AMOS F. VAUGHN
Among the early settlers of the (Cass) township was Amos F. Vaughn who located west of the site of Lewis, in 1852, on section 9. He endeavored to play a sharp game in the county, when the commissioners had made the selection for the county seat, by going to Council Bluffs, and entering that identical piece of land, hoping to make something out of it as a speculation But he had his labor for his pains, as he was compelled to relinquish all title to the property, and was glad to get his money back again.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 504.
