Bios:  Wiggins, Hubert Paxton, Indiana Co

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Contemporary Bio of Hubert Paxton Wiggins (1904)      

Hubert Paxton Wiggins, of Homestead, Pa., one of the owners ofthe 
Messenger publishing company, publishers of the News-Messenger,a 
leading daily paper, was born at Redwood Falls, Minn.,July 16, 1870, 
son of Coulter and Adelaide M. (CRAIGEN) WIGGINS. Mr. Wiggins is 
descended, on his father's side, from John KINTER,and traces his 
ancestry as follows:  Coulter WIGGINS, born in Whitetownship, Indiana 
Co, Pa, Jan. 23, 1840; Robert WIGGINS, born onAckerson's farm, White 
township, Indiana Co, Pa., March 26, 1810and died June 25, 1890; 
Eliza COULTER, born in Indiana county, Pa,April 11, 1817, married 
Robert WIGGINS Nov. 2, 1836, and diedJune 20, 1855; Thomas WIGGINS, 
born on Ackerson's farm, Whitetownship, Indiana Co., Pa.; Elizabeth 
LYTLE, born near Princeton,N.J. and married Thomas WIGGINS; Samuel 
WIGGINS, native of Ireland,of Scotch descent, came to the United 
States in the latter part ofthe eighteenth century; Margaret WIGGINS, 
his wife, native ofIreland, of Scotch descent; James COULTER, father 
of Eliza COULTER,born in Georgia, Sept. 30, 1791, and died March 6, 
1863; CatherineKINTER, native of Indiana county, Pa., born Dec. 27, 
1791, marriedJames COULTER, and died on March 15, 1852; John KINTER, 
native ofHuntingdon county, Pa., served three terms of three months 
each inthe patriot army during the American Revolution, and died in 
hiseighty-second year; Isabella FINDLEY, native of Huntingdon county, 
Pa., married John KINTER, and died in her ninetieth year; PhilipKINTER, 
emigrant from Holland; Barbara KING, wife of Philip KINTER,emigrant from 
Holland.      

Mr. Wiggins is descended, on his mother's side, from theCRAIGENs of Scotland, 
one of whom, Robert CRAIGEN, fought in thebattle of Culloden, March 16, 1746, 
and the ancestral line is asfollows:  Adelaide M. CRAIGEN, born in Hampshire 
county, W. Va.,Dec. 23, 1843, married Coulter WIGGINS, Aug. 15, 1868; Jacob I. 
CRAIGEN, born in Hardy county, W. Va., May 10, 1807, was a slave holder at the 
opening of the Civil War, but espoused the federal side, experienced many 
thrilling adventures, and now resides on the old farm at the age of ninety-seven; 
Eliza Sein PARSONS, born at Washington, D.C. in 1811, married Jacob CRAIGEN, 
April 3, 1833, and died Oct. 13, 1872; John CRAIGEN, born in Winchester county, 
Va., and died at the age of fifty-seven years; Mary LEE, native of Hardy county, 
W. Va., married John CRAIGEN and died in her eightieth year; Robert CRAIGEN, born 
in Scotland, emigrated to Maryland and finally located in Winchester county, Va.; 
Susanna PERRIN, native of Maryland, married Robert CRAIGEN; George LEE and Keziah 
BORGART, parents of Mary LEE, resided in Hardy county, W. Va.; Joseph PARSONS, 
father of Eliza Sein PARSONS, born at Rye Beach, Mass., moved to Washington, D.C.,
and was a trader and merchant; Elizabeth Betsy MONROE, a native ofWashington, D.C., 
and the wife of Joseph PARSONS.        

Coulter Wiggins, father of H. P. Wiggins, removed from RedwoodFalls, Minn., where 
he had gone in search of health, to his formerhouse at Indiana, Pa., and, in 1890, 
located in Blairsville, Pa.,where he now resides and practices law with much 
ability andunusual success, and is one of the leading citizens of thatcommunity.  
At Indiana his son was reared and educated, being agraduate of the State normal 
school at that place, and later helocated in Homestead, Pa., where he secured 
employment as aprinter, which trade he had learned at Indiana, in the establishment 
of M.P. & J.R. Schooley, then the proprietors of theHomestead News.  Subsequently, 
Mr. WIGGINS purchased the plant ofthe Homestead Messenger, a daily paper, and 
associated with himMiss Sarah PARRY.  The News was then bought, and the two papers
consolidated as the News-Messenger.  Later Miss PARRY disposed ofher interest to 
A. D. Slocum, and Messrs WIGGINS and Slocum havecontinued the newspaper and jobbing 
business under the name of theMessenger publishing company, and have one of the best 
equipped plants in the Monongahela valley, while the News-Messenger is a splendid 
daily paper, which carries great weight and exerts animmense influence in the community.  
The young men have alsoacquired considerable property about Homestead.      

Mr. WIGGINS was married, in 1896, to Miriam E., daughter ofThomas L. PARRY, a retired 
mill roller of Homestead, and they haveone child, Hubert Parry.Memoirs of Allegheny Co., 
Pennsylvania.  Madison, WI:  Northwestern   Historical Association, 1904.  2 vols.  
Vol I:  p. 274-5