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Warren J. and James S. Kellogg, prominent farmers and stock raisers of Adair County are natives of Wayne County, Penn. They were born in 1840 and 1842, respectively, and reared in that county until they came to Adair, the former in 1879, and the latter in 1873. They have since made this county their home, and, besides 300 acres in Salt River Township, they have a fine home farm of 720 acres adjoining Kirksville, Their buildings and their improvements are in excellent condition, and make one of the best farms in the county. Warren J. was married in 1873. His wife, Susan, was a daughter of George Kellam, a native of Delaware County, N. Y., and the children born to them are Raymond W., James A., Charles, George, Frederick, Emily and Ross. Although the brothers had been engaged in the lumber business previously, since coming to Missouri they have been devoted to farming exclusively. Both are Democrats, as their votes would indicate, the former voting for Douglas and the latter for Seymour. James L. is a member of the I. O. O. F. fraternity. Of their ancestry the parents are Jirah M. and Eliza (Moore) Kellogg, the former of whom was of Scotch origin, and born in 1810 in Wayne County, Penn. The grandfather, Silas, was prominent in the history of the above county, which he helped to survey, and to which he had removed from his native county, Saratoga, N. Y. The father was married in 1838, and with the exception of two years in Missouri he spent his entire life in his native county, where he was extensively engaged both in the lumber trade and in agriculture. He was inured to early hardships in his native county, and was one of its leading pioneers. His death occurred in 1885, after long surviving his wife, who died in 1866, and who was a native of New York City, born in 1813. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.