: 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).
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. His creation of the modern breakfast cereal changed "the American breakfast landscape forever." 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. Many of the vegetarian foods that Kellogg developed and offered his patients were publicly marketed: Kellogg is best known today for the invention of the breakfast cereal corn flakes, originally intended to be an anaphrodisiac, made by his brother, Will Keith Kellogg. His promotion of developing anaphrodisiac foods was based on these beliefs. 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. The college operated independently until 1910, when it merged with Illinois State University. Kellogg also helped to establish the American Medical Missionary College in 1895. Kellogg treated the rich and famous, as well as the poor who could not afford other hospitals.ĭisagreements with other members of the church led to a major schism within the denomination: Kellogg was disfellowshipped in 1907, but continued to follow many Adventist beliefs and directed the sanitarium until his death in 1943. It combined aspects of a European spa, a hydrotherapy institution, a hospital and a high-class hotel. The sanitarium was founded by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. John Harvey Kellogg (Febru– December 14, 1943) was an American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, eugenicist, and businessman.