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	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		John Logan Campbell is said to have been born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 3 November 1817, the only son of John Campbell and his wife, Catherine Logan, of Ayrshire.
		So did John Logan, or Logan as he was more generally known, and he like his father studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
		Campbell agreed, but only for the three months of the royal tour.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=1C3&related=false

	MSN Encarta - Logan, John Alexander
		Logan, John Alexander (1826-1886), American soldier and politician, born in Jackson County, Illinois, and educated at Shiloh College and the...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761552155

	John Alexander Logan
		John A. Logan was born on February 9, 1826 in Brownsville, IL.
		Even without a strong military back ground, there is evidence that John A. Logan�s peers thought very highly of him as an officer and he is widely regarded by historians as the best general without a military background to come out of the Civil War.
		As a young man he volunteered for the Mexican-American War, serving in Company H, First Regiment.
	www.il.ngb.army.mil /museum/citizen_soldier/civil/john_alexander_logan.htm

	Gen. John A. Logan, Illinois (People)
		John A. Logan College is named for the man who saved Raleigh from being burned by Union troops.
		Civil War General John Alexander "Black Jack" Logan was born in what is now Murphysboro in 1826.
		Following the War, Logan returned to politics, eventually elected to the U.S. Senate.
	www.ilohwy.com /j/jalogan.htm

	JOHNALEXANDERLOGAN, USA
		John Alexander Logan was born on February 9, 1826, in Jackson County, Illinois.
		Logan remained active in veterans affairs, and wrote two books about the Civil War: "The Great Conspiracy" (1886) and "The Volunteer Soldier in America" (1887).
		Logan was elected twice to the US House of Representatives.
	www.multied.com /Bio/UGENS/USAKLogan.html

	John Logan
		icknamed "Black Jack" or "Black Eagle" as an adult, John Logan was born in Jackson County, Illinois, the eldest of eleven children.
		Logan believed this was due to West Point prejudice against a volunteer.
		In his final years, Logan worked on two military books, The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History (1886) and the posthumously published The Volunteer Soldier of America, With a Memoir of the Author and Military Reminiscences from General Logan’s Private Journal (1887).
	www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com /11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/JohnLogan.htm

	GAR--Commander-in-Chief John Alexander Logan
		John Alexander Logan was born February 9, 1826 in what is now Murphysboro, Illinois.
		John A. Logan died December 26, 1886 in Washington D.C. and is buried at Soldier Cemetery.
		In 1840 his father, Dr. John Logan, sent him to Shiloh Acadame at Shiloh Hill, Illinois to complete his education.
	suvcw.org /garcinc/jalogan.htm

	SNR - History of Logan County, W.Va.
		John Chafin, who was for a long time clerk of the circuit and county courts of this county, and Francis M. Chafin, who was sheriff of the county, were sons of William Chafin, and John B. Wilkinson, the present prosecuting attorney of the counties of Logan and Mingo, is his grandson.
		John W. Deskins now lives, and to the happy couple there was born, on the 30th day of October 1806, William Anderson Dingess, who, during a long and useful life (dying December 13th, 1893, in his eighty-eighth year) bore the proud distinction of being the first white child born in Logan County.
		All proceeds from the first printing of the book will be donated to the Logan County Historical Society and the Logan County Landmark Commission to purchase a statue in the likeness of Chief John Logan, for whom the city and county were named.
	www.angelfire.com /wv/snr/tsloghist.html

	John Logan (writer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Logan is a noted American screenwriter of the 1990s and early 2000s.
		Logan's notable screenplays include Bats, Any Given Sunday, RKO 281, Gladiator (for which he, along with William Nicholson and David Franzoni, received a 2000 Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay), The Time Machine, Star Trek: Nemesis, The Last Samurai, and The Aviator.
		Logan is gay and lives in Malibu, California with his longtime companion, Marty Madden.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Logan_(writer)

	History
		Sir John Logan Campbell was asked to be honorary Mayor of Auckland for the Royal visit, it was during this time that he took the opportunity to gift the Park to the people of New Zealand.
		Logan Campbell and his partner purchased the land where the park now is in 1853.
		Campbell had intended to build a large home at the site but this plan was never realised.
	www.01b.co.nz /hosts/cornwall_park/history.htm

