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Collection: 00032 - North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Folder: RY-01
Item: 00014
Title: Ramsey County Public School Superintendent John A Haig at Chautauqua Devils Lake (N.D.)
Date: 1908
Creator: Harrison, Job V. (Job Vincent),--1873-1955
Inscription/Marks: [facsimile file] Imprinted on front - "J. V. Harrison, Rock Lake, N.D. The Red White and Blue Art Gallery" Written in blue ink on back - "Supt. Haig" Written in Pencil on back "Chautauqua, 1908" Stamped on back "Arthur A. Powell" [biography-Ramsey County North Dakota Genealogy and History http://genealogytrails.com/ndak/ramsey/biographies.html] PROF. JOHN A. HAIGAs an efficient and popular educational worker this gentleman stands in a foremost rank. He is superintendent of the city schools of Devils Lake, North Dakota, and has devoted his entire life to this line of work and has met with remarkable success, the schools of which he now has charge being noted for their efficient management. Mr. Haig is progressive, enlightened and a tireless worker and well merits his high standing and success. Our subject was born in Potsdam, St. Lawrence county. New York. October 20, 1849. He spent the early years of his life in Potsdam and vicinity and was educated in the common schools of the town and at St. Lawrence Academy, of Potsdam. He graduated from Middlebury College at Middlebury, Vermont, in 1873, and in the fall of that year was elected principal of the Madrid Union Free School of Madrid, St. Lawrence county, which position he held two years, and then went to Messena, New York, and served as principal of the Union Free School and Academy five years. He then spent another year with his former school at Madrid and was then elected county superintendent of schools of the second commissioner's district of St. Lawrence county and held the position nine years. Then for three years he held the office of justice of the peace in Madrid, New York, and was representative of the town of Madrid on the board of county supervisors three years. In the summer of 1894 he was elected principal of the city schools of Devils Lake, where he has since remained. Our subject was married, at Madrid, New York. July 13, 1876, to Miss -Mary A. Hawley, a native of Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Haig are the parents of four children, as follows: Ernest H., now a junior in Carleton College, of Northfield, Minnesota; Alan V., cashier and bookkeeper for E. J. Chamberlain, of Devils Lake; Myron J., a student of the Devils Lake high school ; and Helen E., attending the city schools of that city. Mr. Haig has striven to promote the educational standard in North Dakota and his services while principal of the city schools of Devils Lake commend him to all as a man of true citizenship and honest principles. [Source: Compendium of History and Biography of North Dakota, Publ. 1900. Transcribed by B.Z.] [biography-Catalogue of Officers and Students of Middlebury College in Middlebury ...By Middlebury College] JOHN AITCHISON HAIG, son of John and Helen (Aitchison) Haig. Born in Postdam, N.Y. Oct. 20, 1848. Prepared for College in St. Lawrence Academy. Entered, 1870. Principal, Madrid, N.Y. Free School, 1873-1875 and 1880-1881. Superintendent, Massena Academy, 1875-1880. School Commissioner, Second District, ST. Lawrence Co., N.Y., 1881-1890. Supervisor, Town of Madrid, N.Y., 1891-1894. Superintendent, City Schools, Devils Lake, N.D., 1894-1901, Rolla, 1902-1904; Webster, 1905-1907; County Superintendent, Ramsey Co., N.D., 1909-1916. Married Mary Ann Hawley, July 12, 1876. Children *Ernest Hawley, Alan Vergil; Myron John; Helen Elizabeth. A.K.E. -A.B., 1873; A.M., 1880. Address: Devils Lake, N.D.
Summary: Ramsey County Public School Superintendent John Aitchison Haig, photo left behind a woman holding an umbrella stands with his crutches dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and tie and white straw hat conversing with others at the Chautauqua in Devils Lake (N.D.). Other men stand in the middle smoking cigars with their foot on the stump of a tree. In the background is one of the Chautauqua buildings with liftable shutters to cover the booth.
Red ID: PH_I_123889 Image ID: 139344 Image Notes: 00032-RY-01-00014

Collection: 00032 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: North Dakota Oral History Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1880-1977

Summary: Consists of copies of photographs belonging to people interviewed for the North Dakota Oral History Project. The Project was undertaken by Larry Sprunk, with the cooperation of the North Dakota American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, the North Dakota Farmers Union, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The primary objective of the North Dakota Oral History Project was to conduct oral tape recorded interviews with North Dakotans who lived through the state's history and who could speak of this history from a first-hand basis. Interviewees were photographed at the time of their interviews. In addition, the project borrowed over 6,000 historical photographs which were copied and added to the State Historical Society's collection. Many interviewees also donated family histories, documents, letters, ledgers, books, and artifacts.

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