Samuel Jesse Vaughn

Samuel Jesse Vaughn was an American author born in 1877. Reliable catalog records connect him with Printing and Bookbinding for Schools, published in Bloomington, Illinois by the Public School Publishing Company in 1914, and with Hand-wrought Jewelry, a 1916 book listed alongside Henry Richard Sorensen.

His best-known work, Printing and Bookbinding for Schools, is a practical manual written for educational use. It combines instruction in printing, bookbinding, and grade-by-grade classroom exercises, which gives a clear sense of Vaughn's interest in teaching useful craft skills rather than writing for a purely literary audience.

Very little confirmed biographical information appears to be readily available online beyond his birth year and his association with these instructional books. Because the record is so sparse, it is safest to remember him as a specialist writer in the manual-arts tradition, someone whose books preserved workshop knowledge for teachers and students.