Logansport
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and countyseat of Cass co., Ind.; at the confluence of the Wabash and Eel rivers; and on the Wabash, the Vandalia, and several other railroads ; 100 miles S. E. of Chicago. It is the farming trade center for a region having a population of 100,000; it manufactures flour , paper, pumps , galvanized iron, linseed oil, carriages, and agricultural implements. It is the seat of the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane. Logansport has a large trade by rail in lumber , pork, and agrielectric cultural products. There are It is on the Hock- LOGAN, a city of Ohio, the countyseat of Hocking co. ing river, and on the Hocking Valley railroad. It is the center of an important natural gas and oil region. Its industries include foundries and machine shops, flour mills, furniture factories, shoe factories, brick works, etc. It has a public library, a hospital, and other public buildings. Pop. ( 1910) 4,850; (1920) 5,493. LOGAN, a city of Utah, the county- It is near the Logan seat of Cache co. gan river, and on the Oregon Short Line railroad. Its industries include saw mills, beet sugar factories, condensedmilk factories , knitting and flour mills. It is the seat of the State Agricultural College, Brigham Young College, and New Jersey Academy. It has a Federal building, a court house, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 7,522; (1920) 9,439. LOGAN, JOHN ALEXANDER, an American soldier and statesman ; born in light and street railroad plants; an improved water system; several banks; daily, weekly and monthly periodicals. Pop. (1910) 19,050; (1920) 21,626. LOGGING-STONE. STONES. See ROCKING-
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921 Logansport was a booming rail junction of 21,626 people, served by the Wabash, the Vandalia and "several other railroads." Those lines have since been consolidated away or lifted, the Pennsylvania Railroad shops that once anchored the town are gone, and the city today counts fewer residents than it did in 1920 — around 18,000. The flour, pump and carriage works have given way to a large Tyson pork-processing plant, whose workforce helped make Logansport one of the most heavily Hispanic cities in Indiana, with roughly a third of residents of Latino origin. The "Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane" survives under a kinder name, Logansport State Hospital, still a state psychiatric facility on the same grounds.
Written for this edition, 2026.