In 1699, he sailed with William Penn to America to what became known as Pennsylvania
Regarded as the leading intellectual of his time and deeply involved in the development of Pennsylvania, Lurgan-born James Logan rose to great prominence in colonial America. He was born 350 years ago on October 20th.
His Dublin linen apprenticeship was interrupted when his family fled back to Scotland due to the Williamite Wars, before moving to Bristol in 1694, where he was put in charge of Friar Meeting House Quaker school after his father returned to Ireland.
Other offices included chief justice in the supreme court of Pennsylvania , and acting governor of Pennsylvania , during which he opposed Quaker pacifism and resistance to war tax, and he was a founding trustee of the College of Philadelphia . Interested in learning and the sciences from an early age , he came to be recognised for his knowledge of mathematics, natural history and astronomy. He published regularly on the subjects of optics and botany and his work on plant pollination led to a breakthrough in the hybridising of plants as his recognition of how maize reproduced proved revolutionary.
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