Mary Eilene
(Cartwright) Kellogg was born 3-1/2 miles north of the small community of
Fountain Green.
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Mary Eilene
(Cartwright) Kellogg was born 3-1/2 miles north of the small community of
Fountain Green.
She was raised and attended school there until her family moved to Disco, when she was in high school.
She graduated from La Harpe High School in l938 and started teaching in l946 at Fairview School. At that time, one didn't need a college degree for their first year of teaching.
It was during Mrs. Kellogg's teaching career that a very active consolidation of rural school districts took place, so she taught in a series of schools including Fairview, Roseville, LaCrosse, Fountain Green and LaHarpe.
After taking summer courses at Western Illinois University in Macomb for nineteen years, she graduated in l966 with a Bachelor of Science in Education. She then married Forrest Kellogg in l968, a college professor and Methodist minister. He passed away in l996.
For several years she and Forrest raised goats for milking and exhibiting at the county fairs. Many times the neighborhood children would join them to help out with the goats.
During Mary Eilene's 35 years of teaching in Hancock County, she was selected in 1999 as one of two teachers honored as Hancock County Teacher Of The Year.
It was during Mrs. Kellogg's teaching career that a very active consolidation of rural school districts took place, so she taught in a series of schools including Fairview, Roseville, LaCrosse, Fountain Green and LaHarpe, retiring in l981. On occasion she also tutored.
Her hobby is fixing the bulletin boards the Raritan Reformed church, which she has done for years. She has been primary superintendent for many years and belongs to the church ladies group.
She has also been very active and an office holder in the Happy Helpers Club of LaHarpe, the Hancock county Retired Teachers Association and has done much volunteer work at the LaHarpe Health Care Center.
She keeps busy caring for her home and enjoys the company of visitors to her home, both young and older.
-by Gloria Snyder, Quill Staff