New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . of worship in peace and i)rcscril)e those of others, were theancestors of General Sherman and the Ohio Senator, hisbrother, whose names are to be seen to day in the oldWoodbury Cemetery. Mr. Logans father, Seth S. , who died in 1887,was a prominent Democrat. He held various State officesin his time, and was for twenty years a member of theConnecticut 1-egislature, sometimes in one house, sometimesin the other. His distinguished son , also a Democrat, and,though frecjuently called a Mugwump, he refuses to acceptwhat
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . of worship in peace and i)rcscril)e those of others, were theancestors of General Sherman and the Ohio Senator, hisbrother, whose names are to be seen to day in the oldWoodbury Cemetery. Mr. Logans father, Seth S. , who died in 1887,was a prominent Democrat. He held various State officesin his time, and was for twenty years a member of theConnecticut 1-egislature, sometimes in one house, sometimesin the other. His distinguished son , also a Democrat, and,though frecjuently called a Mugwump, he refuses to acceptwhat he considers an imputation on his political fact, Mr. Walter S. thinks, were he anything elsethan a genuine Democrat, the bones of his forefathers wouldenter a protest against his apostasy from their political faithby rattling in their graves. He inherits his politics. Formany generations his ancestors were the only Democrats inLitchfield County, and, although Mr. Logan is not anythinglike a Machine Democrat, he is always loyal to the party on. W S. great issues. His mother was a Hollister, ;i corru])tion ofthe name of the famous Scottish Clan McAllister. She isdescended directly from the Reverend John Hollister ofWethersfield, who in the early days of Connecticut wasconvicted of doubting some Calvinistic dogmas and excom-municated. As Mr. Logan is often charged with being afree-thinker, he pleads that both his Democracy and his creed—or lack of it—are hereditary. He rubbed skirts withDemocrats of national reputation almost from infancy, i hetwo Seymours, Thomas H. and Origen S , Ex-(iovernorsWilliam A. I5uckinghani and James K. Knglish, E.\-Vi(e-President Lafayette S. Foster, Minot ;\. Osborn, of (heNew JJiivin Ke^::;istei\ Ex-Senator William .\. Eaton, WilliamH. Barnum, ancl t!harles M. Pond, of Hartford, and, later,the younger Charles F. Pond, and Ex-( lovernori homas , now of New \ork—all these celebrities were frecpienlvisi
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