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Rh cal manager, residing there until his death. He was a bold defender of the stage against pulpit attacks, and his reply to a sermon by Lyman Beecher was widely copied. He wrote several suc- cessful plays, including "Yankee Land" (1834); "The Wag of Maine" (1835); "The Wool-Dealer," written for Dan Marble ; " Removing the Depos- its," " Astarte," an adaptation of Shelley's " Cenci," "A Hundred Years Hence," a burlesque, and a comedy entitled " Chloroform." He also wrote various tales and poems, one of which, " The Mis- sissippi," attracted favorable notice.^His daugh- ter, Eliza, actress, b. in Philadelphia, 18 Aug., 1829; d. in New York city, 15 Jan., 1872, was edu- cated at Lancaster, Pa., and made her debut at the age of eleven in Philadelphia. In 1850 she ap- peared in New York as " Pauline " in " The Lady of Lyons." In 1859 she married George Wood, a theatrical manager, bought Wood's theatre, Cincin- nati, Ohio, and, retiring from the stage, removed to that city. Subsequently Mr. Wood bought Wood's museum in New York. — His son, Cornelius Am- brose, physician, b. in Deerfield, Mass., 6 Aug., 1830, was educated at Auburn academy, and served as medical superintendent of St. John's hospital in Cincinnati, and subsequently as professor in the hospital in Leavenworth, Kan. In 1873 he was ap- pointed U. S. minister to Chili, and he was after- ward minister to Guatemala, and again to Chili in 1881, remaining there until 1883. He was editor of the " Medical Herald," Leavenworth, Kan., for twelve years, and he has edited the works of Gen. John A. Logan (1886), and contributed to the Lon- don " Lancet." His publications are " Report on the Sanitary Relations of the State of Kansas " (Lawrence, 1866) ; " On the Climatology of the Missouri Valley " ; and " Physics of Infectious Dis- eases " (Chicago, 1878). — Another daughter, Celia, journalist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 17 Dec, 1839, acted with her sister Eliza at an early age, and was subsequently educated in London. She became a correspondent of American journals and wrote for magazines. During the civil war of 1861-'5 she resided in Milan, Italy, translating the war news for newspapers. Afterward she settled in Wash- ington, where she became associate editor of " The Capital." She has written several dramas, includ- ing " An American Marriage " (1884). In 1872 she married James F. Connelly. — Another daugh- ter, OliTe, actress, b. in Elmira, N. Y., 16 April. 1841, made her debut in Philadelphia in 1854, and went to England in 1857, where she was graduated at a female college. She married Henry A. Delille in April, 1857, but was divorced in December, 1865. She reappeared in New York at Wallack's theatre in 1864 in " Eveleen," a play of which she was the author. She retired in 1868, and since then has been a lecturer, principally on woman's rights and other social topics, and has contributed largely to newspapers. After her retirement from the stage she married William Wirt Sikes in 1871, who died in 1883, and while he was U. S. consul at Cardiff, Wales, corresponded with American periodicals un- der her maiden name. She has written. plays, lec- tures, and books, the latter including "Chateau Frissac " (New York, 1860) ; " Photographs of Par- is " (London, 1860) ; " Women and Theatres " (New York, 1869); and "Before the Footlights and Be- hind the Scenes: a Book about the Show Busi- ness" (Cincinnati, 1870).

LOOAN, George, surgeon, b. in Charleston, S. C, 4 Jan., 1778; d. in New Orleans, 13 Feb., 1861. He was graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1802, and for fifty years practised his profession in Charleston, S. C., where he was appointed surgeon in the U. S. navy, 21 April, 1810, and resigned, 16 June, 1829. He served as hospital surgeon to the navy-yard. He was the author of a popular work on diseases of children.

LOGAN, James, statesman, b. in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, 20 Oct., 1674 ; d. near Germantown, Pa., 31 Oct., 1751. He was of Scotch-Irish parentage, and descended from Logan of Restalrig, Scotland, whose estates were confiscated for connection with the Gowrie conspiracy against James VI. Before the age of thirteen he had ac- quired Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and he afterward studied mathematics and modern languages. He was sent to Lon- don, and apprenticed to a linen - draper, but, the campaign that ended in the battle of the Boyne having begun, he was recalled to ac- company his parents in their flight to Edinburgh. Subsequently they settled in Bristol, England, where James resumed his studies and assisted his father in his school. He engaged in commerce in 1698, and in 1699 came to this country with Will- iam Penn, as his secretary, arriving in Philadelphia in December, 1099. He resided with Penn in "the slate-roof house " on Second street, and continued there after Penn returned to England in 1701. He became provincial secretary, commissioner of prop- erty, and receiver-general, and was the business agent for the Penn family, and the champion of their interests in the colony. In 1702 he entered the provincial council, of which body he was a mem- ber until 1747. In 1704-'5 he became embroiled in Gov. John Evans's disputes with the assembly. In October, 1705, he visited the Indians at Conestoga, and in subsequent embassies gained their esteem and confidence, and as a testimony of their regard the chief, Logan, was named for him. On 26 Feb., 1707, he was impeached by the assembly, which charged him, among other things, with illegally inserting in the governor's commission certain clauses contrary to the royal charter, and with illegally holding two incompatible offices, the surveyor-generalship and the secretaryship. Logan's answer was filled with personal abuse, and on 25 Nov., when he was preparing to sail for England, the house ordered that he should be detained in the county jail until he should make satisfaction for his reflections on sundry members ; but the sheriff refused to obey, and Logan sailed a few days afterward, returning in 1712. In 1715 he was commissioned a justice of the court of common pleas, quarter sessions, and orphan's court, and in 1723 became presiding judge of the common pleas. In 1723 he became mayor of Philadelphia, and at the close of his term went abroad again to consult with Hannah Penn. From 1731 till 1739 he filled the office of chief-justice of the supreme court, and as president of the council, after the death of Gov. Gordon in 1736, acted as governor for two years. The latter years of his life were spent in retirement at his country-seat " Stenton," now in Philadelphia, devoted to science and literature. He corresponded with many scientists, and Linnasus gave the name Logan to a class of plants in his honor.