Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

RS 9/14/51
Leonard F. Kellogg (1900-1990)
Papers, 1923-1990, undated


Descriptive summary

creator:

Kellogg, Leonard F. (1900-1990)
title:

Papers
dates:

1923-1990, undated
extent:

4.83 linear feet (11 document boxes, 1 half-document box, and 1 map case folder)
collection number:

RS 9/14/51
repository:

University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access:

Open for research.

 

This collection is stored offsite. Please contact the Special Collections Department at least two working days in advance.
publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department
preferred citation:

Leonard F. Kellogg Papers, RS 9/14/51, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Biographical note

Leonard Field Kellogg was born to Leonard F. and Carrie Adelia Kellogg in Marshalltown, Iowa, on February 4, 1900. He was a student at the University of Chicago (1918-1920) majoring in chemistry and physics, but transferred to the University of California in 1921 to study forestry. Following the completion of his B.S. (1924) in forestry, he served as a Junior Forester at Shasta National Forest (1924-1926) and also at the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station (1927) in Asheville, North Carolina. He then enrolled at Yale School of Forestry where he received his M.F. (1928) in forestry.

Kellogg then turned to research and became an Assistant Silviculturist (1928-1931) at the Central States Forest Experiment Station (CSFES) in Columbus, Ohio. The majority of his work there was concerned with walnut plantation management. He was promoted to Associate Silviculturist (1931-1935) and Silviculturist (1935-1949). He later spent one year as Silviculturist with the Ames Branch of the CSFES (1948). Kellogg joined the Iowa State faculty in 1949 as Professor (1949-1965) of forestry, teaching mensuration and forest management. He maintained this position until he was named Professor Emeritus (1965) and retired from teaching. As a professor, Kellogg was especially involved in Iowa State's forestry summer camps where students observed logging practices, learned about timber management, utilization of wood by industry, and engaged in research work in forestry. He instructed students in silviculture and forest biology at fifteen such camps and directed three.

Kellogg received the Frudden Award from the Society of American Foresters (1965) for his contributions to forestry in Iowa. He was an active lifetime member in the Society of American Foresters (1925), Sigma Xi (1924), Gamma Sigma Delta (1933), and the California Foresters Association. Throughout his career, Kellogg was the author of several articles and papers written extensively on forestry subjects.

Leonard Kellogg married Edith Almeda Lockwood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. They had two children, Virginia and Perry. Kellogg passed away on February 15, 1990, at his home in Ames, Iowa.

 

Collection description

This collection (1923-1990, undated) includes official, personal, and professional correspondence; course notes and syllabi; notes from faculty meetings; conference programs; correspondence and publications related to the Society of American Foresters; various research files on forestry subjects such as flood control, erosion prevention, lumber grading, disease prevention and characteristics on various species of trees; research on various regions, including the Ohio River Basin, the Tennessee River Basin, the Platte River, and a large amount of information on Iowa forestry, sawmills, national and state parks and forests. The collection also contains working manuscripts, published material, and some extension service reports. Also included are numerous photographs of forests, trees, aerial surveys, Native Americans, historical markers and artifacts, and photos of a Des Moines sawmill company. Contains geographic surveys of areas Kellogg researched, including the Platte River, the Tennessee River, and Indiana.

 

Organization

This collection listing is arranged alphabetically.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

Artifact Collection

Award: "Length of Service Honor Award" commemorating 20 years of service to the USDA (Artifact 2009-R008.01; see folder 8/9 for certificate)

1948

1

2

Bibliographies

undated

7

10

Bibliographies

undated

1

1

Biographical information

1948-1980

1

4

Biographical information: Iowa State University faculty information

undated

1

5

Coin and stamp collecting

1935-1947, undated

10

13

Correspondence: Aikman, J. M.

1938

10

12

Correspondence: Barrett, L. I.

1942

10

6

Correspondence: Cope, Joshua

1941

10

3

Correspondence: Cosrundage, Roy

1944-1945

10

4

Correspondence: Cunningham, Russ

1977

10

11

Correspondence: Day, Ralph

1945-1948

10

10

Correspondence: Fobes, E. W.

