Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Heston, George T.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Newtown Township


   GEORGE T. HESTON physician, P.O. Newtown, was born in 
Buckingham township, this county, in 1827.  He is a direct 
lineal descendant of Zebulon Heston, who came from the manor 
house of "Heston," near London, about 1650, and settled in 
Eastham, Barnstable county, Mass.  In 1686 he removed to 
Burlington, N. J.  He was an extensive dealer in real 
estate, and left several hundred acres of land in 
Hestonville, Philadelphia, three hundred acres in Bucks 
county, and for that time a large amount of personal 
property.  His wife's name was Dorothy, and they had nine 
children.  Of these Jacob, the seventh, was born in 1713.  
He was an elder in the Friends' meeting.  He married Mary 
Warner in 1739, and had seven children.  Jesse, his second 
child and oldest son, was born in 1843, and was an elder in 
the Wrightstown meeting.  He married Mary Stackhouse, by 
whom he had seven children.  Jacob, the second child and 
oldest son, born in 1769, was the grandfather of George T.   
Jesse S., the father of George T., married Martha Thomas. He 
was an extensive dealer in coal lands in the Shamokin 
Valley, Pa., and was one of the pioneers of the Middle coal 
fields.  He also owned a store in Newtown.  George T. was 
reared in Newtown and educated at West Town boarding school 
and Haverford college.  In 1845 he began the study of 
medicine with Dr. Phineas Jenks, of Newtown, and in 1847 
entered the medical department of the University of 
Pennsylvania, from which institution he graduated in 1850.  
He began practice the same year at Fox Hill, N. J.  In 1852 
he located in Newtown, where he has been in active practice 
35 years.  His mother is living in Bristol, at the age of 84 
years, with her two sons, William E. and Joseph T.