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Elijah Kellogg was born on May 20, 1813 in Portland, Maine, United States, a descendant of Joseph Kellogg who was living in Farmington, Connecticut, in 1651, and the son of Reverend Elijah and Eunice (McLellan) Kellogg. His early boyhood was spent in Portland. He "indentured" on a farm for one year and followed the sea for three years.
Kellogg entered Bowdoin College in 1836 from which he was graduated in 1840. While studying he made friends with the farming and sea-faring folk of the neighboring town of Harpswell. Later he studied at Andover Theological Seminary for three years. He was ordained on June 18, 1844.
In 1844 Kellogg became the pastor of the Congregational church in Harpswell, Maine. His virility, his devoutness, and his methods of using scythe and hoe, seine and boat, in preaching the Gospel won for him the affection of his parishioners. He would swim, sail, farm, and fish with the boys in his parish and then, at an unexpected moment, kneel down in their boat, or in the field by the side of a cock of hay or a shock of corn, and pray with them. His love of boys and his skill in handling them enabled him to help Bowdoin College meet some of its difficulties; for the faculty often sent down to stay with him for a few weeks backward or unruly students whom they thought best to "rusticate. " From 1855 to 1867 he was pastor of the Mariners' Church and chaplain of the Sailors' Home in Boston, and then for eighteen years gave himself to authorship.
While in the seminary he had written as a class exercise the declamation, "Spartacus to the Gladiators, " first published in the School Reader (1846) of Epes Sargent, and later he wrote several other declamations which delighted the hearts of schoolboys, such as "Regulus to the Carthaginians, " "Hannibal at the Altar, " and "Pericles to the People, " but his first long tale, Good Old Times, appeared in 1867. It was published that year in Our Young Folks, and issued in book form in 1878. The story of his great-grandfather's struggle at the beginning of the eighteenth century to cut a home out of the forest wilderness of Maine, it at once became popular.
After that, from his pen the books came thick and fast, so that by 1883 there were twenty-nine in all. His series of books included Elm Island Series, Pleasant Cove Series and Whispering Pine Series. His stories deal with the doings and adventures of folk along the shores of Casco Bay in Maine, of Scotch-Irish settlers on the western frontier of Pennsylvania, and of the students of Bowdoin College during or just before his own college days. His boys are not pirates or savages, neither are they plaster saints. They are courageous country boys, "able to cut their own fodder. " The stories teach the virtues of neighborliness, virility, and fair dealing. While they do not depreciate book-learning, they place a high value upon the ability to do all kinds of manual work. Although the language in which they are told sometimes shows signs of haste and often seems homely, it is quaint and idiomatic, and the tales give unmistakable evidence that the author knew well both the speech and the life of the people about whom he wrote.
In 1885 he returned to Harpswell, to his old church, and for the rest of his life he preached there or in the neighboring town of Topsham, much admired and beloved by Bowdoin men and by the country people round about.
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On June 3, 1855, Kellogg married Hannah Pearson Pomeroy of Syracuse, New York, and by this marriage had a son and a daughter.