1943

10

2

Correspondence: Kellogg children

1947

10

7

Correspondence: Koch, Michael

1962

10

8

Correspondence: Lannan, Peter

1948

10

9

Correspondence: Leopold, Aldo (includes Report of the Iowa Game Survey)

1932

10

16

Correspondence: lumberman catalogs

1942-1943

10

14

Correspondence: Madson, John

1953

10

17-18

Correspondence: personal

1936-1948, undated

10

5

Correspondence: Petersen, William

1960-1964

11

3

Correspondence: photography

1928-1937

10

15

Correspondence: regarding paper, publication, and information requests

1940-1971, undated

10

1

Correspondence: Society of American Foresters

1929-1935

7

5

Forestry 304: northeast Iowa field trip

1954

7

1

Forestry 390: class notes

1952

Map case

 

Genealogy

undated

Map case

 

Hand drawn map of Allamakee County, Iowa

undated

7

6

Horizons: A Magazine of Landscape Architecture

1926

1

3

Journal of trip to Missouri

1928
12 9 List of publications undated

1

6

Newspaper clippings

1939-1964, undated

11

1

Notes on school year

1952-1953

11

4

Notes, staff meeting

1951-1952

8

4-5

Organizations: Central States Forest Experiment Station annual reports

1929-1948, undated

8

1

Organizations: Central States Forest Experiment Station progress reports

1928-1933, undated

9

7

Organizations: Central States Forest Experiment Station bi-monthly reports

1938-1942

9

5

Organizations: Central States Forest Experiment Station monthly reports

1929-1932

8

2-3

Organizations: Central States Forest Experiment Station monthly reports

1932-1942

9

6

Organizations: Central States Forest Experiment Station monthly reports

1933-1937

8

8

Organizations: Ohio Agricultural Experiment Stations

1939-1940

9

2

Organizations: Ohio Experiment Station

1941-1945, undated

8

9

Organizations: Society of American Foresters

1937-1938

9

3

Organizations: Society of American Foresters Committee on Subsections

1937

9

1

Organizations: United States Forest Service Collection list of photographs

1930, undated

8

7

Organizations: USDA "Length of Service Honor Award" (see pin in artifact collection 2009-R008)

1948

8

6

Organizations: various forestry groups notes and correspondence

1941-1962, undated

2

7

Paper: "A Report of the First Measurement of the Demonstration Plantations Near Brownstown, Jackson County, Indiana"

1930

2

9

Paper: "Agricultural Land Available for Forestry"

undated

1

7

Paper: "Amounts and Grades of Lumber from Central Hardwoods in Iowa"

1950

2

10

Paper: "Black Locust" first draft

1935

1

8-9

Paper: "History and Present Status of Black Walnut Plantations in the Central States Region" manuscript

1940

2

6

Paper: "Indiana Soils"

undated

2

4

Paper: "Preliminary Report of Yields of Lumber by Grades from Iowa Timber"

1947-1948

2

5

Paper: "Preliminary Report on Lumber Production in Iowa"

1943

2

3

Paper: "Reforestation of Barren Lands"

undated

2

11

Paper: "Report on a Reconnaissance of the Relation of the Forest Purchase Units in Southern Iowa to the 1947 Floods"

1947

2

8

Paper: "Some Bark Thicknesses for Several Species in Ohio"

1944, undated

2

1

Paper: "The Ohio River Basin"

1933

1

11

Paper: "The Ohio River Basin" final draft

1933

1

10

Paper: "The Tennessee River Watershed"

1933

2

2

Paper: "Yellow Poplar Primer"

1930

11

2

Photographs, black walnut tree (2- 8x10" b/w, 1- 6x10" b/w)

undated

12

4

Photographs: black walnuts (4- 10x12" b/w, 1- 8x10" b/w, 1- 6x8" b/w, 18- 4x5" b/w, 2- 5x7" b/w)

1924

12

3

Photographs: black walnuts for shade and timber (1- 3x4" b/w, 16- 4x5" b/w)

1924

11

15

Photographs: chestnut trees in Iowa (7- 4x5" b/w)

1924

10

25

Photographs: eastern states forest and plant life (12- 5x7" b/w, 7- 4x6" b/w, 2- 3x5" b/w)

1950-1970, undated

Map case

 

Photographs: Eversman

undated

10

24

Photographs: Fleming Mill (1- 8x5" b/w)

undated

10

26

Photographs: Growth Conference members (1- 4x6" b/w)

1941

12

2

Photographs: hazels and filberts (5- 4x5" b/w)

1924

Map case

 

Photographs: hiccan tree

undated

11

12

Photographs: hiccans (2- 10x12" b/w, 5- 8x10" b/w, 1- 6x10" b/w, 5- 4x5" b/w)

1924

11

11

Photographs: hiccans intermediates (1- 10x12" b/w, 6- 4x5" b/w)

1924

12

6

Photographs: Indian relics (1- 8x10" b/w)

undated

10

22

Photographs: Iowa State Campanile (1- 4x6" b/w)

undated

10

21

Photographs: logs (6- 2.5x3.5" b/w)

undated

11

18

Photographs: men and women instrumental in saving nut trees (4- 3x4" b/w, 1- 1x2.5" b/w, 1- 4x6" b/w)

undated

11

16

Photographs: Mississippi nut lands (1- 8x10" b/w, 2- 5x7" b/w, 2- 4x5" b/w)

