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nej of 150 miles to the Holston settlement, where he procured powder aiid letui and lia*»tily returned, leaving hia companions to follow with a relief party under Col. John Bowman, who dispersed the savages. In July, 1779, he was second in command of an army of over three hundred men under Colonel Bowman in an expedition against the Indian settlement of Chillicothe, and Logan with one half the army fell upon the village ex- pecting to be supported by Bowman, who did not arrive. After most of his men had fled in dismay, Ix>gan and his aides dashed into the bushes on horseback, forcing the Indians from their coverts and completely dis|)er8ing the enemy. In the summer of 1788 he again conducted an expedition against the Nortli western tribes. He was a dele- gate to the convention of 1792 that framed the first oonstitution of Kentucky, and to the second constitutional convention of 1799 in which his son William was also a delegate. He was also a representative in the Kentucky legislature for several years. Logan county, Ky., formed in 1793. was named in his honor. He died in Shelby county. Ky., Dec. 11, 1802.

LOGAN, Celia, author, was born in Philadel- phia, Pa., Dec. 17, 1837; daughter of Cornelius Ambrosius and Eliza (Acheley) Logan. She re- moved with her parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she spent her early childhood and was graduated from the High school of that city. She went on the stage at an early age with her sister Eliza, completed her education in London, and fllled a position in a publishing house there as a critical reader of submitted manuscript. She was married, in 18.'>9, to Miner K. Kellogg, an American painter. She had then left the stage, and in 1860 began a literary career in Lon- don, under the tutelage of Charles Reade. She became a correspondent of A merican journals, including the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, and the Golden Era of San Francisco, and con- tributed to magazines. During the civil war she resided in Milan, Italy, translating war news for tl»e Italifin press. She return*>d to the United States in 1S416, and settkd in Washington, D.C., in 1868. and was associate editor of The Capitol, with Don Piatt as chief. She was married secondly, in 1H72. to James II. Connolly, author and journalist, and settled in New York city in 1874. She' is the author of the following plays: iJoss (1878). profc(l873); The IIomeMead (1873); An American Marriage (1884). She later adapted and translated from the French, Gaston Cadol, or A Son of the Soil; The Sphinx; MisH Mult on; fVoment Jeune by Daudet.and A Marriage in High Life. She wrote the novels: Her Strange Fatfi. and Sarz. a Story of the Stage; also How to lieduce Your Weight or to Increase it.

LOGAN, Cornelius Ambrose, diplomatist, was born in Deerlield, Ma»s., Aug. 24, 1832; son of Cornelius Ambrosius and Eliza (Acheley) Logan. He was a student at Auburn academy and was graduated from the Miami Medical college, Ohio, in 1853; and from the Ohio Medical college in 1853. He was resident physician to St. John's hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio; assistant in chemistry im Miami Medical college, 1851-53, and a lecturer on chemistry in the summer school of that college, 1853. He removed to Leavenworth, Kan,, in 1858, where he established with Dr. T. Sinks Tlte Lea- venivroth Medical Herald the first medical journal published in Kansas, and was its editor, 1861-73. He was also botanist on the first geological sur- vey of Kansas and president of the state board of medical examiners, 1861-65. He was U.S. minis- ter to Chile, 1873-77; practised medicine in Chi- cago, 111., 1877-79; was U.S. minister to the five Central American states with a residence at Guatemala, 1879-81; and again U.S. minister to Chile, 1882-86. He studied in the hospitals of London, Paris and Berlin, 1886-87, and then resumed his practice in Chicago. During his service in Chile, he succeeded in obtaining recog- nition for all the genuine medical schools in the United States, as only applicants holding a diploma from Harvard were at that time recog- nized by the board of medical examiners of Chile, as eligible to practice in that country. In 1890 he was sent to Europe as the first commissioner to the World's Columbian exposition to be held in Chicago, 111., in 1893. He received the hono- rary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1868, that of M.D. from the Bellevue Hospital Medical college in 1868, and that of LL.D. from the National uni- versity of Chicago in 1885. He contributed to American and European scientific journals; edi- ted 77ie Works of John A. Logan (1886), and is the author of Reports on the Sanitary Relations of the State of Kansas (1866); Ori the Climatology of the 3Iissouri Valley (1878); and Physics of Infec- tions Diseases (ISIS). He died in Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 30, 1899.

LOGAN, Cornelius Ambrosius, dramatist, was born in Baltimore, Md.,-May 4, 1806. He was educajted for the priesthood at St. Mary's college near Baltimore, Md. He entered a shipping house in Baltimore after leaving college and visited Europe several times in its interest. He was assistant editor of the Baltimore Morning Chron- icle; was dramatic critic of the Daily Chronicle, Philadelphia. Pa., and adopted the stage as a profession in 1835, first appearing in tragedy at the Bowery theatre. New York, 1838, and acting thereafter also in Canada. In 1840 he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he o|)ened the National theatre, and continued as a theatrical manag*»r in that city, and in Pittsburg and Louisville for