Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 561
ABRAM L. HAIGHT

One of the representative citizens of St. Johns township, Harrison county, Iowa, is the man whose name appears above. He began at the very bottom of the ladder of success and by virtue of an untiring energy and an unfaltering faith in high ideals, he has not only won material success, but also occupies an enviable place in the estimation of his fellow-citizens. Exacting as his own affairs have been in their demands upon his time, he has yet found some time to devote to public matters and has served his school district as treasurer for the past fifteen years. He is also well known as a director in the Valley Savings Bank, of Missouri Valley.

Abram L. HAIGHT is a native of the state of New York, having been born in West Chester county on November 8, 1863, a son of Elias G. and Kate (REYNOLDS) HAIGHT. Both parents were born and reared in the same county, where they also were married and where they carried on farming. It was in i868 that the family came to St. Johns township, this county, where the father proved himself to be quite a trader and a farmer of considerable ability. He died in 1897 at the age of seventy-three years and his widow still survives at the age of eighty-four years. Elias G. HAIGHT was a stanch Republican, rather active in political affairs and made many friends after coming to this county. They had a family of six children: Warren E., the eldest son of the family, makes his home with the mother in St. Johns township, and manages her affairs for her. In the home also are Silas A. and Sarah, the youngest of the family. Webb H. was killed during a cyclone at Clayton, New Mexico, in 1909, and Charles E. is a farmer in St. Johns township, whose wife was Dora STOCKMAN. The immediate subject of this sketch was the fourth child in order of birth, and when a youth he attended the schools of his home district, acquiring the best education possible under the very limited opportunities offered at that time. He remained under the parental roof until twenty years of age, when he started out in life for himself.

His first independent venture was the renting of a tract of land, which he farmed for a time and later purchased. He has added to his original holdings until he is now possessed of over one thousand acres in St. Johns township, some of which is the finest land in the county. Mr. HAIGHT first moved to his present location in 1895 and has made all the improvements on the place. He is considered one of the best-informed men in the community on matters pertaining to agriculture, and conducts his farming along lines most approved by modern science. He also is a successful stock man, having a fine strain of Hereford cattle and Duroc-Jersey red hogs. He also buys and feeds stock for the market and succeeds well in whatever he undertakes, for he brings to any venture the best of his mental ability and spares himself no effort to make his business a success. He is a man who has worked very hard and who has striven for efficiency along every line of endeavor. He makes a study of everything possible pertaining to his business and pursues no haphazard methods in his labors. Since purchasing his farm, he has cleared up over one hundred acres with his own hands.

Mr. HAIGHT was married on April 10, 1895, to Miss Minnie MCINTOSH, of St. Johns, a daughter of A. L. and Margaret (SNYDER) MCINTOSH, the former a native of Indiana and the latter a native of Pennsylvania. They were married when they first came to this county, in i856, and settled north of Missouri Valley. Mrs. MCINTOSH died on July 9, 1912, since which time Mr. MCINTOSH has resided with the children. He has been a farmer all his life and is well known and highly respected throughout the county. They were the parents of five children, Minnie, Jennie, Frank, Austin and Ida.

Mr. and Mrs. HAIGHT have two daughters, Effie and Fannie, both of whom remain at home and are now attending high school in Missouri Valley. In politics Mr. HAIGHT is a stanch Republican, being keenly interested in all that relates to his party's welfare. He bears the reputation of being honest and straightforward in all his dealings, his name being a guaranty of good faith. Through proper methods and principles he has come to be considered one of the representative men of the county, and as such is very properly entitled to mention in a volume of the character of the one in hand.

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