James Logan lived in
Wayne County, Missouri, with his wife until 1830, when he came to Arkansas with many from the Logan family and their slaves, settling on the
Arkansas River west of
Spadra. While there he established Logan's Post Office and was appointed a postmaster on February 11, 1832. When Logan arrived in Arkansas, he took over a large acreage of land and set his slaves to clearing and putting the land into cultivation. In 1839 an epidemic of
cholera hit his slaves so he decided to go south of the river. There he acquired 1,000 acres of land on Sugar Creek, near
Booneville, which at that time was in Scott County. In 1834 Logan represented the county of
Crawford in the
Territorial Legislature of Arkansas, and was a representative from
Scott County to the
Arkansas General Assembly in 1836. Afterwards he was Indian Agent and
pay master for the
Creek Indian Agency near
Fort Gibson. He died November 11, 1857, at his old home on Sugar Creek and his remains are in the family cemetery there. ==References==