Cornelius Ambrose Logan, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetCornelius Ambrose Logan
American physician
Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1832
Date of Death: 30-Jan-1899
Profession: diplomat
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Cornelius Ambrose Logan
- Cornelius Ambrose Logan (August 24, 1832 – January 30, 1899) was an American physician, writer, and diplomat, best known for his two terms as United States Ambassador to Chile (1873-6 and 1882-5) during difficult times. Logan spent his early life in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- In 1849 he began to study medicine with Dr.
- John T.
- Shotwell; in 1850 he began instruction under Dr.
- R.
- D.
- Mussey, then serving as president of the American Medical Association.
- He graduated from Miami Medical College (now part of the University of Cincinnati) in 1853.
- In 1856 he moved to Kansas to practice medicine and was appointed chairman of the State Board of Medical Examiners at the outbreak of the Civil War.
- He was elected to the first city council of the new city of Atchison in 1858.After the Civil War Logan published works on a variety of subjects - sanitary conditions, climatology, and infectious disease.
- He edited a posthumous work on volunteer soldiers by his cousin, General John A.
- Logan.
- He co-founded and edited a medical journal in Leavenworth, the first medical journal in Kansas.
- He was also part of a company trying to mine coal in northern Kansas, and he and his brother Thomas successfully lobbied Congress for a franchise to mine on government land.Logan served as ambassador to Chile (1873–6), ambassador to Central America (1879–82), and for a second time as ambassador to Chile (1882–5).
- He attempted to mediate an end to the War of the Pacific, but was unsuccessful.
- He resigned his post in 1885 due to illness and returned to the United States.
- After studying in Europe, he resumed medical practice in Chicago.
- In 1890 he went to Europe as a commissioner of the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.
- He died of Bright's disease in Los Angeles in 1899. Logan was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; he organized the first grand lodge of Odd Fellows in Kansas and served as Grand Sire of the national organization 1872-4.
- While in Chile he organized the first lodge and Grand Lodge there, in Valparaiso.Logan married Zoe Shaw in 1854; they had two children.
- His daughter Celia (1855–1946) married Charles H.
- Waterous Jr.
- (1861–1925), son of Canadian manufacturer Charles Horatio Waterous; the couple had met in Chile.
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