Biography of H W Vaughan, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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page 720

H. W. Vaughan, M. D., deserves honorable mention, as one of the successful
practicing physicians and surgeons of Sulphur Rock, Ark. He was born in North
Carolina, July 16, 1828, and was reared in Fayette County, Tenn., where he also
received his literary education, and, in 1849, began his study of medical lore
under an instructor, entering in 1850 the Louisville Medical College, where he
took a regular course of lectures. He came to Arkansas soon after, and, in
1856, located in Independence County, where he was for years the only college
practitioner, and enjoyed a lucrative and extensive practice, his patients
being among the best class of citizens in the county and in Northeast Arkansas.
Sulphur Rock was a very small place, indeed, at the time of his location, and
consisted of one store and a postoffice. The Doctor has been married twice–the
first time to Miss Maria L. Turney, a native of Independence County, and of
this union four children were born: Ella V., Solon, Phœbe M. and Clarence P.
Mrs. Vaughan, after having performed well and faithfully the duties of a wife
and mother, was called to her final home on the 14th of August, 1873. The
Doctor is a son of S. F. and Phœbe Vaughan, the former of whom was a Virginian,
who subsequently became a citizen of North Carolina, and afterward of
Tennessee. He died in the State of Mississippi, in 1856, at the age of fifty-
eight years. Dr. Vaughan is a Master Mason, and in his political views is a
Democrat. His wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.