Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 761.

HOWARD MAUPIN

     deceased. Many brave and noble men have labored to open this western
country and few have displayed greater courage and more genuine pioneer
equalities than the subject of this memoir.
     Howard Maupin was born in Kentucky, in 1815, and during the first fourteen
years of his life was reared there and received his education. Then the family
went to Missouri, where he remained until 1852. Then he brought his family
across the plains to the Willamette valley, where they lived until 1863. At such
early days as that, he came to Antelope valley, then Wasco county, and engaged
in stock raising. He had a fine band of cattle and some. twenty-two horses.
Chief Paulina and his renegade band stole all his horses shortly after Mr.
Maupin settled in the Antelope valley. This was a terrible calamity but Mr.
Maupin was never able to recover his horses nor did he ever get any
remuneration. Their nearest trading point at that time was The Dalles, many
miles distant. They kept a stopping place for travelers and engaged in the stock
business besides.  Later, they journeyed from that place to the juncture of the
Little and Big Trout creeks where Mr. Maupin took a ranch, being one of the
first settlers in that section of the country. He erected buildings, provided
corrals and was giving close attention to the stock business and farming.
However, he had been there but a short time, when one night Chief Paulina and
six of his band came to the corral and started off with Mr. Maupin's horses.
Although single handed, Mr. Maupin was not a man to be deterred, so seizing a
pistol he started after the band. He killed one Indian near the house but his
companions packed him away. Also they ran the horses off, Mr. Maupin, although
alone, pursued the band and surprised them in Paulina Basin, about two miles
from the present site of Ashwood. He fired upon Chief Paulina and wounded him in
the leg. The other Indians fled, leaving their chief and another shot from Mr.
Maupin's rusty weapon killed another of the band. Then he returned to the chief
and dispatched him as he was terribly wounded. Paulina, had been the terror of
the settlers and Mr. Maupin took his scalp and his bones as trophies of one of
the most renegade Indians the country produced. It certainly was an act of great
bravery on the part of Mr. Maupin to pursue this band of thieves and secure his
property, for he got back all his horses. It was bloody work, but it was a great
benefit to the settlers for there were no more raids from these savages. They
never even returned to get the body of their chief. Mr. Maupin preserved the
scalp and bones of Paulina until his house was destroyed by fire when they were
destroyed with it. In 1878, Mr. Maupin passed the way of all the earth and his
remains rest in the land that he had assisted so materially to open up for the
settlers.
     In 1841, in Platte county, Missouri, Mr. Maupin married Miss Nany McCullum.
She was born in Clay county, Kentucky, in 1821. She spent her childhood days in
her native state, then went to Missouri where she was married. To this union
were born five children, Perry, Elizabeth, Rachel, Garrett, and Nancy.
     Mr. Maupin was a veteran of the Mexican War, enlisting in 1846 and serving
until the close of the struggle. Mrs. Maupin is now eighty-four
years of age, well preserved and vigorous and is passing the golden years of her
life in the country which she has seen grow from a wilderness
to its present prosperous conditions.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in July 2011 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.