Sonoma County Biographies

JOHN B. HAIGH

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, July, 2007

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

                  Born in Yorkshire, England, May 9, 1815. Emigrated with his 
parents to America, when about four years of age. After a residence in 
Cinncinati, Ohio, for about eighteen months, they moved to Washington County, 
Missouri. In 1853 the subject of this sketch emigrated to California. After 
residing in Santa Clara County for three years he came to this county and 
settled on his present farm, comprising two hundred and twenty acres, located 
near Litton Springs. Married Miss Mary Engeldow March 7, 1836, who was born in 
Virginia, March 6, 1817. Their children are Frances Sophia, George, Robert, 
Alice, Franklin, and Edwin.
 
Source: "History of Sonoma County, Cal.," Alley, Bowen & Co., San Francisco, 
1880, p. 508.