This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Haight, Holmes, Ives Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WFC.2ACI/3131.1 Message Board Post: >From the “History of Dane County, Wisconsin-1880”, under biographical sketches for the ‘Town of Christiana’, there a sketch for Stephen Haight, farmer, Sec.23; P.O. Christiana; is a native of Jefferson Co., Wis; born in the town of Koshkonong, June 23, 1844. His father, John T. Haight, was a native of Vermont, but emigrated to Jefferson Co, Wis, and settled in the town of Koshkonong, in 1835, where he devoted his time to farming and looking after the land interests of W.O. Walker, Gov. Davis and other Eastern parties. He died there in 1853. The mother of our subject, Elizabeth Holmes, was also a native of Vermont, and is now living in the town of Koshkonong. Mr Haight spent his time at farming in Jefferson Co. till 1874, when he settled on his present farm of 245 acres, which his father bought in the early settlement of this county. He was married in the town of Oakland, Jefferson Co, in 1874, to Miss Ettie, daughter of Gideon and Mary Iv! es, early settlers of that town. Mr. & Mrs. Haight have two sons – John T. and George I.