Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-28
Logan, the Mingo Chief,
A SKETCH
By Thurston R, Porter,

his full height, and exclaimed as he
struck his breast: Me gentleman, me
BET to make you shoot your best-me
take your dollar if me beat Maclay
took the skins, and they departed in
the utmost good humor.'
Another incident which illustrates
the nobleness Of his nature very finely
in Logan's life. occurred while he was
living on the Juniata. Judge Brown
was away from home and Logan hap
pened TO go over to his cabin. Mrs.
Brown had a little daughter just be-
ginning to walk, and she remarked in
Logan's presence that she wished she
had pair of shoes for her. When he
was about to leave he asked Mrs.
Brown to let the little girl go and
spend the day with him. 1t was a
J strange request, and coming from a
savage it was appalling to the moth
er. But she feared to refuse. Tedious
ly, indeed, the hours of that day pass
ed away and the feelings of the moth
er can not be described. Many times
she looked up the path leading to Lo-
gan's cabin TO see if her little girl was
to be seen. Just as the sun was set
ting, Logan came in sight, bearing his
prescious charge on his shoulders.
Soon the little girl trotted across the
floor to its mothers arms, having on a
pair of neat fitting moccasins made by
Logan.
Shikellemus died just before the
close of Pontiac's war and Logan sue
ceeded him as a chief of the Cayugas.
An Indian chief is not required to live
with his tribe, but he may reside
wherever it suits him. By so doing
he forfeits none of the dignities of his
station, nor does it lessen him in the
respect and confidence of his people.
Logan never lived with his tribe and
was never married.
In 1869 he left his cabin on the Ju-
n,ata and settled on the Allegheny.
Not satisfied with that place he soon
afterward moved to Mingo Bottom, a
few miles below the present city of
Steubenville. While he lived at Mingo
Bottom an Indian council determined
on war. Logan hearing of it, by a
speech of great eloquence and wisdom,
led them to bury the hatchet The
chief points of his speech were that
the war would be wrong and that they
now had the best hunting-grounds in
the world. and, if they went to war
they would lose them.
In 1872 he fixed his home on the Sci
oto on the present site of the village OF
Westfall, Pickaway county, Ohio.
That spot was his home until his
death, and it was there that he deliv-
cred his famous speech to Gen. Gibson
at the close of Lord Dunmores war.
He continued his hunting camps at
the point previously used by him for
that purpose, the principal one being
at Mingo.
In 1772 the Rev. John Heckewelder
had long conversation with Logan
at his camp on Beaver River. He told
that gentleman that he intended to
fix his permanent home on the Ohio,
and live among the white people; that
whiskey was his curse and that of his
people, and blamed the whites for
bringing it among them. He expressed
great admiration for the better class of
white men, but said: unfortunately
we have only few of them for neigh
bors"
Lord Dunmore, Governor OF Virginia
from 1771 to 1875, was a warm royal
ist, and was fully apprised of the state
of the border. He knew, moreover
that the impending struggle between
the colonies and the mother country
was rapidly approaching crisis. He
is charged with projecting a plot to
embitter the Indians against the
whites as much as possible, and there
by to do service for his king. All
the facts seem to justify the charge.
In January, 1774, he appointed one
DR.. John Connolly, comandant general
of West Augusta, which that part of
Virginia west Of the mountains and
north OF the Kanawha, was then called.
Soon after the Doctor had assumed the