TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO - MAUGHIMAN, J.E. (published 1925) *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Submitted by: MRS GINA M REASONER Email: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com Date: August 8, 1999 *********************************************************************** HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III, page 166 J.E. MAUGHIMAN is secretary and manager of the Maughiman Undertaking Company at Canton. He has been in the undertaking business for many years, and at Canton has built up one of the finest and most complete services of its kind in Northern Ohio. Mr. Maughiman was born at New Philadelphia, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, December 2, 1866. He is one of six brothers, and they and their father all became staunch adherents of the democratic party, and none of them ever voted any other ticket until the youngest was thirty-five years of age. J.E. Maughiman was reared on a farm in Tuscarawas County, his educational advantages being supplied by the public schools. When he left the farm, at the age of twenty, he operated a meat market for a time, then became a general merchant at Leesville, and in 1891 started in the undertaking and furniture business. After seven years he moved to Scio, Ohio, and was an undertaker in that city for two years, 1906 and 1907. He located at Canton in 1913, and for a decade has furnished a thoroughly up to date service. His company now has a complete motor equipment, including ambulances, hearses, limousines, and sedans. Mr. Maughiman is active in the Masonic, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias orders and their auxiliaries, the Tribe of Ben Hur, the Methodist Episcopal Church and in politics is a democrat. He married Miss Elsie Capper of Leesville, Ohio. Her father and his six brothers were all soldiers in the Civil war. *************OH-FOOTSEPS Mailing List***************************