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MARK VAUGHAN IS APPOINTED AS REGISTRAR
[Welland Tribune February 4, 1947]
Former Mayor, Member Succeeds E.F. Fraser Who Recently Retired
T.H. Lewis, M.L.A announced this afternoon that he had been advised buy the Ontario attorney generals’s department of the appointment of Mark Vaughan of Welland as county registrar for the county of Welland.
Mr Vaughan succeeds Major Evan E. Fraser of Niagara Falls, who retired recently.
The new registrar is one of Welland county’s best known citizens. He served as member of the legislature for Welland from 1923 until 1934 and prior to his parliamentary career held the mayor’s chair in Welland in 1917 and 1918.
He holds the distinction of having served as Welland’s mayor in the first year that it was incorporated as a city. That was in 1917. He was an alderman in 1915 and 1916.
Mr Vaughan disposed of his long established business, the Vaughan Seed Company, to a new company at the start of the year. The terms of sale included transfer of the goodwill and use of the name “Vaughan Seed Company, Limited,” but Mr Vaughan has no further connection with the firm.
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