Not my family but interesting just the same. There was a Vaughn Avenue and a Vaughn Library in Ashland, Ashland county, north of Rhinelander. Joyce -----Original Message----- From: Tom Vaughan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 6:52 AM Subject: [WILINCOL-L] Early VAUGHAN/VAUGHNs in Lincoln >I just posted these notes in response to an inquiry in VAUGHAN-L, thought I'd add them to >the body of info re: Lincoln County. > >Judie Korff's query prompts me to get out some information I gathered in Wisconsin a >couple weeks ago. None of these VAUGHAN/VAUGHN folks are my relatives (ggf came to area >from England in 1886), but maybe they will help others. > >The 1880 census for the Village of Jenny (now Merrill, WI, in Lincoln County; first known >as Jenny Bull Falls) lists: >VAUGHN, R. J., white, male, 23, printer, born in WI, both parents born in Ohio. >V ... , Sarene, white, female, 22,wife, born in Maine, both parents born in Ohio. >V ... , Mabel, white, female, 3, daughter >They were at dwelling number 169 visited by the census taker, and they were family number >186. Families 185 and 187 were also recorded at dwelling number 169. > >The 1880 census for the Town of Ackley (a township in Lincoln County) lists: >VAUGHAN, Reuben, white, male, 31, farmer, born in WI, father born in NY, mother born in England. >V ... , Harriet, white, female, 27, wife, keeping house, born in Iowa, father born in NY, >mother born in Ohio. >V ... , Elwood, white, male, 7, son, at school, born in WI. >V ... , Elbia, white, female, 5, daughter, at home, born in WI. >V ... , Ella, white, female, 4, daughter, at home, born in WI. >V ... , Ethel, white, female, 9/12, daughter, at home, born in WI. > >In "History of Lincoln, Oneida and Vilas Counties Wisconsin," compiled by George O. Jones, >Norman S. McVean and Others, pub. 1924 by H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co. in Minneapolis-Winona, >MN, we find these references to VAUGHANs: >P. 42: "The second paper to be established in Merrill was the Northern Wisconsin News, >which was Democratic in politics and was founded by David Finn and Reuben F. Vaughan in >1878. This paper was sold to W.H. Cannon and H.C. Hetzel on June 17, 1881." >P. 244: Next to a full-page portrait of David H. VAUGHAN, there is on this page over 40 >lines of dense text on David H. VAUGHAN. I will pull key facts, am willing to snail mail a >copy of all to folks who want it and can't access a copy of the book cited. >In 1924, DHV was county surveyor of Oneida County (north of Lincoln). Born in Saranac, >Clinton County, NY, 17 Nov. 1842. Father was Eliphalet H. VAUGHAN, mother was Mary Content >Roberta DE LA FONTAINE. Moved to Dane County (Madison area) at four, lived there till >1854. "The family then moved to Stevens Point, Portage County, where his education was >continued in the public schools." From 14, worked at surveying and lumber cruising. 14 >Aug. 1862, enlisted in Co. H, Third Wis. Calalry as private. Discharged at Benton >Barracks, St. Louis, June, 1865. Ran "fleets of lumber down the river from Mosinee to St. >Louis." For 14 years he operated a boom at Stevens Point, had furniture store there, was >sheriff of Portage County. Visited Rhinelander in 1882, moved Oneida County from Stevens >Point in 1890, homesteading at Tomahawk Lake for two years. Bought a house in Rhinelander >and moved there "in order that his children might have better educational advantages." >Surveyer, lumber scaler, state lumber inspector, county surveyer. Free Mason in Stevens >Point, then Rhinelander. Knight Templar in Stevens Point; charter member of Crusade >Commandery. G.A.R. member till the post disbanded. Episcopal. >DHV married in Stevens Point 26 Dec. 1870 to Jennie Brawley, who was born there 29 March >1851. Their nine children were: Mattie Edith, Lucile K., Virginia, David Lynn, Charles >Brawley, Miles Bennett, Clayton Dorsey, J. Russell, and Donald Hugh. > >Hope this helps someone. Looks like it's possible there were 2-3 other lines of VAUGHANs >in early Lincoln County, besides mine. Don't know how, or if, Reuben F. VAUGHAN (1878 >ref.) may be related to R. J. VAUGHN (printer, 1880) and Reuben VAUGHAN (farmer, 1880), >and it doesn't look like any of them are related to David H. >All part of that northern branch of early VAUGHAN/VAUGHN immigrants, I guess. >-- >Tom Vaughan, Editor >The Mancos Times-Tribune >Serving the beautiful Mancos Valley since 1892 >P.O. Box 987, Mancos, CO 81328 >(970) 533-7766 (970) 565-8527 >[email protected] fax (970) 565-8532 >Personal contacts:[email protected] (970) 533-1215 > >