1924

11

17

Photographs: Native Americans – Meskwaki (2- 8x10" b/w, 17- 4x6" b/w, 20- 6x8" b/w, 3- 3x4" b/w, 1- 4x12" b/w)

1924

10

20

Photographs: New England (21- 2.5x4" b/w, 1- 4x6" b/w, 1- 5x7" b/w)

1927

11

14

Photographs: pecans (12- 4x5" b/w, 2- 5x7" b/w, 1- 8x10" b/w, 3- 10x12" b/w)

undated

11

9

Photographs: pests of nut trees (includes illustration by Sara Hoke) (10- 4x5" b/w)

1924

12

1

Photographs: propagation (12- 4x5" b/w)

1924

11

8

Photographs: scenery (2- 8x6" b/w, 1- 4x6" b/w, 3- 3x5" b/w)

undated

12

8

Photographs: shagbark hickories (1- 10x12" b/w, 3- 8x10" b/w, 2- 6x9" b/w, 19- 4x5" b/w)

1924

11

10

Photographs: shellbark hickories (1- 8x10" b/w, 1- 5x7" b/w, 4- 4x5" b/w)

1924

12

7

Photographs: special hickories (1- 10x12" b/w, 2- 8x10" b/w, 1- 6x9" b/w, 6- 4x5" b/w)

1924

12

5

Photographs: the seven nut tree (3- 8x10" b/w, 2- 4x5" b/w)

undated

10

23

Photographs: trees and prairie (9- 4x6" b/w)

1935

10

19

Photographs: various trees (1- 8x10" b/w, 35- 4x6" b/w, 8- 3x5" b/w)

1923-1934, undated

10

27

Photographs: various trees (7- 4.5x7" b/w, 1- 6.5x8" b/w)

undated

11

13

Photographs: walnuts and butternuts (3- 4x5" b/w, 1- 6x7" b/w)

undated

3

11

Research: American white elm (includes 1- 5x7" b/w, 2- 3x5" b/w photographs)

1930-1950, undated

6

5

Research: basswood

undated

3

3

Research: beech (includes 1- 3x5" b/w photograph)

1927-1942, undated

5

1-2

Research: black locust

1931-1936, undated

5

4-7

Research: black walnut

1936-1978, undated

7

7

Research: census of agriculture

1959

4

7

Research: chestnut oak (quercus montana)

1929-1941, undated

4

4

Research: coal stripping in the Midwest

undated

3

9

Research: Dutch elm disease

1959

7

12

Research: fighting forest and grass fires

1946-1950

4

5-6

Research: flood control

1935-1939, undated

3

8

Research: geological maps of the Midwest

undated

3

4

Research: hemlock (includes 8- 3x5" b/w photographs)

1927-1947, undated

4

2

Research: Indiana and Illinois soil erosion

1929-1932, undated

7

14

Research: Iowa forest statistics

1956, undated

7

3-4

Research: Iowa forest surveys

1935-1958, undated

7

11

Research: Iowa forests

undated

7

2

Research: Iowa forests information

1947-1964

7

8

Research: key and description of some major upland soil types of Iowa (with map)

1943

4

1

Research: Licking River watershed

undated

3

1

Research: list of mimeograph folders on American woods

undated

7

15

Research: lumber production

1942

7

18

Research: maple tree notes, papers, and correspondence

1927-1948, undated

7

13

Research: maps of Iowa forests (Shimek, B.)

1939

7

17

Research: notes on "Ohio Maple Syrup Crop"

1938

4

3

Research: nursery output

undated

4

9

Research: oak

1928-1947, undated

3

12

Research: Ohio forest survey

1939-1945, undated

6

1-2

Research: Ohio mensuration studies

1941-1942, undated

6

6-8

Research: Ohio soil erosion and flooding

1936-1945, undated

4

11

Research: red cedar

1928-1943

4

10

Research: red oak (quercus barcalis)

1929-1950, undated

3

5

Research: red pine

1962

7

9

Research: RIFC-CS Missouri River survey

1948

7

16

Research: sawmill information

1942-1953, undated

3

2

Research: Tennessee River Basin

undated

5

3

Research: tree diseases

1935-1951, undated

3

6-7

Research: tree volume tables for Ohio

1941-1942

9

4

Research: tree volume tables for various states

1941

6

3-4

Research: USDA watershed studies

1927-1928

3

10

Research: white ash (fraximus americana)

1928-1943, undated

4

8

Research: white oak (quercus alba)

1928,undated

3

13

Research: white pine

undated

2

12-14

Research: yellow poplar

1925-1945, undated

10

28

Slides: Iowa-Missouri Walnut Company Mill (2 slides)

1961

9

8

Syllabus: Forestry 126

1950

11

5

Syllabus: Forestry 126

1950

11

6

Syllabus: Mathematics 143

undated

11

7

U.S. geological survey of White Mountains, New Hampshire

1927, undated