Branch County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kellogg, William H. 1879
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Burt Fuller burtf@msn.com April 14, 2005, 5:33 pm

The Coldwater Republican, May 27, 1879
KELLOGG, WILLIAM HENRY: (The Coldwater Republican, Coldwater, Michigan May 27, 
1879)  William Henry Kellogg has lived in Michigan since 1840, at which time he 
settled in Coldwater. He is 62 years of age and was born in Monroe Co., New 
York. For ten years he acted in the capacity of deputy sheriff on this county. 
He was called one of the best detectives in the West, and as society at that 
time was in formative state, he had some pretty rough characters in his charge 
from time to time. He kidnapped Old Sile Doty twice; in fact, he had a sort of 
underground railway from Coldwater to Fort Wayne, and would run Old Sile across 
the line, without a requisition from the Governor, to suit his own convenience. 
He traced a gang of burglars, who robbed a store at Kalamazoo, to Crown Point, 
Ind., and caught them in the Kankakee swamp. Many of the older citizens will 
undoubtedly remember the robbing of the county treasury of $1,500 in the spring 
of 1848 or '49 by a notorious rough known by the name of "Sandy." This occurred 
while Mr. K. was deputy and he traced him to Noble county, Ind., and arrested 
him in what was known as the old "Tamarack Tavern," a famous resort for 
blacklegs and a den of thieves, which was known all, over this country. "Sandy" 
went to state prison for seven years. Mr. Kellogg at one time captured a 
desperate Missourian who had stolen a horse from a Mr. Latimer, of Tecumseh. It 
was thought best to take the fellow to Centreville, and Mr. K. started for that 
place in a buggy. When fairly in the country the prisoner grabbed for his whip, 
which was heavy at the butt, with the evident intention of striking him. Mr. K. 
had a hard tussle with him, and as he had no handcuffs had to take a halter 
strap, which he had in the buggy, tie him to the seat and sit upon him the rest 
of the way. In the struggle the back of the seat was broken and the fellow's 
hat was lost, but he did not dare to leave the buggy to get it for him, so he 
had to ride the whole distance wit the scorching rays of the summer sun pouring 
down upon his unprotected head. He was in the army three years,during which 
time his health was very much impaired." He died unmarried. NB: Enlisted 
Company D, First Michigan Volunteer August 27, 1862 at Quincy. Transferred to 
148th Co. 2nd Battalion Reg. RC discharge disability on 25 May 1865. 

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/branch/obits/k/kellogg112gob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/

File size: 2.9 Kb