My Genealogy Hound

HUGH JAMES LOGAN, merchant, Logan’s Ferry, is a descendant of one of the pioneers of Plum township, and was born at Logan’s Ferry Dec. 19, 1841, a son of Hugh and Elizabeth (Parry) Logan. Hugh was born in Springdale, this county, Dec. 3, 1788, a son of Alexander Logan, and was a merchant, justice of the peace and postmaster for about thirty years. He was major in the state militia, also an officer in the Indian war, and died June 29, 1873. His first child died in Pittsburgh, was buried in the old Trinity churchyard, and he was one of the first white children born in this county north of the Ohio river. His wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Logan, was born April 24, 1798, and died Nov. 3, 1878. Alexander Logan settled at Springdale in 1786; was a merchant, and took up a large tract of land at Springdale and Logan’s Ferry, extending two or three miles along the river. He died Dec. 15, 1836, aged seventy-nine years. His father, the great-grandfather of Hugh James, James Logan, a native of Ireland, of Scotch-Irish blood, immigrated first to Chester county, Pa. The subject of this memoir received his education at the public schools and Elder’s Ridge Academy, and in August, 1862, enlisted in Co. F, 15th P. Y.C., serving until the close of the war. On account of sickness he was in the hospital for some time, and also did detached duty at Nashville. He was mustered out June 30, 1865. In 1869 he engaged in a general mercantile business at his present place, and has been very successful.

In 1873 Mr. Logan married Malinda Gallaher, who was born in Plum township about 1845, a daughter of John and Jane (Mulligan) Gallaher, former a contractor and farmer, and four children have been born to them: Hugh J., Jr., Mabel G., Jane Elizabeth and Emily C., all at home. In 1870 Mr. Logan was appointed postmaster, and has since filled that office. He has two sisters living near him — Mrs. M. L. Flack and Mrs. Fred Knowland. His grandfather, Parry, was an architect and builder. Mr. and Mrs. Logan are members of the Presbyterian Church; he is a member of the G. A. R. In 1884 he began the erection of a fine brick residence near his store, overlooking the Allegheny river, completing the same in 1886.