Excerpts from: "A Biographical History Central Kansas, Vol 11. Published 1902"
"Milford was reared on his paternal farmstead in Kentucky and received a common-school education.
At the age of twenty-six years, in Casey County, that state, he was united in marriage to Miss Agnes Duncan, their union being solemnized on the 31st day of October, 1872."...
"After his marriage Mr. Vaught continued to be identified with agricultural pursuits in Kentucky until 1885, when he removed to Greene County, Missouri, where he farmed for two years, at the expiration of which period he started for Pratt County Kansas, making the trip overland with team and wagon. In his previous operations he had been fairly successful and thus he was well fortified for carrying forward his new farming enterprise upon his arrival in the county. He forthwith effected the purchase of his present homestead farm of one hundred and sixty acres, buying the property of Lewis Rector, who had made slight improvements, having broken only eighteen acres of the land. Mr. Vaught's first dwelling here was a small, two-room house, and to this he has since added until he now has a comfortable and attractive farm residence, equipped with modern improvements and furnished in excellent taste. To the original homestead he had added by the purchase of an adjoining tract of equal area, so that he is now the owner of a well improved farm of three hundred and twenty acres, all being well fenced and one hundred and seventy acres being under a high state of cultivation. The other improvements about the farm indicate the care and progressive spirit of the owner. Mr. Vaught also leases other land in this locality and raises wheat upon an extensive scale, having three hundred acres devoted to this product in the present season (1902) and eighty-five acres being devoted to other crops, while on his place are to be found an excellent grade of horses and cattle."
Excerpts from: "A Biographical History Central Kansas, Vol 11. Published 1902"
"Milford was reared on his paternal farmstead in Kentucky and received a common-school education.
At the age of twenty-six years, in Casey County, that state, he was united in marriage to Miss Agnes Duncan, their union being solemnized on the 31st day of October, 1872."...
"After his marriage Mr. Vaught continued to be identified with agricultural pursuits in Kentucky until 1885, when he removed to Greene County, Missouri, where he farmed for two years, at the expiration of which period he started for Pratt County Kansas, making the trip overland with team and wagon. In his previous operations he had been fairly successful and thus he was well fortified for carrying forward his new farming enterprise upon his arrival in the county. He forthwith effected the purchase of his present homestead farm of one hundred and sixty acres, buying the property of Lewis Rector, who had made slight improvements, having broken only eighteen acres of the land. Mr. Vaught's first dwelling here was a small, two-room house, and to this he has since added until he now has a comfortable and attractive farm residence, equipped with modern improvements and furnished in excellent taste. To the original homestead he had added by the purchase of an adjoining tract of equal area, so that he is now the owner of a well improved farm of three hundred and twenty acres, all being well fenced and one hundred and seventy acres being under a high state of cultivation. The other improvements about the farm indicate the care and progressive spirit of the owner. Mr. Vaught also leases other land in this locality and raises wheat upon an extensive scale, having three hundred acres devoted to this product in the present season (1902) and eighty-five acres being devoted to other crops, while on his place are to be found an excellent grade of horses and cattle."
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