The married life of Mathew Logan was one of unusual felicity. He married Miss Eliza J. Smith in Her parents were Enoch and Caroline Weaver Smith. Two children were born to their marriage : Carrie, Mrs.
John Shaw; and Mary S. Logan for many years has been an earnest worker and member of the Episcopal Church, and is loved in Youngstown for her many acts of unostentatious charity. Logan was a member of the Masonic fraternity and had attained the Knight Templars degree, and was much interested in the order.
The City of Niles was inexpressibly shocked by The tragic death of Dr. George J. Smith on February 5, , when an Erie train struck his car as he was driving over the North Main Street crossing. His death was a distinct loss to his profession and also to the many important interests with which he had been affiliated at Niles and elsewhere.
Doctor Smith was born at Cincinnati, May 8, , and is a member of an old southern family, son of Col. Henry and Margaret Lundy Smith. His parents reside at Birmingham, Alabama, his father having reached the age of seventy-seven and his mother sixty-seven. Colonel Smith served in an Alabama regiment in the Confederate army. For many years he was active in business as a general contractor, and though he had his home in Cincinnati for a time, most of his life has been spent in Birmingham.
His many friends and associates have always regarded the late Doctor Smith as a perfect specimen of physical, mental and moral manhood. He was a brilliant scholar, but also exhibited a proficiency in practically everything he ever took up. While he acquired his preliminary education in Birmingham, at the age of fourteen he and his brother Harry were sent to Pittsburgh to be given the very best of advantages.
