Wade Hampton Logan, Jr., 87, of Bishop Gadsden Retirement Community, James Island, died Tuesday, March 4, 2003 at Bishop Gadsden. Funeral services will be held at St. Michael s Episcopal Church, Charleston, at 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 6, 2003. Burial will follow in Magnolia Cemetery. Mr. Logan was born in Charleston on October 1, 1915, a son of W. Hampton Logan and Julia McIver Logan. He attended schools in the city of Charleston, graduating from the High School of Charleston and from The Citadel in 1935, where he was captain of the tennis team. Following graduation, he worked for one and a half years with the South Carolina Highway Department as an engineer, before returning to Charleston to join his father at Logan-Robinson Fertilizer Company, where he was later vice president and then president. Mr. Logan later joined the Agricultural Chemicals Group of W.R. Grace Company, first as assistant manager and then manager of production and sales for the state of South Carolina. Following retirement from W.R. Grace, Mr. Logan was associated with the Charleston Development Board, then a division of the Charleston Trident Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Logan served in the U.S. Army during World War II, first in Iceland and then for two years in the European Theatre, earning battle stars in the Ardennes, the Rhineland and Central European Campaigns. He was the commander of an anti-craft battery in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Czechoslovakia, returning to the United States in November 1945. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves. Mr. Logan was a member and later Commodore of the Carolina Yacht Club, a member and past president of the St. Andrew s Society of South Carolina, an honorary member and past president of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina and an honorary member and past president of the S.C. Plant Food Educational Society. He was also a member of the Charleston Club and the St. Cecilia Society. He was a member of St. Michael s Episcopal Church and an associate member of the French Protestant (Huguenot) Church. Mr. Logan was married to the former Ella Virginia Watson of Greenwood, South Carolina. He is survived by three children, Wade H. Logan, III and his wife Eunice of Charleston, Harry L. Logan and his wife Priscilla of Florence, and Julia M. Logan of Charleston, as well as two grandchildren, W. Hampton Logan, IV of Charlotte, North Carolina and Mary M. Logan of New York City, and his beloved housekeeper of many years, Margaret G. Wilder.
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