California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


CLARENCE W. KELLOGG, M. D. For the practice of his profession Dr. Kellogg re- 
ceived a thorough preparatory training. It was his good fortune to enjoy not only such 
advantages as are afforded by r excellent medical colleges in our own country, but also to 
attend clinics and engage in hospital work in Europe, where he studied the methods em- 
ployed by some of the ablest physicians and surgeons of the day. Since 1900 he has made 
his home in Kern City and has acted as surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad, be- 
sides conducting a private practice. In addition, he has an office in Bakersfield, which 
he attends daily. 

Dr. Kellogg was born in Quincy, Plumas county, Cal., October 25, 1866, and is a son 
of Hon. W. W. Kellogg, a native of Massachusetts, but a resident of California ever 
since early manhood, and still engaged in the practice of law at Quincy. In former years he 
was active in politics and served both as a member of the assembly and senate. The gram- 
mar school at Quincy, Cal., afforded Dr. Kellogg his primary educational advantages. At 
sixteen years of age he entered Santa Clara College, where he was a student for two terms. 
With the intention of entering Yale College, he studied under tutors in Massachusetts and 
Connecticut. However, instead of entering the university, he decided to take up the 
study of medicine and therefore matriculated in the Cleveland (Ohio) Homeopathic Medical 
College, from which he was graduated two years later. 

Immediately after graduating Dr. Kellogg went abroad in order to extend his professional 
knowledge by study in the hospitals and universities of Europe. He matriculated in the 
universities of Berlin and Vienna, where he studied for two years, finding constant inspira- 
tion for his work through observation of the skillful methods employed by world-famous 
surgeons. On his return to the United States he entered the Cooper Medical College at San 
Francisco and immediately after his graduation from that institution he settled in Ven- 
tura. Two years later he removed to Lake county, where he had his office at Lakeport 
and Highland Springs. From there he came to Kern county in 1900 and has since prac- 
ticed in Kern City and Bakersfield. For a time he was a partner of Dr. T. E. Taggart, 
but the latter removed from the county in May, 1903, and since then Dr. Kellogg has 
practiced alone. While in Germany he met and married Miss Minnie Rudolf, a native of 
Dresden, by whom he has one daughter, Kate Craig. 

As might be expected; Dr. Kellogg is interested in the progress of associations connected 
with his profession, and we find him actively identified with the State Medical, San Joaquin 
Valley and Kern County Medical societies, also the Pacific Society of Railway Surgeons. 
His fraternal connections are extensive and include membership in the Independent Or- 
der of Odd Fellows, Native Sons of the Golden West, Knights of Pythias, Maccabees, Ma- 
sonic fraternity and Eastern Star.