There is no specific individual who is credited with building the first log cabin. However, the first log cabin's location was in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.
Andrew Jackson was the first US President to live in a log cabin. Jackson was the seventh President of the United States.
Not exactly Andrew Johnson was the 17th president and he was born in a cabin in Raleigh, NC, that was part of an inn. It was not a typical log cabin. It may have been built of logs, but siding was added to the outside, so it did not look like a log cabin. See the related link for a replica that has been built on the site of his birthplace.
James Buchanan was born in a log cabin in Pennsylvania. He is the only US president from PA.
According to the related link below, Swedes settling in Deleware built the first log cabins in what is now the US.
Andrew Jackson would be a good guess and is right if Jackson was indeed born in a log cabin. Details about Jackson's birth are not known but his family was poor enough that a log cabin is surely possible. If Jackson was not born in a log cabin, then Zachary Taylor is the next possibility. However Taylor's birthplace is also uncertain and although some think he was born in a log cabin, he may have well been born in a frame house. Millard Fillmore was certainly born in a log cabin and is first if Jackson and Taylor do not qualify. Thanks for the feedback
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It might have been the log cabin pattern. The museum has one with a Baltimore Album Quilt from 1845.http://wiquiltmuseum.com/about-us/our-history
The only US President to never marry was James Buchanan.
The log cabin pattern came into popularity during the US Civil War. The red center represents the hearth. A yellow center represents light. A black center was said to announce a stop on the Underground Railroad.
If your talking about the compact electric log splitters, then no they are imports. Almost all compact electric log splitters are imports.
James Garfield, the 20th US president, was born in a log cabin in Cuyahoga County, Ohio on November 19, 1831.
On the US frontier they were built wherever there were settlers and trees big enough to make cabins out of, which mostly means the Mid West .