Microfilm of typed biographies on and diary entries made by Isaac Chauncey Haight. Opens with a biography of Haight by William R. Palmer entitled "Men You Should Know: Isaac C. Haight" (typescript of a radio talk given by Palmer over K.S.U.B. in Cedar City, Utah, on July 18, 1943) "The Old Virgin Ditch," a poem by Mable Jarvis and a brief account entitled "Thales Haskell describes the Tragedy of death of George A. Smith fall 1860." The majority of the reel is the Biographical Sketch and Diary of Isaac Chauncey Haight, 1813-1862, a typescript copied by Brigham Young University in 1940. It includes a brief biography of Haight as well as his diary entries for his 1850-1853 mission to England (including accounts of his overland travel to and from Utah) and some various diary entries made in Utah from 1853-1862. Also includes an index of names and family photographs. On the same reel (frames 8-114) as MFILM 267 (item 2), biographical sketch of Caroline Eliza Haight Arthur. The Huntington also has a printed copy of the "Men You Should Know" typescript (HM 72773). All inquiries about this item should be directed to the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical Manuscripts at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Microfilm. San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library Photographic Dept., 1956.. 1 microfilm reel : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Isaac Chauncey Haight was born in Windham, New York, on May 27, 1813. He originally worked on his family's farm, but a severe case of pneumonia in his early twenties damaged his lungs and he gave up farming for a teaching career in Moravia, New York. In 1838 he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1842 moved with his family to Nauvoo, Illinois. He briefly served as a bodyguard for Joseph Smith before joining the Nauvoo Legion. Following Smith's death, Haight followed the Mormons to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, in 1846, and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Haight served on a mission in England from 1850-1853, and on his return to Utah was placed in charge of the Deseret Iron Works in Iron County. He was involved in the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, for which he was investigated and excommunicated from the Mormon Church in 1870 (he was reinstated in 1874). Haight served on the Hole-in-the-Rock expedition, but was still sought by secular authorities for Mountain Meadows and left Utah for Mexico and later Arizona, where he died on September 8, 1886.
Haight, Isaac Chauncey, 1813-1886 Frontier and pioneer life--Utah Mormon missionaries--England Mormon pioneers Mormons--Utah--History--19th century Overland journeys to the Pacific Transatlantic voyages Great Britain--History--19th century Utah--History--19th century 1850-1943 1943 Biographies Utah 20th century. (aat) Diaries England 19th century. (aat) Diaries Utah 19th century. (aat)
Source
Mormon Manuscripts at the Huntington Library Mormonism and the West, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Microfilm of original loaned by Sarah Crosby, October 4, 1956.
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