Harrison County, Iowa Biographies Lorenzo Kellogg KELLOGG, Lorenzo, a banker in Dunlap, a heavy real estate owner and prosperous business man, was born January 2, 1829, in West Springfield, Hamden County, Massachusetts, where he remained until twelve years of age. At that time the family removed to Ellington, Connecticut, and from there to Rockville, Tolland County, Connecticut, where he lived until 1857, when he came to Harrison County, Iowa, arriving April 25, and this has since been his home. When he came to the township the only tract of land under cultivation was 160 acres on the northwest corner of section 33, and one farm on section 22. He located on section 28, where he took a claim of eighty acres on the east half of the southwest quarter, and afterwards purchased 160 acres on the same section. Here he made his home for twenty-six years, when he came to Dunlap to enjoy the fruits of his toil and secure better opportunities for business. From time to time he has added to his landed property until he now has about 1,000 acres, located on sections 20, 21, 28 and 29, all of which he improved himself. During his quarter of a century of farm life, together with stock-raising, he has operated quite extensively in real estate and has been a successful business man. Being among the pioneers of Harrison county, he has assisted largely in building up and developing the county. In 1871, in company with D. F. Clark, of Magnolia he organized the Dunlap Bank, with which concern he is still associated and has been president since 1879. Mr. Kellogg occupies an independent position in politics. He has served as county supervisor and has held other minor offices, but has always preferred to keep out of politics as much as possible. He is the son of Israel and Jerusha Pease Kellogg, natives of Connecticut, who were of Scotch, English and Irish extraction, and were among the early pioneers of this country. On the mother's side they date back to the Mayflower. The parents of our Mr. Kellogg reared a family of eight children, six sons and two daughters. Five sons are still alive, two in Hartford, Connecticut, and one in Boston, Massachusetts. Lorenzo and his brother Theodore are the only members of the family in this part of the country. Theodore is a resident of Woodbine, Iowa. Mr. Kellogg was married April 4, 1854, to Mary Brigham Gager, of Tolland County, Connecticut, the daughter of John Webb and Anne Brigham Gager, of English, French and Spanish extraction. Her grandfather, Don Brigham, was a drummer in the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Kellogg was born in 1834. Four children have been born to them: Helen Eliza, now the wife of B. J. Moore, of New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, whose home is now in Missouri Valley, Iowa; Clara Webb, now the widow of Oscar W. Taylor, of Fremont, Ohio, now living in Dunlap; Mattie Pease and Lillian Brigham, both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg are members of the Congregational Church and are active in the religious and social life in which they move. Men, like trees of the forest, have various capacities and proportions, and it will not in the least be underrating the achievements of other men to state that this gentleman, like some sturdy forest king, has made a substantial growth in all that goes toward the making up the life of a successful and useful member of society. (Biographies and portraits of the progressive men of Iowa, 1899) Submitted by: Cathy Danielson James Cutler Milliman MILLIMAN, James Cutler, of Logan, lieutenant governor of Iowa, is a conspicuous example of the men of Iowa who are shaping its destinies and who have done well for themselves by their own efforts. He was born January 28, 1847, m Galway, Saratoga County, New York. His parents were Francis Milliman and Sally Emily (Hunt) Milli- man. His great-grandfather on his mother's side was Captain Ziba Hunt, of the Revolutionary army. His father's family was Scotch-Irish. The family lived on a farm, and James attended the district school during the three months of the winter and worked hard on the farm during the rest of the year. The hardships of early life, both in and out of school, developed habits of industry and the fact that life is earnest, and so this training has aided and influenced him through life. He has had no other business or professional training than that gained by hard knocks and acute observation. He earned his own living since he was nine years old, when he lost his home by the death of his mother. He has relied upon common sense and honest dealing to carry him through, and has found no obstacle that he could not overcome by this means. He commenced his business career picking wild strawberries and selling them in town. Until he was thirteen years old he worked for his board and clothes. Then he began working for 25 cents a day and often for much less, doing anything he could find to do. In 1864 he enlisted in Company E, Forty-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry, as a private, and was discharged December 23, 1864, on account of the loss of his left arm above the elbow by a gunshot wound received in action in the long, hard fight in front of Petersburg, Va., September 30, 1864. In February, 1865, Mr. Milliman came west and located in Harrison county, at a time when there were no railways in