San Diego County Biographies
 
ELON G. HAIGHT

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a liberal citizen of San Diego, was born June 6, 1839, in Rochester, New York. 
His father, Daniel C., was also a native of that State, and married Catharine 
Gallman, a native of Dutchess County, New York. He was a farmer and also a 
surveyor. In that family were fourteen children, of whom only five are now 
living. Elon G., next to the youngest, went to Buffalo at the age of eighteen 
years, and became bookkeeper for Van Stock & Notten, boat-builders, remaining 
with them three years; then, in March, 1861, he came to California, landing at 
San Francisco on April 10. He was employed at Redwood until the spring of 1864; 
then, until the fall of 1869, he was clerk at Virginia City, Nevada. November 10 
he arrived at San Diego, and for the first few years clerked for Culverwell & 
Jorus, forwarding and commission merchants.
        In May, 1872, he was elected City Trustee and City Clerk; afterward he 
was appointed Deputy County Clerk by Captain A. S. Grant, and held the office 
until March, 1878; in 1879 he was appointed again by S. Statler, and served 
until January 1, 1883. During the previous autumn he had been elected Auditor 
and Recorder, and he entered upon the duties of this office the first Monday in 
January, 1883, and held the office for two years. In 1886 he was re-elected for 
another term, and in the fall of 1888 for still another. Among the societies of 
which Mr. Haight is a member are the F. & A. M., A. O. U. W., O. C. F., and I. 
O. R. M.; and also of the " Matrimonial Society."
        He was married February 22, 1871, to Miss Addie M. Turpin, who was born 
in Rochester, New York, in 1864. And last., but not least, he is a member of the 
Society of San Diego Pioneers. The official and other relations which our 
subject sustains attests his liberal spirit and popularity.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  339