Logan, Cache County, Utah Genealogy

United States Utah Cache County Logan

This page has been adopted by the Logan Public Library.

History
Logan is the county seat of Cache County, Utah and the central community of Cache Valley which extends into south-eastern Idaho. The Native American population, made mostly of bands of Shoshone, have lived in the region since prehistory. The first Europeans in the area were early trappers such as Peter Skene Ogden and Jim Bridger who explored the Logan River and surrounding regions as early as 1825.

The first permanent European settlers entered Cache Valley on July 20, 1855. These early settlers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or Mormons) and sent by Brigham Young. The LDS faith is the predominant religion to this day. Logan was first settled in April 1859 and named after the Logan River that flows through the city.

City founders, rooted in the LDS faith, are responsible for two of the great architectural landmarks in Logan: the Logan LDS Temple and the Logan Tabernacle. Logan is also the home of Utah State University, a land-grant university founded in 1888. Old Main, another architectural landmark in Logan, is perhaps the best known structure on the university campus.

The city celebrated its sesquicentennial in 2009. In 2010 the population totaled over 48,000, according to the census of that year.

Neighboring Communities
Benson, Utah | Hyde Park, Utah | Hyrum, Utah | Lewiston, Utah | Mendon, Utah | Millville, Utah | Newton, Utah | Nibley, Utah | North Logan, Utah | Providence, Utah | Richmond, Utah | River Heights, Utah | Smithfield, Utah | Wellsville, Utah

Cemetery Records
Logan City Cemetery 1000 North 1200 East Logan, UT 84321 (435)750-9895 or mark.johnson@loganutah.org


 * Cemeteries of Cache County

Cemetery Transcriptions

 * Burials in Logan City Cemetery, 1862-1958. Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958. Logan Library  Family History Library

Check these online resources to find people who have been interred in the Logan Cemetery.


 * Findagrave
 * Names In Stone
 * Utah Gravestone Photo Project
 * Utah State History - Cemeteries and Burials Search

Mortuaries
Contacting a mortuary can give you invaluable information about the death and interment of an individual.


 * Kenneth Linquist Mortuary Records (1913-1961) Logan Library  Family History Library

Indexes
Utah Population Schedule Indexes

Images
Also available are the following digitized census records:


 * Table of available census images
 * 1850 US Census of Utah Territory
 * 1856 Utah Territorial Census
 * 1860 US Census of Utah Territory
 * 1880 US Census of Utah Territory-Cache County

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)
Logan LDS Church Ward, Branch and Stake Records


 * History of the Logan Central Stake and Its Wards. Hyrum, UT: Downs Printing, 1986. Logan Library  Worldcat
 * Cardon, John P. History of the Logan Fifth Ward, 1864-1930. Logan, UT: Utah State Agricultural College, 1955. Logan Library  Family History Library
 * Embrey, Jessie E. Little Berlin: Swiss Saints of the Logan 10th Ward. Salt Lake City, UT: Utah State Historical Society, 1988. Logan Library
 * Godfrey, Ken &amp; Audrey. Logan East Stake History. Logan, UT: Watkins Printing, 2003. Logan Library  Worldcat
 * Maughan, Eldora J. Logan Eighth Ward, 1908-1967. Logan, UT: Everton Publishers, [1967. ] Logan Library
 * Morrell, Ada England. One hundred years of history of the LDS Logan Second Ward, 1861 to 1961. Logan, UT: Gateway Press, 1961. Logan Library
 * Ricks, Joel E. Logan Fifth Ward History. Logan, UT: 1950. Logan Library

LDS Logan Temple


 * Olsen, Nolan Porter. The Logan Temple Collection, 1877-1979.
 * Olsen, Nolan Porter. Logan temple : the first 100 years. Logan, UT: 1978. Logan Library  Worldcat
 * Smith, Darrin. How beautiful : a pictorial history of the Logan LDS temple. Logan, UT: Herald Journal, 2011. Logan Library  Worldcat

Presbyterian
First Presbyterian Church of Logan 178 West Center Logan, UT 84321


 * First Presbyterian Church of Logan Collection, 1920-1995
 * First Presbyterian Church Papers, 1878-1990
 * Hult, Christine, ed. The Presbyterian experience in Cache Valley: one-hundred thirty years of faith and service 1878 - 2008. Logan, UT: 2009. Logan Library

Lutheran
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church 581 North 700 East Logan, UT 84321 (435) 752-1453

Episcopal
St. John's Episcopal Church

850 East100 North Logan, UT 84321


 * St. John's Episcopal Church Records, 1873-1979

Catholic
St. Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Parish 725 South 250 East Logan, UT 84321

Methodist
Trinity Methodist Church - Merged with the First Presbyterian Church in 1920.

