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Gen. Alfred J. VAUGHAN, clerk of the criminal court of Shelby County, was born

in Dinwiddie County, Va., May 10, 1830.  In 1851 he graduated from the Virginia

Military Institute, and then adopted the profession of civil engineering.

Locating at St. Joseph, Mo., he surveyed the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, and

was afterward appointed deputy United States surveyor of California.  November

6, 1856, he was united in marriage with Miss Martha J. Hardaway, of Mississippi,

and to this union there are five living children—three sons and two daughters.

After his marriage he settled in Mississippi, where he resided until the late

war broke out.  He at first opposed a dissolution of the Union, but finally went

with his adopted State, Mississippi.  He raised a company in Marshall County, of

that State, but they could not be received, owing to lack of military

equipments.  He then joined a company at Moscow, Tenn., and was elected captain.

He followed the fortunes of the grand army of Tennessee, fighting gallantly at

Belmont, Shiloh, Richmond, (Ky.), Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, and rising

steadily in rank and in the confidence of his superiors.  At the bloody battle

of Chickamauga he was made brigadier-general by President Davis, on the field,

for conspicuous gallantry.  In the fight near Marietta, Ga., on the 4th of July,

1864, he unfortunately lost his leg.  After the war he engaged in farming in

Mississippi.  In 1872-73 he was connected with the Grange movement, and was

located at Memphis.  In 1878 he was elected, on an independent Democratic

ticket, clerk of the criminal court.  In 1882 he was unanimously nominated for

the same office by the Democratic convention, and was, at the election

following, again elected.  He was not a candidate in 1886.  In this election his

majority over is opponent was 5,701, one of the greatest ever given for any

candidate in the county.  He is a very popular officer, and is the soul of

honor, and accordingly no citizen stands higher in the estimation of the public.

He is a Royal Arch Mason, and a member of the K. or H. and the R. A., and

himself and wife are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Memphis.







Rev. Father John VEALE was born October 2, 1846, in County Waterford, Ireland.

He received instruction at the national schools, the Christian Brothers’ school

and then began his classical studies under the famous Mr. Dwyer of Dungawan, who

had educated over 400 priests.  He then attended Mt. Mellary Seminary and

graduated from this institution in 1865.  After this he entered the Foreign

Missionary College of All Hallows, Dublin, being ordained priest in 1870.  The

same year he came to America and located at Nashville.  After acting assistant

of the late Very Reverend M. Riordan for a time he was sent to Jackson, Tenn.,

where he remained three years as pastor.  In 1876 he was recalled to the

cathedral at Nashville where he served in various capacities till 1881 when he

came to Memphis and assumed the duties of pastor of Patrick’s Church at that

place.







A. J. VINCENT is manager for C. W. and S. G. Boyd, dealers in pine and hardwood

lumber, making a specialty of walnut, ash and poplar lumber.  Their offices are

at No. 1 Madison Street, Memphis, and No. 91 Water Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Our subject, the manager of this branch of their business, is a native of

Michigan and a son of W. H. and Rachel (Shimmel) Vincent, both natives of

Watertown, N. Y.  Mr. Vincent has devoted many years of his life to the lumber

business, trading in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Arkansas and Mississippi and

is not only one of the most energetic and thorough-going business men of this

section of the country but has the respect and esteem of all who know him.  In

1879 he married Jennie Snodgrass of Metropolis, Ill., the daughter of David and

Annie Snodgrass.  To this marriage were born two children: Harry S. and

Gertrude.  In October, 1885, our subject permanently located in this city and

engaged with C. W. and S. G. Boyd, one of the largest hardwood lumber firms in

the United States.  Later—since the above was first put in type the lumber firm

has failed in business and is succeeded by Charles C. Boyd & Co., who occupy the

same offices here and at Cincinnati and transact the same business.  Mr. Vincent

remains with the new company.