J. C. Vaughn

C. C. Vaughn was an educator and Baptist minister in Ohio and Kentucky. He served in the American Civil War and was promoted to orderly sergeant in his heavy artillery regiment. He was also active in the Colored Conventions Movement and played prominent state and national roles in the Grand Army of the Republic, a veterans group, and the Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria, an African-American beneficial and temperance society.