Biography of Henry G Logan, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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page 686 

Dr. Henry G. Logan, of Independence County, was born in Cleveland
County, N. C., January 30, 1847, and is a son of John R. and Sarah P. (Jackson)
Logan, natives of York District, S. C. The family is of Scotch-Irish descent,
and the paternal grandfather of our subject was John B. Logan, a native of
Virginia, who spent the greater part of his life in York District, S. C., where
he died. John R. Logan was an extensive farmer, and acquired considerable
means, though he was a heavy loser by the war. He was one of the most prominent
men of his county, and held many positions of trust and honor. He was a
representative in the State legislature four years, and was a lifelong
Democrat. Both he and his wife were members of the Missionary Baptist Church,
though [p.686] Mrs. Logan was formerly a Presbyterian. They had ten children,
viz.: Benjamin F., Leonardas M., Henry G., Elizabeth Bomer, Emily Herndon,
Amanda McBrayer and Ida Hogue, living; and David J., who was captain of Company
F, Eighteenth South Carolina Confederates, and was killed by pickets in the
trenches of Petersburg, June 18, 1864; John Pinkney was killed at Hatch's Run,
February 6, 1865, while serving in the Twelfth North Carolina Infantry; Hugh G.
died at the age of three years. The mother died in 1865, at about the age of
fifty-one years, and Mr. Logan afterward married a Miss Allison, of York
District, S. C., who now resides at the old homestead, in Cleveland County, N.
C. John R. Logan died in Cleveland County, N. C., April 14, 1884, aged seventy-
three years. Henry G. received his early education at Shelby, N. C. In May,
1864, he enlisted in Company D, Second North Carolina Reserves, and served as
first lieutenant until the close of the war, surrendering at Greensboro, N. C.
After the close of the war he attended school one year, and the following two
years engaged in teaching. He also learned photography, at which. profession he
worked at Shelby. While traveling through North and South Carolina and
Mississippi he studied medicine, and, in 1874, attended a course of medical
lectures at Louisville Medical College. In 1879-80 he attended the Atlanta
Medical College, where he graduated, returning to Arkansas, where he entered
upon the practice of his chosen profession. He has been very successful as a
physician, and now has an extensive practice. In 1874 he married Sarah Howell,
daughter of Henry Howell, of Independence County. She was born in 1855, and
reared in Mississippi. They have two children living, viz.: Emma E., aged
eight, and Jefferson D., aged five. Marion P. died at the age of three years.