Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Battle Creek Sanitarium was a world-renowned health resort in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. [3] It started in 1866 on health principles advocated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and from 1876 to 1943 was managed by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg .
John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was an American businessman, inventor, physician, [1] and advocate of the Progressive Movement. [2] He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, founded by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The First National Conference on Race Betterment was held at the Battle Creek Sanitarium (John Harvey Kellogg is its owner), on June 1–6, 1914. Over 400 delegates attended the conference. [ 10 ] The topic of the conference was to improve the health and quality of the human race taking hereditarian and environmental effects into concern.
The Road to Wellville is a 1994 American comedy drama film written, produced and directed by Alan Parker, an adaptation of T. C. Boyle's novel of the same name, which tells the story of the doctor and clean-living advocate John Harvey Kellogg and his methods employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium at the beginning of the 20th century.
Dr. Kellogg and the Seventh-day Adventist Church experienced serious difficulties with each other. Kellogg was no longer a member of the church after 1907. After Battle Creek College moved to Berrien Springs in 1901/1902, many Seventh-day Adventists stopped sending their young people to Battle Creek for an education.
Much of the original sanitarium burned down in 1902. [3] A large building by architect Frank Mills Andrews opened in 1903 at a cost of $1 million and was considered a marvel of modern planning and medical technology. [3] Under Kellogg's auspices, the sanitarium expanded, and a tower addition was completed in 1928. [3]
First Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. Corn Flakes package (1906), later to become the Kellogg Food Company in 1908 In 1876, John Harvey Kellogg became the superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium (originally the Western Health Reform Institute founded by Ellen White) and his brother, William Keith Kellogg, worked as the bookkeeper.
Beginning in 1880, W.K. Kellogg served as business manager at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, whose head physician at the time was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, W.K.'s older brother. While there, W.K. experimented with grain-based substitutes for meat and bread, and accidentally discovered a process to manufacture cereal flakes.