Biography:

Son of James Logan. From the finding aid of the Logan family papers, "One of James’s sons, William (1717-1776), took a special interest in caring for and preserving Stenton’s grounds. While William Logan followed in his father’s footsteps and also worked as an attorney for the Penn family, he devoted much of his life to agriculture, particularly in regards to Stenton, which he inherited after his father’s death. Covering several hundred acres in the mid-1700s, Stenton became a working farm under William’s guidance. Though he mostly lived in Philadelphia and used Stenton as a summer residence, at least one of his children with wife Hannah Emlen (1722-1777) was born there, George Logan (1753-1821). Like his father, William died at Stenton, in 1776."