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ELMER H. WIGGINS, the present responsible and efficient postmaster at Forestville, and a successful and highly respected business man of German extraction, is the son of Jacob and Catherine (Case) Wiggins, and was born in Hannibal, Oswego county, New York, January 22, 1853. His father, Jacob Wiggins, was born in 1825, and for a number of years was engaged in the hotel business in the counties of Oswego, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua, but has now retired from active business, and resides with his son in Forestville. He is a republican in politics, married Catherine Case, who was born in Geneva, Ontario county, this State, in 1835, and died in 1889, at the age of sixty-four years.

Elmer H. Wiggins was reared in Newark, Wayne county, this State, receiving a common school education. After leaving school he was engaged in clerking, and continued in that avocation until 1879, in Newark and Forestville, when he opened a hardware store in Forestville and has continued in that business until the present time. He enjoys a large and constantly increasing business, built up by his own unaided efforts and square and honorable dealing, and on September 1, 1889, was appointed postmaster of Forestville, and still holds that office. He is a republican in politics, and has held several village offices. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Ancient Order United Workmen, and also the Chicago and Northwestern Masonic association. He is one of Forestville’s substantial merchants, and an affiable, genial gentleman.

In 1873 Elmer H.Wiggins united in marriage with Josephine Barnum, of Newark.