Person:Martin Logan (2)

Research Notes

• cos1776 Note of Caution: Harding's list of children does NOT match the 1850 census, and he states that there are 4 children, but lists only 3. More research is needed.

1.   Rankin, John Mason. 1854 0913 Transcript of Letter. (Originally written by John Mason Rankin. Privately held.).
2. ↑ Decatur, Indiana, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M432).

   Year: 1850; Census Place: Fugit, Decatur, Indiana; Roll: M432_142; Page: 81B; Image: 169
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   Family Number Surname Given Name Age Birth Year Race Gender Birth Place
   307 Logan Martin 50 1800 Male Kentucky
   307 Rankin Mary 50 1800 Female Indiana
   307 Logan Hetty M 18 1832 Female Indiana
   307 Logan Samuel A 16 1834 Male Indiana
   307 Logan Rebecca C 12 1838 Female Indiana
   307 Logan John P 8 1842 Male Indiana

   
3.   Atlas of Decatur Co., Indiana: to which are added various general maps, history, statistics, illustrations. (Chicago: J.H. Beers, 1882)
   43.

   ... Among the very earliest settlers in Fugit, who came to the township in 1820, 1821, 1822 and 1823, we mention the following: ...
   Alexander, James, Samuel and Martin Logan, ...

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Harding, Lewis Albert. History of Decatur County, Indiana: its people, industries and institutions, with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families. (Indianapolis [Indiana]: B. F. Bowen, 1915)
   2:683.

   ... Joseph A. [Logan], who was born on January 9, 1821, and who was brought to Indiana, on horseback, at the age of six months, by his father and mother, Martin and Mary (Rankin) Logan ...
   ... His father, Martin, who was born in 1800, and who died on December 18, 1870, and his mother, who before her marriage was Mary Rankin, who was born in 1799, and who is now deceased, lived on the farm, now included in the limits of Lexington, Kentucky, on the site now occupied by the college.
   
   In 1821 Martin Logan journeyed to Decatur county, Indiana, and settled on a government tract of one hundred and sixty acres at a time when wolves and panthers were plentiful. This farm is now occupied by Ezra Kirby. Martin Logan was one of the founders of the Richland United Presbyterian church. He had four children,
   - Joseph A. ;
   - Mrs. Jane McClurkin, deceased, of Iowa;
   - Carrie, who married Hugh Logan and who is the mother of Mrs. C. M. Beale, the wife of Dr. C. M. Beale, and Dr. John Beale, a graduate of Oxford University, and for some time a student with Doctor Johnson at Clarksburg, and now residing in Kansas.
   
   Martin Logan at one time walked from his home in Decatur county to College Corner, Ohio, in one day.
   
   It was an interesting fact that the coming of the Martins, Kincaids and Logans to Decatur county was occasioned by the reports given by Uncle Billy Anderson, who returned from the battle of Tippecanoe to his home in Kentucky through Decatur county, and here saw the fine land, and told these Kentucky families about what he saw. ...