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LOGGIE, KENNETH KING (1897-1978)

LOGGIE, KENNETH KING, newspaper manager and editor; b. Chatham, 11 May 1897, s/o Alexander James Loggie and Clara Jane Campbell; unmarried; d. Chatham, 30 Aug 1978.

K. King Loggie acquired his secondary education at the Chatham Grammar School and was an employee of the Bank of Nova Scotia until he took up newspaper work. Around 1928 he joined with several businessmen in buying and merging the weekly Chatham Commercial and the Chatham World. The first issue of the new paper, of which he was editor, appeared on 26 March 1929. From the beginning until 1946 it was published as The Commercial and The World. In 1946 it was renamed The Commercial-World. At that time Loggie was listed as its managing editor. In 1953 it was owned by a stock company of which he was secretary-treasurer and Herman S. Murray president. The paper had a circulation of about 1,500 in the 1950s and early 60s, which was half that of its principal competitor, Newcastle's North Shore Leader. It was sold in 1964 to Miramichi Press Ltd, which then began publication of the weekly Miramichi Press.

Loggie's newspapers were always 'prim and proper' publications which made few waves in the community or in journalistic circles, but he enjoyed the respect of his colleagues. For a number of years in the late 1920s and 1930s he served as vice-president and president of the New Brunswick Weekly Newspapers Association and as vice-president of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. He was elected to the Chatham Town Council for several terms and was a member of the Masonic order and the United Church. His named survivors in 1978 were a brother and several nieces.

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[b/d] official records / Advocate 26 Oct 1932; Atlantic Almanac 1961 (re. N.B. newspapers); Commercial World 30 Jul 1953; Leader 23 Sep 1927, 10 Jan 1964; 31 Jul 1974; NB Almanac 1955-56 (re. N.B. newspapers); Leader 6 Sep 1978; PPNB


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