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Abraham Lincoln Kellogg

Birth
Treadwell, Delaware County, New York, USA
Death
25 Aug 1946 (aged 86)
Oneonta, Otsego County, New York, USA
Burial
Oneonta,Otsego County,New York,USAGPS-Latitude: 42.4579627, Longitude: -75.0392583
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Youngest child of Marvin Douglas Kellogg and Hannah Schermerhorn.

Married May Blakeslee Lewis on 21 Jun 1893. They had 1 child: Lincoln Lewis Kellogg, 1894-1969. May died in 1942.

Married Noreen VanName in 1944.

From Biographical Review, Otsego County, 1893:

ABRAHAM LINCOLN KELLOGG, a prominent young attorney of Oneonta, was born May 1, 1860, at Croton, Delaware Co., N.Y. He read law with L.L. Bundy, of Oneonta, one of the most celebrated lawyers of that part of the State, and was admitted to the bar in 1883. Soon afterward he became Clerk of the State Senate, occupying the position for two years. In 1884 he was Corporation Clerk of Oneonta, and in 1886 was clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Otsego County. Since locating in Oneonta he has acquired an extensive practice. He early manifested a strong desire for knowledge, and not being of wealthy parents worked by day and studied by night. A strong impression was made upon him from reading the life of the illustrious man after whom he had been named, and he selected the law as his profession. With the same zeal which had carried him through his school days he prepared himself for the practice of the law.
August 26, 1881, when but little more than twenty-one years of age, Mr. Kellogg set out on foot for Oneonta, with all his earthly possessions in a little bundle under his arm. Here, after two years spent in teaching school and in reading law, he was admitted to the bar, in November, 1883. His practice has been mostly in courts of record, and he has won for himself a high reputation among his contemporaries, and has shown himself a brilliant pleader, a deep thinker, and possessed of extensive knowledge of the law.
He has taken an active part in the politics of his State and times, and has won for himself a brilliant reputation in the field of oratory. His first decided success was when fourteen years of age, delivering a thoughtful and eloquent oration at the celebration of the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in his native town. When he was nineteen he walked fourteen miles to Hamden, and spoke on the political issues of the day in such a manner as to indicate that a brilliant career as an orator was in store for him. He has often been called upon to speak at meetings of the Grand Army, and the posts of the State all entertain for him a high regard. He is one of the most earnest and active young politicians of the county, and has three times been offered the nomination for Assemblyman, but has in each case declined. He has been spoken of as a delegate to the forthcoming constitutional convention of this State from the Twenty-third Senatorial District, which is to be held some time in 1893 or 1894. He has been for some years one of the leading local politicians, and by reason of his energy and perseverance is bound to be influential and famous in this field. He has been for two years President of the Lincoln Republican Club of Oneonta, which was organized in 1888, and which is the strongest and most influential political organization in the county, and he has been found to be a most worthy successor of Mr. O.C. McCrum, its former President. He has always taken an active part in whatever is calculated to benefit the city of his adoption.
Mr. Kellogg is a member of Oneonta Blue Lodge No. 466, A. F. & A. M., and of Royal Arch Chapter No. 277, R. A. M.. He has one of the finest offices in the county, it being in the First National Bank building. For a man so young and so recently admitted to the bar, he has a very fine law library. He has been offered political honors many times, but has so far consistently declined. He is one of the strongest Republicans to be found, and has attended many county and State conventions of his party, and was a delegate to the National League Convention of Republican clubs of the United States, held at Louisville, June 10, 1893. He is a hard worker and a constant and close student, realizing that there is much of the law to learn after being admitted to the bar.
Mr. Kellogg was married on the 21st of June, 1893, to Miss May Blakeslee Lewis, of Otego, N.Y., a lady of great worth and accomplishments. He owns a fine residence of Ford Avenue. He comes of a good family. His parents are Marvin Douglas and Hannah (Schermerhorn) Kellogg, who still reside in Croton, Delaware County. Here Marvin Douglas Kellogg was born, reared, educated, and has always lived. His wife is of the well-known and ancient Schermerhorn family, so long connected with the county of Columbia, in which she was born and reared. Her home was at Kinderhook, and her family were neighbors of President Martin Van Buren, whom she knew very well. The father of Marvin Douglas Kellogg was Benjamin Kellogg, who served as a soldier through the War of 1812, and fought at Lundy's Lane, and his father, Benjamin, was a patriot during the Revolutionary War. He was with General Washington at Valley Forge. The family all along the line of their long history were farmers, the subject of this sketch being the first to become a professional man. The early life of Mr. Kellogg was such as to develop a strong physical constitution, and his mind also is well developed and balanced. it is confidently predicted that his will be an honorable and distinguished career.

