Los Angeles County
Biographies
CHARLES DWIGHT KELLOGG
For over
forty-five years, the late Charles Dwight Kellogg was a resident of the city of
Los Angeles,
and was known widely as one of the largest real estate holders in the community
and as one of its most respected citizens.
California
was his home for fifty-seven years.
Charles Dwight
Kellogg was born January 22, 1849, in Titusville,
Pennsylvania, and was a son of
Isaac and Betsy (Carrier) Kellogg. His
father was born in Connecticut, and his mother
was a native of Ohio and descended from
pre-Revolutionary stock, members of her family having come to America in the
seventeenth century. Charles D. Kellogg
received his education in the public schools of his native state and worked on
the home farm with his father. He became
an oil refiner in Pennsylvania
at the time oil was first discovered in that state. In 1876, he left the east and came westward
to California. He settled in Newhall, where for ten years he
worked at the first oil refining done in California,
then, in February 1887, moved to Los
Angeles, where he had purchased ranch land situated at
what is now Thirty-Eighth Street
and Compton Avenue. He made an outstanding success of cultivating
this tract and continued its operation until 1905, when he retired to private
life. In 1905 he purchased forty-five
acres at the corner of Atlantic and Florence
Avenues which was sold to the Shell Oil Co., in 1923. After Mr. Kellogg settled in Los Angeles he acquired real estate in the
midst of what is now the best residential districts of the city, and much of
this property is yet in possession of the family and his widow. Mr. Kellogg passed away December 14, 1933,
and in his death the city lost one of the fine class of early citizens who
built the solid foundations of the later municipal greatness. Mr. Kellogg was a man of staunch character
and of unquestionable honor in his dealings with his fellowmen. He was a business man of extraordinary
intelligence and keen judgment, and his success was well-merited.
On July 29, 1888,
occurred the marriage of Charles D. Kellogg and Miss Etta T. Hamilton in Osborne County, Kansas. She is a daughter of Dr. W. S. and Mary
Hamilton, her father having been a practicing physician in Taylor County, Iowa,
where Mrs. Kellogg was born. It is an
interesting fact that seven of Mrs. Kelloggs’s uncles fought for the Union in the Civil War.
To Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg here were born six children. Eiffel, the eldest, is the widow of Charles
Bessonett and the mother of four children: Annetta, Josephine, George and
Charles; Joseph H., second in order of birth, married Marie Briggs. Ruth C. married Harford D. Turner and by her
marriage is the mother of two children: Dwight and Thelma; Grace married Armin
Beutler and they have a daughter Elizabeth; Gladys is the wife of Herbert
Lentz; and Charles D. Kellogg is single.
Charles D.
Kellogg was decidedly a lover of his family and home. He was a republican and his life was guided
by the Golden Rule. Mrs. Kellogg is a
member of the W. R. C. and the W. B. A. and Foresters of Los Angeles.
Transcribed by Bill Simpkins.
Source: California of the South
Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 112-113, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Bill Simpkins.
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