Will Keith Kellogg
Will Keith Kellogg, generally referred to as W.K. Kellogg (April 7, 1860 – October 6, 1951), was an American industrialist in food manufacturing, best known as the founder of the Kellogg Company, which to this day produces a wide variety of popular breakfast cereals. He was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and practiced vegetarianism as a dietary principle taught by his church. Later, he founded the Kellogg Arabian Ranch and made it into a renowned establishment for breeding of Arabian horses. Kellogg started the Kellogg Foundation in 1934 with $66 million in Kellogg company stock and investments, a donation that would be worth over a billion dollars in today's economy. Kellogg continued to be a major philanthropist throughout his life.
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Birth date | April 07, 1860 |
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Birth name | Will Keith Kellogg |
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Date of death | October 06, 1951 |
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Education | Parson%E2%80%99s Business College |
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- http://web.archive.org/web/20061102030914/http:/www.kelloggs100.com/history.html
- http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/kellogg.html
- http://www.kelloggs100.com/history.html
- http://www.netstate.com/states/peop/people/mi_wkk.htm
- http://www.wikitree.org/index.php?title=John_Preston_Kellogg
- http://www.wkkf.org/default.aspx?tabid=63&ItemID=3&NID=37&LanguageID=0