Jack Perkins narrates this account which focuses upon the lives and careers of two of the five children of Ann Janette Stanley Kellogg and John Preston Kellogg: John Harvey "J.H." Kellogg (born 1852) and Will Keith "W.K." Kellogg (born 1860), both in Tyrone, Michigan, before the family relocates to Battle Creek, for John Preston Kellogg to establish a broom factory, at which the sons begin to work at young ages.
In 1866, the husband and wife team of James White and Ellen White open Battle Creek Sanitarium, a wellness and fitness center based upon principles practiced by their Seventh-day Adventist Church, to which J.H. Kellogg belongs for a while, but maintains a life-long practice of Vegetarianism, and abstinence from physical relations, along with a regiment of Water Therapy, Sunshine Therapy, and physical exercise.
J.H. Kellogg, attending Eastern Michigan University and New York University Medical College at Bellevue Hospital, earns his medical degree in 1875, and marries Ella Eaton, in 1879, after meeting in New York.
The Whites hire J.H. Kellogg as Battle Creek Sanitarium Medical Surgeon and Physcian upon his return to Michigan, and he quickly advances the facility from the verge of closing to become a profitable institution, thus adding two stories to the long structure, and welcoming affluent visitors from across the nation, and, subsequently, severing ties with the sect to which the Whites belong.
While the 5'4" somewhat eccentric J.H. Kellogg shows no priority for money, his brother W.K. Kellogg becomes a seasoned marketing adviser after learning salesmanship from their father's broom factory, and so J.H. hires W.K. as Battle Creek Sanitarium Business Manager, paying him $9 per week, while paying the nurses no salary except for room and board because J.H. maintains that everyone should feel more than content to work for him and this worthwhile establishment.
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