Township · Huntingdon County

Logan

1 story on file, each with its sources. 22.9 square miles of land in the ridge and valley country of central Pennsylvania.

614

Population

22.87 sq mi

Land area

0.15 sq mi

Water

Township

Type

The founding record

Logan township was taken from West in April, 1878. As early as 1755 Barnabas Barnes secured a land warrant for a tract on the north side of the Juniata river at a place called Two Springs. In 1768 he sold that land to Rev. William Smith, the founder of Huntingdon. There is nothing to show that Barnes ever occupied the tract and the probabilities are he entered it purely for speculative purposes. Among the early settlers in this part of West township were Samuel Anderson, Jacob Neff, John Reed, Jacob Hiltzheimer, Charles Elliott, Hugh Mears, Peter Shoenbei^er, Bartholomew Maguire and the Wilsons. The first settlements were made along the Little Juniata or in the lower part of the Shaver's creek valley. When West township was divided to form Logan, the borough of Petersburg was thrown in the new township and it is the most important shipping and commercial point. John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 193,052 of the scanned text

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Stories from Logan

From the county histories, on Logan township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1897, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

John iletz -also owned acres of land, which he greatly improved. He built several dwellings and barns. John Metz was married in Manheim, Lancaster county, to Fannie Keiser, of German extraction. Their children are: John, deceased; Maria (Mrs. Jacob Shafner), deceased; Harry K., of Logan township, Ilimtingdon cduiity: Sainucl, deceased; Jonathan, farmer, uf IIuiiting<lon county; Elizabeth (^Irs. John Baum), deceased; Jacob K. ; Fannie (Mrs. George Wakefield), of Logan township, Huntingdon county. John Metz, died in Petersburg in 1874. Dr. Metz was a member of the Lutheran church. He was a man ■of intelli"cncc and much abilitv, and was held in high regard. He died at Petersburg at the age of eighty-nine years. Jacob K. Metz received his education in the subscription and public schools of Brady township, and worked on his father's farm until he reached his majority. He then read medicine with his father for three years, and attended the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1852. He returned home and jDractised with his father for five years. In he removed to Allensville, where he remained until 1874, when he removed to Shavers Creek, West township, Huntingdon county, and practised medicine there for four years. Since then he has resided in Allensville, where he has an extensive practise. He was the first physician permanently settled in Allensville, and has practised in that town for thirty-five years.Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg: J. M. Runk, 1897) · character 2,638,938 of the scanned text

Sources

Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg: J. M. Runk, 1897)

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