These companies involved wagons and teams sent out from Utah to bring back new emigrants, their baggage, and their freight on the return trip.

He was the son of Hector Caleb Haight and his wife, Julia Ann (née Van Orden).

He was in the company sent to aid the Latter-day Saints on the trail in coming into Salt Lake City in 1848.

His wife Louise (née Leavitt) Haight was a counselor to Aurelia Spencer Rogers in the first Primary, which was organized in Farmington.

Haight served there as a bishop until 1887 and then became president of the newly formed Cassia Stake.