Daniel Haines

Birth Date

1801-01-06

Death Date

1877-01-26

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Sussex County, New Jersey, Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court and Governor. New York City, New York, native. Son of Elias Haines and Mary Ogden Haines. Married to Ann Maria Austin Haines on June 28, 1827. Father to Alanson Haines, Ann Haines, Sarah Haines, Thomas Ryerson Haines, and Henrietta Haines. Married to Mary Townsend in Essex County, New Jersey on July 6, 1865. Graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton University) in 1820. New Jersey state legislator from 1839 to 1843. Governor of New Jersey from October 27, 1843 to January 21, 1845. Governor of New Jersey from January 18, 1848 to January 20, 1851. Employed Ford D. Keeler as a laborer in Sussex County in 1850. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for Sussex County from 1852 to 1866. Employed Michael Rosafadt and Ann Agney as domestics in Sussex County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New Jersey, Sussex County, Hardyston, p. 158B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, New Jersey, Sussex County, Hardyston, p. 474.
New Jersey Marriages, New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, New Jersey, Essex County Marriages, Film #001301980, p. 310.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New Jersey for the Year Ending October 31, 1906, (Somerville, NJ: The Unionist-Gazette Printing House, 1907), 127.
Frederick M. Hermann, "Daniel Haines," in The Governors of New Jersey, 1664-1974: Biographical Essays, eds. Paul A. Stellhorn and Michael J. Birkner, (Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1982), 114-116.
Find A Grave, "Daniel Haines (1801-1877)," Memorial #4838, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4838 (accessed May 7, 2021).

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