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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
February, 1919 
set out a quarter of an acre to 70 
fruit trees (grafted one older tree 
to 40 kinds of apples), 30 grape 
vines, 80 varieties of strawberries, 
$200 worth of ginseng, lots of 
other fruits, took 35 first prizes at 
Jefferson county fair, 1907, and 
am hale and hearty, with not an 
pain. 
Read all my letters 
today without glasses, 
as I am writing this. 
Geo. J. Kellogg. 
Resolution in Memo- 
riam Geo. J. Kellogg. 
Adopted at Annual 
Convention. 
Whereas our Heaven- 
ly Father has taken to 
his .final reward our 
long time and oldest 
member of our State 
Horticultural Society, 
George J. Kellogg, and 
Whereas, our brother 
member was always an 
enthusiastic worker 
and helper for the 
cause of Horticulture, 
Therefore, 
Resolved, That we, 
the members of the 
Wisconsin State Horti- 
cultural Society, in 
convention, assembled 
herewith, express our 
appreciation of the ener- 
getic helpfulness which our brother 
member, Geo. J. Kellogg, has given 
for his fellow members during so 
many years of his long life. 
Resolved, That we extend to the 
children and other near members 
■)i the deceased, our sympathy for 
fiieir loss. 
Resolved, That the Secretary of 
our Society is instructed to spread 
these resolutions on the records 
of the Society and to send copies 
to the children. 
GEORGE J. KELLOGG, 
Boro March 20th 1828; died Jan- 
uary 7th, 1918. 
In November, 1853, a group of 
sturdy pioneers met at White- 
water and organized The Wiscon- 
sin Fruit Growers’ Association. 
Of that group George J. Kellogg, 
then twenty-five years 
of age, was one. It re- 
quired courage and fix- 
edness of purpose to 
venture into the wholly 
untried field of fruit 
growing in a new coun- 
try and courage was 
one of George J. Kel- 
logg’s characteristics. 
He was closely associat- 
ed with this Society for 
half a century and the 
Society conferred on 
him the highest honor 
within its gift, honor- 
ary life membership. 
He wrote much for 
farm and horticultural 
papers, and possessed, 
in a remarkable degree, 
the faculty of present- 
ing his subject in a 
clear and understand- 
able way. 
On his eightieth 
birthday he wrote a let- 
ter to his home paper, 
The Janesville Gazette, 
which, as it gives the 
intimate story of his life such as 
we believe our readers will appre- 
ciate is here reprinted : 
Janesville, Wis., March 20, 1908. 
Editors Gazette: I am rejoic- 
ing in a shower of four-score 
birthday letters. I was bom in 
Cicero, N. Y., and received my 
first education in Fulton, N. Y. ; 
emigrated to the Indian land of 
Wisconsin, Aug. 2, 1835; gradu- 
ated under the tutorship of our la- 
mented Gov. Harvey at Kenosha, 
Wis. ; spent 2 years in Wisconsin 
pineries ; taught school two win- 
ters ; drove five yoke of oxen 
across the plains to California in 
1849 ; dug gold in California three 
years, took out about $15,000; re- 
turned home by the isthmus in 
1852; located in Janesville and 
went into the nursery business 
“indoor” and out; have made 
something of a success of horti- 
culture ; turned over my nursery 
and business to my two boys, L. L. 
and M. S. Kellogg, in 1899. I 
moved to Lake Mills, quit work, 
