1. Benjamin Logan was an American pioneer, soldier, and politician from Virginia, then Shelby County, Kentucky.
18 Facts About Benjamin Logan
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Benjamin Logan became a politician and helped secure statehood for Kentucky.
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Benjamin Logan had seven siblings by the time his father died, when Benjamin Logan was 15.
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Benjamin Logan married Ann Montgomery in 1772; they had eight children.
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Benjamin Logan served in the Virginia militia during Henry Bouquet's 1764 campaign against the Shawnee.
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In 1775, Benjamin Logan joined a party of settlers led by Daniel Boone who traveled to Kentucky, then the westernmost portion of Virginia.
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Benjamin Logan left the group in what would become Lincoln County.
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In 1776, Benjamin Logan brought his family from Virginia to join him, but initially settled them at Harrod's Fort, as less exposed to Native raids, but in 1777 they joined him at Benjamin Logan's Fort.
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Benjamin Logan returned as fast as he could with powder and lead; his companions followed with a relief party under Col.
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Benjamin Logan was appointed sheriff of the county and a justice of the peace.
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Benjamin Logan joined in campaigns against hostile Indians north of the Ohio River, serving under George Rogers Clark.
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Benjamin Logan served as Kentucky's representative in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1781 until 1787 when he began arguing for statehood.
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Benjamin Logan seized and burned thirteen villages, taking prisoner women and children, destroying the food supplies and killing or capturing many, including the aged Chief Moluntha who surrendered under a US flag outside his wegiwa while displaying the Shawnee copy of the Treaty of Fort Finney.
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Benjamin Logan served as one of Lincoln County's initial representatives to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1781, and served in the 1785,1786, and 1787 sessions.
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Benjamin Logan advocated for Kentucky statehood at the Danville Convention and was a delegate when it wrote the first Kentucky constitution in 1791 and 1792.
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Benjamin Logan ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1795 and 1800, and for the US Senate in 1798.
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In 1802, Benjamin Logan died of a stroke at age 60, at his home 6 miles southwest of Shelbyville, Kentucky.
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Benjamin Logan was the uncle of US Supreme Court associate justice John McKinley.