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Excerpted from "Genealogical and Family History of Central New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation, Volume 3", William Richard Cutter, 1912:

Youngest child of Marvin Douglas Kellogg and Hannah Schermerhorn.
Born in Croton, NY. (Now known as Treadwell, Delaware Co, NY)
Taught school and "worked his way through a three year course at Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin, Delaware Co, NY".
Aug 1881 began study of law at office of L.L. Bundy.
Continued to teach school while a law student.
Admitted to the bar Nov 1885.
"It is a matter of record that during a period of three years he was designated in 52 actions, tried 27 cases for the state before juries and succeeded in winning every one."
1894 elected a delegate to the state constitutional convention (revising the state constitution).
1907 elected supervisor of the town of Oneonta.
1908 elected county judge.
Served nine years in the state militia; honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant in 1890, and enlisted again during the Spanish war (One Hundred and Third Separate Company).
Member of the Oneonta fire department for more than 20 years, and was an organizer and founder of the Otsego County Firemen's Association (and served as president).
First president of the Oneonta Bar Association.
President of the City Club of Oneonta, and of the Civic League of Oneonta, and of the Oneonta Branch of the State Charities Aid Association.
Member of the Oneonta Club, Oneonta Lodge 466, Free and Accepted Masons, the Eagles, and is a regular attendant and supporter of the First Baptist Church.
Married May Blakeslee Lewis (daughter of Samuel L. Lewis of Unadilla) on June 21, 1893. One child, Lincoln Lewis was born September 23, 1894.
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Excerpted from The Oneonta Daily Star, Sept 23,2002 (an article by City Historian Mark Simonson):

Admitted to the bar in 1883 (a discrepancy from the previous source).
Became Otsego County judge in 1908.
In 1917, he was elected justice of the Supreme Court, 6th Judicial District of NY; He continued in that post until he reached the age of mandatory retirement in 1930.
Created a central school for grades 1-12 in Treadwell.
His donation (along with state funding) allowed a new school to be built; It was dedicated and named in his honor in 1929.

The school was reputed to recruit outstanding athletes from the area. (That was the main theme of this article, and further details can be found therein).
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Among his many philanthropic deeds, Mr Kellogg established a substantial endowment at Hartwick College, which continues to fund scholarships for their most academically promising students.

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from the Oneonta Daily Star, June 3, 1930, reporting on the dedication of the first building of the Hartwick College campus:
"Prominent educators of this and adjoining states and clergymen of the Lutheran church united with influential laymen of the United Lutheran Synod of New York in the impressive ceremonials... The academic procession formed at the community house of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, 66 Chestnut St., and proceeded through Huntington Park and around to the main entrance of the church where the inaugural exercises were held.
A luncheon program followed, and then the festivities moved to Oyaron Hill to dedicate the first college building... Brief services at the entrance of the building were conducted by P.E. Oberlander. Following this Dr. William O. Boomhower made the presentation of the keys to Justice (Abraham L.) Kellogg, who in turn led the way into the building, accompanied by Rev. J. Walter Baker, who read Psalm 122."
Youngest child of Marvin Douglas Kellogg and Hannah Schermerhorn.

Married May Blakeslee Lewis on 21 Jun 1893. They had 1 child: Lincoln Lewis Kellogg, 1894-1969. May died in 1942.

Married Noreen VanName in 1944.

From Biographical Review, Otsego County, 1893:

ABRAHAM LINCOLN KELLOGG, a prominent young attorney of Oneonta, was born May 1, 1860, at Croton, Delaware Co., N.Y. He read law with L.L. Bundy, of Oneonta, one of the most celebrated lawyers of that part of the State, and was admitted to the bar in 1883. Soon afterward he became Clerk of the State Senate, occupying the position for two years. In 1884 he was Corporation Clerk of Oneonta, and in 1886 was clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Otsego County. Since locating in Oneonta he has acquired an extensive practice. He early manifested a strong desire for knowledge, and not being of wealthy parents worked by day and studied by night. A strong impression was made upon him from reading the life of the illustrious man after whom he had been named, and he selected the law as his profession. With the same zeal which had carried him through his school days he prepared himself for the practice of the law.
August 26, 1881, when but little more than twenty-one years of age, Mr. Kellogg set out on foot for Oneonta, with all his earthly possessions in a little bundle under his arm. Here, after two years spent in teaching school and in reading law, he was admitted to the bar, in November, 1883. His practice has been mostly in courts of record, and he has won for himself a high reputation among his contemporaries, and has shown himself a brilliant pleader, a deep thinker, and possessed of extensive knowledge of the law.
He has taken an active part in the politics of his State and times, and has won for himself a brilliant reputation in the field of oratory. His first decided success was when fourteen years of age, delivering a thoughtful and eloquent oration at the celebration of the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in his native town. When he was nineteen he walked fourteen miles to Hamden, and spoke on the political issues of the day in such a manner as to indicate that a brilliant career as an orator was in store for him. He has often been called upon to speak at meetings of the Grand Army, and the posts of the State all entertain for him a high regard. He is one of the most earnest and active young politicians of the county, and has three times been offered the nomination for Assemblyman, but has in each case declined. He has been spoken of as a delegate to the forthcoming constitutional convention of this State from the Twenty-third Senatorial District, which is to be held some time in 1893 or 1894. He has been for some years one of the leading local politicians, and by reason of his energy and perseverance is bound to be influential and famous in this field. He has been for two years President of the Lincoln Republican Club of Oneonta, which was organized in 1888, and which is the strongest and most influential political organization in the county, and he has been found to be a most worthy successor of Mr. O.C. McCrum, its former President. He has always taken an active part in whatever is calculated to benefit the city of his adoption.
Mr. Kellogg is a member of Oneonta Blue Lodge No. 466, A. F. & A. M., and of Royal Arch Chapter No. 277, R. A. M.. He has one of the finest offices in the county, it being in the First National Bank building. For a man so young and so recently admitted to the bar, he has a very fine law library. He has been offered political honors many times, but has so far consistently declined. He is one of the strongest Republicans to be found, and has attended many county and State conventions of his party, and was a delegate to the National League Convention of Republican clubs of the United States, held at Louisville, June 10, 1893. He is a hard worker and a constant and close student, realizing that there is much of the law to learn after being admitted to the bar.
Mr. Kellogg was married on the 21st of June, 1893, to Miss May Blakeslee Lewis, of Otego, N.Y., a lady of great worth and accomplishments. He owns a fine residence of Ford Avenue. He comes of a good family. His parents are Marvin Douglas and Hannah (Schermerhorn) Kellogg, who still reside in Croton, Delaware County. Here Marvin Douglas Kellogg was born, reared, educated, and has always lived. His wife is of the well-known and ancient Schermerhorn family, so long connected with the county of Columbia, in which she was born and reared. Her home was at Kinderhook, and her family were neighbors of President Martin Van Buren, whom she knew very well. The father of Marvin Douglas Kellogg was Benjamin Kellogg, who served as a soldier through the War of 1812, and fought at Lundy's Lane, and his father, Benjamin, was a patriot during the Revolutionary War. He was with General Washington at Valley Forge. The family all along the line of their long history were farmers, the subject of this sketch being the first to become a professional man. The early life of Mr. Kellogg was such as to develop a strong physical constitution, and his mind also is well developed and balanced. it is confidently predicted that his will be an honorable and distinguished career.

