13 Facts About Olive Logan

Olive Logan was an American actress and author, daughter of Irish-American actor and playwright Cornelius Ambrosius Logan and Eliza Akeley.

Olive Logan was born in Elmira, New York, and attended Wesleyan Female College and the Catholic Academy of the Sacred Heart in Cincinnati, Ohio, where her theatrical family had settled.

Olive Logan's acting career was short, beginning with her debut at the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1854 as 'Mrs Bobtail' in Bobtail and Wagtail and ending in 1857 when she married journalist Henry A Delisle and went to Europe.

Olive Logan returned briefly to the stage from 1864 until 1867.

Olive Logan corresponded for many periodicals and wrote, besides plays, a dramatization of Wilkie Collins's Armadale, and several books on theatrical matters, such as Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes.

Some of Olive Logan's lectures were on woman suffrage; she spoke at the 1869 convention of the American Equal Rights Association and was a contributor to The Revolution.

Olive Logan was a member of the Woman's National Press Association.

Olive Logan was married three times; first in 1857 to journalist Henry De Lisle; they were divorced in 1869.

Olive Logan married her secretary, James O'Neill in London in 1892.

Olive Logan was aided in her time of need by her friend suffragist Tennessee Claflin.

Olive Logan died in an insane asylum in Banstead on April 27,1909.

Olive Logan did write and publish little things in newspapers and obscure periodicals, but there was no talent in them, and nothing resembling it.

Olive Logan's name was really built up out of newspaper paragraphs set afloat by her husband, who was a small-salaried minor journalist.