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Logan Adams Wood (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder, and politician)

b. 1829? d. 1904-01-18

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder and politician. Kentucky native. Son of Elias Wood and Jane Wood. Married to Mary Jane Burkart Wood in Pulaski County, Kentucky, on October 24, 1852. Father of William Wood, Lilly Wood, Mattie Wood, John H. Wood, Logan Wood, and Rice Wood. Resident of Pulaski County in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Pulaski County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1852. Attorney in Pulaski County from 1852 to 1860. Editor of the True American newspaper in Pulaski County from 1857 to 1859. Bookbinder in partnership with Lewis A. Civill in Louisville from 1860 to 1861. Attorney in Louisville from 1863 through 1865. Notary public in Louisville in 1863. Member of the Louisville City Council in 1865. Bookbinder in partnership with Lewis A. Civill in Louisville in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, District 2, p. 115A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, District 2, p. 7.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski, Somerset, District 1, p. 154.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 101, p. 61-62.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Marriages, p. 1.

"The Press Advertising," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 14 Dec 1857, p. 2.

"L.A. Wood, Esq." Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 28 June 1859, p. 1.

"Copartnership," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 26 Sept 1860, p. 2.

"Jefferson County Court," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 3 Feb 1863, p. 3.

"Remains Will Be Sent to Falls City," The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY), January 19, 1904, p. 3.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Henry Tanner, 1861), 55, 267.

Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 55, 602.

H. Charles Ulman, Lawyers' Record and Official Register of the United States, (New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1872), p. 528.

KYR-0001-004-0264.

KYR-0001-006-0049.

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Wood, Logan Adams. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208408 (November 12, 2026).

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