William Logan (temperance campaigner)


William Logan was a Scottish missionary, author and temperance movement activist.
On 5 November 1844, Logan cofounded the Scottish Temperance League, the first non-denominational total abstinence society in Scotland.

Family

William Logan was the son of Andrew Logan, a weaver, and Euphemia Logan of Damhead, near Hamilton, South Lanarkshire in Scotland
During his first stay in,Rochdale England, from 1840-42, he probably met his future wife, Janet Lorimer In 1850, Logan married Janet Lorimer at Providence Chapel in Rochdale,. By 1851, the couple was living at Manningham, near Bradford, Yorkshire. Their daughter Sophie, was born on 12 June 1851.
The family later moved to Glasgow, where they resided at 18 Abbotsford Place,. On 1 May 1856, Sophie died at age four after suffering for several weeks from a gastric illness. Sophie's death led 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.
A second child, William Logan, was born in Glasgow about 1855.

Writing