Elijah Kellogg, Jr. | |
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 A bronze relief of Kellogg at Bowdoin College Chapel | |
| Born | 20 May 1813 |
| Died | March 17, 1901 (aged 87) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Bowdoin College, Andover Theological Seminary |
| Occupation(s) | Minister, lecturer and author |
| Movement | Congregational Church |
Elijah Kellogg Jr. (May 20, 1813 – March 17, 1901) was an American Congregationalist minister, lecturer and author of popular boys' adventure books.[1]
Born in Portland, Maine, Kellogg was the son of a minister and missionary to local Native Americans. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1840 and Andover Theological Seminary. Kellogg served as a minister of the church in Harpswell, Maine 1844–54, as chaplain of the Boston Seaman's Friend Society and pastor of the Mariners' Church of Boston 1855–1865; and ended his career as minister of the church in Topsham, Maine, from 1871 until his death in 1901.[2]
Kellogg married Hannah Pearson Pomeroy and had three sons and one daughter. Wilmot B. Mitchell of Bowdoin edited Elijah Kellogg, the Man and His Work: Chapters From His Life and Selections from His Writings (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1903). Bowdoin College offers an online collection guide to Kellogg's personal papers and those of his father (who was a trustee of Bowdoin).[3] Elijah Kellogg Church, Congregational in Harpswell, Maine (where he served as pastor), is now named for him.[4]
Kellogg began writing children's books in the 1860s, and was highly productive. While he is best known to students of rhetoric as the author of the once-popular monologue "Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua" (written for a student competition while he was still an undergraduate at Bowdoin), he later produced several series of books. These include:
(Set at Bowdoin College, his alma mater, of which his father was later a trustee.)
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