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Title: Vaughn F. Wright collection
Dates: 1917-1941
Collection number: MSS 76
Creator:
Wright, Vaughn F., 1894 -
1951
Collection Size: 1 linear foot
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Dept. of
Special Collections
Stockton, California 95211
Abstract: Collection materials consist of photographs and
scrapbooks from Wright's naval time in the Philippine Islands and China.
Physical location: For current information on the location
of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as
the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the
researcher.
Vaughn F. Wright collection. MSS 76. Holt-Atherton Department of Special
Collections, University of the Pacific Library.
Biography / Administrative History
Vaughn Forest Wright, naval career officer, served in World Wars I and
II. He was a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy Medical Corps. He was born
December 30, 1894 in Fruitvale (an Oakland District) Alameda County and died in
October 3, 1951 in San Francisco. His family traveled across the plains in the
1860s and homesteaded in Tehama County. Vaughn Wright's father was Forest Henry
Wright, born in Tehama County, died in El Cerrito, Contra Costa County. He
served as El Cerrito's town marshal and City Treasurer.
Vaughn Wright built a career in the navy, first enlisting in 1915 at
Goat Island, San Francisco Bay. He served in World War I. By 1920 Wright was
stationed in the Philippine Islands with the USN at the Olongapo Naval Station
as Chief Pharmacist Mate. He applied for duty in Asia in 1927 and was in
Shanghai in the 1930s, assigned to the Marine Corp during the Sino-Japanese
War. He remained stationed overseas until 1932. Wright retired from the navy in
1936, but was recalled in 1939 to serve in World War II.
Wright married Marion Morehouse Cranston and had two daughters, Beverly
Wright Bastian (b.1919) and Virginia H. Wright (b.1921). Marion and Vaughn
divorced in 1926; Vaughn married Alexandria Nesmeianova in the 1930s; after
they divorced, he remarried Marion in 1948.
Vaughn Wright died in 1951 of premature senility. He had a military
funeral and is buried in the National Cemetery at Colma (CA).
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection materials consist of photographs and scrapbooks from Wright's
naval time in the Philippine Islands and China.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Photography - Philippines - 20th
century
Photography - China - 20th
century
MSS 79 Robert Bastian (Cartoonist)