Henry Haight

Henry Haight

Henry Haight (1820-1869) was an American exchange banker and pioneer. He was the manager of the Banking House of Page, Bacon & Co. in San Francisco during the California gold rush era.

He is the uncle of Henry Huntly Haight (1825–1878), tenth governor of California. [cite web | url=http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/vitals/sfobiha.htm | title=Henry Haight obituary "Death of an Old Citizen" | publisher=San Francisco Examiner | author= | date= 25 Mar 1869 | page=2 | accessdate=2007-06-01]

Haight Street, running from San Francisco's Civic Center through the Haight-Ashbury, is said to be named in his honour. [cite web | url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/street/stnames4.html | title=San Francisco Streets Named for Pioneers | publisher=Museum of the City of San Francisco | accessdate=2007-06-01]

References

*cite book | last=Hittell | first=Theodore Henry | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=bEMOAAAAIAAJ&dq=henry+haight+page+bacon+%26+co | title=History of California | location=San Francisco | publisher=Pacific Press | year=1885 | oclc=4350030
*cite book | last=Sherman | first=William | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=09mjOiJJx3wC&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=page+bacon+%26+co+haight&source=web&ots=ifrMJrANZT&sig=pS3AwhSl1tSS0ED2czEjKMOw0q8| | pages=pp. 110-112 |origyear=1875 | title=Memoirs of General William T. Sherman | location=New York | publisher=Da Capo Press | year=1984 | isbn=0306802139


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