# Jacob Haight

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'''Jacob Haight''' (March 4, 1775 or 1776 – c. 1860 in [Catskill](/source/Catskill_(town)%2C_New_York), [Greene County, New York](/source/Greene_County%2C_New_York)) was an American politician.

==Life==
He was a member of the [New York State Senate](/source/New_York_State_Senate) from 1824 to 1827. In 1828, he was among the incorporators of the Catskill and Ithaca Railroad which was never built. He was [New York State Treasurer](/source/New_York_State_Treasurer) from 1839 to 1842.

==Sources==
*[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haibach-haiko.html Political Graveyard]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA35 ''The New York Civil List'' compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 35 and 141; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) (Google Books)]
*[http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/abnyrr.Html Early railroads, at Catskill Archive]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=JzxVAAAAMAAJ&q=6673 ''A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families''] by David Webster Hoyt (Printed for the author by the Providence Press Co., 1871; page 606)

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