
noun
- Frank Billings,1856–1937, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1925–29; Nobel Peace Prize 1929.
- W(ill) K(eith),1860–1951, U.S. manufacturer of prepared cereals and philanthropist.
surname, attested from late 13c., literally “kill hog,” a name for a butcher. The U.S. cereal company began in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1906, founded by W.K. Kellogg (business manager of the Battle Creek Sanatorium) as Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company.