Santa Barbara County Biographies

FRANK E. KELLOGG

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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FRANK E. KELLOGG, of Goleta, is a native of Napa County, California, born 
at St. Helena, September 22, 1851. His father, F. E. Kellogg, was a farmer by 
occupation and a mechanic by trade, and located in Napa County, in 1846. 
Our subject received his rudimentary education in the public schools of his 
native town, and subsequently graduated at the Illinois College, Jacksonville, 
in the class of 1872. After a year's sojourn at Hannibal, Missouri, he again 
came West, locating on his present place in 1877, where ho engaged quite 
extensively in bean culture. In 1882 he engaged in the dairy business. His 
years of experience has taught him that it pays best to keep graded Jersey 
stock, as they make the most profitable and satisfactory milk cows. The 
thoroughbred Jersey is best for quality but not for quantity of milk. The cross 
or compromise between Jersey and other good milk cows of common stock 
produce the best grades for both quality and quantity. This is the principle, 
put into practice, upon which Mr. Kellogg has built up his excellent reputation 
as a successful dairyman. Of his fifty to sixty milk cows, nearly all are from 
one half to seven-eighths Jersey blood. The Goleta Dairy covers 150 acres of 
land, all under a high state of cultivation. Twenty-five acres of this tract is 
covered with soft-shell English walnut trees in bearing, and several acres are 
devoted to Pampas plumes for market. 

Mr. Kellogg's business enterprise is manifest in the recent erection of a first-class 
steam-power creamery on his place, which has become one of the most important 
institutions of its kind in Southern California. It was the first creamery erected in 
Santa Barbara County, using the milk from farms in the vicinity. He has thus far 
confined himself to the manufacture of creamery butter, in which he now consumes 
the milk from about 150 cows, or about 2,000 pounds of milk, producing 150 pounds 
of butter daily, or one pound to each cow. It is put up in two-pound rolls (full weight). 
While, as Mr. Kellogg says, the business is in its infancy, he regards the result produced 
thus far as settling the question as to the practicability of operating creameries in this 
county. All the milk from the surrounding farms is carefully tested as to its butter value, 
and every farmer is paid for his milk a price determined by this test and the selling price 
of butter. The creamery, producing a larger percentage of butter of a superior quality, 
which brings an advanced price, gives the farmer more for his milk product than he 
could realize for it in any other way, and also saves him the trouble of manufacture and 
marketing. The Goleta Creamery is fully equipped with a De Laval centrifugal cream 
separator. This is propelled at a speed of 7,500 revolutions per minute, extracting the 
cream from the milk immediately after having been taken from the cow. The machine 
separates the cream from 100 gallons of milk per hour. The cream then goes into a 
tempering vat for a given period, thence into a churn, with a capacity of 300 pounds of 
butter at one churning. This line new machinery is operated with an upright steam 
engine. The product of the creamery finds a ready market in Santa Barbara and other 
cities. Credit is due Mr. Kellogg for developing so important an enterprise in a county 
where it was regarded as experimental. 

As a citizen and a business man Mr. Kellogg holds an exalted position in the 
community. He was Principal of Goleta public schools ten successive years, which 
fact is a strong evidence of his high standing as an educator. He takes an active 
interest in public affairs, but is in no sense a politician. Although yet a comparatively 
young man he has acquired a handsome property, a good business, a fine home, and 
is surrounded by hosts of friends, and, the greatest of all blessings, a happy family. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.