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Logan Uriah Reavis, born in Sangamon Bottom, Mason County, Illinois, was an American journalist, lecturer, and writer. In 1855, he entered the office of the Beardstown, Illinois, Gazette, in which he purchased an interest, and continued its publication under the name of The Central Illinoian until he sold his share and moved to Nebraska in 1857. Returning to Beardstown, he repurchased The Illinoian after the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for the presidency. In 1866, he disposed of that journal for the last time and, settling in St. Louis, earnestly advocated the removal of the National capital to that city in his publication of a pamphlet entitled The New Republic, or the Transition Complete, with an Approaching Change of National Empire, based upon the Commercial and Industrial Expansion of the Great West (St. Louis, 1867). This was followed by A Change of National Empire, or Arguments for the Removal of the National Capital from Washington to the Mississippi Valley, with maps (1869). Mr. Reavis lectured extensively throughout the country on the same subject. He visited England in 1879 and, on his return to St. Louis, he began a movement to promote emigration to Missouri, twice returning to London to further that object. Among other works, he also published St. Louis the Future Great City of the World (1867); A Representative Life of Horace Greeley (New York, 1872); Thoughts for the Young Men and Women of America (1873); The Life and Military Services of Gen. William Selby Harney (St. Louis, 1875); and Railway and River System (1879). Source: [Famous Americans](