“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


EUGENE WIGGENHORN, manufacturer of cigars; was born in Prussia 
May 12, 1837, and came to Wisconsin in October, 1848; from Prussia he 
went to New York City, and shortly after moved with this father to 
Watertown, where he assisted his father in the hotel business, after 
which he served an apprenticeship in the cigar business, and then went 
as clerk in the dry-goods business; he next bought out his father’s 
interest in the Buena Vista Hotel, and continued this until 1863; in 1858, 
he also started the manufacture of cigars on his own account, until the 
admission of his brother, when the manufactory was carried on under the 
firm name of Wiggenhorn Brothers, which firm is now doing a 
successful and profitable business.  In 1873-74, he was Alderman of the 
First Ward; in 1876, he was elected President of the Watertown Fire 
Department; in 1879, he was elected School Commissioner.  He married, 
in July, 1863, Maria Schuellhelm; he has eight children – Alma, Willie, 
Elvira, Percival, Hilmar, Alwin, Herribert and Hilda.






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