Major Logue (c. 1826 – 1 February 1900) was an early settler of

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. Born in Ireland, he arrived in the colony as a child, and eventually settled on a

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property near

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. Logue served in the

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from 1870 to 1874. Logue was born in

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, Ireland, to Elizabeth (née Goodwin) and Joseph Keys Logue. He arrived in Western Australia in 1837, travelling with parents onboard ''Hero''. In 1850, Logue overlanded stock from

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, subsequently setting up as a pastoralist near Greenough. He named his new property ''Ellendale'', and remained there for the rest of his life. Logue entered parliament in 1870, as one of the Legislative Council's first elected representatives. He represented the seat of Geraldton until September 1874, when he resigned.Major Logue
– Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 30 December 2016. Logue made two unsuccessful attempts to re-enter parliament in the 1890s, running in the seat of Greenough at the 1894 and 1897 general elections. He died at Ellendale in February 1900, of

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."GERALDTON."
''The West Australian'', 3 February 1900. He had married Lucy Ellen Shaw in 1856, with whom he had four sons and five daughters.

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