Sacramento County Biographies

MISS L. J. KELLOGG M. D.

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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	office and residence, Nathan's Building, con. 7th 
and I streets, Sacramento; was born in Haverhill, N. H., in September, 1841; 
when a year old her parents removed to Springville, Erie county, New York, where 
she was brought up and educated. She is a graduate of the 'Woman's Homeopathic 
College of New York. After graduating she spent some years lecturing in 
Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Iowa, to ladies, on Physiology and Hygiene; 
came to California in February, 1874, and after lecturing in San Francisco, 
Oakland, Napa, Sacramento, and some smaller places, located in Sacramento for 
the purpose of practicing her profession. The Board of Trustees, in the spring 
of 1879, appointed her a member of the City Board of Health, and the Board of 
Health at its first meeting thereafter elected her Secretary of the Board. She 
is probably the first woman in the United States who has been honored with a 
similar position. Her practice increased so rapidly that in the fall of 1879, 
she associated with herself, as a partner, Miss Alice Burritt, M. D. from New 
York, and a graduate of her own Alma Mater. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.