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* LOGAN. 404 LOGANSPOBT. in the latter engajgement, and in March, 1862, was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, and a few months later major-general. In the Vicksburg campaign he was in command of a division of the Seventeenth Corps, and ilistin- guished himself at Port Gibson and Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill, and in the siege of Vicksburg. His command was the first to en- ter the town, of which he was appointed mili- tary governor. In 18(i3 he was put in com- mand of the Fifteenth Corps, whidi he led until the death of McPhcrson, when he took command for a time of the Army of the Tennessee. On being relieved by Gen. O. O. Howard, he re- turned to the command of his corps, which he led until the fall of Atlanta, when he obtained leave of absence to take part in the political cam- paign for the reelection of Abraham Lincoln as President. He afterwards rejoined his corps, leading it in the march through the Carulinas, and ultimately succeeded (Jtneral Howard in command of the Army of the Tennessee. He was subsequent ly elected to Congress for two successive terms as a Republican, and was one of the managers of the impeachment of Presi- dent Andrew Johnson. In 1871 he was elected to the United States Senate. Soon after his ad- mission to the Senate he distinguished himself by a speech on reconstruction. At the expiration of his term, in 187", he settled in Chicago and began to practice law, but after a short interval of retirement was reelected to the Senate. Dur- in" his career in Congress he made a number of notable speeches, characterized by force and bril- liancy. In 1880 he spoke for four consecutive days' upon the Fitz-John Porter bill, opposing the restoration of Porter to the army. He was a candidate for the Presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1884, and after the ballot was announced ■which gave that nomination to .James G. Blaine, he was nominated by acclamation as the candi- date for 'ice-President. Soon after the defeat of the Republican ticket he was once more elected by the Republicans of Illinois as United States Senator. He died at Washington, December 26, 1886. .James (J. Blaine said of him that no other man in the history of the country had combined the elements of successful militarj' and legislative leadership in such an eminent degree. Major- General Logan wrote a volume on the Civil War, entitled The Crent Conspirury (1880), and The Volunteer Holdier of America (1888). Consult Dawson, The Life and Services of .John A. Logan (Chicago, 1887). liOGAN, Mount. The second highest peak of Xorth America. It is situated in the south- western corner of Yukon Territory, Canada, close to the Alaskan boundary (Map: Northwest Terri- tories, A 2). Its height is 19, .500 feet. It was considered the highest peak of the continent until 1808, when the United States Geological Survey foimd it to be exceeded by Mount McKin- ley. See :McKixley, Mouxt. LOGAN, Olive (1830—). An American actress, daughter of Cornelius Ambrosius Logan (q.v. ). She was born in Elmira, N. Y.. and after having been educated in Paris and London with a view to the stage, became an actress and subse- quently a journalist and lecturer. In 1864 she appeared at Wallack's Theatre in New York City in her own play of Eveleen. She corresponded for many periodicals, and wrote besides plays (in- cluding further a metrical rendering of Coppee's Le I'uHHunt and a dramatization of Wilkie Col- lins's Armadale), several books on theatrical matters, such as Before the Footlights and Be- hind the Scenes (1870). LOGAN, Stepiie.n- Trigg (1800-80). An American jurist, born in Franklin County, Ky. He studied law, and for a time practiced in his native State, but in 1S,'52 emigrati'd to Illinois, and opened a law office at Springfield. In 1835 he was made Circuit Judge, and in 1S42, 1844, and 1840 was elected to the Legislature. From 1841 to 1844 he was a law partner of Abraham Lin- coln. In 1847 he assi.sted in framing a new State Constitution, and in 18.54 was a fourth time elected to the Legislature. He became a Repub- lican upon the formation of that party, and in 1800 was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, which nominated Lincoln. In the following j'car he went to the Peace Congress at Washington, and then withdrew from public life. Logan was a lawyer of unusual ability, and during his prime was regarded by many as the first member of the bar in the State of Illinois. LOGAN, Sir William Edmoxd (1798-187.5). An English geologist, born in Montreal, Canada, and educated at the Edinburgh High School and University. While .studying the structure of the coal-fields of South Wales he discovered the 'stigmaria-clay' by which he refiited the drift theory of the origin of coal. From 1842 to 1869 Dr. Logan directed the geological sur'ey of Canada, where he brought to notice the sup- posed fossils of the Laurentian rocks called Eozoiin C'anadense. His investigations of the crystalline rocks of Canada were of far-reaching importance. In 18.5.5 he had charge of the repre- sentation of Canadian mineral productions at the Paris Exposition, and in 1850 he was knighted.. His chief publication was Geology of Canada (1863, with Thomas Sterry Hunt). Consult his Life by Harrington (Montreal, 1883). LO'GANIA'CE.^ (Neo-Lat., from Logania, named in honor of James Logan), The Logania Family. A natural order of dicotyledonous plants, consisting of trees, low and climbing shrubs, and herbs, with opposite, entire, usually stipulate leaves. The calyx is 4-5 partite ; the corolla hypogvTious, regular or irregular 4-5 or 10-cIeft; the stamens adherent to the corolla; the ovary generally 2-cel!ed; the style .solitary; the fruit a capsule, a drupe, or a berry. A few species of this order occur in Australia and in the temperate parts of North America; the rest are all tropical or subtropical. There are about 350 known species. The plants of this order are characterized by a bitter principle which is often extremely poisonous. They in- clude the genus Str>'chnos, of which nux vomica (qq.v. ) is one of the products, and another is the woorali or curari (q.v.) poison. The prin- cipal representative of the order in the United States is the pinkroot {Hpigelin Marilandica), which is believed to have medicinal properties. LO'GANSPOET. A city and the county-seat of Cass County, Ind.. 72 miles north by west of Indianapolis : at the confluence of the Wabash and Eel rivers, and on the Pittsburg. Cincinnati, Chicago and Saint Louis, the Vandalia Line, the Wabash, and other railroads (Map: Indiana, C 2 ) . It has a fine county court-house of stone, a