Kelloggville is the name of a historical community and post office

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 located in what was once Paris Township

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, Kent County

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 in the U.S. state

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 of Michigan

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. The area is now within the city of Kentwood

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, south of Grand Rapids

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 .

The community was named for Francis William Kellogg

Francis William Kellogg

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, who located the headquarters of his lumbering firm, Kellogg, White & Co., there about 1845.

The first permanent white settler was said to be Alexander Clark, who arrived in 1837.