Alexander Logan and Eliza Watt
Husband Alexander Logan 1
Born: Christened: Died: 15 Dec 1836 1 Buried:
Father: James Logan ( - ) 2 3 Mother: Nancy Gloster ( - ) 1
Marriage: 26 Feb 1786 1
Wife Eliza Watt 1
AKA: [Unk] Watt 4 Born: Christened: Died: 6 Mar 1846 1 Buried:
Father: Hugh Watt (Abt 1732-1787) 1 Mother: Margaret Mills ( - ) 1
Children
1 M James Logan 1 5
Born: 15 Mar 1787 - Springdale, Allegheny Co, PA 6 Christened: Died: 4 Jan 1838 6 Buried:Spouse: Polly Caldwell ( - ) 6
2 M Hugh Logan 6
Born: - Springdale, Allegheny Co, PA Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Elizabeth Parry ( -1878) 7
3 F Nancy [1] Logan 6
Born: 28 Nov 1790 6 Christened: Died: 24 Aug 1791 6 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
4 F Nancy [2] Logan 6
Born: 25 Jun 1792 6 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Simon McGrew ( - ) 6
5 F Margaret Ann Logan 6 8 9
Born: 5 Mar or 31 Mar 1794 - Logan's Ferry, Allegheny Co, PA 4 6 Christened: Died: 26 Dec 1881 4 6 Buried:Spouse: Thomas Sample (1791/1791-1876) 8 9 10 11 Marr: 1816 9
6 F Eliza [1] Logan 6
Born: 11 Sep 1795 6 Christened: Died: 30 Jun 1796 6 Buried: - Springdale, Allegheny Co, PASpouse: Did Not Marry
7 F Eliza [2] Logan 6
Born: 21 Apr 1795 6 Christened: Died: 6 Mar 1846 6 Buried:
8 F Rebecca Logan 6
Born: 27 Jan 1799 6 Christened: Died: 16 Dec 1825 6 Buried:Spouse: [Unk] Armstrong ( - ) 6
9 M Alexander Logan 6
Born: 19 Oct 1800 6 Christened: Died: 8 Mar 1834 - Washington, KY 6 Buried:
10 F Theodosia Logan 6
Born: 16 Oct 1802 6 Christened: Died: 21 Dec 1808 6 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
11 M John W. Logan 6
Born: 26 Sep 1804 6 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Eliza Stewart ( - ) 6 Marr: 21 May 1835 6
General Notes: Husband - Alexander Logan
He came from Ireland, and settled on the banks of the Allegheny River, eighteen miles above Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and established Logan's Ferry. He also purchased some six or eight hundred acres of land, and opened an inn for the travelers near a basin in the river, which was known as Logan's Eddy. It was a favorite place of resort for the rivermen who made it a point to stop there on their trip for meals and a good night's lodging. He also had a well-furnished general store in connection with his tavern, and the income that came in to him from these diversified interests, together with his profits in his farming operations, amounted to no inconsiderable amount, and enabled him to accumulate a large and independent fortune. His death took place on his estate at an advanced age.
He was fifteen years of age when his parents died, and they being Friends, he was cared for in the home of an old Quaker family, his home until his marriage. He had a brother who went to South America after the death of his parents, and another brother who went to the Louisiana Purchase, neither of them ever being heard from again by their relatives.
He obtained a good education in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and soon after his marriage, in 1786, went to Western Pennsylvania as the land agent of the Mifflin Company, comprised of Philadelphia capitalists. He first settled at Springdale, near the Indian Village, Sewickley Old Town, his eldest child James being the first white child born in that part of the Allegheny valley. He resided at Springdale until April 20, 1803, when he bought three hundred acres, paying seven hundred and fifty pounds sterling. This tract on the Allegheny river, sixteen miles above Pittsburgh, was formerly owned by John Wood, after whom Wood street, Pittsburgh, is named. The old manor at Logans Ferry was located here and was yet standing in the early twentieth century.
Governor Mifflin appointed him captain of the Second Allegheny Brigade, Pennsylvania Militia, August 19, 1791, and also made him the first justice of the peace in Plum township, the oldest survey in Allegheny County. Beside the first home at Springdale was an old blockhouse called "Coe's Station," named after an old man named Coe, who would be left in charge of the house and the women while the men of the settlement were away fighting the Indians. After purchasing the Logans Ferry farm, Alexander Logan established a ferry across the Allegheny, and a store and post office, the village that there grew up taking the name of Logans Ferry.
As stated, Alexander Logan held a captain's commission in the State Militia, and was actively engaged in suppressing the Indians. Upon one occasion he was compelled to take his wife and family to Pittsburgh for safety, while he was away with his command. Before he again saw them his little daughter, Nancy, died, and was buried in Old Trinity graveyard.
The first post office established in Allegheny County, outside the Pittsburgh district, was at Logans Ferry, the mail being brought by river or horseback, a distance of twenty miles, it being many years before a stage mail route was established along the Allegheny river. The Logan Manor became a noted shipping place, Charles Dickens noting the fact in "American Notes" that he stopped there. Aaron Burr came down the Allegheny and spent two days with Alexander Logan.
The Logans established the first Presbyterian church in the valley, but until the church was built Alexander Logan took his family to Old Plum Creek Presbyterian Church, and there worshipped.
In later years the old manor was abandoned by the Logans, they leasing it to the Westmoreland Club, who maintained it in fine condition until the overflowing of the golf links destroyed the value of the place for club purposes.
General Notes: Wife - Eliza Watt
She came to America from Ireland with relatives.
She was small of stature, but the rest of the family were very tall, the total height of three brothers aggregating nineteen feet; most of the family settled in Virginia.
She was a relative of the famous James Watt, who developed the steam engine.
1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 225.
2 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 70, 129.
3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 224.
4 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 70.
5 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 397.
6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 226.
7 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 227.
8 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 69, 128.
9 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 917.
10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 796.
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John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 252.
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