Belle Kellogg Towne

Isabella Electa Kellogg Towne (June 1, 1844 – November 4, 1923) was an author and journalist born in Sylvania, Wisconsin, United States. In the 1880s, Towne was hired to coordinate and organize young people's papers for the Young People's Weekly, published by the Chicago-based David C. Cook Publishing Company. Kellogg earned the reputation as being "one of America's first leading women in the literary and publishing fields". She died at her home in Chicago on November 4, 1923 and is buried with her husband and son, Walter Washburn Towne (1868-1941), at Rosehill Cemetery.

Works Around the Ranch, D. Lothrop & Company, ©1883 The Transformation of Job, and the Taking in of Martha Matilda, with Frederick Vining Fisher, Dodo Press, 2008, originally published in 1900 On the Mountain Top, David C. Cook, 1904 Snowflakes and Heartaches, David C. Cook Publishing Company, 1912