WIGGINS-Thomas C. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Thomas C. WIGGINS, farmer, Attica, was born in Logan township, October 8, 1830. In 1828 his parents, Joseph and Sarah (FOSTER) WIGGINS, settled in this place on Sec. 16; the next year his father entered a piece of land where the subject of this sketch has always lived, His father and mother both died on the place, the former in 1860 and the latter in 1872. He received a good English education at the Friends Bloomingdale Academy in Parke county, and at the Farmer's Institute in Tippecanoe county, attending each a year after he became of age. On the 27th of February, 1862, he was united in marriage with Maria J. HERRING, who died in 1869, having borne two children: Clara, born December 12, 1862, and Lettie, August 20, 1866. Mr. WIGGINS has been township assessor the last five or six years, and was census enumerator of Logan township for 1880. His political views are republican.