Governor Joseph Hiester, a historical sketch .. . GOVERNOR JOSEPH HIESTER. /|rOVERNOR JOSEPHV® HIESTER was a dis-tinguished representative ofa typical family; one ofthat class of the populationof our great Common-wealth—the Pennsylvania-German—whose blood, insome form, flows throughthe veins of most of its oldfamilies, and whose in-fluence has done much tomould the of itspeople and to place it in the front rank of the great statesof this great union. The remote ancestors of the Hiester family were ofSilesian origin. The head of the family was the KnightPremisclorus Hiisterniz, who f
Governor Joseph Hiester, a historical sketch .. . GOVERNOR JOSEPH HIESTER. /|rOVERNOR JOSEPHV® HIESTER was a dis-tinguished representative ofa typical family; one ofthat class of the populationof our great Common-wealth—the Pennsylvania-German—whose blood, insome form, flows throughthe veins of most of its oldfamilies, and whose in-fluence has done much tomould the of itspeople and to place it in the front rank of the great statesof this great union. The remote ancestors of the Hiester family were ofSilesian origin. The head of the family was the KnightPremisclorus Hiisterniz, who flourished about 1329, andheld the ofllice of mayor, or town captain, of the city ofSwineford. In 1480 the Patrician and Counsellor ofSwineford, Adolphus Louis, called der Hiester, ob-tained from the Emperor Fredericlc letters patent author-izing him and his descendants to use the coat-of-arms he5 3. 4 The Pennsylvania German Society. had inherited from his ancestors. The Hiester arms areblazoned, Azure, a sun, or. Crest: Between two horns,surmounting a helmet affronte, the sun as in the Laurence Hiester—1637—an eminent surgeon of hisday in Germany, was a member of the family. It is mostprobable that General de Hiester, commanding the Hessiancontingent at the battle of Long Island, where he wasdirectly opposed to his American namesake, was likewisea descendant from the same original head. From Silesiathe family was distributed throughout Austria, Bavaria,Saxony, Switzerland, and the countries bordering on theriver Rhine. The various members in this country spring from threebrothers, John, Joseph and Daniel, who were the sons ofJohn and Catharine Hiester, and emigrated from the townof Elsoff, in the Grafschaft, County of Wittgenstein, prov-ince of Westphalia, Germany. Almost without exceptionthe entire offspring of these brothers have occupied honor-able stations in li
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