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William Logan〔(Memoirs and portraits of 100 Glasgow Men, James Maclehose, 1886. Courtesy of Glasgow Digital Library )〕 (1813 – 16 September 1879) was a Scottish missionary. On November 5, 1844, William Logan was one of the founders of the Scottish Temperance League, the first non-denominational total abstinence society in Scotland.〔''Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History, a global encycolpedia'', Jack S Blocker, Ian M Fahey, Ian R Tyrrell, 2003, Santa Barbara, California, ISBN 978-1-57607-833-4 & ISBN 978-1-57607-834-1〕 == Family == William Logan was the son of Andrew, weaver, and Euphemia Logan of Damhead, near Hamilton, Lanarkshire. During his first stay in Rochdale from 1840-42 he appears to have met his future wife, Janet Lorimer (b 1826), who was residing at the time with the family of John Lorimer, her uncle. She was a daughter of the latter's brother, James Lorimer (b 1786), a farmer of Keir, Dumfries, Scotland. In 1850, William Logan married Janet Lorimer at Providence Chapel, Rochdale,〔English marriage records 1850, Vol 21, page 659〕 and in 1851 was living at Manningham,〔English census, 1851, township of Manningham, ecclesiastical district of St Paul, borough of Bradford〕 near Bradford, Yorkshire, where a daughter, Sophie, was born on June 12, 1851. The family later moved to Glasgow, where they resided at 18 Abbotsford Place,〔Scottish census, Registration district Tradeston, civil parish of Glasgow Govan, 1861 and 1871〕 and it was there on May 1, 1856, that Sophie died at the age of four years and 10 months after suffering for several weeks from a gastric illness. Sophie's death led William 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.〔(''Words of Comfort for Parents Bereaved of Little Children'' )〕 A second child, a son, also William Logan, was born in Glasgow about 1855, and by 1871 he was a student of arts at the age of 16. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Logan (temperance campaigner)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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