BIO:  John S. Hiestand, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Spring Garden Township, Pg 190

JOHN S. HIESTAND was born in Spring Garden Township, in May, 1837.  His parents, John and 
Elizabeth (Sultzbaugh) Hiestand, were also natives of York County, Penn.  Subject was reared on 
the farm, attended the common schools and supplemented his education by a regular course at the 
York Academy.  Mr. Hiestand has always followed farming, and is the owner of part of the old 
homestead farm in Spring Garden Township, two and a half miles from York on the pike.  This 
farm is in a high state of cultivation, with an elegant residence, and fine barns and out-
buildings.  He has served in various offices of public trust; he was register of wills three 
years, and director upon the school board fifteen years.  He is a member of the order of 
Heptasophs.  Mr. Hiestand, in November, 1857, was married to Miss Annie M., daughter of Philip 
and Mary (Gish) Oldweiler.  This union has been blessed with two children:  Thomas B. G. and 
Katie.  The grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Abraham Hiestand, came to York County in 
the year 1792, and first settled where Spring Grove now is.  Then moved to the old homestead, 
the place now known as Hiestand’s, in Spring Garden Township.  He had married Miss Fitz, from 
near Wrightsville, when he first came to this county.  They had eight children.  He lived to 
the age of eighty-eight years, seeing many great-grandchildren before he died, in the year 
1859.  The Hiestands are of Swiss extraction, the ancestor hero having come over in 1727.  [See 
II Col. Rec. or Rupp’s History of Lancaster County.]