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I'm pretty sure that Emeryville came up in some of the Logan newspaper articles I was looking at.  There were a lot of articles that I didn't bother to download.  There were a lot of the "Mr. R. D. Logan and wife were registered at the hotel X" type.   And then there were some concerning bicycle racing (maybe those mentioned Emeryville).  The three oldest Logan brothers - Erwin, James and Robert - really got into bicycles and, in fact, Erwin and Robert started their business careers with bicycles.  Until the automobile was invented, bicycles were hot stuff, and the brothers were into racing and touring on their bikes.  Once cars came on the scene, Erwin got into the auto business with brothers George and Howard; Robert stuck with sporting goods and musical supplies (Victrolas, records, musical instruments, sheet music, etc.).  If James hadn't gotten himself into so much trouble, he probably would have become another cog in the Logan business empire.

"Now that Louis may have been found, it’s time to give this up."

Thanks for all that digging, Lisa.  I think I'll have to wait until I get another free pass at Newspapers.com to make any further progress.  For now, though, I'm convinced that dentist Sanford was not a relative.

It's pretty clear now why James skipped town and joined the army under a fake name.  If he blew through $2000, that would be about $75,000 in today's terms.  I'm wondering when his wife, his mother and his brothers figured out where he had gone.

Who knows?  Recently, I had contact with a person who is helping his cousin with her family tree.  I am quite closely related to the cousin, and I have a lot of information and photos which I am more than willing to share.  My contact reported that his cousin was excited and wanted to learn more.  He suggested a Zoom meeting.  I said no to the Zoom meeting and that I preferred email.  I sent them my address,  but they never got back to me.  Apparently for them, it's Zoom or nothing.  It's their loss.

I wish I had a picture of James, but no such luck.  My grandmother said that cousin James was her first love.  She was starstruck by him and was mortified when she one day overheard him making fun of her for trying to act grown up and sophisticated.  I wonder what she thought of him later in life; she must have learned at least a bit about his rather unsavory behavior.

I do have a newspaper photo of Erwin, George, Howard and Jack (Erwin's son).  They look like what they were - businessmen.