William Logan (temperance campaigner)

William Logan
Born 1813
Damhead, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died (1879-09-16)16 September 1879 (aged 66)
Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation Missionary
Spouse(s) Janet Lorimer
Children Sophie Logan, William Logan
Website gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/mlemen/mlemen050.htm

William Logan[1] (1813 – 16 September 1879) was a Scottish missionary.

On 5 November 1844 William Logan was one of the founders of the Scottish Temperance League, the first non-denominational total abstinence society in Scotland.[2]

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,[3] and in 1851 was living at Manningham,[4] near Bradford, Yorkshire, where a daughter, Sophie, was born on 12 June 1851.

The family later moved to Glasgow, where they resided at 18 Abbotsford Place,[5] and it was there, on 1 May 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.[6]

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.

Writing

  • The principles of teetotalism maintained and illustrated, or, The nature, causes, evils, and remedy of intemperance a lecture, the substance of which has been delivered in Mossley, Lees, Delph, Rochdale, and Royton, 1839
  • The deplorable condition of woman: exemplified in an exposure of the brothels of London, Manchester, Birmingham, Rochdale, Leeds, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other manufacturing towns in Great Britain: showing the horrors of female prostitution existing therein, 1840
  • An Exposure, from Personal Observation, of Female Prostitution in London, Leeds and Rochdale, and Especially in the City of Glasgow with remarks on the cause, extent, results and remedy of the evil, 1843
  • An affecting story, 1845
  • An astounding fact or two for Sabbath School teachers who support the drinking system, 1848
  • Moral Statistics of Glasgow, 1849
  • Words of Comfort for Parents Bereaved of Little Children, 1869
  • Early Heroes of the Temperance Reformation, 1873

References

  1. ↑ Memoirs and portraits of 100 Glasgow Men, James Maclehose, 1886. Courtesy of Glasgow Digital Library
  2. ↑ Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History, a global encyclopedia, Jack S Blocker, Ian M Fahey, Ian R Tyrrell, 2003, Santa Barbara, California, ISBN 978-1-57607-833-4 & ISBN 978-1-57607-834-1
  3. ↑ English marriage records 1850, Vol 21, page 659
  4. ↑ English census, 1851, township of Manningham, ecclesiastical district of St Paul, borough of Bradford
  5. ↑ Scottish census, Registration district Tradeston, civil parish of Glasgow Govan, 1861 and 1871
  6. ↑ Words of Comfort for Parents Bereaved of Little Children
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