Location: 1709 S. Prairie
Occupants: Palmer V. Kellogg, Thomas Murdoch, Charles Schwartz
Life Span: 1881-
Architect:
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1884
Kellogg Palmer V. Mrs. house 1709 Prairie av.
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1885
Kellogg Palmer V. Mrs. house 1709 Prairie av.
Chicago Tribune, October 9, 1872
CHARLES P. KELLOGG & CO.
Among the substantial firms which have been doing business in Chicago for nearly a quarter of a century, none is better known than that of Charles P. Kellogg & Co., dealers in clothing and furnishing goods. They are at present doing business in Field & Leiter’s immense building, at the corner of Market and Madison streets, the eastern end of which they occupy, with their large and varied stock, four lofts, each 88x 190 feet. The commencement of their business dates back to an early period in the brief but prosperous history of Chicago. They were the first firm in the city that did a jobbing business in clothing. They began their trade in a modest building on South Water street, near Wells, where they remained about three years, at the expiration of that time moving into a handsome iron-front building at the corner of Wells and the same street. Continued prosperity rendered another change necessary, and the year 1860 found them at No, 27 Lake street in still more commodious quarters. A few years later they changed to Nos. 24 and 26 Lake street, where they were at the time of the fire. Their business, since its inauguration, has been characterized by a steady and healthy increase from year to year, The first year of their existence their soles aggregate $160,000, something unusual in a new firm that commenced operations in a new city, But even that seems small in the light of their transactions et the present time. Their annual sales are now immense, being fully equal in amount to those largest firms doing business in the same locality, in different departments of trade, such an extraordinary stimulus has the fire, which seemed at first an irreparable disaster, given to the commerce of Chicago. But it is not only in the indirect way of trade that Charles P. Kellogg & Co. contribute to the material wealth of the city. All of their clothing is made here, furnishing employment to not less than 3,000 people. A firm that supports so many employes, and all those dependent upon those employes, lays the city where it does business under a certain degree of obligation that should meet with substantial recognition.
Chicago Tribune, December 31, 1881
Charles P. Kellogg & Co.,
the oldest clothing-house in Chicago, began business here in 1852, and was first establisited by Palmer V. Kellogg, the senior member of the present firm. From this tirst it occupied a leading position in its line, and it has more than kept pace with the progress of Chicago and the West. It is strictly a wholesale house, and, while The Tribune does not feel justified in giving precedence to either of the three houses named in respect to volume of business and is aware that in the mutations of trade what is first today may be second tomorrow, and that public estimate is often at fault, yet it is fair to say that though each house has business friends who claim for it the first position, that the concurrent belief of a large majority assign to this house the first place—primus inter pares—chief among equals.
Its trade now extends north into Canada, east to the Alleghenies, south to the Mexican Gulf, and west to the Pacific. We are so accustomed to business on a large scale and so familiarized to vast transactions that it is only when strangers visit us and express their astonishment at the volume of trade done by such a house as Charles P. Kellogg & Co. that we open our eyes to the fact that this truly representative Chicago house occupies such a conspicuous position in the clothing trade of the country.
It would be a great mistake to suppose that such a house rests on its laurels and relaxes its industry and enterprise. On the contrary, it stretches out its Briarean arms over half a continent, inviting thirty millions of people to be clothed in suitable garments at the lowest possible cost. And dealers have learned by past experience that it is safe and profitable to take their word and buy their goods. And this is the way they gather them in.
Inter Ocean, October 19, 1883
MR. PALMER V, KELLOGG, one of Chicago’s old and respected business men, died at his residence, No. 1709 Prairie avenue, of heart disease.
Inter Ocean, November 16, 1883
PALMER V. KELLOGG’S WILL.
A Comfortable Estate
The will of the late Palmer V. Kellogg, formerly of the firm of Charles P. Kellogg & Co., was yesterday admitted to probate. Charles E. Kellogg, William H. Kellogg, and George Eckart were appointed executors, nothing but their individual bond being required under the will. The amount fixed was $1,150,000. The real estate consists only of the homestead at No. 1709 Prairie avenue. The personal property is valued at $575,000. The will bequeaths the homestead and the income from $100,000 to the widow during her life, in lieu of all dower. After her death the homestead goes to Wm. H. Kellogg, a son, Mrs. Anna S. Kellogg, Mrs. Mary W. Doane, Emma C. Kellogg, and Grace O. Kellors, daughters of testator, share and abare alike. The testator also leaves to Palmer V. and Emma L. Kellogg, children of Charles P. Kellogg, $1,000 each at the age of 21 years. To his brother, Charles C. Kellogg. and his three sisters, Mrs. Cynthia K. Rockwell, Mrs. Sarah Sheffield, and Mrs. Mary Hitchcock, $500 each. The residue of the real estate and personal estate is to be equally divided among the five children, Anna S., Emma C., Grace O., and William H. Kellogg and Mary W. Doane. In case the widow refuses to accept the provisions of the will, then the daughter, Grace O, Kellogg, is to have nothing from the estate, her share to be divided among the other children.
- 1709 S. Prairie Ave.
Robinson Fire Insurance Map
1886
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