	Auckland, New ZealandGenWeb: Biographies
		Muldoon was a professional accountant, entering Parliament in 1960, he was made Deputy Prime Minister in 1972, following the retirement of Sir Keith Holyoake and the rise to leadership of John Marshall.
		Campbell's memoirs of his early life, 'Poenamo,' was first published in 1881.
		Auckland pioneer present at the founding of the city in 1840, Campbell and his business partner, William Brown, moved to Auckland from the Bay of Islands when they heard the capital was to be established here.
	www.rootsweb.com /~nzlauckl/biograph.html

	John Alexander Logan
		John A. Logan who helped organized the 31st Illinois Volunteers was pro-Southern before the outbreak of the war.
		Visit the Illinois State Military Museum on the web for photos of exhibits and more information about John A. Logan.
		TITLE: Black Jack: John A. Logan and southern Illinois in the Civil War era.
	www.outfitters.com /illinois/history/civil/john_logan.html

	John Alexander Logan
		LOGAN, John Alexander, statesman, born in Jackson county, Illinois, 9 February, 1826 ; died in Washington, D. C., 26 December, 1886.
		See "Life and Services of John A. Logan," by George Francis Dawson (Chicago, 1887).--His wife, Mary Simmerson Cunningham, daughter of John M. Cunningham, born in Petersburg, Boone County, Missouri, 15 August, 1838, lived amid the hardships of frontier life, and was subsequently sent to the Convent of St. Vincent in Kentucky.
		His father, Dr. John Logan, came from Ireland when a young man and settled in Maryland, but removed to Kentucky, thence to Missouri, and finally to Illinois.
	www.famousamericans.net /johnalexanderlogan

	Screenwriter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Mamet and John Sayles, for instance, fund the movies they direct themselves, usually from their own screenplays, by writing and doctoring scripts for others.
		Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made.
		Many of them also work as "script doctors," attempting to change scripts to suit directors or studios ; for instance, studio management may have a complaint that the motivations of the characters are unclear or that the dialogue is weak.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Screenwriter

	John Logan Camp 20, SUVCW: Homepage
		John Alexander Logan (1826-1886) who began the observance of Memorial Day.
		The John Logan Camp 20 of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) was named after Maj. Gen.
		Associate memberships are available for those supporters who are not of lineal descent.
	home.earthlink.net /~suvcw/logan20.html

	John Logan -John Logan: The Collected Fiction - Struan Reid
		John Logan -John Logan: The Collected Fiction - Struan Reid
		John Lennon Whatever Gets You Through the Night.
		John Lennon Paul McCartney Their Magic and Their Music Partners II.
	www.bookzsearch.com /212531john_logan_collected_fiction.html

	Encyclopedia: John Campbell
		John Campbell — Canadian Harness racing Driver (1955–Present)
		John Campbell may refer to many different people:
		John Goulder Campbell — US House delegate from Arizona (1827–1903)
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Campbell

	Map
		Logan Campbell was termed the father of Auckland within his own lifetime.
		He is commemorated in the Park by the statue of him in his Mayoral robes, sited in Campbell Crescent at the city end of the Park.
		The many roles commercial and civic that Campbell played in the fledgling and growing city settle his reputation as the father of the city.
	www.01b.co.nz /hosts/cornwall_park/sirjohn.htm

	Descendants of John Ewing - pafg23.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Dora Isabelle "Dixie" Byers ( Pearl Luella McLaughlin, Myrtle Jane Bidwell, Mary Ewing, Nancy Campbell, Mary Ewing, John) was born on 6 Apr 1919 in Bellefontaine, Logan Co., Oh.
		Ruth Nmn Byers ( Pearl Luella McLaughlin, Myrtle Jane Bidwell, Mary Ewing, Nancy Campbell, Mary Ewing, John) was born on 26 Jul 1921 in Bellefontaine, Logan Co., Oh.
		Richard Calvin Byers ( Pearl Luella McLaughlin, Myrtle Jane Bidwell, Mary Ewing, Nancy Campbell, Mary Ewing, John) was born on 4 Jun 1926 in Bellefontaine, Logan Co., Oh.
	www.cochranfamily.net /ewing/pafg23.htm

	Meet the Director
		Richard D. Alba, Nancy Denton, Shu-Yin Leung, and John R. Logan.
		Logan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mumford Center.
		Logan is co-author, along with Harvey Molotch, of Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place.
	www.albany.edu /mumford/About_us/jlogan.html

