NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11245 WARREN CO JUDGE MARVEL MILLS LOGAN Logan, Houchin, Merlin, Dandridge, Lee, Lindsey, Lay, Sturgeon, Wright, Garnett, Brown, Myatt, Thomas, Hayden, Hume, Shipp #11245 History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State. Volume III Illustrated. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago Louisville, 1928. Warren Co., pp.583-585. JUDGE MARVEL MILLS LOGAN. Many of Kentuckys native sons have risen to eminence in the legal profession, and in this connection particular mention should be made of Judge Marvel Mills Logan, a distinguished citizen of Bowling Green. He established an enviable record as attorney general of Kentucky and was recently elected to the appellate court bench, a post for which he is exceptionally well qualified. He was born January 7, 1875, in Brownsville, Edmonson County, this state, and comes of honored pioneer stock, being a great-grandnephew of General Benjamin Logan, whose name is inseparably associated with Kentuckys history. Judge Logan is one of the ten children of Gillis Franklin and Georgiana (Houchin) Logan, whose family numbered seven sons and three daughters. The mother was born August 8, 1849, in Edmonson county and died October 30, 1911, on the Logan homestead. Her parents, Asel and Polly (Webb) Houchin, were prosperous farming people of Edmonson county and the father was a Baptist in religious faith, while his political support was given to the republican party. Gillis F. Logan was born August 7, 1832, in Hardin county, Kentucky, and received his education in private schools and taught school for a number of years. He fought for the Union during the dark days of civil strife and afterward followed the occupation of farming. He was a democrat but never held any political office. He was a member of the Baptist church and shaped his conduct by its teaching. He reached the age of eighty-two years, passing away in Brownsville, April 6, 1915. His parents, M. M. and Elizabeth (Merlin) Logan, resided for a number of years in Edmonson county where his father was justice of the peace for half a century. In 1880 he moved to Leitchfield, Kentucky, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was born near Columbia, South Carolina, in 1808. His father was Joseph D. Logan, a Presbyterian minister who was the son of James Logan, who was also the son of James Logan, the brother of David Logan, who was the father of General Benjamin Logan, the Kentucky pioneer. His mother was Jane Dandridge, who died at his birth and soon thereafter his father married a Lee. Upon the death of his father when he was very young he went to live with a family of Lindseys who were related to his father and with them he came to Kentucky about 1816. He wife was a native of Hardin county, Kentucky, and she died in Edmonson county about the year 1838. Marvel M. Logan, the subject of this sketch, was educated in public and private schools of Edmonson and Grayson counties and studied law under the tutelage of Senator J. S. Lay and A. A. Sturgeon, two able and well known lawyers of Brownsville, Kentucky. Mr. Logan was admitted to the bar June 20, 1896, when twenty-one years of age and immediately entered into the practice of law. In 1900 he became associated with Senator D. W. Wright, of Bowling Green, and for ten years was a member of the firm of Wright and Logan. He was also a partner of Senator J. S. Lay for some years. In 1901 he was nominated for county attorney of Edmonson county on the democratic ticket and although the county was overwhelmingly republican he was elected by a narrow majority. He continued to practice law at Brownsville until January 1, 1912, when he went to Frankfort in the legal department of which General James Garnett was at the time the head. He served four years in this capacity when he was elected attorney general for the term commencing January 1, 1916. He served until June, 1917, when he resigned. He was a member of the state board of education and also of the sinking fund commission of Kentucky during 1916 and 1917. In 1917 the state of Kentucky adopted a new system of revenue and taxation and created a state tax commission to put the new laws into effect and administer them. On July 1, 1917, he was appointed by the governor as first chairman of the state tax commission and held that position until November 1, 1918, when he resigned. During his chairmanship he put into effect the new laws and established an organization for carrying them into effect which still continues. After he resigned from the state tax commission he located in Louisville for the practice of law and formed a partnership with Eli H. Brown, Jr., with whom he was associated until January 1, 1920. He then formed a partnership with D. O. Myatt and that firm continued in business until Mr. Logan left Louisville in 1922 and formed a partnership with T. W. and R. C. P. Thomas in Bowling Green with whom he continued to practice until the first of January, 1927. At the regular election in 1926 he as elected a judge of the court of appeals and is now discharging the duties of that office. He has always had a high conception of the dignity and responsibility of his profession and is well equipped for the duties of the important office which he now holds, owing to his native sense of justice, entire grasp of the law and finely balanced mind. In 1916 he organized the Kentucky Rock Asphalt Company of which he was president and was connected with it for some years. He also organized the Green River Oil & Mineral Company and was its president for some years. At present he is connected with the Inter County Land Company, the Bowling Green Rock Asphalt Company, the Edmonson County Construction Company and two banks. He was the first president of the Mammoth Cave National Park Association which organized and secured the passage of a law through congress providing for the establishment of the Mammoth Cave area as a national park. His connection with these various business enterprises were severed when he became a judge of the court of appeals. Judge Logan was married September 25, 1896, in Edmonson county, Kentucky, to Miss Della Hayden, a daughter of Wylie J. and Amanda (Hume) Hayden, both deceased. They were both natives of Virginia and migrated to Kentucky after the war between the states. Mr. Hayden was a Confederate veteran and a stanch democrat in his political views. He and his wife were both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a farmer and resided in Edmonson county on his farm for many years prior to this death. Judge and Mrs. Logan have four children. Victor Hubert the oldest was born May 12, 1899. He married Miss Russell Shipp of Lexington, Kentucky and is now a staff correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Agnes, born February 28, 1902, is engaged in teaching at Anchorage, Kentucky. Each of his two oldest children completed a college education. Leland H. as born July 15, 1905, and is now a junior in college. Ralph Hunter, born November 15, 1911, is a junior in the Bowling Green high school. Mrs. Logan was born October 28, 1875, in Barren county, Kentucky. She attended public and private schools of Glasgow, Kentucky, and, prior to her marriage, was a successful teacher. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church while Judge Logan is affiliated with the Baptist church. He has given much of his time to church work and has been a teacher in the Sunday school for more than thirty years. He has always been noted for his public service and the general good has been considered by him before personal aggrandizement. He was one of the founders of the College Heights Foundation of Bowling Green which has for its object the loaning of money to needy boys and girls who desire to acquire an education, and is now a member of the executive committee. Judge Logan is a member of the Pendennis Club of Louisville, the XV Club and the Kiwanis Club of Bowling Green. Since his early manhood he has taken a keen interest in fraternal affairs and is one of the most prominent Odd Fellows of Kentucky and for many years he has been a representative from his jurisdiction to the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows Home at Lexington. He is a member of all the branches of the Masonic fraternity and is also a member of the order of Elks. Judge Logan has much personal magnetism and his genial nature and innate courtesy have won for him a host of friends wherever he is known. He is a man of proven worth and integrity and an ornament to his profession. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx