In 17th December 1942, Jeffrey Wigand was born in New York. He is the eldest of out of his four siblings, and they were raised as staunch Roman Catholics. They lived in the Bronx, where Wigand’s father was a mechanical engineer. They later shifted to Pleasant Valley, a small town neighboring Poughkeepsie in northern New York. In his youthful days, Wigand dreamt of becoming a doctor, particularly because he was good in chemistry. Wigand attended Dutchess Community College, where he was a member of the cross-country team and a scrub nurse at Vassar Brothers Hospital. After one year of attending college, he gave up school and joined the United States Air Force in 1961. He later served in the American Military where he served in the military
