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H. W. Vaughan, M. D., deserves honorable mention, as one of the successful practicing physicians and surgeons of Sulphur Rock, Ark. He was born in North Carolina, July 16, 1828, and was reared in Fayette County, Tenn., where he also received his literary education, and, in 1849, began his study of medical lore under an instructor, entering in 1850 the Louisville Medical College, where he took a regular course of lectures. He came to Arkansas soon after, and, in 1856, located in Independence County, where he was for years the only college practitioner, and enjoyed a lucrative and extensive practice, his patients being among the best class of citizens in the county and in Northeast Arkansas. Sulphur Rock was a very small place, indeed, at the time of his location, and consisted of one store and a post office. The Doctor has been married twice — the first time to Miss Maria L. Turney, a native of Independence County, and of this union four children were born: Ella V., Solon, Phoebe M. and Clarence P. Mrs. Vaughan, after having performed well and faithfully the duties of a wife and mother, was called to her final home on the 14th of August, 1873. The Doctor is a son of S. F. and Phoebe Vaughan, the former of whom was a Virginian, who subsequently became a citizen of North Carolina, and afterward of Tennessee. He died in the State of Mississippi, in 1856, at the age of fifty-eight years. Dr. Vaughan is a Master Mason, and in his political views is a Democrat. His wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.