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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Independence County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  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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Dr. Henry G. Logan, of Independence County, was born in Cleveland County, N. C., January 30, 1847, and is a son of John R. and Sarah P. (Jackson) Logan, natives of York District, S. C. The family is of Scotch-Irish descent, and the paternal grandfather of our subject was John B. Logan, a native of Virginia, who spent the greater part of his life in York District, S. C., where he died. John R. Logan was an extensive farmer, and acquired considerable means, though he was a heavy loser by the war. He was one of the most prominent men of his county, and held many positions of trust and honor. He was a representative in the State legislature four years, and was a lifelong Democrat. Both he and his wife were members of the Missionary Baptist Church, though Mrs. Logan was formerly a Presbyterian. They had ten children, viz.: Benjamin F., Leonardas M., Henry G., Elizabeth Bomer, Emily Herndon, Amanda McBrayer and Ida Hogue, living; and David J., who was captain of Company F, Eighteenth South Carolina Confederates, and was killed by pickets in the trenches of Petersburg, June 18, 1864; John Pinkney was killed at Hatch’s Run, February 6, 1865, while serving in the Twelfth North Carolina Infantry; Hugh G. died at the age of three years. The mother died in 1865, at about the age of fifty-one years, and Mr. Logan afterward married a Miss Allison, of York District, S. C, who now resides at the old homestead, in Cleveland County, N. C. John R. Logan died in Cleveland County, N. C., April 14, 1884, aged seventy-three years. Henry G. received his early education at Shelby, N. C. In May, 1864, he enlisted in Company D, Second North Carolina Reserves, and served as first lieutenant until the close of the war, surrendering at Greensboro, N. C. After the close of the war he attended school one year, and the following two years engaged in teaching. He also learned photography, at which profession he worked at Shelby. While traveling through North and South Carolina and Mississippi he studied medicine, and, in 1874, attended a course of medical lectures at Louisville Medical College. In 1879-80 he attended the Atlanta Medical College, where he graduated, returning to Arkansas, where he entered upon the practice of his chosen profession. He has been very successful as a physician, and now has an extensive practice. In 1874 he married Sarah Howell, daughter of Henry Howell, of Independence County. She was born in 1855, and reared in Mississippi. They have two children living, viz.: Emma E., aged eight, and Jefferson D., aged five. Marion P. died at the age of three years.

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This family biography is one of 158 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Independence County, Arkansas published in 1889.  View the complete description here: Independence County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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