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A couple of years ago, I posted about the complicated life of James A. Logan, a first cousin twice removed. Helpful RootsChatters put together a lot of the puzzle pieces.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=861015.msg7301545#msg7301545

I have just found another major piece of the puzzle, but it raises even more questions.
This is definitely the right James A. Logan - all of the details match my man including the name of the mother-in-law, Mrs. B.F. Thomas.  But how did James become a dentist?  I know that he graduated from a two-year business college in 1892 but I can find no evidence that he attended dental school.  Amazingly, the list of graduates of the University of California College of Dentistry (located in San Francisco) from 1882 to 1894 is available online as well as the list of dentistry students enrolled in 1894.  James A. Logan was not among them.  Could he legally practice as a dentist without a dentistry degree in 1897?

When James enlisted in the army under a false name in 1898, he joined the 8th Cavalry, Hospital Corps, so he may have been putting his dentistry skills to use there.  Interestingly though, on later censuses, he was never recorded as a dentist.

Any thoughts or additional information will be very welcome.

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I have been constantly getting this message for the past several days.  What's up?

Elmer Gentry Mitchell was born on 28 December 1893 in Johnson County, Indiana, the son of Emerson Mitchell and Sarah J. Hoops.  His mother died in 1899.  Elmer was recorded on the 1900, 1910 and 1920 censuses with his widowed father in Johnson County.  Emerson Mitchell died on 28 July 1921.  I have found no record of Elmer after 1920 - no census, no marriage, no death.  Where did he go?

You just never know what you're going to find with Google.  Today I turned up a report of a kayak trip on Chapman Creek which flows through Chapman's Marsh and into Buffalo Lake (a wide meander of the Fox River) just north of Endeavor, Wisconsin.  Chapman Creek and the marsh were presumably named after gg-grandpa B.H. Chapman whose farm was just to the south on the high ground above the marsh.  He settled there in 1849.  The creek is now essentially a highly modified drainage ditch.  Nevertheless, the report has a lengthy description, numerous photos and a video, so it gives an idea of what the marshland was like in the old days.

As an added bonus, the trip ended at the boat landing in Endeavor - the only close-up photos I've ever seen of the actual landing.  In the 1880s-1890s, the landing property was owned by Ann Brown, the wife of B.H. Chapman's son Cecil Chapman.  This was important because Cecil was my g-grandfather's brother-in-law, and the family connection gave him ready access to the only landing along this stretch of the Fox River.  This was essential for his lumber business.

Moral of story - keep Googling.

https://www.wisconsinrivertrips.com/segments/chapman-creek

Can anyone find a record of the marriage which terminated in this divorce?  Since the notice was published in a Washington newspaper, I assume that it refers to Grant County, Washington but it's possible that it was Grant County, Oregon.  I haven't been able to find a record of the marriage in either state.