greatest prosperity, became the leading shipbuilders of Philadelphia; in construction, workmanship, strength and speed, their vessels were unexcelled, and their ships carried the largest tonnage of any vessels built at that port during many years. A few noticed are as follows: Steamships, "Robert Burton," "America," "Ajax," etc. The firm extended the long established Cope Line, by building the steamships "Tuscarora," "Tonawanda," "Westmoreland," and "Lancaster." They also constructed the side-wheel steamers "State of Georgia," "Keystone State" and "Quaker City," for the Philadelphia and Savannah Steam Navigation Company. The last three mentioned were purchased by the United States Government for service in the Civil War, in 1861, when they captured many prizes, and were resold in the year 1868. ["The Keystone State," Commander Le Roy, in October, 1861, captured the blockade-runner "Salvor," a valuable steamer, laden with contraband goods, while on her way from Havana to Tampa Bay, Florida. After the Civil War, the "Quaker City" ran from New York to the Mediterranean, and in the summer of 1868, was chartered to carry Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) and his friends, the "Innocents Abroad," on an excursion to Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land. On October 9, 1862, the ship "Tonawanda" (Cope's Liverpool Line) was captured in the North Atlantic by the cruiser "Alabama," Commander R. Semmes, C. S. N., and released four days afterward, after exacting from Captain Theodore Julius, her commander, a ransom bond in the sum of $80,000. The reason she was allowed to continue on her passage to Liverpool was that she contained too many women and children among her passengers. It is needless to add that payment of said bond was never made.]

In the year 1860, Mr. Vaughan became Supervising Constructor for the United States Light-house Establishment, and faithfully and conscientiously performed his duties in that capacity until his demise in the year 1886, at which period he had pursued one line of business, ship-building, for more than fifty-three years. The "Joseph Henry," "Manzanita," "Wisteria," "Dahlia," "Azalea," "Arbutus," "Mistletoe," "Geranium," and "Verbena," are some of the many Lightships built under his supervision for the United States Government. The following letter to his widow, after his decease, attests the appreciation in which he was held by the United States Light-house Establishment:

Dear Madam

"Treasury Department

Office of the Light-House Board
Washington 12 May 1886

The Light-House Board learns with great regret of the death of your late husband, Mr. Jacob K. Vaughan, at Three P. M., on 10 May '86, at Chester, Pa. Mr. Vaughan had been in this service about a quarter of a century, longer, perhaps, than any one else now connected with it, and had always performed his duty as Superintendent of Construction to the satisfaction of the Board. He will be greatly missed, not only for his ability as a constructor, but for his loyalty to his duty and his quiet manliness.

Pray accept the sympathy of the Board and

its Officers in your bereavement.

Horace Binney Vaughan, married Mary Louise Kemble. He died August 24, 1870. Two children: Horace Binney, Jr., died; and Matilda M.

MATILDA M. VAUGHAN, married William Franklyn McCaughey, Greenville, Ohio. Five children: Vaughan, Vida, died; William Franklyn, Jr., Paul Alter, and Mary Louise.

Jacob Keen Vaughan, Jr., married Margaret Souder Marshall. He died June 1, 1895. Three children: Marian Marshall, Mary Elizabeth and Davis Griffith.

MARIAN MARSHALL VAUGHAN, married Louis Caron Hickman. Four children: Louis Caron, Jr., Marian Vaughan, Marshall, Vaughan, who died June 10, 1894. Mary Elizabeth Vaughan, married Henry Clemson Lindemuth. Two children: Jerome, and Harry Clemson, who died July 13, 1903.

DAVIS GRIFFIth Vaughan, married Isabella Lucy Van Hoesen. Two children: Teunis Whitbeck and Elizabeth Van Hoesen.

Anne Maria Vaughan, married John Heins. He died October 1, 1900. One child: George Ludwig.

GEORGE LUDWIG HEINS, married Aimée Thérese La Farge, of New York City. He died September 25, 1907. He was of the firm of Heins and La Farge, New York City, architects of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, on Morningside Heights. Governor Roosevelt appointed Mr. Heins state architect on February 22, 1899. He resided at Albany, N. Y.

Caroline Brognard Vaughan, married Samuel Ashmead Dyer, of Chester, Pa. She died December 7, 1874. He died November 25, 1894. Three children: Helen Vaughan, Anne Heins and John Groff.

HELEN VAUGHAN DYER, married first, John Remigius Baker, Jr. Two children: John Remigius, Jr., and Godfrey Vaughan.

Married second, William Wharton Fisher.

No children.

ANNE HEINS DYER, married James Madison Quigley, of New York City.
JOHN GROFF DYER, married Margaret Young. No children.

John Alexander Vaughan, 2nd, married Emily Higley Dye, of New York. No children.

