living at the family home in Glasgow, Missouri. Born of her marriage were four sons and two daughters. The two oldest children, Richard Meriwether and Margaret Ward, have been dead for some years; the latter named married Ben L. Hickman, an attorney of St. Louis, in 1869, and died January 24, 1871, leaving a son, Vaughan Hickman, of Kirkwood, Missouri. Anne Randolph Vaughan married E. J. Ward, of Marseilles, Illinois, in 1881, and has one surviving child, Julia J. The surviving sons of Dr. Vaughan are George W., Louis K. and Oswald S. Vaughan.

Vaughan, James R., lawyer, was born January 6, 1845, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, eldest son of Thomas and Susan B. Vaughan. In 1849 his father removed to what is now Christian County, Missouri, and became a farmer. The elder Vaughan took a prominent part in public affairs in those early days. as a member of the Whig party, and during the Civil War was known as a staunch Unionist. In his early life he took part in the Seminole War in Florida. James R. Vaughan grew up on his father's farm and obtained his early education in the public schools of Ozark, in Christian County. In 1860 he entered Union University, at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and remained there until the institution was closed on account of the Civil War. He then returned to Missouri and remained at his home until March 19, 1862, when he left without leave and enlisted at Cassville, Missouri, as a private soldier in the Sixth Missouri Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, which became a part of the command of General Samuel R. Curtis, of the Union Army. He was only seventeen years of age at this time, but he made an excellent record as a soldier. After participating in engagements in western Missouri he was sent to Vicksburg, and took part in the siege of that place. He participated in the battle at Jackson, Mississippi, in a number of cavalry raids in eastern Louisiana, and in Banks' expedition up Red River, taking part in the engagements at Sabine Cross Roads and Pleasant Hill, and later in an expedition into southeast Mississippi. He was mustered out of the service as sergeant major at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 22, 1865. Returning then to Missouri, he taught school for a time and then attended Illinois College, at

Jacksonville, Illinois, one term. After that he entered the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and was graduated from that institution in 1868. He began the practice of law at Ozark, in Christian County, and remained there until 1877, when he removed to Springfield, Missouri, in which city he has since been prominent as a member of the bar and man of affairs. In 1886 he was appointed judge of the circuit court of the Springfield Circuit, by Governor Marmaduke, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge W. F. Geiger. This position he held for a few months only, but gained recognition as an able jurist and a judge who discharged his duties without fear or favor. In politics Judge Vaughan is a Democrat. May 10, 1871, he married Miss Barbara A. Weaver, daughter of John R. Weaver, a native of Tennessee, and an honored citizen of Christian County, Missouri.

Vauxhall Gardens.-In 1823, and for a number of years afterward, a noted public resort in St. Louis, famous for its demonstrations on the Fourth of July and similar occasions, was known as Vauxhall Gardens, it being named after the popular and fashionable London resort formerly situated on the Thames above Lambeth. The first of the St. Louis resorts called by this name surrounded one of the oldest brick residences in the city, situated on the west side of Fourth Street, and between Plum and Poplar Streets, which had been built and previously occupied by Thomas C. Riddick. Some years later a second resort, also called Vauxhall Gardens, was established at the old Soulard residence, on Carondelet Avenue, south of Miller Street.

Vawter, Vincent Lockman, secretary of the Missouri and Kansas Zinc Miners' Association, was born June 22, 1862, in Jackson County, Indiana. His parents were Tazewell and Mary H. (Lockman) Vawter. His father, who was born in Virginia, served during the Civil War as a captain in the Sixty-seventh Regiment of Indiana Infantry Volunteers; he was a successful miller and merchant in Indiana, where he died. The mother of Vincent L. Vawter was a native of Indiana, and is yet living at Clear Spring, in that State. The son completed the common and high school courses in the town of Clear Spring, and then spent two years in the In

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