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M Henry W. Wigle

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History of the Wigle Family and Their Descendants, The Wigle Family, Kingsville, Ontario, 1931.

1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 4-1:
Wigle Henry W., Farmer, born U C, 43, M, Married;
Sarah E., born U C, 40, F, Married;
Lucta? D., born U C, 20, F;
Mary A., born U C, 18, F;
Francis, Labour, born U C, 16, M, going to school;
Albert, born U C, 13, M, going to school;
Curdelia, born U C, 13, F, going to school;
Cornelius, born U C, 9, M, going to school;
Burwell W, born U C, 6, M;
brick house, 2 stories, 1 family.

1871 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, E1-12:
Wigle Henry, M, 55, born Ont, Universalist, origin: Dutch, Farmer, Married;
Elizabeth, F, 44, born Ont, Ch of Eng, origin: Irish, Married;
Albert, M, 22, born Ont, Universalist, origin: Dutch, Farmer;
Cornelius, M, 17, born Ont, going to school;
Burell, M, 15, born Ont, going to school.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 498:
Samuel Malott, a prominent citizen of Gosfield township, County of Essex, belongs to one of the historic and interesting families of that locality...
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     On Nov. 2, 1862, Mr. Malott married Amanda McCormick, daughter of Matthew McCormick, of Colchester South...
     Matthew McCormick, father of Mrs. Malott, was born May 12, 1797, on the old home place in Colchester... He continued to live on the home place until some years after his marriage, and when it came into his possession he traded it for what he considered a more desirable one on the lake. This he occupied until 1843, when he bought Lot 15, Concession 2, consisting of 200 acres of wild land. Erecting a log house Mr. McCormick occupied it until 1860, when he built a brick house, in which he lived until his death....
     Mr. McCormick married Deborah Wright, who was born in Colchester, only child of Henry and Deborah (Hitchcock) Wright, and to them were born these children: Sarah, deceased wife of Henry Wigle, of Ruthven; ...

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex , J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 308-313:
Arthur Montgomery McCormick, postmaster and merchant on Pelee Island ... was married in Colchester township, County of Essex, Ont., Nov. 25, 1856, to Esther McCormick, who was born in Colchester township, daughter of the late Alexander and Mary (Lidwell) McCormick...
     Mrs. McCormick is an intelligent woman, devoted to her home, husband and family, and is a good Christian. She is also a descendant of the McCormick family, her father, Alexander McCormick, having been a son of Alexander, the first settler, and brother of William, who settled on Pelee Island. He was a farmer and land owner of Colchester township, where he was engaged in general farming and stock raising, owning a tract of 400 acres near Oxley, where he spent his life, and where he married Mary Lidwell, who lived to the ripe age of ninety-seven years. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Huffman, of Oxley. Their children were as follows: ... (3) Elizabeth married Henry Wigle, of Essex...

