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Surnames: CASTLE/KELLOGG
Classification: Query
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Last night I was searching the Brigham Young University site and I found the following
article. I hope this will help
"Lucius Dean Kellogg born June 9, 1816, in Salem (now Monroe), Ohio, his education
was acquired at the common district school and the old Jefferson academy. In his early
life he served as a clerk in a country store; subsequently studied medicine with Dr.
Greenleaf Fifield, of Conneaut, Ohio, and graduated in Geneva, New York, medcal college in
the spring of 1839. In the same year commenced the pratice of his profession at Albion,
Pennsylvania. Removed to Williamsfield in this county in 1840. Married December 16, 1841,
to Miss Emily R. Cstle, daughter of Amasa and Rosalinda Castle, at Ashtabula. Remained in
Williamsfield, in the practice of his profession, until 1851, when he removed to Conneaut
to occupy the place left vacant by the death of Dr. Fifield, where he remained until 1855,
when he removed to Canton, Fulton county, Illinois, where he practiced his profession
until June 1, 1861, where he received his appointment of surgeon of the Seventeenth
Regiment, Illinois Volun!
teer Infantry, then in camp at Peoria, Illois, soon after which the regiment was ordered
to the front in Missouri."
The aritcle goes on to tell about his military service and his political beliefs.
After the Civil War the article continues as follows: "He now resides in East
Ashtabula, on the premises formerly owned and occupied as the homested by the late Amasa
Castle, Esq. with health restored, in independed and pleassant retirement, (can't read
the last part of the sentence.)
"His wife Emily N, daughter of Amasa and Roselind Castle, born in Ashtabula, August
15, 1823, married in the township of her birth, December 16, 1841, and was with her
husband during most of his military service (sentence not readable)... and probably saved
his life by traveling, unattended, from Ashtabula to New Orleans, in July 1870 to attend
and care for him during a dangerous illness consequent upon the unhealthy climate of the
locality. Without waiting or hoping for his recovery in that climate, she at once procured
his removal to a steamboat and proceeded north. Her teatment of the case proved to be
judicious, and from the time of her (word I can't read), its management he began to
mend, and continued to improve until his final recovery.
A lady of retirement she calls around and attracts to herself the best society of her
neighborhood, and makes her home the resort of intelligent and refined. She is the mother
of Augustus G. Kellog, Lt. Commander, United Sttes Navy, at the present on duty at
Portsmouth Navy yard, an only child. And during the years of her married life she has been
and affectioate and exemplury wife and mother."
This information can be found in the "History of Ashtabula County, Ohio, pages 143
and 144.