CHAPTER XLVIII 

 VICTOR C. VAUGHAN, M.D. 



PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQIQ TO IQ2O 



VICTOR C. VAUGHAN occupied the presidential chair of 

 our Association from 1919 to 1920. He had already served 

 the Association as vice-president from 1910 to 1911. 



Dr. Vaughan was born October 27, 1851, at Mount Airy, 

 Randolph County, Mo., the son of John and Adelina Demeron 

 Vaughan. Concerning his early boyhood, he has given us some 

 very interesting information which explains in no small degree 

 his practical sense, his thoroughness in his studies, his patriotism, 

 and his later great achievements as a physician, educator, and 

 military surgeon. 



On his father's farm in Missouri everything he wore except his 

 Sunday clothes was made from fibers grown on the farm wool, 

 flax, hemp, and, during the Civil War, cotton. These fibers were 

 carried through every process necessary to convert them into 

 clothing on the farm. The hides of cattle were tanned and made 

 into shoes. Even the buttons were made on the farm. Spinning- 

 wheels and looms were busy the year around. The cradles in 

 which the children were rocked and the coffins in which the aged 

 were buried were made on the farm. Concerning these early 

 experiences he writes: 



"I have visited and studied in divers universities in this country and in 

 Europe, but the biggest university I ever went to was my father's farm. There 

 I learned more than I could have learned at any university or polytechnic 

 school in the world. I lived in Missouri during the Civil War. My father 

 had both legs broken before the Civil War and did not serve in either army. 

 My uncle, Moses Vaughan, commanded a Mississippi brigade in the Con- 

 federate Army. We were known as southern sympathizers, and the family 

 received rather rude treatment from Missouri and Iowa home guards, or- 

 ganizations of which occupied Missouri during the Civil War. In February, 

 1865, with my mother, younger brother, and sister, I fled by night from Mis- 



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