Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Haugh, John B. 1872 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JOHN B. HAUGH.

   Among the citizens of Delphi, Indiana, who are well-known for their sterling
traits of character and who have impressed their personalities upon the city of
their residence, bearing their full share in the development of Carroll county,
is John B. Haugh, an enterprising coal dealer of Delphi. He is a native of
Delphi and, although still in the prime of life, has exerted a profound
influence in behalf of a more aggressive, responsive and fruitful commercial
spirit His father, who was a native of Ireland, came to America when a lad. He
also exerted an extraordinary influence in this county during the period of his
active career. It was Mr. Haugh's father, who, as a city councilman, cast the
deciding vote in favor of the present Delphi high school building and thus
arrayed himself on the side of educational progress.

   John B. Haugh was born on January 14, 1872, in Delphi, Indiana. Both of his
parents, Michael and Mary (Corbett) Haugh, were born in Ireland. Michael Haugh
was born at Limerick, in 1835, and came to America in 1853 with his parents and
settled with them in Delphi. Many years later they died in this city. Michael
Haugh, who began life on his own responsibility at an early age, became the
foreman in the old Spear, Case & Company packing house at a time when they did
an immense business in this part of the country. Michael Haugh came to Delphi on
one of the old canal boats before the days of railroads. In partnership with the
late High Kerlin, he purchased live stock and later bought the old Spear, Case &
Company elevator.   This partnership continued for some years, when Mr. Haugh
retired on account of failing health. He died on October 23, 1915. His wife died
in 1875. She was a devout member of the Catholic church and her husband was also
a devout follower of this faith. Michael Haugh served altogether seventeen years
as a city councilman in the city of Delphi.

   Reared in Delphi, Carroll county, Indiana, John B. Haugh received the
rudiments of an education in the parochial and public schools of Carroll county.
Having learned the printer's trade, he worked on the Citizen-Times for ten
years. He then farmed for several years in Tippecanoe township. In 1914, Mr.
Haugh established his present business and in a comparatively short time has
built up a lucrative trade in the retail sale of coal. People patronize John B.
Haugh because they know that he is honorable arid upright in his dealings, and
that high or low, rich or poor, are assured of a square deal at his hands.

   Mr. Haugh has never married. He is a member of the Catholic church and votes
the Democratic ticket.


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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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