William Muhlenberg Hiester

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William Muhlenberg Hiester (born May 15, 1818 in Reading , Pennsylvania , † August 16, 1878 ibid) was a high-ranking American military and politician . He came from the politically very active Muhlenberg / Hiester family.

Career

Hiester was born on May 15, 1818 in Reading, Pennsylvania, to Isaac Hiester (1785–1855) and Esther Muhlenberg Hiester (1785–1872). He was the grandson of General Peter Muhlenberg (1746–1807) and great-grandson of Henry Melchior Mühlenberg (1711–1787), the founder of the Lutheran Church in North America.

After graduating from Bristol College in Croydon, Pennsylvania , he studied law at Harvard University and was admitted to the bar. He practiced in Erie , Pennsylvania, and later with Henry Augustus Muhlenberg (1823-1854) in Reading.

From 1853 to 1855 he was a member of the Democratic Party of the Senate of Pennsylvania , in 1855 its president pro tempore. In January 1858 he was convened by Governor William F. Packer (1807-1870) to the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania .

During the Civil War Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) invaded Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863, Hiester was called up by Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin (1817-1894) to major in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard , where he deployed 8,000 troops to defend the state. During the war he switched to the Republican Party and lost to the US House of Representatives in the 1864 election .

William Muhlenberg Hiester died on August 16, 1878 in Reading, Pennsylvania, and was buried there in Charles Evans Cemetery.

Web links

literature

  • Morton L. Montgomery: Historical and biographical annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania . Beers, Chicago.
  • Charles Robson: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania of the Nineteenth Century . Galaxy, Philadelphia 1874.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Baumgardner Cochran (Ed.): Smull's Legislative Hand Book and Manual of the State of Pennsylvania . Meyers, Harrisburg 1891.
  2. ^ Valeria E. Clymer Hill: A Genealogy of the Hiester Family . Report, Lebanon 1903.
  3. ↑ William M. Shufflebarger et al .: Virtue, Liberty, Independence . The Senate of Pennsylvania in the Civil War, 1861-1865 . Harrisburg 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Hiester, William Muhlenberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American military and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1878
Place of death Reading , Pennsylvania