Traer Star Clipper, Friday November 25, 1938 - page 1

Abe Logan, 70, a lifelong resident of the Traer community, died Saturday in Allen Memorial hospital at Water loo. He was seriously ill only a few days, having entered the hospital to undergo an operation for an intestinal obstruction. His death, following by less than three weeks that of a brother, James Logan, 78, of Eagle Grove, and by exactly one year that of Charles Logan, another brother who lived with Abe in Traer, came as a shock to the community. Charles Logan died in the same Waterloo hospital even more unexpectedly as the result of a heart attack on November19, 1937, after being a patient there only one day.

Abraham Lincoln Logan was born on a farm near Traer on October 15, 1868, a son of James and Janet Logan, north Tama county pioneers. He was one of fourteen children of this prominent couple, of whom seven now remain. Those living are Mrs. Katherine Reed of Rockwell City, Iowa; Horace Logan, of Lohrville; Frank, of Estherville, Mrs. John Everts, of Centerville, Missouri; and Robert Logan, Mrs. Ed Stoakes and Mrs. Garfield Powell, all of the Traer vicinity. Those preceding Abe in death were John, William, Charles. James and Nettie Logan, and Mrs. John Campbell.

Ab: was married to Pearl Bratton in 1869. She died in Traer about five years ago following a sudden paralytic stroke. One son, Ralph Logan, a Rockefeller Foundation instructor in the dental college of the University of Iowa at Iowa City, survives. Mr. Logan farmed for a time, later moving to Traer. where he engaged in the buying and selling of livestock. He also operated a meat market in Traer at different times. Mr. and Mrs. Logan conducted a well-patronized boarding and rooming house here for some years before the latter's death.