Kellogg, Ensign H.

Born: 1812-07-06 Sheffield, Massachusetts

Died: 1882-01-23 Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Flourished: Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Kellogg was a Massachusetts attorney, politician, and businessman. He received his collegiate education at Amherst College, graduating in 1836. He read law and received admission to the Berkshire County bar in 1838. He commenced the practice of law in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he practiced for the remainder of his life. Initially a Whig in politics, he served as a Whig in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1843, 1844, 1847, 1849, and 1851. In 1850, he was speaker of the House. In 1853 and 1854, he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. After the demise of the Whig Party he moved into the Republican Party, serving as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860. In addition to his law practice and political career, Kellogg was president of Western Massachusetts Insurance Company from 1857 to 1865, president of the Berkshire Agriculture Society from 1861 to 1862, president of Pontoosuc Woolen Company from 1861 until well after the Civil War, and president of the Agricultural National Bank. In 1841, he married Caroline L. Campbell. In 1860, he was living in Pittsfield with his wife and three children and owned real estate valued at $30,700 and had a personal estate of $40,400.

Gravestone, Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield, MA; William T. Davis, Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Boston: Boston History, 1895), 2:353; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Pittsfield, Berkshire County, MA, 152.