There John Preston Kellogg established a broom factory. : 10 In 1856, the Kellogg family moved to Battle Creek to be near other members of the denomination. White and her husband James Springer White to relocate to Battle Creek, Michigan, with their publishing business, in 1855. : 9 He was one of four adherents who pledged substantial sums to convince Seventh-day Adventists Ellen G. John Preston Kellogg became a member of several revivalist movements, including the Baptists, the Congregationalist Church, and finally the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In addition to six children from his first marriage, John Preston Kellogg had 11 children with his second wife Ann, including John Harvey and his younger brother, Will Keith Kellogg. John Preston Kellogg and his family moved to Michigan in 1834, and after his first wife's death and his remarriage in 1842, to a farm in Tyrone Township. His father, John Preston Kellogg, was born in Hadley, Massachusetts his ancestry can be traced back to the founding of Hadley, Massachusetts, where a great-grandfather operated a ferry. John Harvey Kellogg was born in Tyrone, Michigan, on February 26, 1852, to John Preston Kellogg (1806–1881) and his second wife Ann Janette Stanley (1824–1893). This creation of the modern breakfast cereal changed "the American breakfast landscape forever." Personal life Many of the vegetarian foods that Kellogg developed and offered his patients were publicly marketed: Kellogg's brother, Will Keith Kellogg, is best known today for the invention of the breakfast cereal corn flakes. His approach to "biologic living" combined scientific knowledge with Adventist beliefs, promoting health reform, and temperance. He wrote extensively on science and health. Kellogg was a major leader in progressive health reform, particularly in the second phase of the clean living movement. Alongside discouraging 'racial mixing', Kellogg was in favor of sterilizing 'mentally defective persons', promoting a eugenics agenda while working on the Michigan Board of Health and helping to enact authorization to sterilize those deemed 'mentally defective' into state laws during his tenure. He co-founded the Race Betterment Foundation, co-organized several National Conferences on Race Betterment and attempted to create a 'eugenics registry'. Kellogg dedicated the last 30 years of his life to promoting eugenics.
The sanitarium approached treatment in a holistic manner, actively promoting vegetarianism, nutrition, the use of enemas to clear "intestinal flora", exercise, sun-bathing, and hydrotherapy, as well as the abstention from smoking tobacco, drinking alcoholic beverages, and sexual activity. The college operated independently until 1910, when it merged with Illinois State University.Īs an early proponent of the germ theory of disease, Kellogg was well ahead of his time in relating intestinal flora and the presence of bacteria in the intestines to health and disease. Kellogg helped to establish the American Medical Missionary College in 1895. Disagreements with other members of the SDA led to a major schism within the SDA : he was disfellowshipped in 1907, but continued to follow many of their beliefs and directed the sanitarium until his death. Becoming a Seventh-day Adventist as their beliefs shifted towards Trinitarianism during the 1890s, Adventists were "unable to accommodate the essentially liberal understanding of Christianity" exhibited by Kellogg, viewing his theology as pantheistic and unorthodox. He rejected original sin, inherent human depravity, and held non- Christocentric views, viewing Jesus' atonement as "his exemplary life" on Earth rather than on the Cross.
Kellogg was an advocate of theological modernism and held beliefs different from that of traditional Nicene Christianity. According to Encyclopædia Britannica, his "development of dry breakfast cereals was largely responsible for the creation of the flaked-cereal industry." Popular misconceptions falsely attribute various cultural practices, inventions, and historical events to Kellogg. Kellogg treated the rich and famous, as well as the poor who could not afford other hospitals. It combined aspects of a European spa, a hydrotherapy institution, a hospital and high-class hotel. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, founded by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. John Harvey Kellogg (Febru– December 14, 1943) was an American businessman, inventor, and physician who was an advocate of theological modernism and the Progressive Movement.
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