Emeline Brown Vaughan, married Ellwood Morris Taylor. No children. 3. Mary Bryan Vaughan

Born March 11, 1815; married Benjamin Simmons Hort, June 20, 1834. She died March 20, 1897. He was a son of Benjamin Simmons Hort and Mary Drinker Delesline,* born at Crab Hall, Waccaman, on the coast of South Carolina,

*The Delesline or De Liesseline family were French Huguenots, who fled from the persecution of Louis XIV, at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and who, with many others, settled among the Indians on the Santee River, forty miles from Charleston, South Carolina, about the year 1685. The original émigrée was a Marquis of Normandy, France. His plantation was called St. James. He married, first,-Bonneau, and second, -Guignard.

June 29, 1813; baptised in Cannonsborough, S. C., July 16, 1820, by the Reverend John Bachman, Pastor of the German Lutheran Church, Charleston, S. C.; died Philadelphia, Pa., September 20, 1847. Three children: Mary Catharine, Mary Frances and William Francis.

Mary Catharine Hort, born July 24, 1835; died August 22, 1835.

Mary Frances Hort, married John Francis Fox, March 6, 1873. One child: Benjamin Simmons Hort.

BENJAMIN SIMMONS HORT Fox, born July 27, 1874; married Clara Louden, June 1, 1907. He died November 5, 1908. No children.

William Francis Hort, born July 14, 1845; married Harriet Lee Supplee, of Baltimore, Md., April 20, 1869. She born October 12, 1847. Three children: Francis Simmons, Catharine Chickering and Evelyn Supplee.

FRANCIS SIMMONS HORT, [Reverend], born March 22, 1870; married Martha Robeson Janvier, of Bridgeton, N. J., June 17, 1896. One child: Margaret Janvier, born November 6, 1899.

CATHARINE CHICKERING HORT, born August 26, 1872.

Evelyn SupplEE HORT, born July 21, 1875; married Daniel Compton Sharp, of Bridgeton, N. J., December 5, 1900. Two children: Charles Compton, born December 29, 1901; Francis Hort.

4. Emeline Vaughan

Born June 7, 1817; married Henry Stephen Brown,* October 14, 1840. She died, Philadelphia, Pa., February 16, 1888. He born, Philadelphia, Pa., May 14, 1804; died, San Francisco, Cal., August 12, 1868. No children.

5. Eliza Vaughan

Born May 20, 1819; died July 15, 1822.

6. Louisa Vaughan

Born May 21, 1822; married Hudson Burr Ridgway, of Vincentown, N. J., January 27, 1842. She died July 13, 1886. He born 1818; died December 16, 1864. Five children: William, died January 20, 1901; Mary Hort, Henrietta Brown, Charles Keen, and John Young Day.

1886.

Mary Hort Ridgway, married Eugene Le Roy Sharpless. He died July 4, Two children: Alice Brown and Charles Griffith Thomas. CHARLES GRIFFITH THOMAS SHARPLESS, married Luella Lincoln Kennedy, July 29, 1909.

Charles Keen Ridgway, married Julie Cecile Doebley. He died March 2,

Henry Stephen Brown,1 was a younger son of John Brown, Esq., and Maria M. Taney, his wife, of Philadelphia, Pa. He was educated at the Philadelphia Academy under the direction of the Reverend James Abercrombie, D.D. His father died when he was a lad just entering his teens, and having always shown a fondness for the water, he left school, and shipped as a cabin boy at the early age of fourteen years. Henry Stephen Brown loved the ocean, and was well fitted for his selected calling; he sailed the seas for many years, and became one of the first Masters in the Mercantile Marine service, commanding the "Champlain," "Monongahela," and many of the finest ships in the East India, China and Liverpool trade. At the time of the discovery of gold in California, and when the gold fever was at its height, in the year 1849, Captain Brown sailed for the Pacific coast, going by the way of Cape Horn, South America. He commanded the ship "Clarendon," of which he was two-thirds owner, and on reaching the Golden Gate, sold his vessel, and abandoned the maritime life, which he had followed for more than thirty years. Captain Brown settled in San Francisco, became a successful merchant, and died there in the year 1868.

1 Brown was originally Browne.

2 Samuel Taney, the maternal ancestor of Henry Stephen Brown, belonged to a noble and distinguished Roman Catholic family, of County Cork, Ireland." He emigrated to America in the early part of the eighteenth century, and settled in Montgomery County, Pa., where many of his descendants are still living. Samuel Taney's family was a branch of the original Taney family, to which Roger Brooke Taney, L.L.D., Chief Justice of the United States, belonged. After removing to the Colonies the family of Samuel Taney became Protestant.

8 The Reverend Dr. Abercrombie became an assistant minister of the United Churches (Christ and St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal churches, Philadelphia, Pa.) in June, 1794; and continued in that office until November, 1832, a period of more than thirty-eight years.-Dorr's "History of Christ Church."