Born 13 Aug. 1766 in Brookfield, Worcester Co., Massachusetts.[1] Son of John Hair and Agnes Steel.[2] Married Sarah Morgan, by 1787.[3] Maternal grandfather of EBW.[4] Died 24 Feb. 1831 in Worcester Co.[5]
[1] Brookfield, MA, Town Clerk, Vital Records, 1700–1911, Births and Deaths, 1700–1817, p. 95, John Haire, 13 Aug. 1766, microfilm 868520, DGS 701170, FHL. Vital Records of Brookfield, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, MA: Franklin P. Rice, 1909), 109.
[2] Brookfield, MA, Town Clerk, Vital Records, 1700–1911, Births and Deaths, 1700–1817, p. 95, John Haire, 13 Aug. 1766, microfilm 868520, DGS 701170, FHL. Vital Records of Brookfield, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, MA: Franklin P. Rice, 1909), 109, 327.
[3] J. H. Temple, History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts (Boston: Town of North Brookfield, 1887), 609. EBW, “Genealogical Pencil Record for Hare, Haire, and Hair Families, 1916 January 20,” p. 8, Special Collections, Digital Collections, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (http://sc.lib.byu.edu, accessed 22 Mar. 2021).
[4] Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017), 503. EBW, “Genealogical Pencil Record for Hare, Haire, and Hair Families, 1916 January 20,” p. 8, Special Collections, Digital Collections, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (http://sc.lib.byu.edu, accessed 22 Mar. 2021).
[5] “Massachusetts, U.S. Town and Vital Records, 1620–1988: Worcester, Birth, Marriages, and Deaths,” database online, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com, accessed 14 Mar. 2021), Worcester Co., MA, p. 71, 24 Feb. 1831, John Hair.