Harry H. Maupin Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1348-1349 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	HARRY H. MAUPIN, one of the representative business men and 
honored citizens of Egan, Moody county, is a native of the Old Dominion, 
having been born in the beautiful mountain town of Staunton, Augusta 
county, Virginia, on the 9th of March, 1868, and being a son of Junius 
F. and Elizabeth Maupin. In 1870 his parents removed to Washington, D. 
C., where his father was employed in the government printing office for 
twenty years. In politics he was a staunch advocate of the principles of 
the Republican party. The subject secured his early educational 
discipline in the public schools of the national capital and thereafter 
continued his studies in a private school at Standardsville, Virginia, 
where he completed a course in higher mathematics, history, the 
classics, etc., being graduated as a member of the class of 1885. After 
leaving school he learned the drug business in Washington, where he 
remained until 1888, when he came to South Dakota and located in Elk 
Point, Union county, where he secured employment in the drug store of J. 
S. Talcott. Later he removed to Sheldon, Iowa, where he was similarly 
engaged in the establishment of Fletcher Howard, being a registered 
pharmacist in both Iowa and South Dakota. In I89I he returned to the 
latter state and located in Beresford, Union county, where he engaged in 
the drug business on his own responsibility. About two years later he 
sold his business to Ramsdel Brothers and then removed to Dell Rapids, 
Minnehaha county, where he was in the employ of M. E. Collins until the 
spring of 1897, when he came to Egan, where he has ever since maintained 
his home. For a short interval he was here employed in the drug 
establishment of Taylor Brothers and then purchased the business, which 
he has since successfully continued, having a well-equipped 
establishment and carrying a comprehensive stock. In 1901 he was 
appointed postmaster at Egan, and has since been incumbent of this 
office. He established and equipped the Egan Telephone Exchange and also 
organized the Farmers' Egan Telephone Company, of this place, having 
disposed of the local exchange on the 1st of October, 1903. He was for a 
short time editor and publisher of the Egan Express, which he sold to R. 
E. Hartman, the present publisher. He served for two years as justice of 
the peace, and has at all times been foremost in support of all 
enterprises tending to further the upbuilding and material prosperity of 
his home town and county, while in politics he is a staunch advocate of 
the principles and policies of the Republican party. Mr. Maupin became a 
member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias while a resident of 
Beresford, this state, and was elected commander of the same, while he 
was twice a delegate to the grand lodge of the order in the state. He is 
also affiliated with Tyrian Lodge, No. 100, Ancient Free and Accepted 
Masons, of Egan. 

	At Elk Point, this state, on the 22d of January, 1890, Mr. Maupin 
was united in marriage to Miss Emlura S. Morris, the only daughter of 
Hon. Emery Morris, who was a member of the territorial legislature in 
1872, being one of the honored pioneers of the state. Mr. and Mrs. 
Maupin have one son, Morris Luverne, who was born on the 2d of December, 
1890.