Daniel Kellogg ( judge ) Daniel Kellogg ( February 10 , 1791 — May 10 , 1875 ) was a Vermont public official who served as a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and in several other positions . Early life . Daniel Kellogg was born in Amherst , Massachusetts on February 10 , 1791 . He graduated from Williams College in 1810 , and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa . He studied law , was admitted to the bar , and commenced practice in Rockingham , Vermont in 1814 . Career . A Democratic - Republican and later a Democrat , Kellogg served as Windham County State ' s Attorney and Judge of Probate . He also served as Secretary to Governors Cornelius P . Van Ness ( 1823 - 1826 ) and Ezra Butler ( 1826 - 1828 ) . Having been active as officer in the Vermont Militia , Kellogg was appointed Adjutant General , and served from 1822 to 1824 . In 1829 President Andrew Jackson appointed Kellogg as United States Attorney for the District of Vermont and he served until the end of the Martin Van Buren administration in 1841 . Kellogg also ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 1833 and 1840 . Kellogg served as President of the Vermont Constitutional Convention in 1843 . He declined appointment to the Vermont Supreme Court in the same year , and also ran unsuccessfully for Governor , losing the election to John Mattocks . He ran again for Governor in 1844 and 1845 , losing both times to William Slade . Kellogg served in the Vermont House of Representatives in 1845 . In 1845 Kellogg was appointed to the Vermont Supreme Court . He served on the court until resigning in 1850 . Kellogg resumed the practice of law after leaving the court . In 1854 he relocated to Brattleboro . He was President of the Bellows Falls National Bank and a Trustee of the Vermont Asylum for the Insane . He was a Unionist during the American Civil War . He served as presidential elector in 1864 , and cast his ballot for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson . He also served in the Vermont State Senate from 1865 to 1866 . Death and burial . Kellogg died in Brattleboro on May 10 , 1875 . He was buried at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Brattleboro . Honors . In 1853 Kellogg received an honorary Doctor of Laws ( LL . D . ) degre from the University of Vermont . Legacy . Daniel Kellogg ' s law library is included in the Stephen Row Bradley and William Czar Bradley Papers , which were donated to the University of Vermont by William Bradley Willard in 2002 . Family . Kellogg was first married to Jane McAfee of Rockingham . After her 1827 death he married Merab Ann Bradley of Westminster , the daughter of Congressman William Czar Bradley and granddaughter of Senator Stephen Row Bradley . After Merab Bradley Kellogg ' s death in 1845 Daniel Kellogg married Miranda M . Aldis of St . Albans , who survived him . Miranda Kellogg was the daughter of Vermont Chief Justice Asa Aldis . Kellogg ' s children included Henry ( 1823 - 1844 ) ; George B . ( 1825 - 1875 ) ; Sarah B . ( 1831 - 1909 ) ; Daniel , Jr . ( 1834 - 1918 ) . Henry Kellogg graduated from Williams College in 1843 and a law student in the office of William Czar Bradley when he drowned while swimming in the Connecticut River . George B . Kellogg was an attorney who served as Adjutant General of Vermont from 1854 to 1859 and Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War . Daniel Kellogg , Jr . resided in Brattleboro and held local offices including Postmaster . Sarah B . Kellogg married Henry A . Willard , the proprietor of the famed Willard Hotel in Washington , D . C .