NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 George Haight At an early age George Haight began to provide for his own support, exhibiting that spirit of courage and determination which carries the individual ever forward, and his life has been crowned with success. He has reached the ripe age of seventy-eight years and is now living retired in Cherokee, enjoying a well deserved period of leisure. He was born in New York, May 3, 1848, and his parents, Thomas and Adeline Luthera (Reed) Haight, were also natives of the Empire state. They started for the west in 1857 and settled in Jackson county, Iowa, during the pioneer epoch in its history, spending the remainder of their lives in that section. The father was a tailor and always followed the trade, acquiring marked skill in his work. There were ten children in the family and four are now living, three sons and a daughter. Mr. Haight attended the common schools of Jackson county and when a boy of thirteen secured work on a farm. He earned six dollars per month and at the age of sixteen enlisted in the Tenth United States Infantry, in which he served for three years, from 1865 until 1868, becoming corporal of his company. He next went to Lawrence, Kansas, and for fourteen years was prominently identified with interests in a fruit farm, which he still owns. On the expiration of that period he returned to the Hawkeye state and since 1922 has lived in Cherokee In October, 1868, Mr. Haight married Miss Mary Pickard, who was a native of Newark, Ohio, and he sustained a great loss in her demise on January 27, 1922. She had become the mother of four children: Adelaide, the wife of Justin Barry, of Cherokee; Mary E., who lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa; Albert H., who makes his home in the city of Chicago; and Frank L., a resident of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Mr. Haight casts his ballot for the candidates of the republican party and is s member of the Church of Christ in religious faith. he belongs to Custer Post, No. 25, of the Grand Army of the Republic and is highly esteemed by the members of that organization as well as by those with whom he has been associated in other relations of life. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/