Portia Kellogg

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Personal and Family Information

Portia was born on 15 Mar 1813 in Manlius Square, Onondaga Cty, New York, the daughter of Leonard Kellogg and Sally French.

She died on 23 Feb 1903 in Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey.

Her husband was John Gage, who she married on 4 Oct 1830 in Watertown, Jefferson Cty, New York. Their eleven known children were Mary (1831-1832), Jared Dana (1834-1868), Asahel (1836-1893), Maria (1839-1840), Willie (1841-1841), Henry H (1842-1911), Cornelia (1845-1845), John Porcius (1846-1932), Lymoin (1850-1852), Augustus Neander (1852-1910) and Birdie (1856-1859).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)


 

Portia Kellogg
(1813-1903)

 

Leonard Kellogg
(1781-1817)

 

Phineas Kellogg
(1756-1835)

 

Abraham Kellogg
(1720-1805)

 
   

Sarah Marsh
(c1724-1796)

 
   

Olive Fraiser
(1753-<1833)

   
 
 
     
 
 
   

Sally French
(1789-1870)

 

John French
(1765-<1850)

   
 
 
     
 
 
   

Abigail B Gage
(1764-1860)

 

James Gage
(1736-1815)

+
   

Sarah Lamson
(1739-1832)

 

Events

EventDateDetailsSourceMultimediaNotes
Birth15 MAR 1813
Place: Manlius Square, Onondaga Cty, New York
Death23 FEB 1903
Place: Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey
Age: 89y 11m 11d
Obit - Portia Kellogg Gage
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Census16 JUL 1860
Place: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Age: 47 b NY
Address: ward 5 dwelling 1554 family 1794 with husband and childred
Census18 AUG 1870
Place: Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey
Age: 58 b New York
Address: dwelling 1567 family 1372 with husband and 4 children
Census16 JUN 1900
Place: Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey
Age: 87
Address: 917 East Ave, dwelling 435 family 557 Gage, Portia, K, head wf born Mar 1813, age 87, widow, m 60x yrs, mother of 11, 3 living, born New York, f&m New York Kellogg, Leonra H, niece wf, born Nov 1858 age 41, single born Illinois, f&m New York Fay, Emma A, niece, wf born Aug 1864 age 35, single born Illinois, f&m New York Buckhaly, Minnie wf born Nov 1848, age 51 widow, married 16 yrs, mother of 4 , 3 living, born Germany, f&m Germany
BurialFEB 1903
Place: Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey
Age: 20 days before 90 th birthday
Address: Siloam Cemetery, Vineland, Block 6, lot 7, #2 “Here lies Vinelands first suffragette” findagrave 206936062

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Notes

Note 1

15 JUL 1836 left Watertown, NY to Chicago Ill, population 3,000

1848 moved to 1500 acre farm, 35 miles from Chicago

OCT 1864 moved to Vineland, New Jersey from Gages Lake, Illinois

Note 2

Portia Gage Tries to Vote in Vineland, 1868

Source, Portia Gage to C. B. Campbell, March 12, 1868. Women’s Rights and Suffrage File,

Collections of the Vineland Historical Society.

Courtesy, Vineland Historical Society

Portia Kellogg Gage (1813-1903), one of the organizers of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association in 1867, was probably one of the first of the early New Jersey suffragists to go to the polls in protest of her disenfranchisement. Her experience was reported in Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony’s newspaper, The Revolution, and inspired women elsewhere to try her tactic. In this communiqué with a male suffragist in Vineland, Gage described her experience trying to vote in a municipal election.

I was induced to offer a vote first, because I felt it a duty, and second, out of curiosity. I wanted to know how men did behave at the polls. We have always been told that it was a dangerous place, one where it would not be safe for a woman to make her appearance, that the very atmosphere at the polls was freighted with pollution for women…. I feel stronger, wiser and better for having come in contact with the political influence of last Tuesday at the polls. My fears were groundless, as the men whom I there met were quiet and well behaved, and treated me as respectfully as though I were in a Church or lecture room.

Of course I felt somewhat embarrassed, being the only woman in the room but I walked through, being kindly greeted by some, not “jostled” or molested by any. On reaching the farther end of the Hall, not knowing how to proceed, I asked my husband; he gave me a ballot and told me who was to receive it; the receiver took it and asked my name; then turning to the man on his right asked if that name was registered; being answered in the negative he returned the vote saying the law would not allow him to receive it as my name was not on the register–next year if nothing happens to prevent, I shall offer my name for registration.

findagrave 206936062

There is a new white stone on her grave, and a placque next to it. The grave is near the front of the cemetery, on the 2nd road from the front border. Almost directly in line with the little chapel

Sources

  1. Kelloggs in the Old World and the New
    Source: Kelloggs in the Old World and the New
    Authors: Timothy Hopkins member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
    Date: 1903
    Publisher: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co San Franciso, California books.google.com
  2. Kelloggs in the Old World and the New
    Source: Kelloggs in the Old World and the New
    Authors: Timothy Hopkins member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
    Date: 1903
    Publisher: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co San Franciso, California books.google.com