Joseph Payne Logan, M.D.

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JOSEPH PAYNE LOGAN

Joseph Payne Logan, of Marietta, Georgia, was born in
Botetourt County, Virginia, November 20, 1820, and died
Jun 02, 1891, the the seventy-first year of his age.  He
was educated at Washington College, in his native State,
and graduated in medicine from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1841.  He practiced for a brief period at
Baltimore, and was Professor of the Principles and
Practice of Medicine in Washington University of that
city, but made Atlanta the permanent field of his
professional life.  He was appointed Professor in the
Atlanta Medical College, of the department of Physiology
and Principles of Medicine.  He also edited the Medicial
and Surgical Journal of that city.  He had been president
of the Georgia Medical Association, of the Atlanta
Academy of Medicine, and was one of the earlier vice-
presidents of the American Medical Association, having
held that office from 1860 till 1863.  He was for a time
a member of the State  Board of Health of Georgia, in
which capacity he contributed several valuable reports
upon yellow fever and other epidemic diseases.

Ref:  Stone, R. French, M. D., BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS 
AND SURGEONS, 1894, Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianapolis, p. 284.