Bibb County AlArchives Biographies.....Logan, Stephen Douglas May 29 1859 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
     STEPHEN DOUGLAS LOGAN, a noted lawyer of Centreville, Ala., is a native of
the town, born May 29, 1859, and a son of John H. and Levinia (Moseley) Logan.
His father was a native of Shelby county, N, C., born in 1802; his mother was a
native of Edgefield district, S. C., born in 1818, and came, when a small child,
to Alabama with her parents, who settled at Centreville. They were married there
in 1838, and became the parents of twelve children, five sons and seven
daughters, ten of whom are now living, viz.: William H., farmer and lawyer of
Bibb county; Samuel H., farmer of Bibb county; Serene, widow of Sylvester
Ambrose, now a resident of Montevallo, Shelby county, Ala., Nannie, widow of
Columbus F. James, of Bibb county; Harriet E., wife of John E. Jones, farmer of
Bibb county; Jown W., farmer of Bibb county; Thomas H., farmer of Bibb county;
Fannie, wife of Stephen W. Price, farmer of Bibb county; Julia, wife of Matthew
P. Wallace, farmer of Bibb county; Stephen D., Belle, deceased, and one that
died in infancy unnamed. The father of these, John H. Logan, when quite young,
emigrated with his parents to Tennessee, and when sixteen years of age he came
with them to Alabama, locating at Centreville. Soon afterward he filled the
position of captain on all the flat-boats that floated to Mobile from
Centreville, on the Cahawba and Alabama rivers - then quite an enterprise, as
thus all the products of the section found egress. He was thus employed in
connection with farming for twenty-five years; he then turned his attention
entirely to farming. He was an active politician of the whig party until after
its dissolution, and then became a stanch democrat. He departed this life in
1877, a member of the Presbyterian church. His excellent wife still survives him
and is living at Centreville. She has been a consistent member of the
Presbyterian church for many years.

   Stephen D. Logan was reared upon a farm near Centreville. He received the
rudiments of his education at Centreville and at the Montevallo (Shelby county)
high school, attending the latter in 1874-75-76; he then attended, Tuscaloosa
(Ala.) university, where he graduated July 4, 1877. He began the study of law in
1875, and immediately after graduating was admitted to the bar at Centreville,
where- he began the practice of law and has since continued with eminent success
and distinction, ranking among the leading lawyers of western Alabama. Mr. Logan
served four years as county superintendent of education. He owns the old family
seat of 265 acres near Centreville, which he operates in connection with his law
business. He was married November 1, 1885, to Mamie V. Gardner, daughter of John
S. Gardner and Rebecca (Carson) Gardner, born in Centreville, November 4, 1865.
Four children, three of whom are living, have been born to gladden their home,
viz.: Gardner C., born August 10, 1886; Douglas C., born March 10, 1889; Edna
L., born December 16, 1890, and died August 15, 1891, and Winnie Rebecca, born
June 15, 1892. Mr. Logan is an enterprising, self-made man, takes an interest in
all the public issues of the times, and he and wife are members of the
Presbyterian church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 490-491

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