Charles Edwin Kellogg Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS0091

Staff Only

Content Description

The Charles Edwin Kellogg Papers contain scripts of Kellogg's speeches, articles, reviews, reprints, correspondence, field notes, journals, slides, photographs, soil maps, and publications relating to soil science and agriculture. Publications include many of the rare works of soil science pioneers such as Glinka, Ruffin, Evelyn, Young, and Marbut.

Dates

Creation: 1929-1975
Creation: Majority of material found within 1947-1971

Conditions Governing Access

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Biographical Sketch

Charles Edwin Kellogg (1902-1980) began his career at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1934 as a soil technologist on the National Cooperative Soil Survey. He was appointed chief of the Soil Survey Division of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils in 1935 (which became a part of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering in 1939). A prolific writer, Kellogg played a major part in outlining and writing Soils and Man, the USDA's Yearbook of Agriculture for 1938. He wrote the first edition of the Soil Survey Manual in 1939, which was subsequently adopted by soil survey organizations throughout the world. He advised national and international research and agricultural organizations, helping to organize research and promote improved farming systems for efficient production, soil conservation, and high standards of rural living. While traveling to other countries to learn farming methods and to assist in agricultural development programs, Kellogg wrote field notes and took photographs of his soil surveys and of other experiences during the trips. When he retired from USDA in 1971, Kellogg was the deputy administrator of the Soil Conservation Service.