Hiester, Joseph
soldier, state senator, congressman, governor, was born Nov. 18, 1752, in Bern township. He was , was captured and confined in the Jersey prison-ship. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1776 ; and of the state constitutional convention of 1790, and served five years in the house and four in the senate of Pennsylvania . In 1807 he was appointed one of the two major-generals to command the quota of Pennsylvania militia that was called for by the president.
He served in congress from 1797 till 1805, and again from 1815 till 1820, when he resigned. He was governor of Pennsylvania from 1821 till 1823. He died June 10, 1832, in Reading, Pa. con-