KELLEY. 433 KELLOGG. a short period conducted a comic opera. Later he tauglit ill San Francisco, where lie became musical critic of the San Francisco Examiner. Ill 1890 he settled in New York, teaching and lecturing tor the university extension. He con- tributed to leading musical journals and maga- zines. His compositions are principally salon music, his largest works being the comic opera I'uritania (1892), which had over one hundred performances, music to Prometheus Bound, and incidental music for Ben-Hur. KELLEY, William Darrah (1814-90). An Auieriian politician, born in Philadelphia. Or- phaned young, he was apjirenticed first to a printer, and then to a jeweler in Boston, where from 1835 to 1840 he was engaged in business for himself. He returned to Philadelphia in 1S40. studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1841, was elected prosecutor for the city of Philadelphia in 184.5, and from 1840 to 1850" was judge of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. Though he had been for years a Democrat and free-trader, he joined the Republican Party in 18.50. and in 1800 was sent as a delegate to the Chicago Convention which nominated Lin- coln. In the same year he was elected to Congress, where he soon became conspicuous as an advo- cate of protection and the abolition of slavery, and as an opponent of the demonetization of silver. He served in Congress until his death. For many years, as the oldest member in con- secutive service, he was called the 'Father of the House,' and by his enthusiastic and persis- tent championship of the Pennsylvania pig-iron interests he earned the sobriquet of 'Pig-Iron Kelley.' He was a oluininous writer, and, in addition to numerous political addresses, pub- lished: Keusonn for Ahundoninr) lite Theory of Free Trade and Adoptiiiri the Principle of Pro- tection to American Industry (187'2) ; Letters on Industrial and Financial Questions (1872) ; Let- ters from Europe (1880) ; and The Old and the , „■ South ( l.SST). KELLGREN, kel'gren, .Joiian Henbik (1751- 95). A Swedish lyric poet, born at Floby, Prae- stegaard, West Gothland. He was educated at .Skaia and at the Abo University, where he be- came a magister-docens before he was twenty- one. He afterwards taught privately in a noble family at Stockholm, and by 1778 he had l)pgun to write for the Htockholmsposten. of which he afterwards became joint editor. His keen cri- tiques and his poems, inspired by the prevailing French lestheticism, attracted the attention of Gustavus III., who made Kollgren his librarian and private secretary. Kellgren's satirical humor is displayed in his original poems. Mina lijjen (My Sports) and Ljuscfs fender (The Enemies of Light), while he excelled all his Swedish predecessors in such lyrics as yya Slcapelsen (The New Creation) (1790), Sigt>a'rt och Hilma, and Till Kristina (1792). His Samlade skrifter (collected works) were published in three vol- umes (1790). The influence of the French Revo- lution, drawing him away from his earlier models, is apparent in his ])atriotic song Canta- ten den f.januar (1789). KEL'LOGG, Clara Louise (1842—). An .American dramatic soprano, born at Siimter- ville, S. C. She was educated in New York, but her initial success occurred in London. Her principal American tours took place between 1808 and 1872, after which she filled an engage- ment in London, sang in Italian opera in the L'nited States, and in 1874 organized her own opera company, for which she practically made lier own translations and adaptations of libretti, was her own stage manager and chorus master, and on occasion the vocal and dramatic instruct- or of her principals. She had a wide repertoire, and was a thorough mistress of her art. .She married Carl Strakosch in 1887. KELLOGG, George (1812-80). An American inventor. He was born at New Hartford, Conn. ; graduated at Wesleyan in 1837, and from 1838 to 1841 was principal of an academy at Sumter- ville, S. C. He was for some time a manufac- turer in Birmingham, Conn., and was in the Unit- ed States revenue service from 1803 to 1800. He established factories in England; was a patent expert; and patented a machine for making jack- chains (1844), a dovetailing machine (1849), a tyix^-distributing machine (1852), and improved surgical instruments (1853). He was the father of Clara Louise Kellogg. KELLOGG, M.RTIN (1828-1903). An Ameri- can educator, born at Vernon. Conn. He graduated at Yale in 1850, and after ten years of service in the College of California, in 1S09 became pro- fessor of Latin and Greek in the university of that State. In 1870 he became professor of Latin language and literature in the same institution, and from 1890 to 1899 was its president, iluch of the great growth of the institution is due to his adminiitrativo policy. He edited .Irs Orato- ria. Selections from Cicero and Quintilian (1872), and The Brutus of Cicero (1889). KELLOGG, Samuel Henry (1839-99). An .American scholar and missionary, bom on Long Island. He was educated at Princeton Univer- sity, where he graduated in 1801, and tliree years later at the theological seminai-y of that institu- tion. He went to India as a missionary of the -American Presbyterian Church in 1805, and re- mained there eleven years, studying the vernacu- lar tongues and teaching theology at Allahabad. Upon his return to the United States he became the pastor of a Presbyterian church in Pitts- burg, but during the same year accepted a pro- fessorship in the Western Theological Seminary. He was invited to the pastorate of the Saint James's Square Presbyterian Church. Toronto, Canada, in 1880. Six years afterwards he re- turned to India, under the authority of the For- eign llissions Board of the American Presby- terian Church. While in India he was occupied mainly with the work of Bible translation into, the Hindi language. His works include: A Grammar of the Hindi Language and Dialects (1870 and 1892) ; The Jews, or Prediction and Fulfillment (1883^ ; The Light of Asia and the Light of the World (1885); From. Death to Resurrection (1885); and The Genesis and Growth of Religion (1892). KELLOGG, William Pitt (1831 — ). An American soldier and politician, born at Orwell, Vt. He studied at the Norwich .Militan' Insti- tute, and in 1848 removed to Illinois, where four vears later he was admitted to the bar. He was chosen a Presidential elector in 1850. and again in 1800. when he cast his vote for Lincoln. The next year the President appointed him Chief .Tustice of Nebraska; but soon afterwards, being granted a leave of absence, he raised the Seventh
