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Re: The Vaughan Incident
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William Vaughan was a significant man of St. Clair county with a far and wide reach as it turns out.
From the Conrads "Encylopedia of the History of Missouri 1901" pg 426

"In 1860 the Legislature incorporated the Tebo & Neosho Railroad Company, and William L. Vaughan, a prominent citizen of St. Clair County, was named as one of the directors. This company was to construct a railroad "commencing at any point on the Pacific Railroad (now the Missouri Pacific) between the Lamine River and Muddy Creek, in Pet- tis County, thence to a point on the State line between the northwest corner of Jasper County and the southeast corner of McDonald County." This company was making preparations to build when the Civil War broke out. After the war it resumed operations, making its beginning point Sedalia. The director named from St. Clair County was killed during the war, and his place was filled by some one from another county. The railroad was constructed from Sedalia to Windsor by July, 1870. Then the Tebo & Neosho Railroad Company was absorbed by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company."

So he was the President of the branch of Merchants Bank of St Louis, owned a number of slaves, Director of the Railroad being built in town and was listed as having $47,000 of personal property and $30,000 of real estate when the above mentioned encyclopedia lists property in St Clair county selling for an average of $2.97 / acre due to the unsettled nature of the boarder war.

I think that much has been perhaps minimized about the character of Osceola and St. Clair County. Clearly it was a center of commerce and a booming town on the western frontier in 1860. And I just keep on learning the more I read....

John R.

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