Dr. Vaughan was an eye and ear specialist, a member of the staff of the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, and oculist and aurist to the Arthur Home for the Blind in Summit, NJ. He was also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Morristown Post of the American Legion, the Morris County Medical Society, the New Jersey Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He founded the Morristown Prohibition Alliance and ran as the Prohibition Party candidate for New Jersey Governor in 1916. He was a deacon in the First Baptist Church of Morristown and he was a founder of the Speedwell Avenue Chapel. By Presidential appointment he served during WWI as Captain in the Medical Reserve Corps of the U.S. Army at General Hospital No. 4, Fort Porter, Buffalo, NY.
Dr. Vaughan died June 21, 1921 at the Shongum Mountain Sanatorium in Mendham after a long battle with tuberculosis contracted during his service in the Army. Just weeks before his death, he returned to Shongum from a stay in the Albuquerque, New Mexico where he was seeking relief from the disease. He was buried in Morristown's Evergreen Cemetery.
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This collection documents four main subject areas. The first is the family history and genealogy of the Morristown, Asbury Park, Philadelphia, and Girard, KS Vaughan families. Supporting documentation includes written narratives, photographs, and correspondence. The second major subject area is the life and work of an early 20th century eye, ear and nose specialist, including a 1916 campaign for NJ Governor. Supporting materials consist mainly of daily journals, professional publications and news clippings. Thirdly, there are professional papers of a Navy man and Cold War logistician, including limited related photographs. And finally, represented in the material of this collection is the literary work of a young aspiring writer of Morristown.
The collection dates from 1868-2003 with the bulk of the material falling between the 1890s and the 1980s.
This collection is organized in six series:
These papers consist of one address book, daily journals or memorandum books including handwritten entries and pasted in news clippings [very fragile - not to be photocopied], correspondence, campaign speeches, published medical essays, and family genealogy research and writings.
The papers of Thomas Vaughan consist of short stories, published and unpublished poetry, and a typescript of the novel
F.O. Vaughan's professional papers include select memoranda, correspondence and reports from his career as a logistician.
These papers contain research notes concerning Vaughan family genealogy and a published volume regarding maritime activities in NJ during the American Revolution. The bulk of the research materials dates to the 1980s. Documents dated earlier than that are photocopies of original materials.
This series contains only an academic paper written by George P. Vaughan and a news clipping regarding Griffith Vaughan.
The majority of the photographs in this collection document general Vaughan family history including some of the extended branches of the family such as the McBrides, the Robinsons, and the Sowers. Notable are photographs concerning the Vaughans' involvement in the U.S. military throughout the 20th century, especially F.O. Vaughan's attendance and graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy.
Photographic prints have been transferred to the History Center's Photograph Collection where they are identified as part of this collection. They can be accessed by Image #. Glass plate and copper plate negatives are boxed separately and remain with the bulk of the collection.
This material is open for research without restriction under the conditions of the North Jersey History Center archives access policy. Records may be copied for use in individual scholarly or personal research, however, as with all materials in the History Center, researchers are responsible for obtaining copyright permission to use material from the collection. Material in the Vaughan Family collection may be photocopied, but because this material is a permanent part of the History Center's collections, researchers are advised to photocopy with care, using only the edge copier for bound material.
The Vaughan Family papers were donated to the North Jersey History Center of the Morristown and Morris Township Library by John Owen Vaughan in 1994, 1999 and 2006.
Vaughan Family Papers. North Jersey History Center, The Morristown and Morris Township Library.
Processed by Anne Trepcos, Summer 2006