Dwiggins - Isaac
ISAAC DWIGGINS
Source: Portrait & Biographical Record of Montgomery, Parke & Fountain counties, Indiana.
Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1893, pp 452-455
ISAAC DWIGGINS is a native-born son of Montgomery County who is now numbered among the prosperous tillers of its soil, having a well-cultivated farm on Section 18, Wayne Township. He was born in Alamo in 1849 and is a son of Levin and Mary (Stover) Dwiggins. His mother, who died at his home in 1888 at the venerable age of eighty-four years, was a daughter of Samuel Stover.
The father of our subject was born in North Carolina in 1807 and was descended from an old family of that state. He was a son of John Dwiggins, who was also born in North Carolina and was of mingled English and Dutch blood on his father's side, while his mother was a Swiss. When the father of our subject was a boy the family came to this state and settled among its pioneers. In early manhood he bought a tract of land in Union Township, which he afterward sold at an advance and purchased other land near Alamo. In 1852 or '53 he removed to Iowa, but he resided there only a short time before he returned to this county and settled permanently at Waynetown. To him and his wife were born a numerous family of children, of whom the following is recorded: James, a soldier in the Eleventh Kansas Cavalry and now a farmer of Hillsboro, was born at Crawfordsville in 1833 and married Emma Henry; Lucinda was born at Crawfordsville in 1835 and is now the wife of John Gass, a resident of Danville, who is interested in the stock yards at Chicago; Sarah was born near Alamo in 1837 and is the wife of Joseph M. Harvey, who resides near Waynetown; Eliza was born in 1839 in Ripley Township and was married to Johnson Henderson, who died after about eighteen months of wedded life; John C. was born near Alamo in 1837, was married to Susanna Fonts, and they reside at Rossville, Ill.; Samuel was born at Alamo in 1840, was a volunteer in the service during the war, enlisting in the Ninth Indiana, under Captain Thompson, and was killed while coming down the Tennessee river on a boat in 1865; Isaac was the next in order of birth; Mary was born in 1844 and died in 1847; Martha was born near Alamo in 1846 and is the wife of Isaac Born, who resides near Rossville, Ill.; Lyda M. was born near Alamo in 1848 and was married to Isaac Hardsock, who resides near Waynetown.
The subject of this brief life-record had an excellent training in farm work when a boy and started out for himself under auspicious circumstances, with one hundred and fifty-one acres of well-improved land, to which he has since added forty-nine acres. The admirably tilled fields of his farm yield him abundant crops and his pastures support a good grade of cattle and horses, as he gives much attention to raising graded stock. A good set of buildings are on the place and a fine apple orchard adds to its attractiveness as well as to its value.
Our subject has a true helpmate in his wife, to whom he was married at Danville, Ill., and who is a native of that state, born in Vermillion County in 1840 and a daughter of David Cossirt. Her wedded life with our subject has brought them four children, namely: Wilber C., who was born in this township in 1866 and died from the effects of scarlet fever in 1875, Irwin, who was born on the old homestead in 1873 and was graduated from the Graded School at Waynetown in 1891; Alva P., who was born in 1875 and is now a student in the Graded School at Waynetown, and Eleven, who was born in 1879, is also at school.
Mr. and Mrs. Dwiggins are people who have the respect and regard of the entire community and the Christian Church finds in them valuable and faithful working members, who contribute to the success of the Sunday school and every department of the church, whose interests they have very much at heart. Politically, he is a true Republican. -- kbz