Occupation Missionary Name William Logan | Spouse(s) Janet Lorimer Role Temperance campaigner | |
Born 1813 Damhead, Lanarkshire, Scotland Children Sophie Logan, William Logan Website gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/mlemen/mlemen050.htm Died September 16, 1879, Glasgow, United Kingdom | ||
William Logan (1813 – 16 September 1879) was a Scottish missionary.
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On November 5, 1844, William Logan was one of the founders of the Scottish Temperance League, the first non-denominational total abstinence society in Scotland.
Family
William Logan was the son of Andrew, weaver, and Euphemia Logan of Damhead, near Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
During his first stay in Rochdale from 1840-42 he appears to have met his future wife, Janet Lorimer (b 1826), who was residing at the time with the family of John Lorimer, her uncle. She was a daughter of the latter's brother, James Lorimer (b 1786), a farmer of Keir, Dumfries, Scotland. In 1850, William Logan married Janet Lorimer at Providence Chapel, Rochdale, and in 1851 was living at Manningham, near Bradford, Yorkshire, where a daughter, Sophie, was born on June 12, 1851.
The family later moved to Glasgow, where they resided at 18 Abbotsford Place, and it was there on May 1, 1856, that Sophie died at the age of four years and 10 months after suffering for several weeks from a gastric illness. Sophie's death led William Logan to write Brief Notice of a Short Life as a preface to Words of Comfort for Parents Bereaved of Little Children, a widely circulated collection of essays edited by Logan.
A second child, a son, also William Logan, was born in Glasgow about 1855, and by 1871 he was a student of arts at the age of 16.