RARE “The Conscientious Objector\" Walter Guest Kellogg Signed Check Dated 1919 For Sale

Up for sale "The Conscientious Objector" Walter Guest Kellogg Signed Check Dated 1919.

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Walter

Guest Kellogg was born in Ogdensburg April 23, 1877 and was the son of John

Morris Kellogg and Henrietta Guest Kellog. He attended Ogdensburg Free Academy

and entered Union College in 1895 where he remained for a year before

transferring to Columbia College of Columbia University in New York. He was

president of his freshman class at Union and class poet of his senior class of

1899 at Columbia. He studied Law at Columbia Law School and was admitted to the

NY bar in 1901. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by St.

Lawrence University in 1917; an L.L.D. by Columbia in 1929 and the degree of

Doctor of Letters by Union in 1949. 

In 1906 he married Mary Peronne Hall, daughter of Ogdensburg Mayor and

philanthropist George Hall. She died of a stroke in Pasadena California in 1940.  After being admitted to the NY bar in 1901,

Mr. Kellogg practiced law with in Ogdensburg until he joined the Army in 1917

as a major in the Judge Advocate General's Department. During World War I he

was appointed the Chairman of the Board of Inquiry on Conscientious Objectors.

He traveled to all Army camps studying the concsientious objectors and wrote a

book entitled "The Conscientious Objector" which became a standard

work of the US Army and was used as a text book at West Point.

He lived in New York briefly after the war where he was a

special counsel for the General Electric company, but then returned to

Ogdensburg to resume the practice of Law.

In 1929 he published a historical novel, "Parish's

Fancy" based on the dramatic career of George Parish of Ogdensburg and his

beautiful mistress, Ameriga Vespucci. He also wrote extensively for many

leading magazines. In 1942, he married a second time to Agnes Lauriha of

Los Angeles, California. She survived him along with a brother-in-law.