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	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Jons-Josg) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		JOSEPH A. Joseph A A Burnquist was an American politician.
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	Biographies from Historical and Biographical Annals by Morton Montgomery
		Gabriel Hiester was born in Bern township in 1798, and died in Bethel township in 1872.
		Joseph Hiester was elected a member of the convention which met in Philadelphia, in November, 1787, to consider and ratify, or reject, the first constitution of the United States; and in 1789, he was a member of the convention which formed the second constitution of this State.
		Joseph Hiester, Governor of Pennsylvania, was born in Bern township, Berks county, Nov. 18, 1752.
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	Joseph Hiester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Hiester (18 November 1752 - 10 June 1832) was governor of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823.
		He served in Congress for 14 years and ran for governor in 1817, only to be defeated by William Findlay.
		Hiester faced Findlay again in 1820 and narrowly won a single term in office.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Hiester (112 words)

	PHMC: Governors of Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As a captain of militia, Hiester was zealous in raising soldiers at the beginning of the Revolution and served with distinction.
		In 1779, Hiester was one of the commissioners of exchange, seizing property from Revolutionary “traitors.” From 1780 to 1805, he served five annual terms in the state House of Representatives, four in the state Senate, and then fourteen years in Congress, as well as attending the State Constitutional Convention of 1789–1790.
		Hiester died on June 10, 1832, was originally interred in Reading’s Reformed Church Burying Ground, and later reinterred in Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/dam/governors/hiester.asp?secid=31 (496 words)

	Constitutional
		Mifflin was one of the three (Charles Thomson and Joseph Reed being the other two) major activists among the Pennsylvania radicals that pushed for delegates to be appointed to the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
		Hiester deplored the patronage powers that the position of Governor held and asked the Legislature: "Would it not be possible to devise some method of reducing the enormous power and patronage of the Governor…?"
		Hiester only desired one term and declined to run for re-election, at which time he retired from public life.
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	John Pritiskutch Reproductions - Berks (History of Berks County - Governor Hiester)
		The Hiester family has been a prominent one both in the history of the county and of the State.
		Joseph Hiester, then an influential young male, called together a number of the people of Reading, and by appealing to the patriotism of his hearers, succeeded in enrolling eighty men in ten days.
		Afterwards a regiment was formed, and it was understood that Joseph Hiester would be commander.
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	My Hiester Family Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rebecca HIESTER was born on 30 Jan 1827.
		Amelia HIESTER was born on 12 Jan 1829.
		Josiah HIESTER was born on 28 Mar 1831.
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	Joseph Hiester -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joseph Hiester (18 November 1752 - 10 June 1832) was governor of (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823.
		A militia leader during the (The revolution of the American colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783) American Revolutionary War and was briefly captured by the British.
		During his term, he presided over the dedication of the first state capitol building in the new capital of (Capital of Pennsylvania; located in southern part of state) Harrisburg.
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	Daniel Hiester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Daniel Hiester (June 25, 1747-March 7, 1804) An American political and military leader from the Revolutionary War period to the early 19th Century.
		In 1784 he was elected to the supreme executive council of Pennsylvania, and later in 1787 he was appointed as a commissioner to negotiate the Connecticut land claims dispute.
		Hiester was elected to the United States House of Representatives representing Pennsylvania, serving from March 4, 1789 until his resignation on July 1, 1796.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Daniel-Hiester.htm (271 words)

	Ancestry Message Boards - Message [ Hiester ]
		As many people here probably know, the Hiesters in America can be traced to the three brothers who immigrated in the 18th Century: John, Joseph, and Daniel.
		The Joseph Hiester who became governor was a son of John; hence, the governor was the nephew of the immigrant Joseph.
		Descendants on this line seem to include the early professional baseball player Obak Hiester as well as a Hiester who was a prominent early photographer of the American Southwest.
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	Berks Heim: The History of Berks Heim
		The Hiester family farmed the tract of land extending from the Bern Church to the Tulpehocken Creek in Bern Township.
		Hiester took an active part in public affairs and in the development of Reading and Berks County.
		During his greatest prominence, Hiester was regarded as the richest man in Berks County.
	www.co.berks.pa.us /berksheim/cwp/view.asp?A=1317&Q=452497&tx=1 (206 words)

