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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Howard County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Henry A. Logan was born in East Tennessee, October 18, 1839, and spent his school days in that State. Though he continued to live with his parents until their death, he commenced business for himself at the age of twenty-one. In 1861 he enlisted in the Nineteenth Arkansas Infantry; was in the battles of Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Nashville, Chattanooga, New Hope Church, Franklin, and Smithfield Station, serving until the end of the war. He was taken prisoner at Arkansas Post, kept in Camp Douglas three months, again captured near Jonesboro, Ga., and held for twenty eight days at Chattanooga, but was never wounded. After the war he returned to farming again. Mr. Logan is an active Democrat, a Master Mason, and postmaster since 1872. At present he is a prominent planter of Mountain Township, Howard County, Ark., owning 200 acres of valuable land there. He is a member of the Methodist Church. His father, Samuel H. Logan, was born in Tennessee in 1807, and died August 12, 1861. His mother, Miss Martha Strain, was born in East Tennessee in 1818, dying in September, 1878. They were married in that State in September, 1837, and had eight children: Henry A., Melissa J., Darius A., Mary L., Allen W., Naomi T., Hester A., and an infant which died before being named. Melissa J. is the wife of James Pinkerton of Howard County, Ark.; Allen W. married Miss Frances Townsend, and also lives in that county; Darius A. married Miss Elizabeth Carpenter, and lives in Pike County, Ark.; Mary L. married John Eastwood, living in that county; Naomi T. married John McClain, and lives in Howard County; Hester A. was never married. From Tennessee the family moved to Shelby County, Ill., in 1851, the next year moving to Texas, where they engaged in farming. After a few months they settled in what is now Howard County.

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