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Brainerd Kellogg
1834–1920
Best remembered for helping shape how generations of students learned grammar, this 19th-century educator wrote practical English textbooks that stayed influential for decades. His name is especially linked to the Reed–Kellogg system of sentence diagramming, still recognized by many students and teachers today.
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Higher Lessons in English: A work on English grammar and composition
by Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg
About the author
Born in Champlain, New York, on August 15, 1834, Brainerd Kellogg was an American educator, professor, and textbook writer whose work focused on rhetoric, literature, and English grammar. He studied at Middlebury College, later serving there as a tutor and then as professor of rhetoric and English literature.
In 1868 he joined the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, where he taught for many years. Alongside his teaching career, he published a number of educational books, including works on rhetoric, English language study, and grammar that were widely used in schools.
Kellogg is most often remembered for the sentence-diagramming method associated with Higher Lessons in English, written with Alonzo Reed. That approach made grammar visual and systematic, and it helped secure his lasting place in the history of American language education.