The latter was the son of Lemuel Holt Vaughan, he of Peter Vaughan and he of Salathiel Vaughan, the ancestry running back in Virginia to the middle of the seventeenth century. The wife of Lemuel Holt Vaughan was Thyrza, daughter of Benjamin Boisseau and his wife, Mary Epes, the latter being the daughter of Col. Francis Epes, of the Revolutionary army, who in reward for his services received large grants of land in Kentucky. The mother of President Vaughan was Sarah E., daughter of James Vaughan, of an unrelated family, of Amelia county, Va., which is also of long standing and importance in Virginia. On his return from the Northern prison camp to Petersburg, Mr. Vaughan soon found employment, and in 1869 embarked in business as a tobacco dealer, the present firm name of Vaughan, Hill & Co. being adopted in 1885. He is also a member of the firm of Jones, Vaughan & Co., bark and sumac manufacturers. Both houses do a large export business. He is a member of A. P. Hill camp, Confederate Veterans, and for many years has served the community as a member of the school board. In 1871 he was married to Martha Dunn Stevenson, daughter of John and Jane McIlwaine Stevenson, of Petersburg, Va.
R. Frank Vaughan, a Confederate soldier distinguished for bravery, was one of the nine sons of William P. Vaughan who served in the army of the Confederate States. The father, born in January, 1806, died January 10, 1879, was a prosperous farmer and a descendant of one of the oldest Virginia families. R. Frank Vaughan married Mary E., daughter of William Hilary Hallett, who was distinguished in the business circles of Norfolk as a wholesale grocer. The wife of the latter was a daughter of Thomas C. Dixon, also a prominent business man of the city, and of a family noted in the history of Norfolk and of the State. Both Mr. Hallett and Mr. Dixon died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1855. F. Wade Vaughan, son of the veteran mentioned above, was born in Norfolk, July 30, 1870, and was educated in the Norfolk academy until the age of fifteen, when he embarked in his business career as a clerk. He served in this capacity with a bank and commercial establishments, and as a traveling salesman, until 1891, when he engaged in the wholesale fish and oyster trade on his own account. After a year of this occupation and another as traveling salesman in the same line, he entered the insurance business. Soon afterward he was taken in partnership with his father, which continued until May 9, 1895, the date of his father's death. Subsequently he has continued the business with great success under his own name, and in representation of the National fire insurance company of Baltimore is noted as one of the youngest special agents in the field. He is also one of the proprietors of the Virginia typewriter exchange. He was married April 8, 1896, to Nannie Bridges Portlock, daughter of the late Col. Edward S. Portlock, who received a commission as brigadier-general at the close of the war, and was subsequently auditor of the Norfolk & Western railroad company. Mr. Vaughan and his wife are active members of the First Presbyterian church of Norfolk, and he is superintendent of the Lambert's Point Sunday school. He was a member of the staff of the Fourth Virginia regiment, with the rank of ordnance-sergeant.
