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LOGAN, James, jurist and educator, was born
in Lingan, county Armagh, Ireland, Oct. 20,
1674 ; a descendant of Logan of Reetalrig, whose
Bstates were confiscated for his connection with
the Gown© oonspiracj against James VL of Scot-
land. After the battle
of Boyne, July 1,
1690, he accompan-
ied his father, who
was obliged to leave
the country for his
Catholic sentiments,
first to Edinburgh,
and lat^r to Bris-
tol, England, where
he completed his
studies. He accom-
panied William Penn
to America as his sec-
retary in 1699. He was
made secretary of
the province in 1701
ind subsequently served as clerk of the council,
commissioner of property, chief justice and as a
member of the provincial council, 1703-07. He
gained the respect of the Indians at Conestoga,
Mrho named their chief, Logan, after him. He
nras iniijeached by the provincial assembly, Feb.
86, 1707, on various charges, to which he replied,
personally abusing members of the assembly,
rhe assembly ordered his arrest and confinement
in the county jail, but he escaped and went to
England Nov. 25, 1707. He returned in 1712 ;
was justice of the court of common pleas, 1715-23,
ind was presiding judge in 1723. He was chosen,
iiayor of Philadelphia the same year and at the
- lose of his term he went abroad to attend to
- he affairs of William Penn. He was chief jus-
lice of the supreme court of the province, 1731- J9, and after the death of Governor Gordon in 1736 was president of the council and acting governor, 1736-38. He removed to his country »eat " Stenton " where he devoted himself to scientific pursuits and literature. He was a roun<ler, Nov. 13, 1749, of the Public academy in the city of Philadelphia, afterward the Univer- iity of Pennsylvania, and was a member of the first board of trustees of the college, 1749-61. He kvas a member of the Society of Friends and lH?queathed to the city of Philadelphia his exten- iive library, which became the Loganian library. He was the author of Experimenta de Plavtarum Oeneratione, (1739); translation of Cicero's De Senectute (1744), and of other works in Latin and in English prose and verse. He died at " Stenton," n<»ar Germantown, Pa., Oct. 31, 1751.
LOGAN, James Venable, educator, was born in Scott county, Ky., July 11, 1835 ; son of James Hervey and Mary (Venable) Logan ; grandson of
Alexander and Jane (McCampbell) Logan and of
James and Elizabeth (Cowan) Venable, and a
descendant of James Logan of Ireland, who
settled first in Pennsylvania and about 1700 in
what is now Rockbridge county, Va. He was
graduated from Centre college, Danville, Ky.,
A.B., 1854, and from the Danville Theological
seminary, in 1860. He was licensed by the pres-
bytery of Louisville in 1859, and was ordained by
the presbytery of Transylvania in 1860. He was
pastor of the Presbyterian church at Harrods-
burg, Ky., 1860-08, edited the Free Christian
Commonivealth, 1868-69, and was professor of
ethics and evidences at Central university, Rich-
mond, Ky. , 1873-79, and of philosophy, 1889. He
was active in founding the College of Philosophy
and Science of Central university, gave the sum
of $10,000 toward its construction and was elected
president of the college in 1880. He received the
degree of D.D. in 1880, and that of LL.D. in
1890, from Hampden-Sidney college, Va. He
was married in December, 1863, to Mattie E. S.,
daughter of Sanford Mc Braver of Harrodsburg,
Ky. Their son, Sanford McBrayer Logan became
a Presbyterian minister.
LOGAN, John Alexander, statesman and sol- dier, was born in Murphysboro, Jackson county, 111. , Feb. 9, 1826 ; eldest son of Dr. John and Elizabeth (Jenkins) Logan. His father immi- grated to the United States from Ireland in 1823, and settled in Cape Girardeau, Mo., re- moving later to Jack- son county. 111., where he conducted a farm, practised his profes- sion, was a represen- tative in the state legislature and held several county offices. John A. Logan ac- quired his prepara- ' tory education chief- ly under the instruc- tion of his father and his tutor, and he attended Shiloh college in 1840. Upon with Mexico in 1846,
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co*0iy
the outbreak of the war
he enlisted in the vol-
unteer army and was appointed 2d lieutenant,
1st Illinois volunteers, and served as adjutant
and quartermaster of the regiment in New
Mexico. He returned to Illinois at the close of
the war, studied law with his uncle, Alexander
M. Jenkins, and in 1849 was elected clerk of
Jackson county. He was graduated from the
law department of Louisville university in 1851 ;
was admitted to the bar in 1852 ; was a represent-
ative in the state legislature, 1852-53, 1856-57 ;
