James H. Vaughn

Arizona - The Youngest State, 1913, page 257

Transcribed by Jean Walker, July 2024

James H. Vaughan, who since 1904 has been engaged in the grain and fuel business in Douglas, where he has secured a liberal patronage in recognition of his honorable business methods, was born in Marion county, Alabama, in 1857. He is the son of Jack and Margaret (Pullman) Vaughan, the former a well known planter in Marion county. When the subject of this review was still a child the family removed to Texas, where the father engaged in stock-raising on an extensive scale until his death, which occurred in 1874. The mother has also passed away. In their family were fourteen children, but of these the subject of this review is the only one who ever crossed the Rio Grande river.

James H. Vaughan was reared in Texas and when he was sixteen years of age inherited his father's stock business, which he conducted ably and successfully for fifteen years, becoming known as one of the prominent and substantial cattle dealers in the state. He came to Arizona in 1904 and settled in Douglas, where he has since been engaged in the grain and fuel business, controlling a large trade in this direction. In his business life he manifests unfaltering diligence and close application, combined with a spirit of integrity, which has made his name an honored one in commercial circles. He has accumulated a great deal of property throughout the state, owning a fine ranch of one hundred and sixty acres five miles from Douglas and valuable business and residence property in the city.

Mr. Vaughan was married in 1887 to Miss Emma Prewith, a native of Texas and a daughter of Ira and Harriett (Criswell) Prewith, the former a native of Arkansas and the latter of Alabama. The father passed away many years ago but the mother makes her home in Oklahoma, having reached an advanced age. In their family were seven children, only one of whom, the wife of the subject of this review, came to Arizona. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan have one daughter, Ira, born November 20, 1894. She lives at home with her parents and is attending the Douglas high school.

Mr. Vaughan is well known in religious circles of the city and has been active in church work for a number of years, giving his ardent support to the First Baptist church, which he helped to organize and which he has aided in many important ways. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party but he has never sought public office and, in fact, refused the position of county commissioner when he was elected to it. He stands, however, for progressive citizenship and for advancement in the business world, and recognizes those social and individual obligations which make a man worthy of the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens.

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