Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
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HON. T. M. C. LOGAN

During his long residence in this county the gentleman named above was unlike the man who slips noiselessly through life unheard of by most of the people outside of his immediate surroundings, for he was in touch with the great busy world about him and took part in much that tended to elevate and bring permanent prosperity to the communities in which he cast his lot.

T. M. C. LOGAN was born in Rush county, Indiana, in 1830, the son of an experienced business man who died of cholera at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1834, when the son was only four years old. He was educated in the common schools of Indiana and when he reached manhood embarked in the grain-buying trade at a point in Richland county, Illinois, continuing in business there until 1864, in which year he moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and there followed a similar business for seven years, at the end of which time he located at LOGAN, this county. In 1887 Mr. LOGAN commenced buying grain at Little Sioux and Blencoe, also buying live stock. He shipped hundreds of thousands of bushels of grain annually for many years at these and nearby points. He also owned a flour-mill at Little Sioux, with a daily capacity of sixty bushels. He also had an elevator at that point, as well as at Onawa.

Mr. LOGAN was identified with the Republican party and in 1881 he was nominated at Denison for state senator on the Republican ticket, Hiram Wheeler, of Sac county, later candidate for governor, running against him in the convention. Mr. LOGAN was successful and held the office for four years, while his opponent later tried for the governorship and was defeated by Horace Boies. In 1879 Mr. LOGAN was elected member of the board of Harrison county supervisors, at a date when county warrants were not worth over three-fourths of their face value, but through his efforts and those of other members of the board the county was financially redeemed. He was at one time connected with various newspapers of this county, and was identified with the Masonic and Odd Fellow orders. His private library contained many valuable works and it was said of him that one might learn more from him in an evening than from many in a lifetime.

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