Wigton-Carter Family, 1066-1974, and Related Families (Crooks, Fawcett, Gates, Horner, Lisle, Porter, Tharp, Wallace)
Wigton-Carter Family, 1066-1974, and Related Families (Crooks, Fawcett, Gates, Horner, Lisle, Porter, Tharp, Wallace)

Author: James Grafton Carter

Publisher:

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13:

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Joseph Wigton (1779-ca. 1859) was born in Northern Ireland, the son of William and Martha Wallace Wigton. He immigrated to America in 1796 and lived for awhile with his sister, Mrs. James Downey of Rushville, Fairfield County, Ohio. He and his wife, Sarah Porter, were the parents of eight children, 1808-1825, born in Fairfield, Muskingum, and Perry Counties, Ohio. Descendants listed lived in Ohio and elsewhere.

Hoosiers and the American Story
Hoosiers and the American Story

Author: Madison, James H.

Publisher: Indiana Historical Society

Published: 2014-10

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0871953633

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A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.