Warren Logan
*Warren Logan was born on June 5, 1859. He was a Black educator.
He was born in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina; his father was Park Logan, and his mother was Pocahontas "Pokey" Smith. He lived in Gilmer Township, Guilford, North Carolina, in 1870. He graduated from Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia in 1877 and then taught bookkeeping at Tuskegee Normal School in Alabama.
Starting in 1883, Warren was also the director of choral singing and the school band's director. As a young, educated Black man in the period after the Reconstruction era, Logan pushed against the social restraints imposed by white supremacists in the South. For instance, he and a group of friends tried to use their first-class train tickets between Montgomery and Selma, Alabama. They were ordered to the Jim Crow car and ejected when they hesitated to move.
Logan became the first treasurer of Tuskegee Institute in 1882. He married Adella Hunt on December 27, 1888, in Fulton, Georgia. They were the parents of at least three sons and three daughters. His youngest son was Arthur C. Logan, a surgeon. He lived in Gilmer Township, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, in 1870, and in Election Precinct 1, Tuskegee, Macon, Alabama, United States 1910.
Warren Logan died on April 26, 1942, in Tuskegee, Macon, Alabama, at 82, and was buried in Tuskegee, Macon, Alabama.
