Harrison County IA Archives Biographies.....Crawford, Logan 
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Source: History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth; 1882
Author: Western Publishing Company

Logan Crawford, county surveyor, was born Jan. 13th, 1822, in Union, Conn.;
moved to Mayville, Wis., in the spring of 1847, and was employed on the Fond du
Lac & Watertown R. R. He surveyed in 1851, and in the summer of 1852 was again
employed by the Railroad Company as surveyor, under J. S. Sewell, engineer. Mr.
S. was transferred to the C. & N. W. R. R. on the Ill. division, and sent for
Mr. C. to assist. In 1854 he settled in Harrison county, and bought land near
Calhoun; has suffered large losses from prairie fire. He enlisted in 1861 in the
5th Ia. Infantry; enlisted as a private; was promoted in 1863 to lieutenant; was
engaged in the battle of Pittsburg Landing; was wounded at Corinth, Oct. 6th,
1863, and again at Atlanta, Ga.; was severely wounded by musket shot through the
chest, and reported dead; was taken prisoner in that condition, and put in the
hospital at Macon, Ga.; was transferred to Charlestown, S. C., and exchanged in
December in 1864. He was elected surveyor in 1879, on the republican ticket, and
re-elected in 1881; has been justice of the peace of Calhoun township two terms.
He married Helen M. Rising, at Maysville, Wis. They have four children living.


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From Harrison County Chapter, Logan Biographies.

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