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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.
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.
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.
Set in Battle Creek, Michigan, during the early days of breakfast cereals, the story includes a historical fictionalization of John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of corn flakes. The title comes from an actual booklet called "The Road to Wellville" written by C. W. Post , a former patient at the sanitarium who was inspired by his diet there to ...
In recognition of the facility's new purpose, the building was renamed the Battle Creek Federal Center. [ 10 ] Five years later, in 1959, the GSA began using facility space for other federal organizations, and by 1962, twenty-eight different agencies were housed there.
Battle Creek Sanitarium: Battle Creek, Michigan [2] 1881 Brooklyn Home for Consumptives: Brooklyn, New York [3] 1881 Rockhaven Sanitarium: Crescenta Valley, California [4] 1884 Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids: Manhattan, New York [5] 1885 Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium: Saranac Lake, New York [6] 1887 Sierra Madre Villa Pasadena, California ...
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.