settler in Middlebury-was her
great-aunt.
Mr.. Cutters early death threw Mrs.
Cutter upon her own resources. She APP
piled he' self at once to the study of mu
sic, and supported herself by giving les
sons on the piano. Under her tuition
and that of distinguished masters else
where. the daughter became an accom-
brothers, Edward and Lebbeus Rogers,
residents of New Orleans, but spending
their summers IN their native Middle
bury. generously assisted her
In 1862, Julia was married to Brainerd
Kellogg. then professor of English in the
college. In 1868, he was called to a sim
liar chair in the Polytechnic Institute of
| Brooklyn, n. Y. Mrs. Cutters health
would not admit of her spending every
winter there: and, whenever she did not,
Mrs. Kellogg, who thought her first duty
was that of daughter, remained with her
in the old home here, caring for her and
for the children-F'rederic r. and Julia
r., born in 1867 and 1S71-until her
mothers death. Since that event, she
had been with her family in Brooklyn
and in Englewood.
Mrs. Kellogg was of a quiet, retiring,
domestic disposition. She did not avoid
society, but she did not rush out to seek
it. The friends she had-and they were
many-were closely attached to her as
she was to them. The letters that have
poured in upon the family since her
death run over with affectionate com
ment upon her gentleness, her devotion
to others. her unselfishness, and her self.
placement But her life was at home.
She lived for her family. She loved
nothing else so much as attending tC
their needs real and imagined. Nothing
did or could restrain her from this
She poured out the riches of her affection
and service upon her household; and
they. and they alone, really knew her
Her cup was full when she saw her
children happily married and settled
near her, and when grandchildren ap
peared.
The two things she dreaded most were
mercifully spared her. One was a lin
gering and painful sickness preceding
death. And she went, as she so otter
wished to go, as a candle blown out by q
breath. She was entering the house
after a series of calls made with hel
daughter and on foot, when she fell
overcome by sudden and acute pain il
the region of the heart. She was helped
within doors and upon her bed; and. al
most before the doctor could arrive, hel
pulse stopped and she was gone. Hei
other dread was an expected operation
for the removal of cataracts. Her sigh
was slowly growing dim, yet she saw
well enough to go about the house and
even visit the city alone; and with the
aid of magnifying glass she could read
No oculist, however, was summoned
Her vision was restored by other thar
human hands to look upon things nc
bodily eye has seen.