Hon. Augustus O. Hiester and Catharine Mary Cox

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Husband Hon. Augustus O. Hiester ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 11 Nov 1808 - Reading, Berks Co, PA 1
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         Father: Gabriel Hiester (1779-1834) 4
         Mother: Mary Otto (      -1853) 4

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       Marriage: 1835 5

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Wife Catharine Mary Cox ^{2 5}

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         Father: John Bowes Cox, Sr. (1780-1831) 2
         Mother: Matilda Willis McAllister (1787-1858) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Augustus O. Hiester

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At twelve years of age he was sent to Downingtown Academy, in charge of Joshua Hoops, a Hicksite Quaker, next sent to Lebanon and placed under the care of Rev. Mr. Ernst, a Lutheran preacher, by whom in company with A. E. Shulze, son of Ex-Governor Shulze, he was prepared for college. In 1824 he entered Dickinson College, graduating in 1828, and was subsequently a trustee for many years; was elected a delegate with Dr. E. W. Roberts to the Infant-School Convention, which met in Washington, 1830. Traveled there in an old-fashioned gig, and dined with Henry Clay the day before the convention met. Then spent one year studying law in the office of Judge Krause. Law not being congenial to his taste, he abandoned the study, and spent six months at Huntingdon Forge (owned"by Dr. Shoenberger); leaving there he spent six months with Reuben Trexler, at Long Swamp Furnace, in Berks County. Returned to Harrisburg, and in 1830 and 1831 assisted in the erection of the rolling-mills at the mouth of the Conedoguinit Creek, when his father, in partnership with Norman Cullender, built a large boiler-plate and bar-iron mill. Took an active part in the management of the business until 1836, during the most disastrous period throughout the United States to ironmasters that they have been called to pass through.
He was a director many years of the Branch Bank of Pennsylvania until it was closed; was a director of the old Harrisburg Bank until it was changed, and is now a director of the Harrisburg National Bank. He was appointed associate judge by Governor Johnson to fill a vacancy occasioned by death, and was twice subsequently elected by the people for terms of five years each. He was also appointed one of three commissioners by the court of Dauphin County, under an act of the Legislature, to hear testimony and report their opinion of the damages sustained by individuals consequent upon Stuart's raid through the counties of Fulton, Franklin, and Adams. The commission consisted of Col. James Worrall, a gentleman from Lebanon County, and himself. He was by them elected chairman of the commission. He was chairman of the committee of arrangements of the first State fair, held at Harrisburg in 1851; was one of the five commissioners to select a location for the State Agricultural College, and after it was finished annually elected a trustee for about fifteen years. He was also secretary of the State Agricultural Society for four years. For six years he was a trustee of the State Lunatic Hospital.
While attending to his farm he led an active business life, settling estates as executor, acted as trustee for eleven persons, as guardian for ten children, and assignee for the settlement of three estates. He was among the first of the subscribers to the Harrisburg Cotton Factory, the Harrisburg Car-Works (of which he was a director), of the Harrisburg Street Passenger Railroad (of which he was president), and of the Fort Hunter Road Commission, of which he was secretary and treasurer.

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

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

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

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

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