CLINTON M. MAUPIN, M. D., who has resided hi Oklahoma since 1901 is a talented practicing physician of Waurika, Jefferson county, and identified with the civic progress of the place as well as with its professional standing. He is of an old Virginia family of French ancestry, and was born at Crown City. Ohio, on the 29th of August, 1874, being the son of a distinguished physician and surgeon, who saw service in both the Mexican and Civil wars, and after the Rebellion went first to West Virginia and then to the Buckeye state. Clinton M. Maupin was educated primarily in the public schools of his native city, and at the age of eighteen was matriculated in Barnes Medical College, St. Louis, Missouri, from which he was graduated in 1896. In the following year he pursued postgraduate work in that city, and has since taken advanced courses in New York and Chicago. He commenced practice in the city of his birth, and continued it in the Missouri cities of Rockville, Papinsville and Webb City. From the last point, in 1901, be came to Oklahoma and first located for professional work at Lawton, continuing there until he became a resident of Waurika in February, 1905. From the first he has been received into the community as a strong addition to its best progress, in every particular, and is now chairman of the town board of trustees. His outside professional relations are wide and most creditable. He is local surgeon of the Rock Island Railroad, and a member of the surgical association of that system. He is also a member of the American Association of Railway Surgeons, Oklahoma State Medical Association, and is examiner for a11 the leading life insurance companies represented in Waurika, for the Endowment Rank of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America, with its auxiliary, the Royal Neighbors.
     As stated the Maupins are of French stock, the grandfather of Clinton M. being the founder of the family in America. He located near Charlottesville, Virginia, became an influential planter and reared a family of several children, of whom Dr. Daniel G. Maupin was the most noted. He was born on the paternal estate within a mile of Monticel1o, the historic home of Jefferson, on the oth of June, 1822, and in this locality he spent his boyhood. He enjoyed every educational advantage, and, with an active mind and ambitious temperament, he arrived at man's estate, a fine mathematician, a thorough surveyor and an accomplished public speaker. He then graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia and McDowell School of Medicine, St. Louis, and at the age of twenty-six commenced to render his services to the government as a surgeon in the Mexican war. He accompanied General Scott's army across the Gulf, and was with it when it entered Mexico City. Returning to the United States and the practice of his profession in civil fields, he first located at Ashland, Kentucky, where he remained for many years, during that period serving as an old-time Democrat in the state legislature. While the Civil war was in progress he was surgeon in a Confederate hospital at Staunton, Virginia, and later was a resident of Millersburg, Missouri, where his services were in demand by both armies. Subsequently he located for practice at Hamline, West Virginia, remaining there until his removal to Crown City, Ohio. Wherever he went in his professional capacity, his abilities were recognized and his financial rewards were also large. But he was generous to his family, his friends, and to the poor and suffering, and his ultimate savings were not large. He was also the life of public and private gatherings, and retained to the last the graces and eloquence of the typical southern orator and conversationalist. Dr.Daniel G. Maupin was twice married, and by his first wife was the father of the following: Sadie, wife ofHenry Hartman, Of Hinton, West Virginia; Henry K., of Huntington, that state; Ambrose T., of Athens, West Virginia; Josephine, a widow residing at Whitehall, Indiana; Lura, wife of W. J. Murray, of Augusta, Kentucky, and Adaline, who married and died at Hinton, West Virginia. For his second wife Dr. Maupin married Sarah D. Bickel, daughter of Aaron Bickel. Her father was a native of Ohio, and a brick mason by trade, who went to Salem, Illinois, in his early manhood and assisted in building the town. He afterward joined the Methodist ministry and for many years preached in Gallia county, Ohio. Mr. Bickel was a strong Republican and died at Salem, eighty-three years of age. Dr. Daniel G. Maupin died at Ironton, Ohio, and his wife still resides there, the mother of the following: Artie F., wife of A. C. Hobbs, of Ironton, Ohio;William A., of that place; Dr. Clinton M., of this sketch; Lucy F., of Ironton, and Lucile, married, of the same city. Dr. Clinton M. Maupin married, at Papinsville, Missouri, on the 14th of September, 1898, MissNora Shockey, daughter of John Shockey, a leading farmer and business man. Mrs. Maupin is a native of Papinwille, was educated in the academy at Butler, Missouri, and is one of the following children: John, of Siloam Springs, Arkansas; Louisa, wife of Dudley Bradley, of Papinsville; Margaret, married and now Mrs. Corbin, of Bume, Missouri; Emma, unmarried; Ada, who is Mrs. Seelinger, of Greeley, Colorado ; Cora, wife of T. B. Kelley, of Waurika, Oklahoma, and Nora, Mrs. Maupin, (twin sisters); and Nathan and John C., both of Papinsville, Missoud. The children born to Dr. and Mrs. Maupin are: Nora, born January 31, 1904, and Clinton S., born January 18, 1908.