The rapid increase in Marion’s population from 1900 (2,510) to 1920 (9,582) made providing adequate school facilities a serious problem. A new high school was required. The site chosen was the old John M. Cunningham homestead where the girlhood of Mrs. John A. Logan was spent. In 1901, a twelve room, two story high school building was completed and named Logan High School.

This was at 414 East Main Street, just west of where the present Washington Elementary School is located. When the city erected a newer, larger High School in 1912 on W. Main Street this school became Logan Elementary School.

In 1949 when the Jefferson School on Boulevard burned down Logan caught the overflow of students till a new school could be erected to replace it in the fall of 1950. The Logan building was eventually demolished in 1978 and hasn’t been replaced with a namesake.

(This information was obtained from A. C. (Cliff) Storme, Louis Fluck, and newspaper articles published by Violet Grisham and from the personal knowledge of Thomas Wimberly, in January, 2006; Edited and revised by Sam Lattuca on 12/22/2012)