Peter Maughan (May 7, 1811 – April 24, 1871) was an early Mormon pioneer who settled the Cache Valley of Utah under the direction of Brigham Young.

Peter and Ruth were baptized members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Alston in 1838 and were active in the branch.

Following the counsel of Brigham Young, who was on a mission in England, Maughan and his children set sail on the Rochester for America, arriving May 19, 1841.

Maughan and his family went to Kirtland, Ohio, for a few weeks where he met a young widow, Mary Ann Weston Davis.

When trouble developed in Nauvoo and the Saints were abandoning the city, the family was told to close up the mines in Rock Island and prepare to travel to the West.

The family moved to New Diggings, Wisconsin, in April 1846, where Maughan and the two older sons worked in the lead mines.

After finding lead ore on their own property, they were able to raise the final $800 in 8 weeks and buy the needed equipment and supplies for the long trip to the Salt Lake Valley.

[2] In 1853 Peter, along with Ormus E. Bates and Bishop John Rowberry were tasked as a committee to build a dam across Adobe Creek and to locate a new settlement near it called E.T.

The entire time Peter and his family lived in Tooele Valley every settlement had to contend with Goshute tribesmen stealing cattle, often backed by means of violence.

City experienced two successive years of crop failures in 1855 and 1856, first from crickets and then from sodium carbonate in the soil leaching to the surface from watering.

City in August, Brigham Young formally called Maughan to settle the new location in southern Cache Valley and to take any resident of E.T.