WK Kellogg
WK Kellogg was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States on April 7th, 1860 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 91, WK Kellogg biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Will Keith Kellogg, who was traditionally referred to as W.K. Kellogg was born in 1860 and 1951, and is best known as the inventor of the Kellogg Company, which now produces a large variety of popular breakfast cereals.
He was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and followed vegetarianism as a dietary rule taught by his church.
He later founded the Kellogg Arabian Ranch and made it a nationally recognized center for Arabian horse raising.
Kellogg founded the Kellogg Foundation in 1934 with $66 million in Kellogg company stock and investments, a gift that would be worth more than billion dollars in today's economy.
Kellogg continued to be a major philanthropist throughout his life.
Early career
As a young businessman, Kellogg started out selling brooms in his hometown of Battle Creek, Michigan. In December, 1878, W.K. Kellogg was hired by George H. King at the urging of James Springer White, also known as Elder White, to help run his new broom factory in Dallas, Texas. W.K. returned home in November, 1879 to help his brother John Harvey Kellogg manage the Battle Creek Sanitarium. The Sanitarium, originally the Western Health Reform Institute, was part of a pioneering effort based on the health principles advocated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
John Kellogg described the Sanitarium system as "a composite physiologic method comprising hydrotherapy, phototherapy, thermotherapy, electrotherapy, mechanotherapy, dietetics, physical culture, cold-air cure, eugenics, and health training".
The Kelloggs pioneered the process of making flaked cereal. Because of the commercial potential of the discovery, W.K. wanted it kept a secret. However, John allowed anyone in the sanitarium to observe the flaking process and one sanitarium guest, C. W. Post, copied the process to start his own company. That company became Post Cereals and later General Foods, the source of Post's first million dollars. This upset W.K. to the extent that he left the sanitarium to create his own company.