Isaac C. Haight

Isaac C. Haight

Isaac Chauncey Haight (May 27, 1813 – September 8, 1886), an early convert to Mormonism, was a colonist of the American West remembered as a major conspirator of the Mountain Meadows massacre.

A constable in the Mormon city of Nauvoo in Illinois, Haight was the first Mormon (member of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) to hear of the murder of Joseph Smith, Junior, the founder of Mormonism, when the messenger delivering the news rode up to the Nauvoo Temple, which Haight at the time was guarding.

Emigrating with the Latter-day Saints to Utah in 1847, the following year Haight and about fifty others were sent by Brigham Young about 300 miles south from Salt Lake City to establish the city of Parowan. Among these settlers was Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt; and apostle George A. Smith also established a winter home there.