City: Nashville
LOGAN, Mercer Patton, clergyman; born “Dungeness,” Goochland County, Va., October 16, 1857; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James W. and Sarah Ann (Strother) LOGAN; educated Roanoke College, Salem, Va., and Virginia Theological Seminary, graduating from latter in 1880; D.D. conferred by Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.; married Elizabeth Kent CALDWELL, October 10, 1883; member of Knights of Pythias and Knights Templar; member of the Humane Society Board of Commissioners of Nashville, Tenn., appointed by the mayor of the city in 1909; the appointment was confirmed by City Council; Rector of St. Ann’s Church and St. Stephen’s Chapel, Nashville, Tenn., and Dean of the Convocation of Nashville, Diocese of Tenn.; former Rector of St. John’s Church, Wytheville, Va., 1884-1904; Dean of the Convocation of Southwest Virginia, Diocese of Southern Virginia, 1902-04; delegate from the Diocese of Southern Virginia to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church which met in Washington, D. C., in October, 1898; delegate to the Ecumenical Missionary Council, which met in New York City in 1900; delegate from the Humane Society Board of Commissioners of Nashville, Tenn., to the Convention in St. Paul, Minn., 1909, also delegate from the commission to the Convention of National Charities and Corrections in St. Louis, Mo., 1910; delegate from the Diocese of Tennessee to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1910.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
