"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

TAYLOR TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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W.T. WIGAL, was born near Eminence, Morgan Co., Ind., September 13, 1843
the eldest son of William and Anna (Shumaker) Wigal, the former of 
German and the latter of English descent. Our subject was sent to school
during boyhood, and reared to work in the mill of his father. At the 
age of twenty, he began life for himself by enlisting in Company G,
Sixty second Illinois Regiment, during which service he was engaged in
several skirmishes, and was discharged in 1865. He was thereafter 
engaged as engineer in a mill, which he followed for about three years.
September 22, 1870, he married Miss Helen A. Young, of Bloomington, Ill.,
which union was favored with five children--Annabell P, Henry I (deceased)
Helen G, Willie M and Don A.
Mr. Wigal after marriage, having accumulated about $6000, engaged in
milling in which he has been interested in Kentucky, Illinois, and 
Indiana since that event. He has also a share in a saw mill in Morgan
County, and a good property in Quincy. He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, in which he has advanced to the degree of the Royal Arch;
a Republican in politics and a worthy citizen.

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