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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Wiggin, A. B. (Albert Bowman), 1820-1911
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Description area
Dates of existence
1820-1911
History
Albert Bowman Wiggin was born on January 10, 1820, in Vassalborough, Maine.
He was a schoolteacher. He studied at Colby College, Waterville, Maine (M.A., 1843). He spent forty years teaching at various schools in Maine (North Yarmouth Academy, high schools in Augusta and Bath) and served as principal of the high school in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Wiggin was a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and a historian of the Wiggin Family Association.
In 1843, he married Abigail Almeda Clark (1820–1857), in 1859, he remarried Lucy Christina Sedgwick (1830–1875), and in 1877, Emily M. Emma Goodale (1828–1906). He died on July 11, 1911, in Pepperell, Massachusetts.