A Guide to the Maupin family papers, 1780-1955 (bulk 1870-1955), #37983

Biographical Information

The Maupin family were residents of Albemarle County and Portsmouth, Virginia, and Baltimore. Dr. Socrates Maupin was born on 25 November 1808. He was a professor of chemistry at Hampden-Sydney College, and later head of the Richmond Academy. He aided in the establishment of the Richmond Medical College. For fifteen years he was associated with the University of Virginia, where he served as President of the Faculty. On 14 December 1837 he married Sally Hay Travis Washington (1812-1891) a daughter of Lund Washington and Susan Monroe Grayson. Dr. Socrates Maupin died in a runaway accident in Lynchburg on 19 October 1871.

His son Chapman Maupin was born in Albemarle County on 23 April 1846. He graduated from the University of Virginia, studied abroad for a few years, and then moved to Maryland where he was made principal of the Baltimore City College, and later founded Maupin's University School in Ellicott City, Maryland. On 5 January 1871 he married Margaret Lewis Taliaferro (1846-1930), a daughter of Gen. Alexander Galt Taliaferro of Annandale, Culpeper County. Chapman Maupin died in Ellicott City, Maryland on 25 July 1900.

Chapman Maupin and his wife had three daughters. They were Agnes Marshall Maupin (1871-1904), Sally Washington Maupin (1874-1944), and Margaret Lewis Maupin (b. 1877) who married Rex Corbin Spencer Maupin. Margaret Lewis Maupin was very active in the Maryland Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She died on 23 September 1955.

Contents List

Correspondence 1819-1955

Boxes 1-2

2 boxes

The correspondence between the years 1845 and 1870 deal with Dr. Maupin's work at the University of Virginia. Subjects include appointments and recommendations of faculty members, letters of introduction for various students, including the son of Senator David Levy Yulee of Florida, and other news relating to the university. There are also letters between members of the Maupin family and others discussing national politics and family matters. There is an extensive letter which relates to the future military career of Robert Washington Maupin, and his interest in serving in Peru. The correspondence from this time period also includes letters written to Peter Grayson Washington while he was serving as Assistant Secretary of State which deal with recommendations, appointments, and meetings.

he correspondence from 1870 to 1900 concerns Champman Maupin and his family. There are letters of sympathy after the death of Dr. Socrates Maupin, letters from Chapman's brother Robert Washington Maupin while a business school student in Baltimore, as well as correspondence involving estate matters, including the sale of lands owned in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Texas, the destruction and restoration of the Grayson family burial ground at "Bel Aire" estate near Woodbridge in Prince William County, as well as other family matters, genealogical subjects, travels, health, weather, and information relating to Chapman's operation of Maupin's University School in Ellicott City, Maryland.

After 1900, the letters are written mostly to Margaret Lewis Maupin from her mother and sisters, containing family news. Also ncluded is a letter of sympathy after the death of her sister Agnes Marshall Maupin, Margaret's marriage to Rex Corbin Spencer Maupin and subsequent letters from her husband, and annual dues notices and correspondence from various patriotic organizations.

Box 1 Folder 1
Correspondence 1819
Box 1 Folder 2
Correspondence 1837
Box 1 Folder 3
Correspondence 1845, 1849
Box 1 Folder 4
Correspondence 1850-1859
Box 1 Folder 5
Correspondence 1860, 1866-1868
Box 1 Folder 6
Correspondence 1870-1874
Box 1 Folder 7
Correspondence 1875-1879
Box 1 Folder 8
Correspondence 1880-1887
Box 1 Folder 9
Correspondence 1888-1889
Box 1 Folder 10
Correspondence 1890-1893
Box 1 Folder 11
Correspondence 1894-1896
Box 1 Folder 12
Correspondence 1897
Box 1 Folder 13
Correspondence 1898-1899
Box 1 Folder 14
Correspondence 1900
Box 1 Folder 15
Correspondence 1901
Box 1 Folder 16
Correspondence 1902-1909
Box 1 Folder 17
Correspondence 1910-1917
Box 1 Folder 18
Correspondence 1918-1919
Box 1 Folder 19
Correspondence 1920-1929
Box 2 Folder 1
Correspondence 1930-1935
Box 2 Folder 2
Correspondence 1940-1949
Box 2 Folder 3
Correspondence 1950-1953
Box 2 Folder 4
Correspondence 1954-1955
Box 2 Folder 5
Correspondence undated

Subject Files

Boxes 3-4

2 boxes

The subject files contain accounts and receipts, booklets, a Civil War letter dated 14 August 1864, clippings, genealogical notes and charts, two obituaries, pamphlets, photographs, publications, speeches, a copy of the will of William Maupin dated 1813, and miscellaneous items.

