Born in Newtown, New York Colony, now Elmira, NY

Fletcher Mathews Haight was a graduate of Hamilton College, N.Y. (1818) Began the practice of law in Bath, N.Y. Removed to Rochester, N.Y. in 1824, and became eminent in his profession. He was elected to the legislature from Monroe County, N.Y. in 1833. Removed to St. Louis in 1846 and to San Francisco, California, in 1854, where he practiced law in partnership with his son, Henry Huntley Haight (afterwards Governor of California) until 1861 when he was appointed United States District Judge of the Southern District of California by President Abraham Lincoln, which office he held until his death in 1866.
From "The King Family of Suffield, Connecticut", compiled by Cameron Haight King, 1908

Father:
Major General Samuel S. Haight, b. Athens, NY 9/17/1788, d. Cuba, NY 4/20/1863. He was Major General of the New York State troops in the War of 1812.

Mother:
Sarah (Mathews) Haight, b. 5/18/1779, Elmira, Chemung Cty, NY; d. 11/8/1830, Angelica, Allegany Cty, NY

Spouses:
(1) Elizabeth Stuart (McLachlan) Haight; m. 10/3/1822
(2) Mary Ann Brown; m. 9/20/1829, Rochester, NY; b. 1799-1805; d. 1848 in St. Louis, MO (Jan 24?); dau of Dr. Matthew Brown, Jr. (memorial 34004457) and Lucy (Huntington) Brown (memorial 34011987)

Ten other spouses, names unknown

Three children with Elizabeth McLachlan:

Janet Cameron (Haight) King, b. 7/9/1823; d. 12/21/1844; m. 1/23/1844, George Eliphalet King, b. 6/11/1814, NH; d. 12/27/1897, San Francisco, CA; Son: Cameron Haight King, b. 12/21/1844; d. 7/3/1911; m. (1) Anna Eliza Beveridge (2) Ella Jane Brown

Henry Huntley, b. 5/20/1825; d. 9/2/1878; m. 1/24/1855, Anna E. Bissell in St. Louis, MO 1/24/1855. He was Governor of California 1867-1871; Children (1) Mary M, b. 4/20/1856; d. 4/25/1856 (2) Janet Cameron, b. 7/2/1858; d. 11/8/1931; unmarried (3) (Dugald) Cameron, b. 6/12/1860; d. 9/16/1866; Possible infant, d. 1862; (3) Henry H., b. 11/4/1864; d. 12/2/1919; (4) Louis Montrose, b. 10/7/1868; d. 4/27/1942

Dugald Cameron (Cameron), b. 5/27/1827; (christened at First Presbyterian Church, Angelica, 1829) d. 1/21/1852, age 25, off Chagres, on the Isthmus of Panama, Central America en route to California on a business visit. He and some of the passengers attempted to land in a rough sea and was drowned by the swamping of the boat on which he embarked from the steamer on which he sailed from NYC. (another record gives a death date of 6/24/1852 - not able to ascertain if his body was ever recovered); Graduate of Yale, a lawyer; unmarried

Nine children with Mary Ann Brown:

Samuel, b. 9/4/1830, Elmira, Chemung County, NY; d. 12/31/1853, on return voyage from Honolulu for his health; unmarried

Fletcher M. Jr., b. 10/23/1832; d. 2/1833; infant

Elizabeth Stuart (Haight) Knight, b. 3/16/1834, Rochester, NY; although a native of California, d. Rochester, NY 9/1907; m. 1860, Samuel Knight, Sr., b. Massachusetts, head of Wells Fargo Express Co. in San Francisco; killed by an explosion 4/26/1866; children: Elizabeth, b. 11/2/1860; d. 7/14/1861; Fletcher H, b. 7/3/1862; Maj. Samuel Knight, b. San Francisco 12/28/1863; m. Mary Hard Holbrook 10/8/1895 in California; Robert Stuart Knight, b. Ca., 10/28/1866; d. 10/6/1947, Almeda, Ca.

Sarah (Haight) Tompkins, b. 3/26/1835, d. 6/3/1904; m. Hon. Edward Tompkins, a distinguished lawyer of San Francisco, b. 5/8/1815, d. 11/4/1872.

Fletcher M. Jr. (again), b. 9/29/1839 (or 1837); d. 4/25/1847 (or 4/25/1844), St. Louis

Anna Huntington Haight, b. 2/14/1841; d. 9/19/1868; unmarried

Robert, b. 2/15/1842; m. in 1868 (1) Sophia Phebe Brannan; (2)____; children by first marriage: (1) Robert Fletcher who married 6/25/1903 Mary Roberts; (2) Elizabeth Yount who married first, Joseph Strong, an artist, and second, Waldemar Young, abt 1912.

Lucy (Haight) Sawyer, b. 3/6/1845, d. 1917; m. 10/29/1867, Charles H. Sawyer, who died 1876. He was a lawyer.

Mary Anne (Haight) Hackett, b. 8/26/1846; m. Capt. Edward Hackett, b. 1841

Thanks to Ann Freeman for her time and special photography. These photos are of the memorial for Fletcher Mathews Haight, the infant son of Judge Fletcher M. Haight and for Janet Cameron Haight King, his daughter. They are interred in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York.

Fletcher's monument from Laurel Hill Cemetery in San Francisco (now defunct) was not relocated to Mountain View. Many thanks to PhillyTR #49002914 and courtesy of UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library for photo of his original burial site from Laurel Hill .

FLETCHER
MATTHEWS
HAIGHT
DIED
FEB. 23, 1866
AE 66 YEARS

Beside his monument at Laurel Hill was one for Lewis Douglass, son of Cap. Lewis Douglass, of St. Louis, MO, died age 21 years