Biography
    Robert Vaughan
    of Kentucky
    Submitted by Linda Hubbard
       
       

      Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co.

      ROBERT VAUGHAN was born near Frankfort, Ky., April 6,
      1828, and is a son of Walker and Fannie (Blackwell) Vaughan,
      natives of Franklin and Anderson Counties; their ancestors
      were from Virginia, and of English origin. Robert was reared
      and educated in Franklin County, and in 1847 went to Cincin-
      natti and studied medicine, graduating from the Eclectic College
      in 1849. He commenced practice in New Castle, Ky., remaining
      there a short time, and in 1851 came to Louisville, and engaged
      in the drug business, which he continued three or four years. He
      entered the army, in 1862, as captain of Company I, Seventeenth
      Kentucky (Federal) Infantry, and in January 1863, was promoted
      to lieutenant-colonel. Among the battles in which he took part
      were Fort Donelson, Shiloh,Siege of Corinth, Chickamauga, and
      many minor engagements.

      At Shiloh he was severely wounded in the head, and at Chicka-
      mauga was wounded in the leg, leaving him a cripple for life, and
      the effects of which finally forced him to resign.

      After the close of the war he engaged in the practice of medicine at
      Versailles, for fifteen years, and since 1883 has been in the general
      fire insurance business in Louisville. He was married in 1853 to
      Miss Pauline Culver, a daughter of W. E. Culver, of Louisville.
       

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