Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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To the Honorable James Logan, A. M., Captain of Industry, Mayor of Worcester, Trustee of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Loyal Friend of the Tech and of Tech Men, This AFTERMATH is Dedicated, With Hearty Good-Will, by the Class of 1908.

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o cheer us when in need So share life’s burdens So help us not to forget, So recall our triends So sec bow time changes u$jl So stir our ambition So aid us to work barcH So stimulate us to do 30od So reoerence our professors So endear to us alamys ' Sed? io help finally to forge a bond about the class that time can neoer break v 3 For these worthy motives ?do we present this book. Editors 1908 £Wft«rmatl . 4

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The Honorable James Logan, A. M. J AMES LOGAN was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1852, but before he bad rounded out his first twelve-month, Worcester County had become his home. His parents were blessed with an abundance of Scotch thrift, but with so little lucre that the cost of the ocean pas¬ sage was a heavy burden. The boy’s early years were spent in Cherry Valley, Leicester, just beyond the limits of Worcester. He left school for the mill at about as early an age as the law allowed, but had the persist¬ ence to study evenings with a teacher who had become interested in him. Later he trained himself as a bookkeeper, and secured employment with a manufacturing concern. In 1873 he became a ‘ ‘ Tech! ’ 7 His matriculation was received not at the hands of the Faculty, but of the students. As a clerk in Sanford’s book store, he met most of the boys from the Hill, and they were quick to adopt a man with his capacity for good fellowship. He was much in their rooms, and sang on their glee club, and the professors soon thought that Logan knew more than they did about many of the performances at the “ Wor¬ cester County Free Institute of Industrial Science.” From that day to this, few men have had a wider acquaintance with Tech men, and wher¬ ever Tech alumni get together, no one is surer of a warm welcome than James Logan. In 1878 he entered the employ of the Whitcomb Envelope Co. Six years later, with three men with whom he had been there associated, he withdrew and established the Logan, Swift Brigham Envelope Co., a firm which soon became the pace-maker in the industry. When ten leading envelope companies were combined to form the United States Envelope Co., it was a foregone conclusion that James Logan must be its general manager, a position which he still 1 holds. In spite of the heavy demands which business has made upon him, Mr. Logan has been prompt to respond to other calls. He has given liberally of his strength and of his means to the various institutions of his home city. The village where his boyhood was spent has received from him a beautiful park as a memorial to his father and mother who there found rest after a life of toil. For many years he has been one of the main pil¬ lars of Central Church. In Worcester politics he has been an active force, 6