Mr. McMaugh was taken ill about 2 p.m., after working in his home garden through the morning. He was dead on arrival at Willamette Falls hospital, where Canby ambulance took him.
Born on Chehalem Mountain to David Reed and Grace Otis McMaugh on April 6, 1898, he had attended Lents school as a boy. At 18 he went to Folly-farm in the Steens mountain vicinity to work, and later tended log drives in the whitewater of Idaho's Marble creek and worked in eastern Oregon and Canadian wheat harvest and on sheep ranches. His fondness for outdoor life kept him singing and whistling, with wide repertoire, much of his working hours, according to friends' recollections.
In 1922 he homesteaded in central Oregon's Jefferson county. He was 39 years old when he and Canby-born Eva Whipple, then teaching at West Branch, near Mitchell, were married on June 2, 1937, in Washington state. His bride was the granddaughter of W. A. Starkweather, member of Oregon's territorial legislature who had come around Cape Horn in a windjammer, and the daughter of Gardner Whipple, a Civil war veteran, and Ella Starkweather Whipple, of Oregon pioneer stock.
He and Mrs. McMaugh, now retired after 29 years of teaching, have lived the past 38 years on their acreage at Canby, where he grew caneberries and worked most of his final day of life. Their only son, Barrett McMaugh, had been working in Clatsop county when called home by his father's death. He is a Portland State University graduate.
Beside his widow and son, Mr. McMaugh leaves a brother, Ward McMaugh on Chehalem Mountain, and a sister, Mrs. Ruth Koch of Eugene.
Canby Herald, [Canby, Oregon], May 15, 1974, page 7 col 6, 7
Born on Chehalem Mountain to David Reed and Grace Otis McMaugh on April 6, 1898, he had attended Lents school as a boy. At 18 he went to Folly-farm in the Steens mountain vicinity to work, and later tended log drives in the whitewater of Idaho's Marble creek and worked in eastern Oregon and Canadian wheat harvest and on sheep ranches. His fondness for outdoor life kept him singing and whistling, with wide repertoire, much of his working hours, according to friends' recollections.
In 1922 he homesteaded in central Oregon's Jefferson county. He was 39 years old when he and Canby-born Eva Whipple, then teaching at West Branch, near Mitchell, were married on June 2, 1937, in Washington state. His bride was the granddaughter of W. A. Starkweather, member of Oregon's territorial legislature who had come around Cape Horn in a windjammer, and the daughter of Gardner Whipple, a Civil war veteran, and Ella Starkweather Whipple, of Oregon pioneer stock.
He and Mrs. McMaugh, now retired after 29 years of teaching, have lived the past 38 years on their acreage at Canby, where he grew caneberries and worked most of his final day of life. Their only son, Barrett McMaugh, had been working in Clatsop county when called home by his father's death. He is a Portland State University graduate.
Beside his widow and son, Mr. McMaugh leaves a brother, Ward McMaugh on Chehalem Mountain, and a sister, Mrs. Ruth Koch of Eugene.
Canby Herald, [Canby, Oregon], May 15, 1974, page 7 col 6, 7
Mr. McMaugh was taken ill about 2 p.m., after working in his home garden through the morning. He was dead on arrival at Willamette Falls hospital, where Canby ambulance took him.
Born on Chehalem Mountain to David Reed and Grace Otis McMaugh on April 6, 1898, he had attended Lents school as a boy. At 18 he went to Folly-farm in the Steens mountain vicinity to work, and later tended log drives in the whitewater of Idaho's Marble creek and worked in eastern Oregon and Canadian wheat harvest and on sheep ranches. His fondness for outdoor life kept him singing and whistling, with wide repertoire, much of his working hours, according to friends' recollections.
In 1922 he homesteaded in central Oregon's Jefferson county. He was 39 years old when he and Canby-born Eva Whipple, then teaching at West Branch, near Mitchell, were married on June 2, 1937, in Washington state. His bride was the granddaughter of W. A. Starkweather, member of Oregon's territorial legislature who had come around Cape Horn in a windjammer, and the daughter of Gardner Whipple, a Civil war veteran, and Ella Starkweather Whipple, of Oregon pioneer stock.
He and Mrs. McMaugh, now retired after 29 years of teaching, have lived the past 38 years on their acreage at Canby, where he grew caneberries and worked most of his final day of life. Their only son, Barrett McMaugh, had been working in Clatsop county when called home by his father's death. He is a Portland State University graduate.
Beside his widow and son, Mr. McMaugh leaves a brother, Ward McMaugh on Chehalem Mountain, and a sister, Mrs. Ruth Koch of Eugene.
Canby Herald, [Canby, Oregon], May 15, 1974, page 7 col 6, 7
Born on Chehalem Mountain to David Reed and Grace Otis McMaugh on April 6, 1898, he had attended Lents school as a boy. At 18 he went to Folly-farm in the Steens mountain vicinity to work, and later tended log drives in the whitewater of Idaho's Marble creek and worked in eastern Oregon and Canadian wheat harvest and on sheep ranches. His fondness for outdoor life kept him singing and whistling, with wide repertoire, much of his working hours, according to friends' recollections.
In 1922 he homesteaded in central Oregon's Jefferson county. He was 39 years old when he and Canby-born Eva Whipple, then teaching at West Branch, near Mitchell, were married on June 2, 1937, in Washington state. His bride was the granddaughter of W. A. Starkweather, member of Oregon's territorial legislature who had come around Cape Horn in a windjammer, and the daughter of Gardner Whipple, a Civil war veteran, and Ella Starkweather Whipple, of Oregon pioneer stock.
He and Mrs. McMaugh, now retired after 29 years of teaching, have lived the past 38 years on their acreage at Canby, where he grew caneberries and worked most of his final day of life. Their only son, Barrett McMaugh, had been working in Clatsop county when called home by his father's death. He is a Portland State University graduate.
Beside his widow and son, Mr. McMaugh leaves a brother, Ward McMaugh on Chehalem Mountain, and a sister, Mrs. Ruth Koch of Eugene.
Canby Herald, [Canby, Oregon], May 15, 1974, page 7 col 6, 7
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