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George W. LOGAN. Among the many important industries of Lawrence County, Mo., may be mentioned the tombstone manufactory of which George W. Logan is the proprietor. Previous to 1871, he was tiller of the soil, but since that time has given his attention to the marble business, which has proved quite successful, financially. He was born in Tennessee in 1852, and the same year was brought to Barry (now Lawrence) County, Mo., where he was reared and educated. He was married in 1874 to Miss Alice MILLIKIN, and both are church members; he belongs to the Farmers' Alliance and the Knights of Labor. He and his brother James B. are members of a large family of children born to William and Parmelia (NEECE) LOGAN. The father was a hard-working and economical farmer, and soon became independent. In 1852 he came from Tennessee to Missouri by wagon, and located in Barry (now Lawrence) County, and purchased land on which he farmed with great success
until 1870, when the Frisco Railroad passed through his land, and he sold his farm to a stock company. They built a town, which they named "Logan" in his honor. He died in 1876.
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James B. LOGAN is a brother of George T. LOGAN, whose sketch precedes this. He was born in Tennessee in 1836, and at the age of sixteen years came with his parents to Missouri. When the war broke out he in 1861 went to Tennessee and enlisted in the Confederate army, Company K, Capt. T. B. LOGAN, Forty-first Tennessee Regiment, commanded by Col. Robert FALKERSON, and at the end of six years (1866) returned to Missouri, but three years later moved to Arkansas, where he farmed and lived nine years. He then again returned to Missouri, and settled near his father's home, where he purchased sixty acres of land and began keeping a nursery. He was married in 1856 to Mary J. WILLIAMS, by whom he has had twelve children (one being deceased): Susan P. (Mrs. John G. MOSS), Frances E. (Mrs. Frank Rogers), Delilah J. (Mrs. Henry ROBINSON), Lucy A., William A. (married to E. LOWMAN), Newton N., Molly A., James I., Nancy, Naomah G. and Dory A. Mr. Logan, wife and four children are members of the Baptist Church, and he belongs to the I.O.O.F.
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