Monday, September 15, 2014

Samuel Vaughen, Father of Mrs. Wilfred Cameron


Taken from an unknown newspaper article:

Samuel Vaughen, was born in Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, worked National Tube Co., and was responsible for many inventions.  The furnaces in use are due to his genius.

Excerpts from Mr. Vaughen's biography taken from the USGenWeb Archives (also here):

SAMUEL W. VAUGHEN, superintendent of the blast furnace department of the Cambria Iron company, at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is a son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth J. (Beatty) Vaughen, and was born...September 16, 1851. His father is a native of eastern Pennsylvania, and came to Johnstown in the year 1853. He remained there for a short time, then removed to the State of Ohio, where he remained about one year, then returned to Johnstown, and still resides there. He has been employed for many years as an engineer in charge of stationary engines at the Cambria Iron company's blast furnaces.

Samuel Vaughen, then grandfather of our subject, was of English descent, and a native of Lebanon county, Pennsylvania. He died in Johnstown in 1868, aged sixty-six years. The mother of our subject, Mrs. Elizabeth J. (Beatty) Vaughen, is a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where she was born in 1833. Her father, William Beatty, was a native of Scotland, who emigrated to America when quite young. 

In 1873, Mr. Vaughen was married to Miss Elizabeth H. Seese, daughter of John Seese, of Johnstown. This union was blessed by the birth of four sons and four daughters; one of these Elizabeth J., died at the age of three years. The others are: Carrie B., Anna G., Jerry, John W., Lillie B., Samuel, and Robert.

The Samuel Vaughen family was enumerated twice in 1900; once in Ohio and once in Pennsylvania:

United States Census, 1900
Black River Township Lorain City Ward 5, Lorain, Ohio, United States
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Samuel W Vaughen M 49 Pennsylvania
Wife Elizabeth H Vaughen F 48 Pennsylvania
Daughter Carrie B Vaughen F 25 Pennsylvania
Son John W Vaughen M 22 Pennsylvania
Daughter Lillian Vaughen F 18 Pennsylvania
Son Samuel W Vaughen M 16 Pennsylvania
Son Robert Vaughen M 6 Pennsylvania

United States Census, 1900
Johnstown city Ward 21, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Sam Vaughen M 49 Pennsylvania
Wife Elizabeth H Vaughen F 48 Pennsylvania
Daughter Carrie B Vaughen F 28 Pennsylvania
Daughter Gertrude A Vaughen F 24 Pennsylvania
Son Jerry Vaughen M 26 Pennsylvania
Son John Wm. Vaughen M 20 Pennsylvania
Daughter Lillian Vaughen F 18 Pennsylvania
Son Sanil W Vaughen M 16 Pennsylvania
Son Robert A Vaughen M 5 Pennsylvania

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