James Logan

Standard Name: Logan, James

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Deborah Norris Logan
George was grandson of James Logan , a wealthy Philadelphian fur trader, scientist and bibliophile. In England on a visit at the time of an eclipse of the sun on 22 May 1724, James wrote...
Friends, Associates Susanna Wright
Her friendships, largely maintained by correspondence, took in many of the eminent men of the day: Benjamin Franklin , James Logan , Benjamin Rush , and the historian Robert Proud . Most of these visited...
Literary responses May Drummond
Thomas Story said that at the beginning of her preaching career MD had a Turn of Expression . . . very taking to most Hearers, especially the more polite sort of both Sexes,
Story, Thomas. The Life of Thomas Story. Isaac Thompson, 1747.
720
and...
names Susanna Wright
  • BirthName: Susanna Wright
  • Nickname: Philomel
    This name, bestowed on her by James Logan with reference probably to the nightingale rather than the nightingale's human original in classical myth, signifies how solid was her public identity...
Textual Production Deborah Norris Logan
DNL published during her lifetime, as a contributor to the National Gazette.
Premo, Terri L. “’Like A Being Who Does Not Belong’: The Old Age of Deborah Norris Logan”. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol.
107
, No. 1, Jan. 1983, pp. 85-112.
87-8
She did research into family history and edited (though she did not herself publish) a collection of the letters between James Logan

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Texts

Logan, James, and Thomas Story. “Letters”. Bulletin of Friends’ Historical Association, Vol.
15
, No. 2, pp. 17-92.