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		John and Joseph settled there and on 18 Nov 1752, Governor Joseph Hiester was born, the son of John Hiester.
		Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
		That the elections in the district composed of Gibson and Jackson, in Susquehanna county, shall be held at the house of JOSEPH WASHBURN ESQ., in Gibson twp.
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	Ancestral Footprints in the Snow: Hiester Lineage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Daniel HIESTER was born on 5 Nov 1761.
		Joseph HIESTER was born on 4 Aug 1768.
		William HIESTER was born on 11 Nov 1770.
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	Joseph Hiester - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Joseph Hiester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	Joseph Hiester Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	The Hiester Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Hiester Homestead in America was originally established in Berks Co, Pennsylvania.
		Many of the Hiester ancestors served in various capacities in all branches of government.
		Joseph Hiester even served as Governor of Pennsylvania.
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	Hiester Footprints
		the hiester farm was in berks county pa near breezy corners/oley area.
		Well my mom has told me the bud hiester that you are talking about had called her or something like that and that i am related to him some how but she don`t know how.
		A.D.1480, the Patrician and Counsellor of Swineford, Adolphus Louis,called 'der Hiester', obtained from the Emperor Frederick, letters patent whereby he and his posterity were authorized to use the coat-of-arms he had inherited from his ancestors.
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	PA State Archives - MG-72 - Scope and Content Note - Hiester Family Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He became a partner in the rolling mills of Hiester and Callender at Fairview on the Susquehanna at the mouth of the Conodoguinet and was active until 1836 in the manufacture of bar iron and boiler plate.
		A lawyer by training, he was appointed attorney general of Pennsylvania in 1820 by Governor Joseph Hiester, a gentleman with whom he had had occasional cordial correspondence since 1796.
		Also featured are Thomas Elder letters with James Buchanan, Joseph Hiester, William Norris, and Thomas Pollock, 1796-1831; letters directed to Hiester and Callender (Fairview Mills) from John Harris, 1832, and from William and John Norris, 1833; and James Buchanan letters to Augustus O. Hiester, 1835, and to Hiester, Bioren and Company, 1835.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/dam/mg/mg72.htm (608 words)

	Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Descendants of John Joseph HUESTER
		John Hiester, born September 25, 1754 in Bern, Berks County, Pennsylvania; died September 17, 1826 in Bern, Berks County, Pennsylvania; married Catherine Albright; born January 11, 1758 in Berks County, Pennsylvania; died October 13, 1826.
		Daniel Hiester, born November 05, 1761; died April 16, 1813; married (1) Magdelena Albright November 30, 1784 in Bern Church; married (2) Barbara Kauffman Bef.
		Anna Elizabeth Hiester, born April 08, 1766; died October 03, 1846; married Jacob Van Reed 1784; born March 15, 1758 in Amity Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania; died January 11, 1839 in Amity Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
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	Marriages Pre-1885: Lebanon Courier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hiester, Mister Andrew D. Ebersole, of South Hanover Township, Dauphin County, to Miss Lydia J. Zearfoss, Derry Township, Dauphin County.
		Joseph Bleistein, of Cornwall Township, Lebanon County, to Miss Emma Westenberger, of Bismarck, Lebanon County.
		Joseph Bleistein, of Cornwall Twp., to Miss Emma Westenberger, of Bismarck, Lebanon County.
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	Centre Chapter 25
		As early as January 29th a meeting was held in Bellefonte to name delegates to the Carlisle Convention, which nominated Joseph Hiester on the 4th of March.
		James Monks, a native of Potter township, Centre County, was tried and convicted at the November term of court, 1818, for the murder of Reuben Guild.
		Joseph, son of Reuben Guild, died some eight years ago at Powsheik, Iowa.
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	FINDLAY, William
		Findlay was nominated by the Republicans as their candidate for governor.
		Joseph Hiester was selected by a disaffected branch of the Republican party, styled Old School men, to oppose him, who was supported also by the Federalists.
		In 1820, Governor Findlay again received the unanimous nomination of the Republicans for re-election, and Joseph Hiester was nominated, as before, by the Republicans of the Old School, and was supported by the Federalists en masse.
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	WebRoots Library U.S. History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His military career began in 1760; on the 2d of May in that year he was commissioned as lieutenant in Captain Joseph Scott's company of Colonel Hugh Mercer's battalion of the Pennsylvania regiment, and on the 10th of November, 1763, as captain in Colonel Turbutt Francis's battalion.
		In this emergency he applied to a friend of his boyhood, Joseph Hiester, of Reading (Governor of Pennsylvania, 1820-23), who loaned him one thousand dollars, and with this capital he embarked in merchandising at Sunbury before the year 1802 in a small log building on the north side of Market street.
		His wife was Catharine, daughter of Joseph Alter, and they were the parents of seven children, four of whom grew to maturity: Mary Sophia, deceased, who married J. Shindle, Jr.; Elizabeth, deceased, who married Samuel T.
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	Ancestral Footprints in the Snow: Hiester Lineage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John HIESTER was born in 1707 in Elssof borough, Grafschadt township, Witgenstein, Germany.
		Daniel HIESTER was born on 1 Jan 1713 in Elssof borough, Grafschadt township, Witgenstein, Germany.
		To eldest son John (later General John Hiester) the plantation in Coventry Township, Chester County, on which he now lives and for which he has a deed.
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	INDEPENDENCE TO THE CIVIL WAR: 1776-1861 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joseph Reed, George Bryan, William Findley, and other radicals governed Pennsylvania until 1790.
		Their most noteworthy accomplishments were the act for the gradual abolition of slavery (1780) and an act of 1779 which took over the public lands owned by the Penn family (but allowed them some compensation in recognition of the services of the founder).
		In 1820, a coalition of Federalists and conservative Democrats elected Joseph Hiester, whose non-partisan approach reformed government but destroyed his own coalition.
	www.legis.state.pa.us /WU01/VC/visitor_info/pa_history/III.htm (4035 words)

	PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY: Independence to the Civil War 1776-1861 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their most noteworthy accomplishments were the act for the gradual abolition of slavery (1780) and an act of 1779 which took over the public lands owned by the Penn webdocs (but allowed them some compensation in recognition of the services of the founder).
		The election of 1820 marked the end of the use of caucuses to select candidates and the triumph of the open conventions system.
		In 1834, Gov. Wolf signed the Free School Act which alienated many, including Pennsylvania Germans, so that the Democrats lost the next governorship to the Anti-Masonic Joseph Ritner who was supported by the Whig P arty.
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		JOSEPH MILTON MYERS BAHL, PHILIP 1739-1820 Sub-Lt., with rank of Lt. Col., in charge of military affairs of Northampton County, PA, March 30, 1780.
		Lt. JOSEPH BEALE, U.S.N. Member of the Committee of Safety and Correspondence of Drunmore County, VA, June 16, 1774; First Lt., Eighth Regiment, Colonel John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, VA Line, May 1776; resigned March 1, 1777.
		CHARLES SETON HENRY BLISS, JOSEPH 1757-1819 Second Lt., Third Continental Artillery, Feb., 1, 1777; transferred to Corps of Artillery, Continental Army, June 17, 1783; Paymaster of the Corps of Artillery, Continental Army, Jan. 29, 1784-June 20, 1784.
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	Gen. David McMurtrie GREGG Homepage
		At Commencement of 1854, Cadet Gregg met Miss Ellen Frances Sheaff of Reading, PA. She was on a trip with her aunt, Mrs.
		Miss Sheaff was the granddaughter of former PA Governor, Joseph Hiester.
		He is buried in the Hiester plot at the Charles Evans Cemetery in Reading.
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	Biography: Joseph Hiester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joseph Hiester, Governor of Pennsylvania, was born at Reading, Penn., November 18, 1752.
		In a few days eighty men were raised and ready to Join the Commander-in-chief.
		At the battle of Long Island the company was cut to pieces, and Captain Hiester severely wounded and taken prisoner.
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