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Presidency by the death of the President, but he is worthy to be counted
among the most serviceable of the Presidents.

Peace and prosperity were promoted by his administration. Ex-President
Chester A. Arthur died at his residence in New York city, November 18th,
1886. He leaves as surviving members of his family two children, Chester
Allan, a young man of twenty-two years, and Miss Nellie, just budding
into womanhood. At the age of fifty-six, without elaborate display, he
was quietly laid beside his wife in Rural Cemetery.

JOHN A. LOGAN.

"I entered the field to die, if need be, for this government and never
expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of
preservation has become a fact established." Thus spoke John A. Logan in
1862, when asked to return home from the field and become a candidate
for Congress.

General Logan was born February 9th, 1826, in Murphysboro, Illinois, and
was the eldest of eleven children. He received his education in the
common schools and in Shiloh Academy.

The Mexican war broke out when young Logan was but twenty years of age,
and he at once enlisted and was made a lieutenant in one of the Illinois
regiments. He returned home in 1848 with an excellent military record,
and commenced the study of law in the office of his uncle, Alexander M.
Jenkins, who had formerly been lieutenant-governor of the State.

In 1844, before he had completed his law course, he was elected clerk of
Jackson county, and at the expiration of his term of office went to
Louisville, Kentucky, where he attended law lectures, and was admitted
to the bar in the spring of 1851. In the fall of the same year he was
elected to represent Jackson and Franklin counties in the legislature,
and from that time has been almost uninterruptedly in the public
service, either civil or military.

He was twice elected to the legislature, and in 1854 was a Democratic
presidential elector, and cast his vote for James Buchanan.

The year of 1860--the year of the great Lincoln campaign--saw Logan
serving his second term in Congress as the representative of the Ninth
Illinois Congressional District. Mr. Logan was then a Democrat and an
ardent supporter of Stephen A. Douglas, Mr. Lincoln's opponent. On the
floor of Congress he several times in 1860 and 1861 attacked the course
of the Southern members.

The war came at last, and Logan was one of the first to enter the Union
army. He resigned his seat