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CHARLES C. LOGSDON.   When the evening shadows of old age lie about us, it is quite the usual thing for a person to look back over his life to find out whether the world is any better for his having lived.  It must be a gloomy retrospect indeed when no good can be found upon such an examination.  On the other hand, what a delightful satisfaction it must be to any one to know that his life has been an example of excellence for the guidance of youth and for the congratulation of age.  How many old persons who read these lines can truthfully hold up their heads and declare that the world is better for their having lived.  It is a pleasure to chronicle the events in a career of a man who has the highest respect of all his acquaintances, such as Charles C. Logsdon, long a well-known business man of Danville, Union township, and one of the worthy pioneer sons of Knox county, which he has lived to see advance from the wilderness to one of the foremost communities in the great Buckeye commonwealth, and none has been happier in its phenomenal progress than he.      Mr. Logsdon was bom in Union township, this county, on May 31, 1839.  He is the son of David and Rebecca (Uhl) Logsdon, both born in Maryland.  The Logsdons were Scotch and emigrated to America with Lord Baltimore and settled in Maryland and Kentucky.  The Uhls were of German blood and they, too, came to the United States in an early period.  The parents of the subject were married in Maryland and came to Knox county, Ohio, about 1825 when the country was sparsely settled and practically a vast forest.  They first settled in Danville and later moved to a farm in Union township and began to clear the land for farming.  They underwent the usual hardships and privations incident to pioneer life and in due course of time they became very comfortably fixed through their industry and frugal habits.  The elder Logsdon was a man of fine intelligence and upright character and he was influential in the affairs of his community.  He was born in 1809 and his death occurred in 1876.  His wife was born in 1808 and her death occurred in 1885.      Charles C. Logsdon was reared on the farm and when of proper age he assisted his father in the fields and he received such education as the early country schools afforded.  He remained under his parental roof-tree until he was twenty-one years of age, then worked at farming for his neighbors for some time.  He was slow in learning the English alphabet, but learned spelling phonetically and got to be the champion speller in school of all ages, although he did not know a letter in the alphabet.  Later he learned the millers' trade and operated the mill at Gambier for six years and then moved to a farm which he purchased, near Monroe Mills, in Monroe township, and there he remained fifteen years.  In 1883 he moved to Independence, Kansas, and engaged in the shorthorn cattle business and farmed extensively, prospering through close application and good management and becoming an extensive land owner and one of the substantial men of that locality.      Mr. Logsdon was first married in September, 1867, to Amelia Hayes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hayes, of Harrison township, Knox county, Ohio, and to this union two sons have been born, Carey L., now in the railway mail service, but recently admitted to the bar, and expects to follow the law, and Clemen J., of Osborn, Greene county, Ohio.  The wife and mother passed to her rest in July, 1887, while living in Kansas, and she was brought back to her old home in Union Grove, Knox county, Ohio, for interment.  In September, 1890, Mr. Logsdon was again married to Alice G. Critchfield, daughter of Hiram and Harriet Critchfield, of Knox county, an early pioneer family.  This union has been without issue.      After the death of his first wife, Mr. Logsdon returned to Buckeye City, Knox county, Ohio, and lived a retired life for several years, then moved to Columbus for the purpose of educating his sons in the Ohio State University, and that city was his home for a period of eight years, while his sons were attending school.  Then he returned to Buckeye City and engaged in the cement business, manufacturing cement building blocks, ornamental work and monuments and he met with a large measure of success in this field.  He has a hue modern residence of cement block, delightfully located, commanding a beautiful view of the surrounding country, in fact, his is the finest residence in Danville and Buckeye City.  Mr. Logsdon is now living a retired life, enjoying the fruits of his former years of endeavor.  He has been very successful in a business way and has large interests and a competency.      Politically Mr. Logsdon has always been a Democrat, but has never been active or held anything but township offices, such as trustee and assessor.  He belongs to the Knights of Columbus.  He and his family are members of the Catholic church and are devout people, standing high in all circles of the community. Source: Past and Present of Knox County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1912 - Page 602