CLERMONT COUNTY OHIO - BIO: LOGAN, John (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume III, page 290

        JOHN LOGAN.  In the forty odd years of his law practice John Logan
has handled a large and varied routine of legal business in the courts of
Fayette and adjoining counties. He has held few public positions, but his
ambition has been directed rather to performance within the limits of his
profession than to the many outside interests that claim attention from lawyer.
        Mr. Logan was born on a farm about four miles from Moscow, in
Clermont County, Ohio January 30, 1857. His grandfather, John Logan, came
from Pennsylvania, was a major in the American army in the War of 1812, and
died in Clermont County in 1863. His wife, Elizabeth, died about 1840, in
Washington Township of Clermont County. The father of the Washington Court
House attorney was Lewis Ashby Logan, who was born in November of 1822, and
for many years was in the Government service. He died in Cincinnati at the
age of seventy-one, and was buried in Brown County, Ohio.
        John Logan spent most of his boyhood in Cincinnati, where he
attended public schools, graduating from the Hughes High School in June,
1875. From 1876 to 1879 he was a teacher, and then entered the law offices
of Marshall J. Williams. Mr. Williams in 1884 became judge of the First
Judicial Circuit, and in 1886 was elevated to the State Supreme Bench and
was as associate justice until his death on July 7, 1902. In 1881 Mr. Logan
was admitted to the bar, and practiced at Washington Court House as a
partner of Judge Williams until 1885, when the latter went on the bench. He
then took over Judge Williams' practice, and has been fully engaged in the
work of his profession ever since. He is a stockholder in the First
National Bank of Mount Sterling, Ohio. From 1883 to 1885 he served as
village solicitor of Washington Court House, and during the World was was
chairman of the Legal Advisory Board.
        His brothers and sisters are: Samuel Taylor Logan, born in 1855,
now principal of the Avondale Public School at Cincinnati; Harry C., born
in 1858, a resident of Cincinnati and the father of a son Bruce, now
twenty-seven years of age; Frank Porter Logan, born in 1863, chief engineer
in a Cleveland hospital; and Anna Elizabeth, born in 1861, who was
principal of the Normal Department of Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, and
is now assistant superintendent of the Cincinnati public schools.
        Mr. John Logan married at Washington Court House, October 26, 1887,
Miss Elizabeth Belle Pearce, who was educated in the public schools of
Washington Court House, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Her
father, Elgar B. Pearce, was a newspaper man, and died in Washington Court
House in 1866.
        Mr. Logan is affiliated with the Masonic Order, a member of the
Royal Arch Chapter at Milford, Ohio, until 1879, when he transferred to
Washington, Court House. He also belongs to Garfield Commandery of the
Knights Templar, is a member of the Elks and is a republican.


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