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 61-64:
Wigle. The prominent and numerous family of this name in the County of Essex, Ont., is descended from John Wendel Wigle, who was born in Germany in the year 1763. Being left an orphan at an early age, he was obliged to shift for himself, and was a mere boy when he made his way to the seacoast, where, having neither means nor friends, he hid himself on board a sailing vessel which was about to leave for America. He was discovered after the ship sailed by the captain, who proved himself a most cruel man, and immediately upon arrival in America bound young Wigle out to service for seven years, it is said, to pay for his passage. To what trade he was apprenticed during this time is not definitely known, but as his occupation in later life was weaving, it is most probable that his knowledge of the business was acquired during that period.
     At the age of twenty-one years John Wendel Wigle made his home at York, Pennsylvania, where in 1776 he was married to Julianna Rommer. He did not bear arms in the Revolution, though he was undoubtedly a British sympathizer, as we find that he decided to leave soon after the war closed. In 1786, along with a number of other families, he and his family started for Canada, making the journey to Detroit through Ohio, with pack-horses, driving their cattle before them. They spent several years near Detroit, probably on Grosse Ile, as the government had not yet acquired the land from the Indians, but about 1792, when government grants were thrown open to settlers, John W. Wigle and his family settled in Gosfield township, County of Essex, on Lot 6, Eastern Division. Here he passed the remainder of his life, dying in the home he established there, and he was buried in Lot 6, as is also his wife, who passed away in May 1824. In spite of the hardships and trails they had to contend with in making a home in the wilderness, these good people prospered, and John Wendel Wigle acquired possesion of some 3,000 acres before he died. Thus he was able to leave his children in comfortable circumstances, and as his family was a large one he had ample use for his numerous acres.
     We have the following record of the eleven children born to this pioneer couple: John, born in Pennsylvania Dec. 21, 1778, died in Gosfield Jan. 28, 1871; he married Susanna Scratch, and they had a family of fifteen children. Wendel, born in Pennsylvania, Dec. 17, 1781, married Isabella Scratch, and died April 6, 1860. Kate, born in Pennsylvania, married Theodore Malott, who settled on Lot 13, in Gosfield, East Divison. Elizabeth, born in Pennsylvania, became the wife of Michael Fox. Julianna, born in Colchester April 4, 1789, married George Fox, and died on Pelee Island July 3, 1879. Joseph, born March 22, 1792, died July 23, 1864; he married Euphemia Miller, and they had eleven children (they were the grandparents of William R. Wigle, who is mentioned elsewhere.) Mary, born in Gosfield June 29, 1793, married Peter Scratch, and died June 3, 1872. Sarah, born in Gosfield Aug. 26, 1798, married Solomon Shepley, and had eight children. Maudlin married Jacob Fox, and had seven children. Christopher married Mary Wilkinson. Michael married Julianna Tofflemire, and for his second wife, Prudence Chapman.
     Wendel Wigle, second son of John W. Wigle, was a boy when the family came to Gosfield, grew up on the homestead, and was thoroughly trained to the work of farming as it was in those days. When he concluded to start for himself, at the age of about twenty years, his father gave him the 200-acre farm now owned by Zacharias Wigle, lying in Lot 10, 3rd Concession, East Division in the township of Gosfield, and he made the first clearing and erected the first buildings on the tract. He made his home there for a period of seventeen years, at the end of that time turning the place over to his son John W., and in March 1823, moving to Cedar Creek, where he purchased 200 acres in Lots 11 and 12. He erected a dwelling on the front of Lot 11, and again began at the beginning, clearing the land from its primitive condition into a fine farm. By hard work and economy he wrested success from the wilderness, and added to his original possession until he owned some 2,200 acres, which at the present time would represent a large fortune. Mr. Wigle died April 6, 1860, at the home of his son Theodore, aged seventy-nine years, and his wife, Isabella (Scratch), passed away May 21, 1848, at the age of sixty. They were members and regular attendants of the Methodist Church. To this couple came a large family, viz: John W., born July 12, 1806, married Salome Fox. Elizabeth, born Nov. 8, 1807, married Joseph Gilboe. Peter, born April 14, 1809, died Aug. 21, 1878; he married Mary Jane Girty. Joseph, born Jan. 19, 1811, died April 26, 1835; he married Jane Davis, but they had no children. Julianna, born Nov. 26, 1812, married John C. Fox. Leonard, born Nov. 27, 1814, is mentioned below. Michael, born June 14, 1816, married