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Andrew Logan

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Andrew Logan

Birth
Pennsylvania, USA
Death
1870 (aged 78–79)
Dawson, Dallas County, Iowa, USA
Burial
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Husband of Phila Sherwin; Father of Joseph Logan b. 1824; A Sherwin Logan, b. 1829; James Oliver b. 1830; Oliver C Logan b. 1831; Jackson Logan, b. 1835; Andrew J Logan b. 1836; Martin V B Logan, b. 1838

Andrew Logan (ca. 1791–1870), journalist, reputedly claimed descent from the Mingo chief Logan. He did not enter the United States Navy. Logan published the Beaver Gazette, 1813 and 1816–18, and the Crisis, 1813–16, in Beaver, Pennsylvania, and he sat on the town council in 1816. He moved to Ohio and edited the Cleaveland Gazette, 1818, and the Cleaveland Register, 1818–20, the former being Cleveland’s first newspaper. After returning to Beaver, Logan published the Beaver Republican, 1826–34, and served as the town’s postmaster, 1832–38. He ultimately moved to Davenport, Iowa, where he printed its first newspaper, the Iowa Sun, and Davenport and Rock Island News, 1838–42, and then took up farming.
(Brigham, American Newspapers, 2:1445; Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, The Pioneer Families of Cleveland, 1796–1840 [1914], 1:210–1; Joseph H. Bausman, History of Beaver County Pennsylvania [1904], 1:461, 2:662; J. Fraise Richard and Thomas Henry, History of Beaver County Pennsylvania [1888], 381; Luther F. Bowers, “The Iowa Sun,” State Historical Society of Iowa, Palimpsest 19 [1938]: 313, 322; Davenport Democrat, 9 July 1870)

Husband of Phila Sherwin; Father of Joseph Logan b. 1824; A Sherwin Logan, b. 1829; James Oliver b. 1830; Oliver C Logan b. 1831; Jackson Logan, b. 1835; Andrew J Logan b. 1836; Martin V B Logan, b. 1838

Andrew Logan (ca. 1791–1870), journalist, reputedly claimed descent from the Mingo chief Logan. He did not enter the United States Navy. Logan published the Beaver Gazette, 1813 and 1816–18, and the Crisis, 1813–16, in Beaver, Pennsylvania, and he sat on the town council in 1816. He moved to Ohio and edited the Cleaveland Gazette, 1818, and the Cleaveland Register, 1818–20, the former being Cleveland’s first newspaper. After returning to Beaver, Logan published the Beaver Republican, 1826–34, and served as the town’s postmaster, 1832–38. He ultimately moved to Davenport, Iowa, where he printed its first newspaper, the Iowa Sun, and Davenport and Rock Island News, 1838–42, and then took up farming.
(Brigham, American Newspapers, 2:1445; Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, The Pioneer Families of Cleveland, 1796–1840 [1914], 1:210–1; Joseph H. Bausman, History of Beaver County Pennsylvania [1904], 1:461, 2:662; J. Fraise Richard and Thomas Henry, History of Beaver County Pennsylvania [1888], 381; Luther F. Bowers, “The Iowa Sun,” State Historical Society of Iowa, Palimpsest 19 [1938]: 313, 322; Davenport Democrat, 9 July 1870)



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