Dr. Benjamin Logan was born at Logan's Fort, in Lincoln County, Ky., on January 3, 1789. He was one of the early graduates of the noted Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He was an eminent surgeon of the war of 1812, and participated with the Kentucky troops at the battle of the River Raisin, which brought sorrow to so many Kentucky homes.
He was a son of the celebrated Kentucky pioneer and soldier, Gen. Benjamin Logan, who was the companion of Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton. After assisting for years in conquering the wilderness, and driving the savage tribes from dark and bloody ground, Gen. Logan removed to Shelby County, then just being redeemed from its primeval forest, and entered a large body of land on the banks of Bullskin Creek, five miles west of Shelbyville, which, as a remarkable fact, has continued in possession of his family for more than a hundred years.
Here he devoted himself to the civil affairs of his country, which, succeeding war, had begun to assume an important aspect. Here, in the pursuits of peace, in the midst of his family, he ended his days in 1802 at the age of sixty, and lies buried in the family cemetery, on the banks of the creek near his old home.
Dr. Benjamin Logan purchased the homestead from the other heirs of his father. He married Elisabeth Winlock, and at the old home there were reared to them seven children. Of this family three daughters only married and settled in Shelby County. Eliza Logan was married to Dr. Robert Glass, who was a native of Fayette County, the son of David and Sallie Steele Glass. He graduated at the Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky. He began the practice of medicine at Shelbyville in 1839, and continued until his sudden death by cholera in 1854. At the time of his decease he was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church at Shelbyville. He was highly esteemed as a gentleman of high social culture, a skillful physician and a devoted member and office bearer of his church. His widow is still one of the family at the old homestead.
Logan died March 19, 1873 at the age on 84 in Shelby County. He was buried in the Logan Family Burial Grounds.