Tulare County Biographies

B. M. HAIG, JR.

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        B. M. Haig, Jr., proprietor of the Dinuba Sanitary Laundry at Dinuba and 
one of the best known and most energetic young business men of that city, is an 
experienced man in his line and is doing very well. Though not a native of 
California Mr. Haig has been a resident of this state since the days of his 
childhood and thus counts himself as much a Californian as any. He was born on a 
farm in Fremont county, Idaho, December 31, 1900, and was but twelve years of 
age when he came to California with his parents in 1912, the family settling at 
Visalia. He attended the Visalia schools, going on into the high school there, 
and then had some further schooling in the high school at San Jose. As a lad he 
became employed as a clerk in the shoe department of the S. Sweet store at 
Visalia but after awhile returned to his old home county in Idaho and was there 
for a year engaged in farming.
        In the next year Mr. Haig returned to California and was for two years 
employed at San Francisco and San Jose. He then, in 1920, became employed in the 
office of the Dinuba Sanitary Laundry and there had his initial experience in 
the business which now is engaging his chief attention. Later and for a time he 
was connected with the operations of the Associated Oil Company at Visalia and 
with the operations of the Tulare Refining Company, and then, on February 1, 
1925, he bought the Dinuba Sanitary Laundry and has since been quite 
successfully engaged in carrying on the affairs of that flourishing industry. 
This laundry plant was established at Dinuba in 1915 and is one of the best 
equipped plants of its kind in this section of the state, Mr. Haig thus being 
able to take care of a large volume of the laundry business in this trade area. 
Mr. Haig is an energetic young business man and since taking over the affairs of 
this old established concern has done much not only to extend the trade but to 
increase the facilities of the plant and he even now has in hand a definite 
program of further improvement.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., p. 428