Other

 * Simmonds, A.J. The Gentile Comes to the Valley. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1976. Logan Library  Worldcat


 * Logan Library Directory of Churches in Logan, Utah

City Records
Logan City Hall 290 North 100 West Logan, UT 84321 (435) 716-9002

Digital Council Minutes

 * Book A, 1866-1886
 * 2008-current

Other Council Minutes

 * Logan Library 1866-1988 (on microfilm)
 * Logan Library 1988-2008 (in print)

Digital Directories

 * 1884
 * 1962
 * 1963
 * 1974
 * 1975

Print Directories

 * R.L. Polk &amp; Co. Polk City Directory for Logan, Utah. 1904-current.
 * Family History Library (1905-1997 missing some volumes)
 * Logan Library 1904-1964 (on microfilm)
 * Logan Library 1929-current (in print)

Web Histories

 * UTGenWeb History
 * Utah.com History

General Print Histories

 * Christensen, Vera A. A Place in Time : Logan, Cache, Utah. Providence, UT : Keith W. Watkins and Sons, 1989.  Logan Library
 * Curtis, Al. J. Pioneer Edition of Events in the Early History of Logan and Cache Valley. Logan, UT: 1946. Logan Library Family History Library
 * Godfrey, Kenneth W. Logan, Utah : a one hundred fifty year history. Exemplar Press, 2010. Logan Library
 * Hovey, M.R.A history of Cache County : as printed in Logan Journal beginning August 4th, 1923. Logan Library (digital copy)
 * Peterson, F. Ross.A history of Cache County. Salt Lake City, UT : Utah State Historical Society, 1997.  Logan Library
 * Ricks, Joel E. The history of a valley : Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho. Logan, Utah : Cache Valley Centennial Commission, 1956.  Logan Library
 * Simmonds, A.J.In 'God's Lap' : Cache Valley history as told in the newspaper columns of A.J. Simmonds. Canada : Pediment Publishing, 2004. Logan Library
 * Somers, Ray. History of Logan. Logan, UT : Somers Historical Press, 1993. Volumes 1 and 2.  Logan Library

Family Histories and Diaries

 * Cache Valley Diaries Collection

Pictorial Print Histories

 * A Cache legacy : A Photo History of Cache Valley. Logan, UT : The Herald Journal, 2003. Logan Library
 * Cache Treasures : A Photo History of Cache Valley. Logan, UT : The Herald Journal, 2001. Logan Library
 * Smith, Darrin. How beautiful : a pictorial history of the Logan LDS temple. Logan, UT: Herald Journal, 2011. Logan Library
 * Smith, Darrin. Logan Reflections : Photographs Then, Now and in Between. Logan, UT : The Herald Journal, 2009. Logan Library

Historical Overview
The recording of land on a local level began in 1885. Records back to that year are available by contacting the Cache County Recorder. Records before 1885 should have been recorded in a US federal land office; however, there was no federal land office in Utah until 1869. Records from about 1869 to 1885 and possibly earlier are housed in the National Archives, the closest branch of which is in Denver, Colorado.


 * Cache County Assessment Rolls, 1869-1893. Family History Library
 * Cache County Inheritance Tax Records, 1905-1966 Logan Library Family History Library
 * Cache County Probate Records, 1860-1965 Logan Library Family History Library (incomplete database)
 * Utah, Cache County Records, 1861-1955 (includes land deeds from 1892-1914)

Bird's-Eye View

 * 1875 Bird-Eye View

Plat

 * 1874 Map of Logan Townsite
 * 1891 Map of Logan City
 * Cache County Township Plat Book
 * Cache County Plat Map Photograph Collection

Sanborn Fire Insurance
The University of Utah has digitized all known Sanborn Maps for Logan. Hard copies are also available at the Logan Public Library.


 * 1885
 * 1890
 * 1900
 * 1930
 * 1955

Topographic

 * Cache County, Utah - 1931
 * Utah Geological Survey

Other

 * Cache County, Utah 1895
 * Newberry Atlas of Historical County Boundaries for Utah
 * Old Maps Online.org
 * Utah Idaho Central Railroad Google Map

Military

 * James H. Martineau, The Military History of Cache County. Tullidges Quarterly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1 (April, 1882): 122-131.
 * Mormon Battalion Veterans - brief sketches
 * Utah, Cache County Records, 1861-1955 (Includes records of soldier discharges from 1942-1955)

