James Madison Kellogg

James Madison Kellogg settled in Kenosha County in 1854. Mr. Kellogg was, in his lifetime, a phrenologist, a naturalist, and a tavern keeper in Kenosha County. He served as Justice of the Peace, presiding over occasional lawsuits in the large hall on the second floor of the tavern. At the end of the Civil War, Mr. Kellogg entered into dairying, and in 1869, engaged in cooperative cheese-making. The bar room of the tavern was turned into a cheese room, and William Bush, one of the sons of a pioneer family, became cheese and butter maker. The venture was so successful a factory was built on the north road. Mr. Kellogg also served as State Deputy of the Patrons of Husbandry, which was organized in the early 1870s.