LOGANSPORT  , a

city and the county-seat of Cass county, Indiana, U.S.A., on the Wabash river, at the mouth of the Eel river, about 67 m . N. by W. of Indianapolis and 117 M . S. by E. of Chicago . Pop . (1900) 16,204, of whom 1432 were foreign-'born, (1910 census) 19,050 . It is served by six divisions of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, two divisions of the Vandalia (Pennsylvania Lines), and the Wabash railways, and by electric interurban lines . The city is the seat of the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane (1888), and has a public library, and a hospital (conducted by the Sisters of St Joseph) . Among the principal buildings are the court house, a Masonic temple, an Odd Fellows' temple, and buildings of the Order of Elks, of the Knights of Pythias, and of the fraternal order of Eagles . Situated in the centre of a rich agricultural region, Logansport is one of the most important grain and produce markets in the state . The Wabash and the Eel rivers provide good water power, and the city has various manufactures, besides the railway repair shops of the Vandalia and of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis railways . The value of the city's factory product increased from $2,100,394 in 1900 to $2,955,921 in 1905, or 40'7% . Limestone, for use in the manufacture of iron, is quarried in the vicinity .

The city owns and operates the water

works and the electric-lighting plant . Logansport was platted in 1828, was probably named in honour of a Shawnee chief, Captain Logan (d . 1812), became the county-seat of Cass county in 1829, and was chartered as a city in 1838 .