Titles

 * The Cache American (1931-1947?) & Logan Library
 * The Herald Journal (1931-present) & Logan Library
 * The Logan Journal (1888-1891) & Family History Library (1889-1891) & Logan Library (1889-1891)
 * The Logan Leader (1879-1882) & Family History Library (1879-1880) Logan Library (1879-1880)
 * The Logan Nation (1890-1904) & Logan Library
 * The Logan Republican (1902-1924)
 * The Journal (1892-1931)  & Family History Library (1892-1898) & Logan Library (1892-1931)  
 * The Utah Journal (1882-1889) & Family History Library (1889) & Logan Library (1885-1886, 1889)

Digital Papers

 * Utah Logan Journal (mixed titles), 1879-1898
 * Logan Nation, 1893-1904 & 1900-1903
 * Logan Republican, 1902-1921 & 1902-1921
 * Cache American, 1931-1947 & 1934-1938
 * Herald Journal, 1949-1952, 1955    (more scanned on demand by the Logan Library staff)
 * Herald Journal, 1965 (requires a subscription to Newspapers.com)

Abstracts

 * Logan, Utah Vital Statistics (1861 - 1939) newspaper clippings with births, deaths, etc.)

Obituaries
The local history librarian at the Logan Library is happy to look up an obituary for you in most of the above newspaper titles. (Tip : Indexing of these papers is limited so give the librarian as much information as you can to make the search more fruitful.)

Railroad History

 * Utah Northern Railroad (1871-1878)
 * Utah Northern
 * Utah &amp; Northern Railway (1878-1889)
 * Oregon Short Line &amp; Utah Northern Railway (1889-1897)
 * Oregon Short Line Railroad (1897-1936)

School Records

 * Early Cache Co. Utah School Districts

Brigham Young College

 * Brigham Young College Records, 1877-1926

Logan City Schools

 * Logan City School District records, 1872-1951
 * Amphion Annual, Logan, UT: Logan High School, 1924-present.

Utah State University

 * The Buzzer Annual. Logan, UT: Utah State University, 1909-1971.

Archives
Utah State Archives and Records Service 300 South Rio Grande Street Salt Lake City, UT 84101 (801) 533-3535

Utah State University Special Collections and Archives 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322 (435) 797-2663

Digital Libraries

 * BYU Idaho Special Collection &amp; Family History
 * Cache County GenWeb
 * J. Williard Marriot Library - Digital Collections
 * Logan Library Special Collections - Digital Projects
 * Mountain West Digital Library
 * Utah State Archives and Record Service - Digital Archives
 * Utah Division of State History - Online Collections
 * Utah State University Digital Initiatives (Including the Logan, Utah Digital Collection)

Libraries
Logan Public Library (Family History Library Affiliate) 255 North Main Logan, UT 84321 (435)716-9143

Logan Utah FamilySearch Library 50 North Main (rear basement) Logan, UT 84321 (435) 755-5594

Message Boards

 * Cache County Message Board
 * Cache Family History Center List (UT-CACHE-FHC)

Museums
Cache County Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum 160 North Main Logan, UT 84321

Societies and Groups

 * Cache Valley Historical Society
 * Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
 * Sons of the Utah Pioneers - Temple Fork Chapter

Vital Records
While white permanent settlers began to enter Cache Valley in 1856, Logan was founded in 1859 and incorporated in 1866. Vital records from that time period until public records were kept may be found in alternative sources: newspapers, church records, family records, cemetery records, etc.

General Utah
Utah Vital Records


 * Utah, Births and Christenings, 1892-1941 (index only)
 * Utah Birth Certificates, 1904-1914
 * Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904-1961 (included some scanned death certificates)
 * Utah, Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946(index only)
 * Utah, Marriages, 1887-1935 (index only)
 * Western States Marriage Index

Logan Births and Deaths
Reliable birth and death records in Logan begin in 1898. In that year the Cache County Clerk began to keep a vital record register or ledger. This practice continued until 1905 when a state-wide registration of both births and deaths began.


 * Cache County Clerk. Birth and Death Records, 1898-1905. Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1966. Family History Library Logan Library Utah State Archives [call number Series 83781]
 * Logan, Utah Vital Statistics (1861 - 1939) newspaper clippings with births, deaths, etc.)

Logan Marriages
Marriage was seen as a religious ordinance early in the history of Cache County. With the passage of the Edmund’s-Tucker Act, federal regulators outlawed polygamy, a common practice among pioneer members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons). The act also mandated a territorial registration of marriages which began in 1887.


 * Cache County Clerk. Marriage Records, 1887-1966. Salt Lake City, UT: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1966. Family History Library Logan Library

Earlier records of LDS marriages for persons living in Logan may exist in church temple registers. These registers are held in the Church History Library.