Charlotte Kellogg
American author and activist
Charlotte Kellogg (née Hoffman; May 21, 1874 – May 8, 1960) was an American author and social activist. She was married to American entomologist Vernon Lyman Kellogg.
Early life
Charlotte Kellogg was born Charlotte Hoffman on May 21, 1874, in Grand Island, Nebraska. She was the daughter of Charles Meno Hoffman (1842-1900) and Regula Rachel Baumgartner (1852-1933). In 1900 she received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta.
After five years (1903–1907) as head of the English department at the Anna Head School in Berkeley, California, in 1908 in Florence she married Vernon Lyman Kellogg. Two years later, she gave birth to their only daughter, Jean Kellogg.
In August 1914, she played Chisera, a Medicine Woman of the Paiutes in the play The Arrow Maker, produced by Mary Hunter Austin at the Forest Theater in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
In 1916 she traveled to Brussels with Jean and worked for a year with the Commission for Relief in Belgium, at the special request of the President. Kellogg studied the women of Belgium and in 1917 published Women of Belgium: Turning Tragedy to Triumph, followed by Bobbins of Belgium (1920).
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