Career
Maupin was born in Clay County, Kentucky, and moved to Missouri as a teenager. In 1863, he traveled to Oregon, settling first in the Willamette Valley. He then moved to Antelope, in central Oregon, where he became the town"s first postmaster in 1871.
Maupin then moved slightly west, establishing a farm and operating a ferry across the Deschutes River.
He died in 1887.