Sierra-Yuba-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Vaughn, Jerome A. 1837 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

JEROME A. VAUGHN, son of Jesse and Betsey Vaughn, was born at Chardon, Geauga
county, Ohio, December 20, 1837. He resided at his home until nineteen years of
age, acquiring an education at the Hiram institute, and learning the printer's
trade, when he went to Chicago, and for several months worked in various
printing-offices. He then removed to Waukegan, Illinois, and worked on the
Gazette two years; after which, in 1858, he worked on the Transcript at Peoria,
Illinois, until the fall of 1859, when he again changed to Delevan, Wisconsin,
and became one of the proprietors of the Delevan Northron, that was burned out
in 1860. Mr. Vaughn then became foreman of the Janesville Republican job
department, but on the first of April, 1861, started overland for California,
arriving in Marysville August 10. For a short time he worked on the Express and
Appeal, but in September went to La Porte, then to Sacramento, and to San
Francisco, laboring at his profession. In April, 1862, he was employed as a
guard in the prison at San Quentin, but soon worked on the Argus at Petaluma.
During that winter's session of the legislature Mr. Vaughn was clerk for the
sergeant-at-arms of the assembly. In the spring of 1863 he went to Carson on
horseback, then to Virginia City, and in October returned to La Porte, where he
bought a half-interest in the Messenger, in November, with which he has since
been connected, part of the time as senior editor. Mr. Vaughn was one of the
original locators of the Bald Mountain Extension mine, and is now largely
interested in it, together with several other mines. He was married December 24,
1865, to Miss Eva Passage of Delevan, Wisconsin. Their children are Altie,
Jessie, Eva, and George. Mr. Vaughn is a member of the Masonic order, and is
district deputy and grand master workman of the Workmen's order.



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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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