Gabriel Hiester and Mary Otto

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Husband Gabriel Hiester ¹

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           Born: 5 Jan 1779 - Bern Twp, Berks Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 Sep 1834 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA

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         Father: Hon. Gabriel Hiester (1749-1824) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Bausman (Abt 1751-Abt 1832) 3

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       Marriage: 12 May 1803 2

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Wife Mary Otto ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: 9 Jan 1853 - Estherton, (Dauphin Co?) PA 2
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         Father: Dr. John Augustus Otto (1751-1834) 4 5
         Mother: Catharine Hitner (      -Abt 1834) 4

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Children

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1 F Louisa Hiester ²

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           Died: Bef 1883
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2 F Harriet Hiester ²

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           Died: Bef 1883
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         Spouse: C. B. Bioren (      -      ) 2

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3 M Hon. Augustus O. Hiester ^{2 6 7}

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           Born: 11 Nov 1808 - Reading, Berks Co, PA 6
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           Died: Aft 1883
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         Spouse: Catharine Mary Cox (      -      ) 7 8
           Marr: 1835 8

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4 M Gabriel Hiester ²

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           Died: Bef 1883
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5 F Catharine Hiester ²

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General Notes: Husband - Gabriel Hiester

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He was given a good English and German education, and his youth was spent on his father's farm. His father having taken an active and very successful part in local politics, he exhibited the same spirit at an early age. By appointment from the Governor, he was prothonotary of Berks County, Pennsylvania, from 1809 to 1817, and clerk of the Quarter Sessions from 1809 to 1812 and 1814 to 1817, and associate judge from 1819 to 1823. During the War of 1812-15 he served as brigade-major under General William Addams, of Berks County, in the campaign at Washington and Baltimore. He served as a Presidential elector in 1817 and in 1821, casting his ballot on both occasions for James Monroe. Governor Andrew Shulze appointed him surveyor-general of the state on May 11, 1824, when he removed to Harrisburg, and he officiated in that position for six years. Whilst at Harrisburg he became interested in the iron business, and erected the first rolling-mill in that vicinity, at Fairview, on the Conedoguinet, and he continued actively engaged in it till his decease.

1 Morton L. Montgomery, History of Berks County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 527, 593.

2 Morton L. Montgomery, History of Berks County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 527.

3 Morton L. Montgomery, History of Berks County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 520.

4 Morton L. Montgomery, History of Berks County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 593.

5 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 76.

6 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 577.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 239.

8 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 578.