Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Contents
History
Descriptive Summary
Title: Henry H. Haight Family Collection
Box Number: 1650
Creator:
Haight Family
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Unrestricted.
Conditions of Use
Please credit California State Library.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to California State Library. All requests for permission
to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of California State Library as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Henry H. Haight Family Collection, California State Library.
Access Points
Governors--California
Tennis
Yale University
Haight, Henry H., 1825-1878
Contents
Scrapbooks, photographs, rosary novenas, Wolf Head Society roster.
History
Henry H. Haight was born in Rochester, N.Y., May 26, 1825. He graduated from Yale in 1844
and began practicing law. He came to California in January 1850. He served as a
democratic governor from December 5, 1867 through December 7, 1871. Mr. Haight was also
one of the Regents of the State University. He died of heart disease September 2, 1878,
in San Francisco.