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Merritt Gardner Kellogg

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Merritt Gardner Kellogg

Birth
Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
20 Dec 1921 (aged 89)
Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California, USA
Burial
Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California, USA
Plot
Metheson, plot 439, grave 3
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Merritt earned his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College. He then attended Trall' s school to earn a medical degree during the winter term of 1867-as small break from his missionary work in California. In 1877-1878 he built and then directed the Rural Health Retreat in the Napa Valley (now St. Helena Hospital). Starting in 1893, he spent a decade working on missionary and health reform work in the South Pacific Islands and Australia, where he established the Seventh-day Adventist Sanitariums in Sydney and Tonga.

Merritt was a missionary, pastor & doctor.

First marriage was to Louisa Rawson (1834-1894). They had a son-Charles Merritt (1856-1889)

Second wife was Eleanor Kathleen Nolan-they married July 29, 1895 in Australia. She was born 1874 in Rosewater, Australia.

They had two children:
Harold 1899 born Tonga
Muriel 1906 born CA-died 2003 CA

After Merritt died, Eleanor married Claude Basford. He died in 1940 & Eleanor died March 25, 1949 in Los Angeles, CA
Merritt earned his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College. He then attended Trall' s school to earn a medical degree during the winter term of 1867-as small break from his missionary work in California. In 1877-1878 he built and then directed the Rural Health Retreat in the Napa Valley (now St. Helena Hospital). Starting in 1893, he spent a decade working on missionary and health reform work in the South Pacific Islands and Australia, where he established the Seventh-day Adventist Sanitariums in Sydney and Tonga.

Merritt was a missionary, pastor & doctor.

First marriage was to Louisa Rawson (1834-1894). They had a son-Charles Merritt (1856-1889)

Second wife was Eleanor Kathleen Nolan-they married July 29, 1895 in Australia. She was born 1874 in Rosewater, Australia.

They had two children:
Harold 1899 born Tonga
Muriel 1906 born CA-died 2003 CA

After Merritt died, Eleanor married Claude Basford. He died in 1940 & Eleanor died March 25, 1949 in Los Angeles, CA

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M. G. K. 1833 - 1921

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  • Created by: MK
  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186183994/merritt_gardner-kellogg: accessed ), memorial page for Merritt Gardner Kellogg (28 Mar 1832–20 Dec 1921), Find a Grave Memorial ID 186183994, citing Oak Mound Cemetery, Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California, USA; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by MK (contributor 46964191).