Biographical Sketch of James J. Maupin, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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James J. Maupin, a farmer and a native of St. Johns Township, was born
in 1842, the youngest but one of the seven children of Daniel and Mar-
garet G. (Hutton) Maupin, natives of Kentucky and Alabama, respective-
ly, the parents were born in 1804 and were married in 1818.  When but
an infant Daniel Maupin was taken by his father, Mosias Maupin, to
Missouri, where they lived about two years near St. Louis, and then
removed to what is now Franklin County, where the father entered a
tract of land on the banks of the Missouri River, about six miles 
above Washington; here he reared his family and spent the remainder of
his life, dying in 1816.  He was one of the earliest settlers of Fran-
klin County, where he spent many a day hunting and trapping and fight-
ing the Indians with Daniel Boone, a familiar companion.  He was of
French descent, a gunsmith by trade and a soldier in the Revolution,
present at the surrender of Cornwallis.  His son, Daniel, the father
of our subject, became the owner of the farm, where he spent the re-
mainder of his days as a farmer and mechanic.  He was a natural genius
and could manufacture almost anything used in the house or on the farm,
a gunsmith, cabinet-maker, wagon-maker, carpenter, spinster, weaver,
etc.  Growing up among the Indians, his education was obtained in about
four months, but being possessed of a remarkable memory and a great 
desire for knowledge of the outside world, every available moment was
devoted to reading and study, and thus he became familiar not only 
with the history of the country and of the world and general business
matters, but also with the Scripture, of which he was an able expound-
er.  He was one of the representative citizens of the county in his
day, and died in 1880.  His wife died in 1860, a member of the Presby-
terian Church.  James J. Maupin was reared at home and received a
district school education.  During the war he spent several months in
Indiana.  In 1868 he married Miss Martha, daughter of Joel and Ann 
Crowder, natives of Alabama and Virginia, respectively.  Mrs. Maupin
was born in Franklin County, and is the mother of eight children, all
living: Maggie, Joel, Florence, Sallie, Charles, Walter, Nellie and
Virgil.  He owns a fine farm of 240 acres, well improved and in a good
state of cultivation; it was an old Indian camping ground, and furn-
ishes many relics of that race.  Mr. Maupin is one of the influential
citizens of the county, and has devoted his entire attention to the
duties of his farm and the education of his children.  In politics he
is an active Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Mr.
Seymour in 1868.  He is a member of the A. O. U. W.  Mrs. Maupin is a
member of the Christian Church.

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