DANIEL LOGEE (JR.)
Generation Six
(Special Thanks to Marcia Esterly and Marjorie Gibson
for sharing their research on the Daniel Logee family line)

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43. Daniel Logee Jr.6 (Daniel Logee5,Caleb Sr.4, Philip3, Abraham2, Philip1) 
Born: 26 Jul 1816 Douglas, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Died: 20 Jun 1893 Guernsey County, Ohio
Married: Minerva Emerson 27 Sep 1838 Guernsey County, Ohio
She Born: 9 Apr 1821 Massachusetts
She Died:  28 Feb 1905 probably in Guernsey County, Ohio
 

Children:

  1. Clarissa E. Logee b. 16 Apr 1840; d. 30 Mar 1920; m. David Bales 9 Jun1864 Ohio

  2. Columbia Logee b. 2 Oct 1841; d. 5 Jan 1926; m. Smith Williams 11 May 1864 Ohio

  3. Minerva Logee b. 14 Nov 1843 Ohio; d. 16 Jan 1938 Salesville, Ohio; m. Cyrus Frame 26 Oct 1865 Guernsey County, Ohio

    Evlura Logee b. 28 Sep 1849; d. 24 Sep 1853
     

  4. Ella Logee b. 27 Nov 1851; d. 9 May 1930; m. Henry M. Brown 10 Oct 1877 Ohio

  5. Alpha Logee b. 1 Aug 1854; d. 23 Jan 1898; m. Nathan Barnes 16 Mar 1886

  6. Lavina Logee b. 4 Feb 1857; d. 17 Jan 1949; m. Samuel McGee 10 Nov 1885

  7. Ellura K. Logee b. 31 Jul 1859; d. 9 Jul 1939; m. Francis Knouff 15 Apr 1884 Ohio

  8. Norval Clarence Logee b. 25 Jul 1862; d. 23 Feb 1944; m. Laura Laughlin 17 Mar 1886

 

Personal Information:

Daniel Logee (Jr.) was born 26 Jul 1816 in Douglas, Massachusetts1. He was the son of Daniel and Mary (Holbrook) Logee. He spent his younger years in the Douglas area. Daniel left Massachusetts and migrated to Guernsey County, Ohio by 1838.

On 27 Sep 1838 he married Minerva Emerson in Guernsey County2. Minerva was born 9 Apr 1821 in Massachusetts. She was the daughter of John Emerson and Catherine Sherman. One family tradition was that Minerva fell from the wagon when her parents were migrating from Pennsylvania to Ohio3. The family did not notice she was missing for 7 hours. They went back by torch light and found her nestled by a tree guarded by the family Collie.

It appears probable that Daniel and Minerva (Emerson) Logee were residing with her parents for a period of time following their marriage. The 1840 Census had no listing for Daniel Logee Jr. However, the Jno Emerson household in Richland twp, Guernsey Co, Ohio listed additional males and females consistent with the new Daniel Logee family4.

Daniel Logee became a prominent citizen in Guernsey County. He was a leading petitioner in creating Wright twp in 18505. Family tradition indicated that he was an attorney6. At about the same time, Daniel's father Daniel Sr. came to live in Ohio7 (between 1847 and 1850).

Daniel Logee's farm was established next to the farm of his father-in-law John Emerson. When John Emerson died 31 Jan 1875, he left most of his estate to his daughter, Minerva Logee, with  the stipulation that she and her husband, Daniel, care for his wife Catherine throughout her life8. He also made bequests to Daniel and Minerva's children.

In 1880 Daniel and his family were residing in Millwood twp., Guernsey County9. Daniel Logee died on 20 Jun 1893 in Guernsey County, Ohio and was buried in the family cemetery in Millwood twp10. Minerva survived several more years. In 1900, she was residing in the home of her daughter's family, David and Clarissa Bales11. Minerva (Emerson) Logee died on 28 Feb 1905. She was also buried in the Millwood township cemetery.

FAMILY TRADITION FROM NOTES OF NORVAL LOGEE (Special Thanks to Marcia Esterly for sharing a transcription of this family document)

The following is a transcription of  Norval Logee's writing regarding his father, Daniel Logee Jr. Though much of this may not be confirmed through civil documents, it is a unique and personal memoir of Norval Logee's father.

"My father was born on the farm of his father in Douglas, Mass. July 26, 1816. He led the life of the average farmer boy. He was fond of books and secured a good education. He attended "select" school to prepare to enter Harvard; but his Uncle Burrill Logee persuaded him to leave school and clerk in his store. This he did, using his spare time studying law. When he was about twenty years of age, he went to Ohio, by Erie Canal to Buffalo, to Cleveland by boat, on the Ohio Canal to Janesville, and thence to Emerson's Mills, on horseback. After he was married, he began business for himself at Emerson's Mills. He operated a general store. He prospered. He bought hogs for the Wheeling market and horses for the Boston market. He made six trips to Boston.

He was interested in politics, and became a justice-of-the-peace, practiced law in a local way, but quite successfully. He built a hotel for accommodation of the drovers. Droves of cattle, sheep, and hogs were to be seen almost every day on the old Drove Road. He enlisted and trained a company for the Mexican War. He was elected captain, Dade Douglas and Lawrence Dyson were respectively first and second lieutenants. His company was ordered to Cincinnati; but the war was so nearly over when they arrived, that they were not sworn into the service. There is, therefore, no record of this service at Columbus.

