Scrapbook of Samuel and Elizabeth Logan and family
Samuel Logan grew up in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. He established a boat building business and he and Elizabeth had six children including my great grandfather, John Maxwell Logan.
(Two Members)
J. M. Logan, boatbuilder, Chesterton.
F. P. Ransom, physician, Chesterton.
Thomas Wright, farmer, Chesterton.
John Bester, nurseryman, Chesterton.
The contest for the representation of Chesterton Division on the County Council is exciting a considerable amount of interest, and it is encouraging to know that the friends and supporters of the two Liberal candidates — Dr. Frederick Ransom and Mr. John Logan — are looking forward not only with hope, but with confidence to winning a decisive victory.
On both sides the most strenuous efforts have been and are still being made, and, while the Tories have in the persons of Mr. J. Bester and Mr. T. Wright strong candidates, the Liberals have the advantage of possessing candidates who not only enjoy great and well-deserved popularity on personal grounds, but whose public services to the district during the three years they have been members of the Local Board have been so valuable and so universally recognised that they cannot fail to have the warm support of many who in a matter of this kind will be quite uninfluenced by party considerations.
Dr. Ransom since he has resided in Chesterton has prominently identified himself with every movement for the good of the district. He was for some time officially connected with the church in the capacity of "the people’s” warden, and be has taken a most active interest in the Chesterton Young Men’s Union - of which he is president - an institution which has been of considerable social and intellectual benefit to the young men of the place.
Mr. John Logan is a native of Chesterton - has grown up, so to speak, with the suburb - and is much respected.
The election of Doctor Ransom and Mr. John Logan (with Mr. M. I. Whibley) to the Local Board some three years ago resulted in the carrying out of a series of improvements in New Chesterton, which have earned for those gentlemen no inconsiderable amount of gratitude and confidence, which will doubt find full expression on Tuesday next.
A largely attended meeting in support of the candidature of Dr. Ransom and Mr. Logan took place in the Girls' Schoolroom, Victoria-road, on Wednesday evening. The chair was occupied by Mr. Baxter,and amongst those present were Mr. M. I. Whibley, Mr. B. Chivers, Mr. W. Tyler, Mr. J. O. Williams, and several other well-known residents of the district. The Chairman delivered an interesting speech, in which strongly appealed to all who had the interests of Chesterton at heart, and especially to his fellow working men, to support the candidature of Dr. Ransom and Mr. Logan. If they did so they would have the satisfaction of knowing that at any time when they had a grievance with which the County Council could deal, their representatives would readily listen to them. It was very desirable that they should elect representatives whom they could at all times approach, and they might be assured that the gentlemen whose candidature they had met to support would, as they had done since they had been members of the Local Board, study the interests of the district every possible way. and promote every reform and improvement which was for the welfare of Chesterton and the county at large.
Dr. Ransom - addressed the meeting. ...
Mr. J. M. Logan then addressed the meeting. He expressed himself opposed to the appointment of ornamental members of the new Councils in the shape of Aldermen, contending that all the members of the council should be the representatives of the people. The duties of the new bodies would not be light and their responsibilities would be great; but he was prepared, if they did him the honour to elect him, to devote his best energies to the work and to serve them to the best of hie ability.
He mentioned that although he was not very old, yet he was one of the oldest inhabitants of the parish, having been born and brought up in Chesterton. One of his opponents had put forward a strong recommendation that he had been a member the Local Board for eight years, but during five of the eight years that the gentleman in question had been member, what was done (a voice : Nothing).
The money was spent and the rates were nearly as high as they were the present time, notwithstanding the great improvements which had been effected in Chesterton during the last three years. Mr. Logan expressed himself opposed to paying a salary to the chairman of the new County Council, and said that be was in favour of the affairs of Chesterton being managed by what would be the Cambridge District Council. He believed all matters connected with county and government that the wishes of the people should be carried out and he assured the meeting that if they elected Dr. Ransom and himself, they would at all times act in a manner which they believed would be accordance with the desire of the people whom they represented.
The prospects of their election were very “rosy" but he appealed to the electors to place Dr. Ransom and himself at the head of the poll by as decisive a majority as possible (cheers).
Mr. W. Tyler proposed a vote of confidence in Dr. Hansom and Mr. Logan, and said that the opponents of the candidates whom they had met there that night to hear were no doubt very respectable men, but they were gentlemen who would work in the old party ruts and vote on party lines on every possible occasion. He thought they might assert that their candidates had a marked individuality of their own, and would follow no man unless it was the right direction. He could not understand how it was that one of their opponents had mentioned his eight years connection with the Local Board as claim to support, seeing that up to three years ago the state of things in Chesterton was very discreditable to the Board.
Mr. J. G. Smith seconded the resolution, and referred to the valuable work which Dr. Ransom had done in Chesterton since he had resided there. The proposition was carried unanimously, and the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks the Chairman, proposed Dr. RANSON, seconded by Mr. Logan.
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