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Logan Grant McPherson was born on August 11, 1863 in Circleville, Ohio. He was the son of Daniel Workman and Frances Louise (Kinnear) McPherson.
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Logan Grant McPherson was born on August 11, 1863 in Circleville, Ohio. He was the son of Daniel Workman and Frances Louise (Kinnear) McPherson.
The basis for his education, mostly self-directed, was laid in the public schools which he attended until sixteen years of age.
After a year's work on a newspaper, McPherson obtained a position with the Pennsylvania Railroad and remained with the company from 1880 to 1891. Thus began his connection with American railway transportation which was his chief interest for most of his life. In the years from 1892 to 1903, he held various positions with coal companies in Pittsburgh, but he returned to railroading in 1904 when he became a statistician for the Rock Island system. At this time the railroads were incurring much public disfavor. They were accused of charging unreasonable rates for unsatisfactory service. Amalgamations and community of interest schemes were denounced as dangerous to the public interest. A greater measure of government control was urged, and bills were introduced into Congress giving the Interstate Commerce Commission wide powers over railway rates, regulations, and practices. It was during this period that the railroad companies were brought to realize the value of well-organized publicity. In 1905 the Associated Railways of the United States was founded by Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Railway Company, who engaged McPherson as his assistant. In this position, he was occupied for two years in collecting railway statistics and in preparing material for use before congressional committees and for dissemination in the public press. The railroads lost their fight, for in 1906 the Hepburn Act was passed. McPherson's connection with the Associated Railways ended and he was appointed lecturer on transportation at the Johns Hopkins University, 1905-15. For several years he devoted himself to the study of the effects of railway rates on American business conditions and published two books. The Working of the Railroads (1907) was a modest but distinctly successful attempt to describe the general railroad situation. Railroad Freight Rates in Relation to the Industry and Commerce of the United States (1909) contained a wealth of concrete details of rate-making obtained at first hand from traffic officials, but it was not well arranged and it was not an impartial statement of the rate problem from the point of view of public policy. For six months in 1909, McPherson toured Europe making a study of railroads and canals for the National Waterways Commission. After his return, he wrote Transportation in Europe (1910), an interesting and instructive account of conditions as he observed them. From 1910 to 1914 he served as director, continuing at the same time his lectures at Johns Hopkins. He also lectured at Harvard and Columbia. After leaving the Bureau he devoted himself to study and writing. He was a frequent contributor to railway journals and to general periodicals. In 1924 McPherson spent several months in England studying amalgamations of railroads. Shortly after his return to New York City, then his home, he was injured in a street accident, which was a contributing cause of his death a few months later.
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Independent, and straightforward in his expressions of opinion, McPherson could be a bitter antagonist in controversies; yet by his thoughtfulness and consideration, he attracted the loyalty and affection of those who worked with him.
McPherson never married.