Francis M. "Frank" Hiester

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Husband Francis M. "Frank" Hiester ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1828 1
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           Died: 9 Apr 1864 - Reading, Berks Co, PA 1
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         Father: Dr. Isaac Hiester (1785-1855) 3
         Mother: Esther Muhlenberg (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Francis M. "Frank" Hiester

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He received a preparatory educational training in the schools of his native town and then entered the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, from which institution he was graduated in 1849. After spending the succeeding two years in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, he was graduated in 1852 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He next visited Europe and spent eighteen months in the medical hospitals of Paris, France. Upon returning home he followed his profession with his father in Reading. Soon after the latter's death, in 1855, he relinquished the practice of medicine, and engaged in the mercantile business until 1861, when he was appointed assistant surgeon of the Fifty-fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers and in the autumn of 1861, was appointed brigade surgeon in the volunteer service of the United States, with the rank of major. His last government position was that of medical director of the Department of Ohio, with headquarters at Cincinnati. He died at his home in Reading, at the early age of thirty-six years.

1 Morton L. Montgomery, History of Berks County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 595.

2 Rev. P. C. Croll, D.D., Annals of Womelsdorf, Pa., and Community, Pg 133.

3 Morton L. Montgomery, History of Berks County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 594.