William Hume Logan, Sr. 
William Hume Logan, born on November 28, 1862 and known to friends and family as W.H., was a native of Marion County in Kentucky.  A natural entrepreneur, he sold apples on the streets of Lebanon, Kentucky at age seven and later ran a truck garden with produce grown on his parents' farm.  Mr. Logan was educated at Columbia Christian College and Transylvania University in Lexington.  He married Susan Viola Smith in 1888, the daughter of Zachariah F. Smith, a notable Kentucky historian, and Susan Helm Smith.  Mr. and Mrs. Logan had four sons and one daughter. 

Mr. Logan began work in 1884 at Louisville's Dow Wire and Iron Works.  Originally hired to do menial work, he rose through the ranks and eventually bought controlling interest in the company.  He purchased Whitehall as his family residence in 1924, and shortly thereafter, in 1925, renamed his company the Logan Company.  In its heyday, his company employed 600 workers, making conveyors, metal beds and outdoor furniture.  Located in the Butchertown neighborhood, the company was one of the first to develop the roller conveyor bearing and was the largest conveyor manufacturer in Kentucky.  A majority of the family's interest in the company was purchased in 1966 by Meyer Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee Wisconsin, and in 1968 the Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America bought the Meyer Company and the remaining Logan Family interest.  It was during this period that Logan Conveyor, as it was then known, became the fifth largest package handling conveyor company in the world. 

He died on October 21, 1948 and is buried with his wife in Louisville's Cave Hill Cemetery. 

Hume Logan, Jr. 
Hume Logan's son, Hume Logan, Jr., purchased Whitehall in 1951 from his father's estate.  Logan, Jr., like his father, graduated from Transylvania University, but also attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business and served in the Navy during World War I and II.  He became president of the Logan Company in 1957 after the retirement of one of his older brothers, and six years later became chairman of the company's board of directors. 

Logan, Jr. had a great love for Whitehall, and his family said he "put all of his love and affection" into the house and thus, never married.  He loved opening up Whitehall to his family and friends, and remained in the house until his death in 1992, when the house and many of the furnishings were bequeathed to the Historic Homes Foundation for use as a permanent historic museum.  Always an avid collector of fine antiques, many of the furnishings date to the 1830s through the 1870s.