WK Kellogg

Entrepreneur

Birthday April 7, 1860

Birth Sign Aries

Birthplace Battle Creek, MI

DEATH DATE Oct 6, 1951 (91)

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About

Food manufacturer and entrepreneur who founded the Kellogg Company, a leading distributor of breakfast cereal. He was also a breeder and stable owner of Arabian horses.

Before Fame

He spent his early adulthood years working as a broom salesman and assisting his brother in the administration of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan.

Trivia

He became a breeder of Arabian horses in his later life, and he also turned to philanthropy in 1934, founding the Kellogg Foundation.

Family Life

He was married twice-- to Ella Davis and Carrie Staines-- and fathered four sons and one daughter.

Associated With

One of Kellogg's Arabian stallions was ridden by actor Rudolph Valentino in the 1926 film, Son of the Sheik.