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4 unusual facts about Logan County


Apatornis

The type specimen of A. celer, YPM 1451, was reportedly discovered by Othniel Charles Marsh in October of 1872 at Butte Creek in Logan County, Kansas.

Cooper Harold Langford

Cooper Harold Langford (25 August 1895, Dublin, Logan County, Arkansas – 28 August 1964) was an analytic philosopher and mathematical logician who co-authored the book Symbolic Logic (1932) with C. I. Lewis.

John R. Kane

Kane retired to a farm in Logan County, Arkansas, but moved to Pennsylvania in 1987 to be near his son.

The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man

The film is about the Buffalo Creek Flood, an incident that occurred on February 26, 1972 when the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dam in Logan County, West Virginia burst four days after having been declared 'satisfactory' by a federal mine inspector.


106th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

It was raised to be entirely composed of men from Logan County, Illinois, but Company A was raised in Sangamon County and Company K from Menard.

Ada Mills

For more than four decades, she spearheaded the campaign to build a replacement bridge on Arkansas Highway 109 over the Arkansas River between Clarksville and the community of Morrison Bluff in Logan County.

John B. McClelland

He was captured by American Indians during the Crawford Expedition and tortured to death at the Shawnee town of Wakatomika, which is currently located in Logan County, Ohio, about halfway between West Liberty, Ohio and Zanesfield, Ohio.

Round Barns in Illinois Thematic Resources

The Buckles Round Barn, located in Logan County near Mount Pulaski, was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and the Round Barn MPS, on February 10, 1983.


see also

Baber

Baber, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States

Crites

Crites, West Virginia, incorporated area in Logan County, West Virginia

De Graff

De Graff, Ohio, a village located in Logan County, Ohio, United States

Don Chafin

As sheriff of Logan County, Chafin was a fierce opponent of unionization and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from coal mine operators in return for his violent suppression of the United Mine Workers union.

Chafin's anti-union activities did successfully keep the United Mine Workers out of Logan County, but they also aroused the anger of UMW officials.

Frank Hutchison

Some years after his recording career had ended and after he left the Logan County coal mines, Hutchison and his wife operated a store in Lake, West Virginia, where he also served as postmaster.

Logan Coalfield

The sheriff of Logan County in the 1920s, Don Chafin, was allegedly paid handsomely by the coal companies to keep the United Mine Workers union out of Logan County, and he and his deputies brutally performed this task in such a thorough manner that the union could gain no foothold at all.

Robert P. Kennedy

Robert P. Kennedy died in Columbus, Ohio, and was interred in the Bellefontaine City Cemetery, Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio USA.