Logan (c. 1723–1780)

US American Indian leader. He was a friend of the whites until his family was killed at the Yellow Creek Massacre in Ohio in 1774. Dedicating himself to revenge, he refused to attend a peace meeting; instead he allegedly sent a spoken reply that was quoted in newspapers, and later used by Thomas Jefferson in his Notes on the State of Virginia (1800), including the eloquent plaint: ‘There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature . . . Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one!’ Logan continued to attack white settlements and during the American Revolution brought scalps and prisoners to the British at Detroit. He was killed by a fellow American Indian near Lake Erie. The son of Chief Shikellamy, Logan born Tahgahjute in Shamokin (present-day Sunbury), Pennsylvania.

Logan

Residential area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 8 km/5 mi north of Center City, between Olney and North Philadelphia. It is a working-class black and Hispanic area.

Logan

City and administrative headquarters of Cache County, northern Utah, on the Logan River in the Cache Valley, 58 km/36 mi northeast of Ogden; population (2000) 42,700. It is a marketing centre for an agricultural and dairy region. Its products include cheese, beet sugar, canned fruit, flour, timber, dairy goods, confectionery, pianos, organs, farm equipment, and clothing.

The city was founded by Mormons in 1859 and built on terraces created by the glacial Lake Bonneville. Visitors are drawn to its Mormon temple (1884) and its tabernacle, which contains a well-known genealogical library. Also here is Utah State University (1888).