NATHANIEL OLMSTEAD KELLOGG.

SENATOR IN CONNECTICUT LEGISLATURE, 1849.*

Rev. Ebenezer KELLOGG, grandfather of Nathaniel O., was the first pastor of the church in Vernon, Conn., organized in 1762, and he held the relation fifty-four years.

Nathaniel O. Kellogg was born at Vernon in 1796; died there in 1854.

By the loss at the age of eleven months of a praying mother, he was brought early in life into close relations with his grandpar

ents.

Entering upon manhood, he embarked in the manufacture of woollen goods in his native town.

He was a Representative in the State Legislature in 1846 and 1848; and served in the State Senate in 1849.

"At the age of nineteen, while at work in a place where the society was not congenial with his taste, he was in the habit of spending evenings in reading religious books to an aged lady of intelligence and piety. On his marriage with Miss Eliza Nash, of Stockbridge, Mass., in 1822, he immediately commenced family prayer and never afterward relinquished the practice, although his public profession of religion did not occur until ten years from that time. During those years he was also in the habit of attending the weekly prayer meeting. In the great revival which prevailed in 1831, his feelings were deeply interested, and in 1832 he united with the church. He prayed in his closet, and when abroad he was in the habit of keeping up this closet devotion under circumstances in which it is often omitted. During a season of sickness while abroad in London, he said he found

* "Discourse," by Rev. Albert Smith.

much comfort in going through all the questions in the Shorter Catechism, and reciting the answers."

"Mr. Kellogg possessed more than ordinary courtesy. His manners were kind and winning, and he was a man whom it was always pleasant to meet."

AMOS KENDALL.

POSTMASTER-GENERAL OF UNITED STATES, 1835-1840.*

AMOS KENDALL was born in Dunstable, Mass., August 16, 1789; died in Washington, D. C., June 12, 1869.

Until the age of sixteen, he worked with his father, a farmer in moderate circumstances. He was a student at the Academies of New Ipswich and Groton, taught school at North Reading, and with the money thus obtained, entered Dartmouth College. He taught school from time to time during his course, and in 1811 "graduated the first in his class."

He studied law with W. B. Richardson of Groton, Mass., subsequently Chief-Justice of New Hampshire, was admitted to the Bar, and in the spring of 1814 removed to Lexington, Ky. Finding his professional labors not immediately remunerative, he again resorted to teaching, and for several months was a tutor in the family of Henry Clay. Subsequently he established himself in Georgetown, where he received an appointment as Postmaster, and where he edited a local newspaper. In 1829 he was appointed by President Jackson Fourth Auditor of the Treasury; in May, 1835, he was promoted to the position of PostmasterGeneral of the United States, in which position he continued under President Van Buren until May, 1840. He introduced reforms, and cleared the department of debt. He subsequently took up his permanent residence in Washington City.

"Mr. Kendall was seventy-six years old when he was baptized, at which time he became a teacher in the Sunday School. He gave $6000 to found six scholarships in Columbia College, about $150,000 towards the erection and subsequent rebuilding of the Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, and some $24,000 for * Appleton; Lanman; Boston Recorder; Boston Watchman.

Mission Sunday School purposes. He founded the Washington deaf and dumb asylum by a donation of $20,000, and was its first President.”

Washington correspondence, dated November 27, 1863, gives the following:

"My own pastor being absent from the city, I kept my Thanksgiving at the Calvary Baptist Church, where Rev. T. R. Howlett preaches. Here I sat next to Hon. Amos Kendall, whose old age shames many a younger man in his diligent attendance on divine worship. . . . Thirty years ago, as Postmaster-General, he justified the South in breaking open the mails, to see if they contained any anti-slavery correspondence.

"He was the master mind of General Jackson's Cabinet, and being himself a slave-owner, made every public measure bear a Southern impression. To-day, the old ex-Postmaster-General founds the most anti-slavery church in Washington."

AMOS LAWRENCE.

REPRESENTATIVE IN MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE, 1822.*

SAMUEL LAWRENCE, father of Amos, and son of Captain Amos Lawrence, Sr., was an officer in the Continental Army, and received a bullet through his cap at the battle of Bunker Hill. The son writes: My father and mother were acquainted from their childhood, and in 1777, were married. While the ceremony was going forward, the signal was given to call all soldiers to their posts; and within the hour, he left his wife and friends, to join his regiment, then at Cambridge."

Amos Lawrence was born in Groton, Mass., April 22, 1786; died in Boston, December 31, 1852.

When twenty-one years of age, he accepted a position as clerk in a mercantile house in Boston. In the course of a few months, a proposition was extended to him to become a partner, but the business principles of the establishment he did not approve, and he declined. The firm soon failed.

In December, 1807, he commenced business on his own account. At a subsequent date he wrote: "On the 1st of January, 1814, I took my brother Abbott into partnership on equal shares, putting fifty thousand dollars that I had then earned into the concern."

He was elected a Representative to the State Legislature from Boston, for the session of 1821 and 1822. His commercial pursuits were exacting, but he attended faithfully to the duties of his position, even at the expense of his private interest.

In his diary, January 1, 1852, he writes: "The outgoes for all objects (benevolent and charitable) since January 1, 1842, have been six hundred and four thousand dollars."

"I have never in my life smoked a cigar, says Mr. Lawrence. *"Life of Amos Lawrence," by William Lawrence.