Kellogg attended the Pingry School, graduating in the class of 1933.[2] He became the youngest member of the NYSE, purchasing his seat at age 21 in 1936, and the youngest person to be elected chairman, a position he held from 1956 to 1958.[3] Mr. Kellogg was senior partner in the Wall Street specialty firm of Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, a position later held by his son Peter Kellogg. The firm was acquired by Goldman Sachs in November, 2000 in a deal valued at US$6.5 billion.[4]
Kellogg was a longtime resident of Elizabeth and Bay Head, New Jersey and was active in local affairs. The Kelloggs were a prominent landowning family in Elizabeth, and bequeathed several tracts of land to the city for use as public space: Jackson, Jefferson, and North (later renamed Kellogg) Parks.[5] James Kellogg was a nephew of industrialist M.W. Kellogg.
^Staff. "The Kellog Family: Continuing the Pingry Tradition", The Pingry Review, Spring 2007, p. 7. "The Rankin/Kellogg connection to Pingry was renewed decades later when John C. Rankin, Jr.'s granddaughter, Elizabeth "Betty" Irwin, married James C. Kellogg III, Pingry Class of 1933. Mr. James C. Kellogg III '33 was the first Kellogg to attend Pingry, setting a tradition for years to come."