Later, his store burned. The B&O railroad took care of the droves of hogs and cattle. Father did more legal work. He, with Alex Laughlin, who was Grandpa Robert Laughlin's father, engineered for some time, the political destinies of Richland Township, Guernsey Co. But neither wanted favors political. Father, however, was "Squire Logee" long before I was born. They had good men always elected to office.

When the Slavery agitation grew, he went to Henry Clay's home in Kentucky to see the slavery system at work. He was given full permission to go where he wished, and question whom he pleased. He then hated slavery worse than ever. He was too old to go to Civil War. He was offered a commission as captain, but he would not accept it. He was an anti-war, anti-slavery democrat. He favored buying the slaves, segregating and education them. He wanted them educated and organized into a state of their own, or some similar plan.

At one time, Gen. Louis Cass took father to Chicago to sell him some land. He was overloaded with land. father said he could buy frog-ponds cheaper nearer home. He might have told truth, at that.

When I was young, father became an enthusiastic temperance worker. He organized Good Templar lodges quite all over Guernsey County. As to his religion he was reared as a son of Daniel Logee, Sr. would be trained. He was a Congregationalist. But in Ohio he united with no church. He continued in the faith. He and mother made their last trip back East in 1882. In person, he was over six feet tall, inclined to be slender, was athletic, a great swimmer and skater. His eyes were blue, hair light brown. He deliberated somewhat slowly. His conclusions were good and sound. He was a fluent talker, entertaining speaker. He usually won for his side in a lawsuit. He lived to be seventy-seven years of age. He died June 20, 1893, and lies buried in our same old "graveyard." He lies beside mother, and near his father and his brother, my uncle Joseph H. Logee.

(When our barn was raised on our home farm, the last timber to be placed was the ridge-pole. It was 50 ft. long and 6 or 8 inches square. The Frame was 20 ft. high. The pole had to go up 8 ft. higher. When the men raised the ridge-pole to its place, father was raised with it, standing on his head.)"

Sources:

1. (Daniel Logee Jr. birth/Mary Emerson's parents) Bible record of Minerva Luvan (Logee) Frame courtesy of Marjorie Gibson. Many entries appear to have been entered simultaneously. However, the earliest names entered were those of her great grandparents. It listed parents of  Minerva Emerson as John Emerson b. Oct 1795; d. 31 Jan 1875 and Catherine Sherman b. 8 Oct 1796; d. 25 Jul 1876. This bible record included birth/death and marriage dates for many children of Daniel and Minerva Logee.

2. (Daniel Logee Jr. marriage) Daniel Logee marriage entry, Guernsey County, Ohio VR, marriage Bk C pg 251

3. (Family tradition) John Squibb correspondence. "Told to him by his grandmother when he was about twelve years old"

4. (1840 Census) (from Ancestry.com) Jno Emerson household, 1840 U.S. Census, Richland twp, Guernsey Co, Ohio, pg 418; Jno Emerson males 1 20-30; 1 40-50; females 1 under 5; 1 15-20; 1 40-50

5. (Petition creating Wright twp) William Wolfe, Stories of Guernsey County, Ohio, pub by author, Cambridge, Ohio, 1943, pg 99

6. (Attorney) family tradition of Marjorie Gibson

7. (Daniel Sr. arrived in Ohio) Daniel Logee household, 1850 U.S. Census, Wright twp, Guernsey Co, Ohio, pg 313 (from Ancestry.com)

8. (John Emerson will/probate) Transcription of John Emerson will [no dates on transcription] (prob. abt. Feb. 1875 based on death date)

9. (1880 Census) Daniel Logee household, 1880 U.S. Census, Millwood twp, Guernsey County, Ohio, pg 182A (from Familysearch.org) FHL# 1255020; NA# T9-1020 -- Daniel Logee, farmer 63 b. Ma, parents Ma; Minerva, wife, 59 b. Ma, parents Ma; Alpha C., dau, 25 OH; Florenta L. dau, 23 OH; Ellura R.E., dau, 20 OH; Daniel W.C., son, 18 OH; George Bates, other, 17 OH, parents OH

10. (Cemetery record) Connor & Goodpaster, Pioneer Cemeteries of Guernsey County, pub Connor & Goodpaster, Cambridge, Ohio; 1963

11. (1900 Census) (Genealogy.com) David Bales household, U.S. Census, Millwood twp, Guernsey Co, Ohio, Ed 16 Sht 23A ln 35, taken 25 Jun 1900 by Cora M. Hunt, T623 roll 1273; David Bales, head, Dec 1839 age 60 Virginia, parents Virginia, farmer; Clarissa, wife, Apr 1840, age 60, Ohio, father Mass, mother RI, married 35 years, 8 children, 7 living; Columbia, dau, Jul 1867, 32 Ohio; Maritta, dau, Mar 1870, 30 Ohio; Clara, dau, Jul 1877, 22 Ohio; Munson, son Oct 1879, 20 Ohio; Minerva Logee, mother-in-law, Apr 1821, age 79y, widow, RI, parents RI