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ISAAC C . HAIGHT Biography 1813 - 1886 Isaac Chauncy Haight was born May 2 7 . 1 8 1 3 , in Windham County, New York, to Caleb and Keturah Haight. He became a teacher and taught school in the winter and farmed in the summer. Being a religious person, he investigated the L.D.S. religion and was baptized a member He was ordained to preside over the small March 3 , 1839. Branch where he lived. He married Eliza Ann Snyder in 1836. At the age of 2 3 , Isaac was very sick with pneumonia. which impaired his lungs for the r e s t of his life. In the year 1 8 4 3 , he was chosen as one of forty men to guard the Prophet Joseph Smith a s a member of the Nauvoo Legion. When the Saints s t a r t e d west from Winter Quarters, he was appointed Captain of the f i r s t ten wagons of the Daniel Spencer Unit of one hundred wagons. They arrived in Salt Lake City, Sept. 2 2 , 1847. On November 2 3 , 1 8 4 9 , Haight explored Southern Utah with fifty men, under the leadership of Parley P. P r a t t . He then served an L.D.S. Mission to England, where he converted some of the people who were sent to Southern Utah to help in the Deseret Iron Works which he was called to Iron County to direct a f t e r his arrival home. He and his three wives and children arrived in Cedar On December 6 , 1853, he was City, November 1 , 1853. elected Mayor of Cedar City. Isaac C. Haight helped organize the Cedar L.D.S. Stake, composed of Cedar City, Kanarraville, Santa Clara, Washington, settlements up the Rio Virgin, Pinto. Pine Valley, and Johnson's Fort, and was then chosen to be the f i r s t President of that Stake in May, 1855. That same year he was elected a s a member of the Legislative Assembly which met in Fillmore. Two years l a t e r , he helped organize a settlement on the Ria Virgin for the purpose of raising cotton. He organized the Female Benevolent Society in Cedar City in 1862, after which he s e r v e d another term as delegate to the Territorial Legislature. He also served as the postmaster of Cedar City. Haight t r u l y served an important role in Cedar City's colorful history. He died a t the age of 7 3 , September 8 . 1 8 8 6 , in Thatcher, Arizona. Taken from: Newspaper article, "Iron County's pioneers," Iron County ~ e c o r d . . W . R. Palmer ( S . U . S . C . Sp Col.)
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| Title | Mayors of Cedar City |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K.; Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Subject | Mayors -- Utah -- Cedar City -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- Politics and government; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Includes biographies of the mayors of Cedar City and examples from the city minutes showing the events that took place under each administration. The three histories printed in the second section were written by three men at three different times in the history of Cedar City. |
| Source | Mayors |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/mayors.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 535.cpd |
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