Doctor George Logan was an active member of the Agricultural and Philosophical Societies, a senator from Pennsylvania from 1801 to 1807, and was much concerned to preserve peace. Upon this concern he visited France in 1798 and England in 1810. Ponceau said of him:

On his death in 1821 Du

And art thou too gone! friend of man! friend of peace! friend of science! Thou whose persuasive accents could still the angry passions of rulers of men, and dispose their minds to listen to the voice of reason and justice.

When Deborah Logan died in 1839, the estate came to her son Albanus who was born in 1783 and married John Dickinson's daughter Maria. Albanus was an agriculturist and was devoted to field sports. He had a gentle nature and through a long protracted suffering before his death never complained. Two children graced his union with Maria Dickinson: Gustavus, who married Miss Armat of Loudoun, and John Dickinson Logan, who wedded Miss Susan Wister. Gustavus occupied the house and his children Albanus and Maria were born there. Since the occupancy by the Colonial Dames and the ownership by the city they have lived at Loudoun nearby.

The history of the Logan family and of their life at this splendid Colonial mansion, while only one of many similar instances, is, perhaps, the most striking proof of the incorrectness of a common modern idea regarding the Quakers. We see here that they were not stiff-necked ascetics, but were cultured and refined, fond of beauty

and pleasant things, and of a lavish hospitality. Their portraits which adorn the walls of Stenton are witnesses to all that has been said about them and exhibit the dress, not of a peculiar people, but of those who practised moderation according to the admonition of William Penn:

Choose thy cloaths by thine own eyes, not anothers. The more simple and plain they are, the better. Neither unshapely nor fantastical, and for use and decency, not for pride.

GERMANTOWN ROAD AND APSLEY STREET, GERMANTOWN

ARMAT-LOGAN

OUDOUN is an irregular stone plastered house with a pillared portico and stands at the summit of Neglee's Hill just above Wayne Junction station of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway. The east side of the house is the older; the portico was added about 1830. In the original distribution of the land of the Frankfort Company, owners of what is now Germantown, the property was called Side Lot Number 2, and fell by the lottery held in the cave of Francis Daniel Pastorius, about where Chestnut Street wharf now is, to Thones Kunders. It was in the house of Thones, now numbered 5109 Main Street, only a portion of whose wall remains, that the first meeting of Friends was held in Germantown.

Loudoun was built in 1801 by Thomas Armat, the youngest son of a large family at Dale-Head Hall, Cumberland County, England. He settled first in Loudoun County, Virginia, and thus gave its name to the countryseat which he built in Germantown for his son Thomas Wright Armat, who was born in the first home. The Armats came to Philadelphia about the time of the Revolution and during the yellow-fever epidemic in 1793 moved to Germantown, residing at 4788 Main Street, afterward occupied by the Ashmead family.

Mr. Armat was a merchant in Philadelphia and a distinguished philanthropist. He contributed the ground