LOGAN, JAMES KENNEDY (1843-1912) was born at West Kilbride, Ayrshire, and educated at Paisley and trained in telegraphy in Glasgow. He came to Otago in the City of Dunedin (1864) and was employed on constructing the telegraph line from Dunedin to Christchurch. In 1865 he was appointed to the Dunedin telegraph office and later was appointed by the provincial government to construct the line to Queenstown. In 1869 he became inspector in Otago under the General Government; in 1894 superintendent of telegraphs for the Colony, from which position he retired in 1911. (C.S.O., 1909.) He died in Dec 1912.

Cycl. NZ., i (p); Who's Who NZ., 1908; Otago Daily Times, 2 Dec 1912.

Reference: Volume 1, page 268

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