Demarius Girty. Henry, born April 1, 1818, died April 12, 1874; he married (first) Sarah McCormick, and (second) Elizabeth McCormick, and was the father of Burwell W. Wigle, who is mentioned elsewhere. Susanna, born Sept. 13, 1819, married Thomas Conklin (they were the parents of David Conklin, who is mentioned elsewhere). Theodore, born June 10, 1821, was the father of Atkinson Wigle, who is mentioned elsewhere; he was three times married, to Barbara McKenzie, Margaret Kennedy and Mrs. Rosamond Baker. Jacob, born July 12, 1823, is mentioned below. Mary, born Oct. 24, 1825, married William McCain. Daniel, born Jan. 5, 1828, married for his first wife Jane Augustin, and, for his second wife, Emma Gilbert. Simon, born April 1, 1830, was twice married, first, to Jane McCain, and second, to Maggie Mains. David, born May 29, 1832, died in 1862, in San Francisco.
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Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 57-58:
Burwell W. Wigle, a member of one of the oldest and most prominent families of this part of the County of Essex, is an enterprising farmer here, and one of the leading men and substantial citizens of Gosfield township, which he is serving as councillor. The Wigle family is a large and influential one.
     Henry Wigle, father of Burwell W., was the eighth child of Wendel Wigle, and was born April 1, 1818, on the homestead farm which is now the property of Zacharias Wigle. He was about five years old when the family moved to Cedar Creek, where he grew to manhood. When he started out for himself, his father gave him all of Lot 10, Concession 2, of which only about 2 acres had been cleared. He took possession of a small log house on the property, and lived there during the hard work incident to the clearing of this large body of land. In the course of time, as the family increased, more room was needed, and he enlarged the home, but in 1854 he erected the large brick residence which still stands on the place, although its builder has long passed away. In 1858 he sold that farm, at which time he had succeeded in clearing about 100 acres. He then bought the Gerty farm, located on Lot 256, in Concession 4, which he gave to his son Albert, a few years later, and returned to the old farm, which is now included in the present village of Ruthven. He was a man of progressive ideas, and much of the rapid growth of the hamlet was immediately due to his enterprize. He encouraged the establishment of the woolen mill, and laid out village lots, and made them attractive. In association with his eldest brother John Wigle, he started a sawmill, which was the first business enterprise at Ruthven. He was identified with all the educational and moral movements in this locality, and was liberal with money and time, while his advice was always to be relied upon in practical matters. He was a faithful member of the Church of England, and did much to found it and support it here. After a long and useful life Mr. Wigle died April 12, 1874.
     Henry Wigle was twice married (first) in Detroit, Oct. 5, 1840, to Sarah, daughter of Matthew and Deborah (Wright) McCormick, of Colchester, who died April 14, 1868. His second marriage occurred at Windsor, May 10, 1869, to Elizabeth McCormick, daughter of Alexander and Mary (Lidwell) McCormick, of Colchester. She still survives, and resides with our subject. Mr. Wigle's children were all born to his first union, and were as follows: Lucetta Deborah, born Oct 24, 1841, is the widow of Martin Moore, and resides at Hannibal, Missouri. Mary Ann, born Nov. 7, 1843, is the wife of James Moore, of Odanah, Wisconsin; Francis Arthur, born June 2, 1845, now the popular postmaster at Ruthven, married Jane Whaley; Albert Henry, born May 15, 1848, is a farmer of Gosfield North, and married Sarah Loundsbury, now deceased; Cordelia Sarah, born July 15, 1850, married William S. Wilder, of Kansas City, Missouri, and both died in 1904, just six days apart; Cornelius Matthew, born Aug. 19, 1852, is a farmer of Gosfield North, and married to Mary Cook; and Burwell Wendel was born Nov. 22, 1855.
     Burwell W. Wendel is the youngest of his parents' family. He was born on Lot 10, Concession 2, and was reared and educated in Gosfield. ..Fraternally he is prominent in the I.O.O.F., belonging to the Beaver Lodge, of Ruthven. He is a charter member of the Encampment and the Rebekahs, has been through all the chairs, and for the past twelve years has been treasurer in the I.O.O.F. He also belongs to the Order of Woodmen. His father was a Mason, a Masonic Lodge started here being the first secret organization in this part of Ontario.

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John Wendel Weigele/Wigle 1753-   Julianna Romer   Leonhard Scratch 1756-1829   Maria (Mary Ann) Munger ca 1758-1840
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Wendel Wigle 1781-1860   Isabella Scratch 1788-1848
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Henry W. Wigle 1818-1874