- JAMES HAGGART, one of the prominent farmers and business
men of La Prairie township,
- Rock County, was born in the village of Fonda, Montgomery
Co., N.Y., Dec. 13, 1843, son of James and Deborah (VEEDER) HAGGART,
natives of New York, and grandson of James HAGGART, who emigrated
from Scotland, his native land, to America, and settled in Montgomery
County, N.Y., where he reared a large family and lived to a good
old age. He was a farmer. Abraham VEEDER, the maternal grandfather
of our subject, was a native of New York, of Holland-Dutch descent.
He was a farmer, and served as a soldier in the war of 1812.
He died in Montgomery County, N.Y., at a ripe old age, leaving
a large family.
- The father of our subject was a farmer by occupation. He
moved from New York State to
- Wisconsin in 1851, purchasing 213 acres of land in La Prairie
township, Rock County, and twenty-seven acres in the town of
Turtle, which he improved. He died in November, 1877, aged seventy-five
years. His wife died Oct. 8, 1882, aged eighty-three years. They
were devout members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their nine
children, three sons and six daughters, three survive: Anna,
wife of James WILSON, of Canton, Kans.; Sarah, wife of C. N.
WRIGHT, of Shopiere, Rock Co., Wis.; and James, our subject.
- James HAGGART was seven years old when brought by his parents
from New York to
- Wisconsin. In 1852, the year following, the family returned
to Fonda, where for six years the father kept hotel. They then
repeated the journey to Wisconsin. James was reared a farmer
boy in La Prairie township, attending the common schools. He
remained on the farm of his father until the latter's death,
then took charge of the home place, which he still owns and operates.
In addition to farming he is also engaged in the creamery and
general merchandise business at Shopiere, and is one of the successful
and influential business men of La Prairie township.
- Mr. HAGGART married, Sept. 30, 1869, Miss Laura NASH, daughter
of Samuel Leonard and
- Ann Elmira (KIMBALL) NASH, who came from New York to Rock
County, Wis., in 1853, when she was seven years old, locating
in Turtle township, and there engaging in farming. Later they
removed to Manchester, Ill., where the father died in 1884, having
attained the age of almost eighty-four years; his wife survived
until September, 1887, dying at the age of seventy-two. Four
children were born to them, of whom two are now living: Lois,
who lives with her sister; and Laura, wife of our subject. To
James and Laura (NASH) HAGGART have been born three children:
Archie, who died at the age of twenty-one years and two months;
James L., who lives at home; and one who died in infancy.
- Mr. HAGGART in politics is a Republican. Fraternally he is
a member of the Modern Woodmen
- of America. He is highly respected for his sterling traits
of character, and is a typical representative of those sturdy
and forceful characters to whom the people of Wisconsin are deeply
indebted for the high development of the State during the past
half century.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 115-116.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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