The Altizer Family of Man, Logan County, WV The History of West Virginia, Old and New and West Virginia Biography Volume II Biographical, Page 211 The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York Published 1923 Aaron Edson Altizer, M. D. Altizer is one of the oldest family names in the Buffalo Valley District of […]
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Contributed by Carla Haslam Herkner Below are photos taken in 1964 of the Logan High School Class of 1934 and 1935 at their joint reunion. Top roll, L-R, 5th John James Haslam (1917-2010), 2nd roll from top, L-R 7th (wife) Thelma Powell Haslam 1935 Logan High School Gallery
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Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. 2011 Winner of American’s Got Talent LANDAU WINS! by MICHAEL BROWNING, Staff Writer, Logan Banner September 15, 2011 Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. has gone from car wash rags to riches. Murphy, a Logan County car washer, was chosen by American TV viewers as this year’s champion of “America’s Got Talent”, as
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Mt. Gay Elementary School, Logan County, WV Class Photos
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Logan Blvd Bridge named in Honor of Danny M. Greene When I read in the Banner that they were replacing the Logan Boulevard Bridge that runs over Cherry Tree and Mount Gay, I immediately thought of my friend Danny Greene. Danny was killed in Vietnam near Khe Sanh on May 9, 1967 alone with 23 others
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Battle of Blair Mountain “Kill all the Red Necks you can.” — Sheriff Don Chafin to his men during the Battle of Blair Mountain. The Battle of Blair Mountain in Logan County, WV was one of the largest civil uprisings in United States history and the largest armed rebellion since the American Civil War. For
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Logan and Lincoln County Vietnam Casualties Tribute Video One of my best childhood friends was Danny Greene who was killed in Vietnam in 1967. This page is a tribute to him and to all of the other Logan and Lincoln County, WV fallen heroes of Vietnam. Please note for a soldier’s name to appear on
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Logan County, West Virginia was being soaked with a steady drizzle of rain as a crowd gathered to wait for news at the entrance of the Macbeth Mine. At about 1:30 in the evening on September 2, 1936 the Macbeth Mine of the Hutchinson Coal Company blew killing ten men. It was considered a major
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Only six months after the first Macbeth explosion on March 11, 1937, the Macbeth Mine blew again killing eighteen men. As a March rain fell, scenes from September past were being replayed. Some of the men who helped carry out bodies in the first explosion were now mangled corpses in the same entries they had
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On Tuesday, March 8, 1960 the Holden Mine at Island Creek No. 22 in Logan County, West Virginia, caught fire in the coal seam and created a carbon monoxide gas which killed eighteen men by asphyxiation. The men were trapped shortly after entering the mine at seven in the morning.
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