Anna Haight (2 October 183429 March 1898), was a First Lady of California, being wife of Henry Haight,

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from 1867 to 1871.

Life

Anna Haight was born Anna Bissell on 2 October 1834 in St. Louis to Captain Lewis Bissell and his wife, the former Mary Woodbridge. Captain Bissell built the house in which Anna grew up; Lewis Bissell House (1820), now a restaurant and banquet facility, is considered to be the oldest surviving house in St. Louis. Anna met Henry Haight, a San Francisco attorney, in St. Louis, and married him on 24 January 1855. They sailed from New York on 20 February, bound for San Francisco. They had five children, Janette, Mary, Dugald, Henry H., Jr. and Louis. The Haights were the last family to use the

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as the Governor's residence. Anna died on 29 March 1898 in

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and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland.

References

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