When James Wilson Wiggins was born on 12 November 1842, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Samuel Wiggins, was 31 and his mother, Lena Ann Armstrong, was 35. He married Catharine Ann McCollum on 29 August 1865, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Iowa, United States in 1870 and Nodaway Township, Page, Iowa, United States in 1880. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 5 May 1886, in Lenora Township, Norton, Kansas, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Lenora East Cemetery, Lenora, Norton, Kansas, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Iowa is the 29th state.
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Wiggin with the addition of genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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