Dates

• Existence: 1891 - 1977

Biography

Anne Pardee Lyon Haight was in St. Paul, Minnesota, on May 11, 1891. She was educated at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Haight was an author, collector, and aviation enthusist, and studied Native American culture. She was founding member of the Hroswitha Club. She was credited with starting the Children's Book of the Month Club. She was a member of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, the Women's Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association, the Society of Woman Geographers, and the Women Fly Fishers Club.

During World War I, Haight worked in the American Women's War Relief Hospital in Devonshire, England, and later worked with the Red Cross in Washington, DC.

She flew with Charles Lindbergh on several of his notable flights: she was a passenger on the first trans-Atlantic flight on a Pan-American Clipper in June 1939, and also on the first Clipper flight to South America. She contributed articles about these experiences to several magazines.

Haight participated in several American Museum of Natural History-organized research expeditions to the Isthmus of Panama to study Native American civilizations. Many Native American artifacts collected by Haight and her husband were donated to the Hood Museum of Art. At one point, she travelled to Saudi Arabia where she was a guest of King Saud, to advocate for the preservation of the Arabian oryx

She was married to Sherman Post Haight, Sr., with whom she had two sons and a daughter. She died at her home in Litchfield, Connecticut, on August 8, 1977 at the age of 88.

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