TRUMBULL COUNTY OHIO - BIO: VAUGHN, Thomas C. (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 202

        THOMAS C. VAUGHN. While doing work at one of the skilled trades in
the iron and steel industry, Thomas C. Vaughn took up insurance, and for
thirty years has been following that line at Girard, and has built up the
largest agency in that industrial city. He is also city treasurer of Girard.
        Mr. Vaughn was born at Harrisville, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1867,
son of David and Sarah Ann (Howells) Vaughn. His father was born in
England, in 1831, and his mother, in Wales, in 1836. The day after their
marriage they set out for the new world, and their first location was at
Weathersfield, Trumbull County, Ohio. David Vaughn for a number of years
was in the teaming business as a contractor, and lived at a number of
localities in Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. He died at Youngstown in
November, 1872. He was a republican, and was a member of the Congregational
Church. His widow survived him more than forty years, and passed away at
Girard in December, 1915. They had a family of six children; Benjamin, who
was a worker in the iron mills, later a merchant, and died at Youngstown in
1910; John A., a retired rolling mill employe at Youngstown; David, who
worked in the rolling mills and died at Girard in 1910; Thomas C.; Edward
H., who began his career in the iron mills, subsequently for twenty years
was a merchant at Girard and now manages a shoe store at Cleveland, with
home at Girard; and Isaac A., an employe of a rolling mill at Girard.
        Thomas C. Vaughn was only five years of age when his father died.
He attended a few terms of school at Youngstown,and after 1878 continued
his education at Girard. At the age of fourteen his education was acquired
out of school and in the practical business of life. When he was fifteen he
went to work in the plant of the Girard Rolling Mill, doing such work as
was fitted to his strength and inexperience. For several years before he
left that work he was employed as an assistant roller. He finally gave up
his connection with the steel business in 1904. Following that for two
years he was a hardware merchant at Girard. Mr. Vaughn began writing
insurance in 1894, and since 1906 has given his full time to the insurance
and real estate business. His offices are at 24 South State Street.
        Mr. Vaughn has a number of important connections with the business
affairs of his locality, being a director in the Warren Building and
Investment Corporation at Warren, is president of the Girard Modern Homes
Company, Incorporated, and a director in the Trumbull Banking Company at
Girard. Individually he is owner of valuable real estate in Girard and
Warren, including his office building and his modern home at 122 South
State Street.
        Mr. Vaughn served as a member of the City Council of Girard during
1914-1919, and has held the office of city treasurer since 1922. He is a
republican, and a member of the Girard Methodist Episcopal Church. He
married at Girard, June 5, 1891, Miss Alice Bebb, daughter of John and Jane
(Richards) Bebb, now deceased. Her father was a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn
have one daughter, Ethel C.


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