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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ David Logan
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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David Logan
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| LAST NAME: Logan
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FIRST NAME: David
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| TITLE: Hon.
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| BORN: 15 Apr 1824
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DIED: 26 Mar 1874
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BURIED: 29 Mar 1874
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OCCUPATION: Lawyer, member of legislature
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| BIRTH PLACE: Springfield, Illinois
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| DEATH PLACE: McMinnville, Yamhill Co., Oregon
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IOOF - David Logan, age 49 y's 11 m's 22 d's, born in Springfield, Illinois, died in Yamhill Co.
Name of father Stephen Logan
MARRIAGE - "Mr. David Logan & Miss Mary Waldo, m 6 Feb 1862: D. Rutledge, M. G. Wit: Samuel Bass & A. W. Hague #629 pg 199".
BIOGRAPHICAL:
"David Logan was perhaps the greatest jury lawyer of his time. He was born in 1824 in Springfield, Illinois, and was the son of an eminent lawyer and judge of the Supreme Court of that state. He came to Oregon in 1850 and settled in Lafayette, but removed to Portland soon afterward. He was defeated as a candidate for the Legislature in 1851, but served as a member in 1854. In 1869 he ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for Congress, and again in 1868. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention. He had a large practice as a lawyer and retired in 1871 from the practice of his profession, took a farm in Yamhill County, upon which he died a few years later."
HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR IN OREGON, p. 269-270.
PCA Index states Hon. David Logan, Portland former home, died March 27, 1874. Microfilm missing
NOTE - The picture of David Logan is from HBB, pg 269.
BIOGRAPHICAL:
Logan, David.
Born near Springfield, Illinois; was the son of Judge Stephen T. Logan, one a law partner of Abraham Lincoln; came to Oregon in 1850, and began law practice at Lafayette; achieved great distinction as a criminal lawyer; retired from practice in 1871. Ran for Congress three times as Republican nominee, but was defeated each time. Died near McMinnville, March 27, 1874.
Lang, Herbert O., HISTORY of the WILLAMETTE VALLEY, Himes & Lang, 1885, pg 718.
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DAVID LOGAN DEAD
It is with unfeigned sorrow that we announce the death of David Logan, Esq., which occurred yesterday morning at his residence near McMinnville. We have not been able to learn the particulars of his death. Our readers will recollect that we mentioned some time since the fact that he was seriously ill. He was slowly sinking for some time, and his death was not unexpected. He was about forty-nine years old.
Few names have been more prominently connected with Oregon politics, or the history of the Oregon bar, than that of David Logan. He came to this State in 1849 or 1850, and entered upon the practice of the law at Lafayette. Though young he soon took rank among the foremost of his profession in the Territory, which he maintained till his retirement from practice three years ago. The possession of an accurate, analytical mind, enabled him to grasp the nicest distinctions in the law, and express them with such directness and perspicuity as never failed to command the attention of the court, but he excelled most as a jury lawyer. It is no disparagement to any member of the profession to say that Logan never had a superior in the State in this respect. He had an intuitive perception of what point in his case would prove strongest before the jury, and no one knew better than he how to make the most of that strong point. He always appeared before the jury in the armor of Achilles.
Logan had well-defined views and strong convictions on political questions, and possessed considerable political ambition; but he was not a skillful politician in the matter of managing men for his own ends. Three times he ran for Congress and each time was defeated. When the Republican party had anything like a fair chance for success he was never nominated. When a forlorn hope was to be led he could come to the front; but he lacked that genius for pipe-laying which was necessary to enable him to command a nomination at the hands of his party when it was reasonable certain he could be elected.
Logan had faults; and who has not? But he had also qualities which all who knew him will remember with pleasure. Let us forget his faults as we would wish to have ours forgotten when we are called hence; let us preserve the memory of his virtues as we would wish those to do for us who have taken part with us in the brief little drama of life, and who linger awhile after we shall have gone.
Logan, rest in peace.
Oregonian 28 March 1874 2:1
HON. DAVID LOGAN - His illinois Home - Father - Overland to California. To Oregon - Sketch of His Career in that State. Death and Funeral
Hon. David Logan, whose funeral was so numerously attended in this city yesterday afternoon, was born in Springfield, Illinois, April 5th, 1824. His father, with whom he studied law, has been closely identified with the judiciary of that State for upwards of fifty years. Hon. Stephen T. Logan was known as an upright judge, a conscientious lawyer, a man of marked individuality, strong in his convictions, strict in morals, and more than saving in his expenditures. His name will ever be connected with the life of Abraham Lincoln, as the person that nominated him in the Chicago Convention to the first office in the nation.
Hon David Logan, in appearance, strongly resembled his father, and possessed many of his charactistics, but lacked his father's indomitable industry and that thrift that led to an easy competence. Mr. Logan felt keenly the slight given his father by Mr. Lincoln, in ignoring his claims to the Supreme Bench at the time a vacancy was caused by the resignation of Judge Campbell, and much in his subsequent life is said to be attributable to this fact.
In 1849, in company with his brother Christopher, Mr. Logan came across the plains to California. His brother died in 1850. In the spring of the same year, Mr. Logan came to Oregon and located at Lafayette where he commenced the practice of law. While living at this place, he was defeated by the present Judge M. P. Deady for the Legislature. Shortly afterwards he removed to Portland, where he soon took rank with the foremost in his profession, which he maintained all his retirement from practice three years ago.
In 1854 Mr. Logan was elected on the Whig ticket to represent the Territorial Legislature from Multnomah county. In 1859 he ran against the Hon. Lansing Stoat for Congress, and after an unusually heated campaign was beaten in the State by sixteen votes. In 1860 Mr. Logan was again placed in nomination by the Republican party for Congress, having for his competitor the Hon. Geo. E. Shiel, and was again beaten--Mr. Sheil being elected by about seventy majority. Taking no active part in politics for several years subsequently; but as a leader of a "forlorn hope" much against his own inclination, he for the third time took up the gauntlet for the Republicans, and was defeated by the Hon. Joseph Smith by 1199 majority.
In 1862 Mr. Logan was married to Miss Mary P. Waldo, daughter of Mr. Daniel Waldo of this city.
Mr. Logan excelled as a jury lawyer, relying more upon bringing out clearly and plainly the telling points in the testimony, than is strong eloquent appeals to their sympathies. Nearly his whole knowledge of the fundamental rules and principles of law were learned while in his father's office at Springfield. He was not a close reader, and sometimes failed to come into Court fully prepared, but his intuitive perception led him to the strongest points in his case and he knew how to make the most of them.
His death occurred Friday morning last at his residence near McMinnville. He had been slowly failing for many months, and his death was not entirely unexpected. The remains were brought to this city on last Saturday. Yesterday the funeral took place from the residence of Daniel Waldo, Esq.
The procession formed in the following order at one o'clock. 1st--Members of the Masonic Order; 2nd Past Grand Master S. F. Chadwick; 3d--Grand Master A.F.A.A.M. of Oregon, T. McF. Patton; 4th Hearse and Pall Bearers, J. A. Richardson, H. M. Thatcher, O. J. Carr, S. R. Jessup, A. A. McCully, J. W. Weatherford, F. E. Palmer, J. N. Matheny; 6th--Relatives of deceased; 5th--Relatives of deceased; 6th--Carriages with Governor Grover and other Executive officers, Judges Strong, Deady, Shattuck, Upton, and W. S. Ladd and others from Portland.
The route of procession was up Summer street to Court; down Court to Commercial; up Commercial to Odd Fellows cemetery.
At the grave the simple yet grand ceremonies of the Masonic ritual were performed by Grand Master T. McF. Patton, assisted by the Chaplain S. C. Adams and the members of the Craft present.
Oregon Statesman 30 March 1874 3:1
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INSCRIPTION:
David Logan
Apr. 15, 1824
Mar. 26, 1874
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SOURCES:
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IOOF Register of Burials
DAR pg 84
Marion County Oregon Marriage Records 1849-1871, Vol. I, pg 37
HBB p. 270 (portrait)
Lang, pg 718
Oreg. 28 March 1874 2:1
OS 30 March 1874 3:1
PCA Index
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CONTACTS:
Brian Waldo Johnson, 450 Walnut Drive S., Monmouth, OR 97361
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