This seller of sawmill machinery was active in 1850-1855, and probably for longer. They were an agent for nearby Geo. Vail & Co. of Morristown, NJ.

Information Sources

• An article in the 1850-08-31 issue of Scientific American on a patented padlock refers queries to Logan, Vail & Co. The inventor was located in Morristown, NJ.
• Ad in 1851-03-29 issue of Scientific American for "Bogardus's Celebrated Horse-power". Also, "Cranks, balance wheels, pitmans or noddle-heads, stirrups, feed hands, saw gate slides and rods, wrag wheels, carriage cogs, dogs, gudgeons, mill bars, saw gummers and Hotchkiss wheels and shafting for saw mills; spindles, bales, drivers, hoisting screws and bales, regulating screws, mill pecks, bushes, smut machines, shafting and gearing iron water wheels for flouring mills; fly or roll bars and plates, paper cutters, Kay's callendaring apparatus for continuous sheets for paper mills; screws for lathes and presses, jack screws, wrought and coast iron shafting, pullies and hangers, heavy forging, cotton gin gear, screw-bolts and nuts, slip gudgeons... belting and bolting cloths". Manufactured at Speedwell Iron Works. "Office in New York, No. 9 Gold st., with Logan, Vail & Co. ... GEO. VAIL & CO."
• Ad in 1853-11-05 issue of Scientific American: "Logan, Vail & Co., No. 9 Gold st., New York.—Agency for Geo. Vail & Co., Speedwell Iron Works, Morristown, N. J., furnish and keep on hand portable steam engines of various sizes. Saw and grist mill irons, Hotchkiss's water wheels, iron water wheels of any size, portable saw mills, complete; Bogardus's celebrated planetary horse powers; having forgings and castings for steamboats and rolling mills, ratchet drills of superior quality for machinists, saw gummers, hand drills, tyre benders, and shafting and machinery generally."
• From ad in 1854-11-18 issue of Scientific American: "Vail's Celebrated ported steam engines and saw mills. Bogardus' horsepowers, smut machines, saw and grist mill irons and gearing, saw gummers, ratchet drills, &c. Orders for light and heaving forging and castings executed with dispatch. LOGAN VAIL & CO., 9 Gold st., N. Y." The ad ran until 1855-11-10.