So there are a few (in)famous Dwiggins names from about 100 years ago, but they are mostly the branches that stayed in Indiana and Ohio, not our branches that ended up in Missouri and Illinois (mostly right across the river from each other).

Some of the (in)famous Dwigginses are:

• Elmer – author who wrote the sci-fi novel “Pharaoh’s Broker: Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidore Werner (Written by Himself)” under the pen name Ellsworth Douglass; but was more famous for defrauding people when selling war bonds (WWI) and spent a few years in a federal prison for it.
• Jay – Elmer’s brother, who was an actor in silent films.
• Robert – Jay and Elmer’s father, who was a lawyer and a state senator in Indiana, and started some banks with his brother Zimri.
• William Addison – type designer; son of a different Zimri Dwiggins.
• Zimri – Robert’s brother; started a series of banks that failed during the “Panic of 1893” and was indicted but never actually convicted or served time.

These Dwigginses had other interests and occupations during their lifetimes, but they were less famous for those enterprises. In comparison, the Missouri/Illinois Dwigginses were boring famers.