Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Haight, Ambrose February 14, 1829 - 
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AMBROSE HAIGHT, farmer, section 9, Big Prairie Township, was born Feb. 14, 
1829, in Bradford Co., Pa., and 

is the son of Hiram and Sarah (Swaine) Haight.  The father died in 1846, in 
Shiawassee Co., Mich.  The 

mother was born Nov. 8, 1804, in Plymouth, Chenango Co., N.Y., and died March 
18, 1877, in Oceana Co., 

Mich.  She was a daughter of Deacon Oliver Swaine, and was of German descent.

Mr. Haight is the oldest of eight children.  His father came to Michigan in 
1840 and settled in Shiawassee 

County, where he died six years later.  After that event the son continued to 
reside with his mother until 

the fall of 1856, when he came to Newaygo County.  He had been a family man a 
few months and removed his 

entire worldly effects by the aid of an ox team, consuming nine days in the 
trip.  He bought 80 acres of 

land and entered upon the work of clearing and improving and establishing a 
homestead.  He has now under 

cultivation 70 acres of good land and owns, besides his original purchase, 40 
acres on the same section.  

He is quite a prominent man in his generation, belongs to the National party, 
and, soon after settling in 

the township, was elected Constable, which post he filled nine years.  He 
officiated as Justice of the 

Peace six years and has discharged the duties of School Director nine years.

Mr. Haight was married in Shiawassee, Jan. 1, 1856, to Elvira Winans; she was 
born June 17, 1839 in 

Oakland Co., Mich., and is a daughter of Benjamin and Angeline (Roosevelt) 
Winans, both Germans and 

natives of Seneca Co., N.Y., the former born March 5, 1810, the latter Oct. 
22, 1811.  The children of Mr. 

and Mrs. Haight were born as follows:  Hiram B., April 9, 1859; Charles Edwin, 
Oct. 28, 1861; Alfred W., 

July 19, 1868; Angeline, Sept. 11, 1870; Dora, Sept. 27, 1876; and George, 
Aug. 14, 1880.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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