Cumberland County, Maine - Charles C. Wiggin
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Biography
Charles C. Wiggin
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 244-245


Charles C. Wiggin is well qualified for the position of Town Treasurer, which
office he has held in Freeport since 1891, being a man of good business ability,
sagacious, and prudent, and one whose cordial manner has won him many friends.
He was born in Scarboro, Me., on January 26, 1844, son of Ethan and Abigail
(Prout) Wiggin.

Benjamin Wiggin, his paternal grandfather, was a native of New Hampshire, where
the family name has been prominent from the early settlement of the State. He
removed to Maine, and was among the successful farmers of his day. He resided at
Cape Elizabeth for several years near the close of his life, and died there at
the advanced age of eighty-one years. During the Revolutionary War he was a
patriot soldier, rendering service for seven years. He was the father of three
children -two sons and a daughter all of whom grew up and two married. Ethan
Wiggin, his eldest son, became a seafarer in early manhood; and during the forty
years in which he followed his vocation he was commander on different vessels
and visited many of the principal ports of the world. He then retired and spent
his last years on a farm in Scarboro, Me., where he died in July, 1879, at
upward of eighty years of age. In his younger days he was a Whig, but after the
formation of the Republican party he became a supporter of the latter. Liberal
in his religious views, he was an occasional attendant of the Congregational
church. His wife, Abigail Prout, survived him just one year, dying in July,
188o, at eighty-one years of age. Nine children were born to them, eight of whom
grew to maturity, and five are still living, as follows: George Wiggin, who
during the Civil War served in the United States Navy, being the Captain of the
"Tennessee," one of the ships in Admiral Farragut's fleet, also Captain of the
"Colonel Kinsman," now residing in Townsend, Del.; John Wiggin, of Scarboro,
Me.; Charles C. Wiggin; Mrs. Mary Means, the widow of Cyrus Means, residing at
Old Orchard, Me.; and Abbie P., the wife of Captain William A. McNulty, an
officer in the late war, now residing in Washington, D.C.

Charles C. Wiggin remained with his parents until after he attained his
majority, acquiring his education in the public schools of Scarboro. In 1868, at
twenty-four years of age, he went to Culpeper, Va., and for two years was
profitably engaged in mercantile business. Returning to Maine at the end of that
time, he was engaged in various lines of business in Scarboro until 1880; and
about two years later he settled in Pownal and was engaged in farming for three
years. In 1885 he removed to Freeport village, where he still resides, having
since then for the most part been engaged in general farming, carrying on the
land which he owns in Freeport. He was married at Pownal, Me., On January 10,
1882, to Miss Mary A. Curtis, who was born in Pownal and is a daughter of
Franklin and Statira B. (True) Curtis. Her ancestors were among the early
settlers of Cumberland County.

Mr. Wiggin is a loyal supporter of the Republican party. He is a member of
Freeport Lodge, No. 23, A. F. & A. M., and of Harraseeket Lodge, Knights of
Pythias. In religious views he is liberal, and his wife is a communicant of the
Baptist church. They reside in their fine residence in the village of Freeport.