Ezekiel Stone Wiggins
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Professor Ezekiel Stone Wiggins 1888
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December 4, 1839 Grand Lake, Queen's County, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Died | August 14, 1910 (aged 70) Arbour House, Britannia, Ottawa, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Other names | the "Ottawa Prophet" |
| Occupation | civil servant, teacher, author |
| Known for | scholar, amateur astronomer, historian, epidemiologist, meteorologist and cryptozoologist |
Ezekiel Stone Wiggins (December 4, 1839 – August 14, 1910) was a Canadian weather and earthquake predictor known as the "Ottawa Prophet". He was the author of several scientific, educational and religious works.
Ezekiel Wiggins was born in Grand Lake, Queens County, New Brunswick, in 1839 to Daniel Slocum Wiggins and Elizabeth Titus Stone, both of United Empire Loyalist descent. The Wiggins family claims descent from Capt Thomas Wiggins of Shrewsbury, England who became the first Governor of New Hampshire in 1630.
Ezekiel was a pupil at the Oakwood Grammar School (1858). He attended secondary school in Ontario, and stayed to become a teacher in Mariposa Township, Ontario. On August 2, 1862, he married his sixteen-year-old cousin Susan Anna Wiggins, the daughter of Vincent White Wiggins and Charlotte E. Wiggins. The couple did not have any children. Their religion was Episcopal. Susan became an author and poet. He was a student at the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery, where he earned a MD in 1867-69. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Albert University, in Belleville, Ontario in 1870, while serving as the head master of a highschool in Ingersoll, Ontario.
Wiggins wrote "The Architecture of the Heavens", which was published in Montreal by John Lovell in 1864.
He worked as a local superintendent of schools in 1866.
In 1867, Wiggins wrote a criticism about Universalism in Christianity Universalism unfounded: being a complete analysis and refutation of the system which was published in Napanee, Ontario by Henry & Co. in 1867 According to the preface, "Here every Orthodox minister and private Christian is furnished with a text book on Universalism. Containing a complete refutation of every position, hithero assumed either in the affirmative of universal salvation or the negative of punishment"
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