Box 3 Folder 1
Accounts and Receipts
Box 3 Folder 2
Agreement, 1880
Box 3 Folder 3
Booklet--Ambler, Lucy Johnston. When Tidewater Invaded the Valley: A Tribute to the Men of Lower Virginia in the Days of the John Brown Raid , 1934
Box 3 Folder 4
Booklet--Commemorative Exercises in Honor of the Barlett Statue of Benjamin Franklin, Baltimore, 9 April 1921
Box 3 Folder 5
Booklet-- Memory Quotations from English Classic Authors
Box 3 Folder 6
Booklet-- Sigillologia: Being Some Account of the Great or Broad Seal of the Confederate States of America , 1873
Box 3 Folder 7
Booklet--Washington Custis Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, undated
Box 3 Folder 8
Call Slips--Library of Congress
Box 3 Folder 9
Calling and Membership Cards
Box 3 Folder 10
Christmas, Greeting, and Sympathy Cards
Box 3 Folder 11
Civl War Letter, 14 August 1864
Box 3 Folder 12
Clipped Signatures
Box 3 Folder 13
Clippings
Box 3 Folder 14-17
Envelopes
Box 3 Folder 18
Extracts from Proceedings of UVA Faculty, 29 May 1878
Box 3 Folder 19
Genealogical Chart--Bransford
Box 3 Folder 20
Genealogical Chart--Spencer-Maupin
Box 3 Folder 21
Genealogical Notes--Burwell
Box 3 Folder 22
Genealogical Notes--Chapman
Box 3 Folder 23
Genealogical Notes--Cooke
Box 3 Folder 24
Genealogical Notes--James
Box 3 Folder 25
Genealogical Notes--Maupin
Box 3 Folder 26
Genealogical Notes--Murat
Box 3 Folder 27
Genealogical Notes--Spencer
Box 3 Folder 28
Genealogical Notes--Taliaferro
Box 3 Folder 29
Genealogical Notes--Throckmorton
Box 3 Folder 30
Genealogical Notes--Townshend
Box 3 Folder 31
Genealogical Notes--Washington
Box 3 Folder 32
Genealogical Notes "The Washington Family and Two Branches, " undated
Box 3 Folder 33
Genealogical Notes--Miscellaneous
Box 3 Folder 34
Latin Exercises, 1861-1862
Box 4 Folder 1
Marriage Announcement of Margaret Lewis Maupin and Rex Corbin Spencer, 7 November 1917
Box 4 Folder 2
Military Pass, 1862
Box 4 Folder 3
Miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 4
Norfolk-Tidewater Committee of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia--Membership List, 1952
Box 4 Folder 5
Obituary of James Rawlings Maupin
Box 4 Folder 6
Obituary of Margaret Lewis Maupin, 1930
Box 4 Folder 7
Order of LaFayette--Constitution, 1917
Box 4 Folder 8
Pamphlet-- "The Final Solution of the Lee Chapel Problem, " Washington and Lee Bulletin , volume XXII, no. 4, 25 March 1923
Box 4 Folder 9
Pamphlet-- "The Order of the Service for the Massing of the Colors and Observance of the 208th Birthday of George Washington, " the Pro-Cathedral, Baltimore, 18 February 1940
Box 4 Folder 10
Pamphlet-- "The People-An Address Delivered Before the Jefferson Literary Society of the University of Virginia in the Public Hall, June 28, 1866 by John W. Daniel of Lynchburg, Va. "
Box 4 Folder 11
Pamphlet--Virginia Bill of Rights and 1830 State Constitution
Box 4 Folder 12
Pedigree of Margaret Lewis Maupin
Box 4 Folder 13-15
Photographs
Box 4 Folder 16
Photograph Frames
Box 4 Folder 17
Plats and Surveys
Box 4 Folder 18
Program--Dedication of the Double Equestrian Statue of Lee and Jackson, Wyman Park, Baltimore, 1 May 1948
Box 4 Folder 19
Publications-- Jefferson County Historical Society Magazine , volume VII, December 1947
Box 4 Folder 20
Publications-- The Maryland Society of the Colonial Dames in America , 1944
Box 4 Folder 21
Publications-- University of Virginia Alumni News , volume XII, no. 1, August 1923
Box 4 Folder 22
Publications-- The Valentine Museum Bulletin , Fall 1951
Box 4 Folder 23
Publications-- Virginia Drama News , volume XVI, no. 3, 15 December 1947
Box 4 Folder 24
Publications-- Yorkshire as the Home of the Washingtons
Box 4 Folder 25
Poetry
Box 4 Folder 26
Reommendation of R. W. Jones as Professor of Physical Science, undated
Box 4 Folder 27
Resolutions Passed by Various Institutions Upon the Death of Dr. Socrates Maupin, 1871
Box 4 Folder 28
Speech--Baltimore Chapter UDC, 23 October 1931
Box 4 Folder 29
Speech--Children of the Republic, 17 June 1922
Box 4 Folder 30
Speech--Socrates Maupin, undated
Box 4 Folder 31
Speech--30th Anniversary of the Washington-Custis Chapter, DAR, undated
Box 4 Folder 32
Speeches--Chapman Maupin
Box 4 Folder 33
Stock Buys and Sells, 1880
Box 4 Folder 34
Tax Due Statements
Box 4 Folder 35
Will of William Maupin (copy), 1813