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English
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Biographical Sketch and Diary of Isaac Chauncey Haight
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Provo
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Brigham Young University
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June 7, 1842 to February 12, 1862. Haight sails to Nauvoo from Windham, New York. He buys a house before serving a mission to Washingtonville, New York and helping his parents emigrate to Nauvoo. Haight joins the Nauvoo police and works on the temple. Haight reacts to J.J. Strang's letter and includes Orson Hyde's response to Strang's claims. He attends the April 1846 conference in Nauvoo and worries whether he will be able to go west with the Saints. He is finally able to leave Nauvoo in June, traveling to Winter Quarters. Haight crosses the Plains in 1847 with the David Spencer Company. Upon his arrival in the Salt Lake Valley, he begins planting. Late freezes and crickets kill most of the crops. Haight helps celebrate the first harvest and brings other companies into Salt Lake. He serves a mission to Birmingham, England. Orson Pratt's acknowledgement of polygamy causes many to apostatize. Haight leaves England and takes charge of immigration in St. Louis. He outfits and travels with the Wheelock, Gates, Brown, Harmon, and Stewart companies. Upon his return to Salt Lake, he is called to run the iron works in Cedar City and takes two additional wives. Haight is elected mayor of Cedar City and appointed to the Territorial Legislature. He brings the Reformation to Cedar City and establishes Virgin, Utah. He takes another wife, but spends 1859 avoiding arrest for the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Haight divides his time between Salt Lake and Cedar City for the rest of the diary.