also known as John E. Vaughn or Vaughan (fl. 1880s), coachman and convict. He was the coachman for the Hon. D.A. Macdonald at Alexandria. While resident in Alexandria, despite already having a wife in the United States, he married Miss Maria McDonald. He was convicted of bigamy at a trial in Montreal, and was sentenced to seven years in penitentiary. The papers of R. R. (Big Rory) McLennan in the Ontario Archives have correspondence relating to the Melbourne case and to attempts to get funds to support the prosecution, and a letter seeking employment as McLennan’s housemaid, which may be by Melbourne’s unfortunate Glengarry wife.

Glengarrian, 8 Nov. 1889, 13 Dec. 1889 (repr. of article from Pittsburgh Leader, of Pittsburgh, Penn., on the case; in the article Melbourne is termed “coachman to a rich family” in Alexandria), 21 and 28 March 1890 * Archives of Ontario-RRM 1888 and 1889; housemaid, letter 28 Nov. 1889