	John Logan Camp 20, SUVCW: Homepage
		John Alexander Logan (1826-1886) who began the observance of Memorial Day.
		The John Logan Camp 20 of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) was named after Maj. Gen.
		Associate memberships are available for those supporters who are not of lineal descent.
	home.earthlink.net /~suvcw/logan20.html

	Picture History - John Alexander Logan (1826-1886)
		John Alexander Logan was a brigadier general of volunteers during the Civil War and later served as a congressman and U.S. senator from Illinois.
		Logan also played a major role in organizing the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), a politically potent veterans' group.
		Custom requests may take up to two weeks to be fulfilled and require an additional charge.
	www.picturehistory.com /find/p/16939/mcms.html

	Alexander Ramsey Genealogy
		His father John Ramsey died after being chased by Indians and drinking water too fast (This is according to Nathaniel Ramsey in the 1880 history of Logan County, Ohio.
		Alexander and Elizabeth's children were Polly, who married Henry Shaner, John C., Cynthia, who married Joseph Essex, Andrew, Rosanna, who married Joseph Emberlin, Catherine, who married Joseph Barker, Anderson, and Nathaniel.
		Alexander had a brother John, and a sister Polly, who supposedly settled in the South).
	ramsey.users5.50megs.com /alexrams.html

	GAR Posts
		[ Read the full text of the General Order which created Memorial Day, courtesy of John A. Logan College] Membership in the staunchly Republican organization peaked at more than 409,000 in 1890.
		In 1868, the commander in chief of the GAR and Civil War General John Alexander Logan inaugurated the observance of Memorial Day to honor fallen soldiers.
		John Weber says that Greenhut (GAR) Memorial Hall on Hamilton Boulevard in Peoria, IL was dedicated in 1909.
	www.illinoiscivilwar.org /gar.html

	Logan, James, chief of the Mingo
		Logan was long the friend of the whites, but when his family was massacred by white settlers (1774), his attacks against them helped bring on Dunmore's War.
		Logan refused to participate in making the treaty, and his eloquent speech became famous.
		Logan, James, c.1725–1780, chief of the Mingo, b.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0830152.html

	Logan, John Alexander
		Logan, John Alexander, 1826–86, American politician, Union general in the Civil War, b.
		Logan led a corps of the Army of the Tennessee in General Sherman's Atlanta campaign (1864) and commanded that army for a short time.
		However, Oliver O. Howard was given the permanent command, and Logan returned to his corps for the march through the Carolinas.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/ce5/CE031087.html

	Game Room - Patriotic Holidays
		Memorial Day was first observed on May 30, 1868, on the order of General John Alexander Logan for the purpose of decorating the graves of the American Civil War dead.
		John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying.
		It was observed on May 30 until 1971, when most states changed to a newly established federal schedule of holiday observance.
	www.calegionaux.org /gameroompatrioticdays.html

	John A. Logan
		John Alexander Logan was born in Jackson County, Illinois, on February 8, 1826.
		Logan High School is named in honor of a famous Civil War general.
		Logan High School, 1500 Ranger Drive, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54603
	www.lacrosseschools.com /logan/john_logan.html

	Q&A With Screenwriter John Logan
		John Logan is no stranger to Alpha males, their giant egos, and how they perform when the moment of truth is upon them.
		Logan, 43, is also versed in real larger-than-life characters as well, having written the screenplay for RKO 281, detailing the battle between William Randolph Hearst and Orson Welles over Citizen Kane, but every movie he authored was prelude to digging into the incredible life of Howard Hughes.
		Logan: It was five years from initial discussions to the movie coming out, and I've become very attached to the man. It was a bear.
	www.inc.com /articles/2004/12/johnlogan.html

	Logan, John A -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		More results on "Logan, John A" when you join.
		Creswell, John A.J. public official, born in Port Deposit, Md.; Dickinson College 1848; admitted to the bar 1850; Maryland legislature 1861–62; U.S. House of Representatives 1863–65; U.S. Senate 1865–67; as postmaster general under President Grant 1869–70, he reorganized the department, introduced penny postcards, and greatly improved transatlantic mail service; served as a...
		Macdonald, John A. The first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald held that office from 1867 to 1873 and again from 1878 to 1891.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9048753

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