El Dorado County
Biographies
JOHN D. HAGGART
Popularly known as “Uncle John,” was one of the first settlers at Uniontown. He was a native of Gloversville, Fulton county, New York, from which place he removed to California in 1849, and located at Uniontown. There were then no houses in the vicinity and Mr. Haggart and his comrades, Pogue and Hedrick, who was a blacksmith, camped under a large tree on Union Bar, and began mining. In the spring of 1850 he returned home to New York, but came to California again in 1852, after two more trips across the United States he returned to his California home, and on Sept. 29, 1876, at the ripe age of 79 years [?] surrendered up his life and was laid to rest in the burying ground at Uniontown. He was born July 4, 1804. Daniel Haggart, his son, was born at Gloversville, New York, June 9, 1833, and in his native town learned the glover’s trade, afterwards glue making, in which business he worked for a time as foreman. In 1852 he took passage via the Nicaragua route to California, arrived in San Francisco, January 10, 1853, and immediately joined his father at Uniontown, from that time until 1865 he was engaged in mining.
Is now engaged in fruit growing near Uniontown, has bout 16 acres of beautifully located ground, on which he has about 10,000 vines, together with apples, peaches, pears, plum trees and about 1,000 blackberry vines.
Mr. Haggart is an I.O.O.F. at Coloma, of which he is P.A., A.O.U.W., and is Past M. W., of Sutter Mill Grange and I.O.G.T.
Historical Souvenir of El Dorado County, California with Illustrations & Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men & Pioneers - Oakland, Cal. - Paolo Sioli, Publisher, 1883. p - 246
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler