Press And Daily Dakotaian

DEATH OF MR. A. N. KELLOGG.
An Original Man and the Founder of
Auxiliary Printing.

At Thomasville, Ga., there died quietly last
week A. N. Kellogg, a man who did much
to revolutionize the newspaper system of this
country. Co-operation, wherever it has been
faithfully tried, has been found to be the
solution of most knotty problems that vex
humanity. Men accomplish by simply
hanging together. A. N. Kellogg led the
way for the co-operative publishing of the
smaller newspapers, and did well for them
and became a millionaire himself, by the
operation.

He was the founder of what he himself
called the system of "auxiliary printing,"
but which irreverent newspaper wits long
ago named "patent insides."

When the war broke out, in 1861, Mr. Kellogg
was editor and publisher of a small
country paper in Wisconsin, the Baraboo
Republic. His printer enlisted one day, and
left him without a typesetter. The chance
was that he would be unable to get his paper
out on the publishing day. He cast hurriedly
about him to know what to do, as the time
was short. The Madison Daily Journal pub-
lished a weekly supplement in addition to its
regular sheet, and in his dilemma it occurred
to Mr. Kellogg that he could buy an edition
of these supplements, fold them in with his
own paper, and send the double sheet out to
his subscribers. He had that week a half
sheet of his own paper. This was done.

Next it occurred to Mr. Kellogg that this
might be done every week, and that
the sheet might come to him printed on one
side, leaving the other to be filled in and
printed in his own office. This too was done.

When he saw how much time, labor and ex-
pense were saved by this plan, the next link
in the chain of new ideas came to him. He
would print a sheet of newspaper upon one
side, filling it with choice reading matter
and sell it to country editors who had been
harassed as he had been. Hence arose the
patent outside, and Mr. Kellogg's fortune
was made. The matter was sold to only one
newspaper in a place, so there could be no
conflict. The idea, started in Chicago and
spread like wildfire. Other and greater im-
provements have been made in the direction
of newspaper co-operation since, but to him
the credit of its founding belongs.

At this time nearly five thousand news-
papers in this country use "ready prints,"
on
Mr. Kellogg's plan, and of these more than
one-third are supplied from the Kellogg
houses, which are located in Chicago, St.
Louis, Kansas City, Memphis, Cincinnati
and Cleveland. This system has also been in-
troduced in England, though it has never
taken deep root there.

Mr. Kellogg was born March 20, 1832, at
Reading, Pa., and graduated in 1852 from
Columbia college, New York city. He was
the son of Frederick Kellogg, and the young-
est of six children. He married Annie E.
Barnes at Baraboo, Wis., Aug. 31, 1859.

He was generous and kindly in nature,
warmly devoted to his family, earnest even
in his animosities and true and steadfast to
his friends.

He had great executive ability, and
was a remarkable mathematician. His for-
tune was seriously impaired by the great
Chicago fire; but he went to work with
characteristic energy and enthusiasm and
more than regained all lost ground. Mr.
Kellogg was of delicate physique, and in his
later years an invalid. Few men of weak
bodies have accomplished so much. He trav-
eled extensively in Europe with his family in
the vain search for the health which he so much
coveted. While in Chicago he was a regular
attendant at Professor Swing's services, and
on his removal to New York he allied himself
with the Episcopal church. In politics he
was a Republican, having identified himself
with that party at its organization. His life
was one of unusual rectitude and purity, and
his daily walk was a constant example to
those with whom he came in contact. He
leaves a wife and two adult daughters, with
whom he lived a life of great felicity, and the
close attention given by them to his every
want undoubtedly prolonged his life. His re-
mains were taken to New York for inter-
ment.