Biography:

Historian; Teacher. Born September 15, 1861,  Florence, Ala. Parents– Samuel and Elizabeth (Woods) Kirkman. Married– David Vaughan, December 6, 1892. Children– One. Education– O’Bryan School, Nashville, Tenn; Florence Synodical Female College; University of Chicago, Ph.D.; Peabody Normal College. Taught at Florence Synodical College; in public schools; taught history at Florence State Normal School, 1898-.  The University of North Alabama has established a scholarship for a junior or senior history major in her honor.  Died June 29, 1944.

Source:

Owen’s Dictionary of Alabama Biography.

Publication(s):

The History of Alabama State Teachers College, Florence, Alabama.  The College, 1937.

Life in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.; Dixie Book Co., 1937.

Co-Author;

Scattered Recollections of Elizabeth Kirkman O’Neal and Susan Kirkman Vaughan.  N.p., 1922.