Sacramento County
Biographies
ARCHIBALD LOGAN
ARCHIBALD LOGAN, of Sacramento, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, November 30, 1830. His father, John Logan, a native of Trennent, Midlothian, was a merchant of Edinburgh, and died when the subject of this sketch was a child. His mother, nee Jessie Steele, was also a native of the same section of Scotland. Young Logan received his school education in Edinburgh. At the age of fourteen years he shipped as a cabin boy on the bark Elizabeth, Captain Gale, for New York. Returning to Scotland, he made a second trip to the American city, and two years afterward he made a voyage to Portugal and the West Indies. He left New York for California February 1, 1849, as a sailor before the mast, on the bark Cornelia, Captain Parker, and arrived at San Francisco July 18, following. Coming by way of Sacramento directly to the American River Bar mining district, he obtained employment at a point called Lacy Bar, at $16 a day and board. In March, 1853, during the Australian gold excitement, he sailed to the Sandwich Islands, and thence to Australia, whence he returned in the following year. During this absence he retained his mining interests at Lacy’s Bar, and also his mercantile interests there and at Dalton’s Bar. In 1859, during the Salmon River gold excitement, he went to Idaho and spent a year. Returning to Sacramento, he again made a trip to Scotland to visit friends and to bring his mother to the new El Dorado. Landing again in this country, he spent the next two years or more at Dalton’s Bar, in business partnership with G. L. Greeley, who died about 1860 or 1870, while holding the office of collector for Placer County. Mr. Logan was elected to fill vacancy for the unexpired term. July 4, 1865, he married Mrs. Lydia Greeley, nee Morse, a native of Wisconsin, who came to this State during the spring of the preceding year. They have had nine children, six of whom are living, namely: Jennie Greeley, now Mrs. E. Katzenstein; Charles; Lester; Jessie, who died young; Mary, now Mrs. Dr. B. Stoll; Archie, who died when eight years of age; Francis; Jessie, Daisy, Robbie and Bessie Cluich. After marriage Mr. Logan became a resident of Sacramento, where he has been engaged in draying for the last fifteen years. For many years he has been a member of the Pioneer Association, and Marshal of that organization for the past three years. He is also a member of Sacramento Lodge, No. 2, I. O. O. F., and of Pacific Encampment, No. 2, of the same order.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 677-678. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.