Biography: History of Fulton County, 1884, Fulton Co., PA, Daniel Logan

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                                     HISTORY
                                       of
                                BEDFORD, SOMERSET
                                       and
                                 FULTON COUNTIES,
                                  PENNSYLVANIA.

                  With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
                                 of some of its
                           PIONEERS AND PROMINENT MEN.

                     Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1884

                                 CHAPTER LXXXVI.

                                   AYR AND TOD.

                                   BIOGRAPHICAL

                               JUDGE DANIEL LOGAN*

  The subject of this sketch was born in McConnellsburg, Bedford (now Fulton) 
county, September 6, 1805.  His father, Gawn Logan, was born in the County 
Derry, Ireland, in the year 1771, where he grew to manhood and was married.  
After having served a term of four years in the army, during which when off duty 
he employed his spare time mending shoes for the soldiers, and from his stinted 
earnings, by practicing economy, he saved enough to bring him to America, 
landing at New Castle in the year 1800 with his wife Eleanor and one child.  He 
immediately set out for McConnellsburg, where his brother, Thomas Logan, who had 
preceded him a half score or more of years, resided.  But falling short of funds 
he tarried several weeks at Lancaster to earn money to carry him to his 
destination.
  Arriving at McConnellsburg, he at once established himself at his trade, 
shoemaking, and by industry and frugality he was soon able to buy for himself a 
home.  Here he followed his humble calling and with such success that in 1807 he 
was enabled to purchase from James Kendall the tract of land in yr township, 
where originally, about 1735, the heroic widow Kendall settled.  Here by 
industry and hard labor he continued to prosper, and raised a large family, and 
here he died, April 18, 1849, at the age of seventy-eight years.  His wife 
survived him until October 28, 1851, and died at the age of eighty years.
  By the terms of his father's will Daniel became the owner of the farm on 
condition of paying to the other heirs the sums as provided by the will.
  By successful management and industry he prospered, redeemed his obligations 
and has since added handsomely to the patrimonial acres, and now owns one among 
the finest farms in the valley.
  And while he was thus prospering, Daniel Logan was not parsimonious, but was 
open-handed and ready to assist the honest, deserving poor, and to grant favors 
to all who applied to him for aid.  He never learned to say "No," and an appeal, 
or even a simple request, was sufficient to secure the favor of his name, which 
has often caused him to be called upon as security to satisfy demands on default 
of the principals.
  In like manner, when able to do so, he has often favored men with loans 
direct, when in pressing need, which, in not a few instances, have never 
returned to him; and by these several methods of favoring and befriending he has 
been required to pay many thousands of dollars, while some of the principals in 
these transactions, reveling in abundance, now snap their dishonest fingers in 
his face and defy him, and among these there are several who have been honored 
with lucrative official trusts and are abundantly able to redeem their dishonest 
paper.  The worse abuse Daniel Logan gets comes from the men and their kindred 
whom he has thus favored at great cost and inconvenience to himself.
  The poor who have appealed to him worthily, in distress or want, have never 
been turned away empty-handed, and in this quiet way has he many times "cast his 
bread upon the waters."  He never distressed nor oppressed anyone who dealt 
honorably with him.
  In public and charitable matters he has not been behind his fellow in 
liberality, according to the importance of the measure or the project.
  In 1874 his fellow citizens honored him by electing him associate judge, which 
position he filled for five years with credit to himself and advantage to the 
taxpayers.
  In 1875 he married Miss Josephine Shoemaker, daughter of the late Anthony 
Shoemaker, Esq., of McConnellsburg, and is now, in his declining years, living 
in the enjoyment of an interesting family of two sons and two daughters, whose 
presence are the sunshine of his life and who are to him his all in this world.
  By a former marriage he had two children, who have for many years resided in 
the western states.
  In Judge Logan and his young family alone is the family name preserved in the 
Great Cove.

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