the western half of the state. Here he taught school and earned money with which he attended the state university two years, where he was a member of the Irving Institute, a literary society connected with the university. In November, 1868, he was elected county recorder of Harrison county and was three times re-elected, serving eight years. In 1876, with A. L. Harvey, he established the Harrison County Bank, in Logan, retiring at the end of three years. In 1884 he formed a partnership with Almor Stern in the real estate, abstract and loan business, and this firm is still doing a good business. Governor Milliman has been an Odd Fellow for twenty-seven years and a member of the Grand Lodge for six years. As a member of the Grand Army of the Republic he has held the office of senior vice-commander of the Department of Iowa during the years 1893 and 1894, and served on the Council of Administration for two years following. Governor Milliman has always been a republican, and has repeatedly been endorsed by the republicans of Harrison county. His worth and party activity were recognized in 1893, when he was elected to the legislature from Harrison county. He took an active and useful part in the session of 1894, and it was there that he attracted the attention of the republicans of the state, who made him their nominee for lieutenant governor in 1897, on the first ballot in the state convention in Cedar Rapids in August. He made a successful campaign and was a source of strength to his party ticket, especially in his own congressional district, where he is best known. He ran ahead of his ticket in the state and was elected, receiving 226,005 votes, against 189,473 for B. A. Plummer, fusionist. As president of the senate, Governor Milliman, applying the principles of common sense and fairness, made an excellent presiding officer, retiring at the end of the session with general approval and congratulations from the representatives of both parties for the fair and able manner in which he had discharged his trying duties. He was re-elected in 1899 and is now serving a second term. Mr. Milliman was married November 20, 1870, to Ettie R. Stern, daughter of Jacob T. Stern, of Logan. Two children were born to them, Maude E., born October 15, 1871, and Edith R., born May 25, 1881. Mrs. Milliman died in 1883 and Mr. Milliman was again married in 1886 to Miss Bella S. Rice, daughter of Silas Rice. Five children have been born to them, as follows: Eleanor M., born October 8, 1886; Hattie A., born January 15, 1888; Bernice R., born July 19, 1899; Almor S., born December 8, 1894, and Cutler J., born November 28, 1897. (Biographies and portraits of the progressive men of Iowa, 1899) Submitted by: Cathy Danielson John R. Wheeler WHEELER, John R., of Dunlap, comes of revolutionary ancestry. His great grandfather, Francis Wheeler, of Concord, Mass., was one of the immortal patriotic "minute men," who left their farms, stores and shops at the beginning of the struggle for liberty, and at Concord met the British soldiers in mortal combat, covering themselves with glory for all time. His grandfather, Josiah H. Wheeler, then fourteen years of age, was ill with typhoid fever, and was removed to the woods in an oxcart, for safety, when the news came that the British troops were marching upon Lexington. The father of the subject of our sketch, was James Wheeler, who was a farmer and lumber man, and his mother was Nancy Rose Wheeler, who was reared in England. They settled in Frewsburg, Chautauqua County, New York, in 1815, where John R. was born, September 30, 1833. His boyhood was spent on a farm, and his only opportunity for acquiring an education was in the common schools of that period. In 1856 he went to Eau Claire, Wis., and in 1860 was elected sheriff of Eau Claire county. In the fall of 1861 he raised and organized Company G of the Sixteenth Wisconsin Infantry, and was elected captain of the company. His period of service extended through the entire war. He was in the battles of Shiloh and Corinth in 1862, at Vicksburg in 1863, at the siege of Atlanta in 1864, where he was shot through both thighs on July 21, 1864, and was in the closing fight of the great struggle, at Kingston, North Carolina, in March, 1865. He was promoted to the rank of major of his regiment, and was in active service until the final surrender of the last confederate. After the war, Major Wheeler settled at Clinton, Iowa, and engaged in the lumber business. As the North Western Railway was extended through the state, Mr. Wheeler established lumber yards at Boone, Jefferson, Denison, Woodbine and Dunlap, Iowa, and at Blair, Nebraska. In 1867 he settled at Dunlap in Harrison county, where he established the first lumber yard in that town. In 1876 he married Miss Nancy E. Tyler, of Hamburg, Iowa. Their only child, John R. Wheeler, Jr., was born November 10, 1879. Major Wheeler is a member of the democratic party, and in 1895 was nominated by his party for representative in the Twenty- sixth General Assembly, and was elected, notwithstanding the fact that Drake, the republican candidate for governor, had over 700 majority in the county. He was an intelligent and useful member of the house, serving on several important committees. (Biographies and portraits of the progressive men of Iowa, 1899)Submitted by: Cathy Danielson ©2009 Genealogy Trails