W.K. Kellogg Biography

W.K. Kellogg biography

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NAME: Will Keith Kellogg
OCCUPATION: Business Leader, Philanthropist
BIRTH DATE: April 07, 1860
DEATH DATE: October 06, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH: Battle Creek, Michigan

PLACE OF DEATH: Battle Creek, Michigan

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W.K. Kellogg founded the Kellogg Company, which makes cereal products that have become popular around the world.

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W.K. Kellogg founded the W.K. Kellogg Company, the maker of breakfast cereal, upon finding that cereal products were advocated as health foods. The company originally made only toasted cornflakes but later added other products. In 1930 Kellogg established the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which has donated large sums of money in support of social-improvement efforts, especially child welfare.

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(born April 7, 1860, Battle Creek, Mich., U.S.—died Oct. 6, 1951, Battle Creek) American industrialist and philanthropist who founded (1906) the W.K. Kellogg Company to manufacture cereal products as breakfast foods. His cereals have found widespread use throughout the United States.

Kellogg established the firm after working with his brother John Harvey Kellogg, a physician who directed the Battle Creek Sanitarium, where cereal products were advocated as health foods. The company originally made only toasted cornflakes but later added other products. In 1930 Kellogg established the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which has donated large sums of money in support of efforts at social improvement, particularly programs of child welfare.