Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Vaughan, Bernard G ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00003.html#0000719 February 6, 2008, 4:48 am Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907 Bernard G. Vaughan is superintendent of the Illinois Match Company, which was organized at Joliet about 1901 by T. C. Cadwallader and B. J. Metzger, while later L. A. Sherwood and Fred Bennett were admitted to a partnership in the business. The present officers are: Colonel Fred Bennett, president; B. J. Metzger, secretary; T. C. Cadwallader, vice president; L. A. Sherwood, manager and treasurer; and B. G. Vaughan, superintendent. The company manufactures parlor matches. The plant was destroyed by fire November 29, 1905, but was rebuilt in 1906. The buildings are of brick and stone and are equipped with the most modern improved machinery for carrying on the work. The company owns its own lighting plant, steam power and heat. There are several buildings for the different departments, including a main building eighty by one hundred feet, a stick department fifty by eighty feet, engine room and machine shops forty by eighty feet, a chemical department twenty-six by forty feet, and a box machine room for the manufacture of paper boxes twenty-six by forty feet. There are also two warehouses, one fifty by eighty feet and the other sixty by eighty feet, while the commodious office room is twenty-six by forty feet. All are of brick and are fireproof structures with automatic sprinkler, engine hose, fire pump and other improved methods for fighting fires. There are about one hundred employes outside of the office and ten or fifteen men are employed in cutting timber. The plant is located along the line of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad and thus fine shipping facilities are secured. It stands just outside the city limits to the north and the capacity is about one thousand gross of matches per day. The product is handled through jobbers, none of it being sold to the retail trade, and practically all shipments are made by carload. Mr. Vaughan has thus been engaged for the past three years. He is thoroughly practical in the conduct of the business and has designed several machines which have been great improvements upon the old methods of work employed. He was formerly with the Continental Match Company and also with the Pennsylvania Match. Company and another company of similar character in the Keystone state, spending some seven years in Pennsylvania. He has devoted most of his life to the business of manufacturing matches and is thoroughly acquainted with the trade in every particular. Mr. Vaughan was born in Maine in 1871 and was there reared and educated. After putting aside his text books he became connected with the business of manufacturing matches and has so continued, constantly promoting his efficiency through broad experience and investigation. He is married and resides on the west side of Joliet. Socially he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having joined the organization in the east. Additional Comments: PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1907 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/will/bios/vaughan2567nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb