BIO:  John N. LOGAN, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Carroll Township, Pg 86

JOHN N. LOGAN was born April 17, 1846, in Carroll Township, York Co., Penn.  He 
received his education by commencing in the common schools of his native 
township, and preparing for college at the Tuscarora Academy, then under the care 
of Dr. J. H. Shumaker.  His sophomore year was spent in Dickinson College, 
Carlisle, Penn., from which he entered the junior class of Princeton College in 
1867, and graduated from that institution in 1869.  He returned to his farm and 
spent two years farming, during which time he became prominently identified with 
the railroad enterprises then projected through the northern part of the county, 
and was one of the most influential men in the building of both the Harrisburg & 
Potomac and the Dillsburg & Mechanicsburg Railroads.  He began the study of law 
in 1872, but gave it up to accept the cashiership of the Dillsburg Bank, which 
was organized in 1873, and changed into a National Bank in 1878.  Mr. Logan 
remained in this responsible position till 1884, having served eleven years as 
cashier of the two institutions, and left the bank in a most flourishing 
condition.  Mr. Logan is also engaged in mining, and has been one of the most 
successful men in the iron ore business in the upper end of the county.  He owns 
one of the finest magnetic ore mines in the State.  His mine has been worked for 
eleven years, and large quantities of ore taken from it, and it is supposed to be 
practically inexhaustible.  Mr. Logan has also been largely interested in the 
promotion of the leading industries in the upper end of the county.  He was 
justice of the peace for ten years.  He has always been an ardent supporter of 
advance education, and is at this time president of the Chautauqua Literary and 
Scientific Circle of Dillsburg, Penn.  He has also been active in social and 
moral interests; was president of the Upper District Sabbath School Association 
during 1872-73, and corresponding secretary for many years.  He is an elder in 
the Presbyterian Church of Dillsburg, Penn., and has been superintendent of the 
Sabbath school for ten years.  He was married, November 26, 1874, to Miss Ella 
May Coover.  They have four children living:  James J. Logan, Jr., Frederic Welty 
Logan, Helen Martha Logan and Caroline E. Logan.