Representative Racine D. Kellogg View All Years

RACINE D. KELLOGG was born in Onandago county, New York, March 9, l828; he died at his home in Des Moines August 2, 1908. He was educated at an academy at Fayetteville, N. Y., taught school in New York and Ohio until his removal to Garden Grove, Iowa, in 1854. He was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives in the regular session of 1861, offering the resolution which pledged the faith and credit of the State of Iowa to the suppression of the war and the support of the Union. He was re-elected to the next session, serving as speaker pro tem. He was elected, and until his retirement from ill health, served as Major of the Thirty-fourth Iowa infantry. He had large land interests near Springfield, Mo. He resided at Garden Grove, however, until he removed to Des Moines in 1891, where he resided continuously until his death.