Abigail Leontine Terese Scofield was born on July 13, 1870, in
St. Joseph, Missouri, the daughter of
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, theologian and minister, author of the Scofield interpretative edition of the Bible, and Mary Leontine LeBeau Cerrè, a member of a prominent French Catholic family in St. Louis. Even after Mr. Scofield’s omission of his daughters from his 1920 biography, Kellogg continued to correspond with him. Despite this, Mr. Scofield’s will made no mention of either Abigail or Helen but left his entire estate, including the substantial royalty payments from
Oxford University Press, to his wife Hettie Scofield and his son Noel Paul Scofield. Kellogg graduated from the
Atchison High School and taught in the elementary schools of Atchison for many years. ==Personal life==