-----------------------
Excerpted from "Genealogical and Family History of Central New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation, Volume 3", William Richard Cutter, 1912:

Youngest child of Marvin Douglas Kellogg and Hannah Schermerhorn.
Born in Croton, NY. (Now known as Treadwell, Delaware Co, NY)
Taught school and "worked his way through a three year course at Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin, Delaware Co, NY".
Aug 1881 began study of law at office of L.L. Bundy.
Continued to teach school while a law student.
Admitted to the bar Nov 1885.
"It is a matter of record that during a period of three years he was designated in 52 actions, tried 27 cases for the state before juries and succeeded in winning every one."
1894 elected a delegate to the state constitutional convention (revising the state constitution).
1907 elected supervisor of the town of Oneonta.
1908 elected county judge.
Served nine years in the state militia; honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant in 1890, and enlisted again during the Spanish war (One Hundred and Third Separate Company).
Member of the Oneonta fire department for more than 20 years, and was an organizer and founder of the Otsego County Firemen's Association (and served as president).
First president of the Oneonta Bar Association.
President of the City Club of Oneonta, and of the Civic League of Oneonta, and of the Oneonta Branch of the State Charities Aid Association.
Member of the Oneonta Club, Oneonta Lodge 466, Free and Accepted Masons, the Eagles, and is a regular attendant and supporter of the First Baptist Church.
Married May Blakeslee Lewis (daughter of Samuel L. Lewis of Unadilla) on June 21, 1893. One child, Lincoln Lewis was born September 23, 1894.
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Excerpted from The Oneonta Daily Star, Sept 23,2002 (an article by City Historian Mark Simonson):

Admitted to the bar in 1883 (a discrepancy from the previous source).
Became Otsego County judge in 1908.
In 1917, he was elected justice of the Supreme Court, 6th Judicial District of NY; He continued in that post until he reached the age of mandatory retirement in 1930.
Created a central school for grades 1-12 in Treadwell.
His donation (along with state funding) allowed a new school to be built; It was dedicated and named in his honor in 1929.

The school was reputed to recruit outstanding athletes from the area. (That was the main theme of this article, and further details can be found therein).
---------------------
Among his many philanthropic deeds, Mr Kellogg established a substantial endowment at Hartwick College, which continues to fund scholarships for their most academically promising students.

****************
from the Oneonta Daily Star, June 3, 1930, reporting on the dedication of the first building of the Hartwick College campus:
"Prominent educators of this and adjoining states and clergymen of the Lutheran church united with influential laymen of the United Lutheran Synod of New York in the impressive ceremonials... The academic procession formed at the community house of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, 66 Chestnut St., and proceeded through Huntington Park and around to the main entrance of the church where the inaugural exercises were held.
A luncheon program followed, and then the festivities moved to Oyaron Hill to dedicate the first college building... Brief services at the entrance of the building were conducted by P.E. Oberlander. Following this Dr. William O. Boomhower made the presentation of the keys to Justice (Abraham L.) Kellogg, who in turn led the way into the building, accompanied by Rev. J. Walter Baker, who read Psalm 122."

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