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A Genealogy of the Hiester Family
Three Hiester brothers--John (ca. 1707-1757), Joseph (ca. 1710-1777), and Daniel (1713-1795)--of Silesian origin, immigrated from Germany to Goshenhoppen, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania, and later settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Wisconsin and elsewhere.
The Pennsylvania-German
Devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants.
The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790, Volume I
This is the first volume of an ambitious project which, when completed, will offer to the historian of early America the first readily accessible account of the nation's first elections. Volume I documents the first federal elections in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. This book also covers the Constitution, the Confederation Congress, and federal elections, as well as the Confederation Congress and the First Federal Election Ordinance of September 13th, 1788. Included in the three-volume set are hundreds of documents which together illuminate the critical political events of the time and the men who forged them. The documents are both official ones--legislativ...
America's Political Dynasties
This is the 30th anniversary edition of a book that was hailed on publication in 1966 as "fascinating" by Margaret L. Coit in the Saturday Review and as "masterly" by Henry F. Graff in the New York Times Book Review.The Constitution could not be more specific: "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States." Yet, in over two centuries since these words were written, the American people, despite official disapproval, have chosen a political nobility. For generation after generation they have turned for leadership to certain families. They are America's political dynasties. Now, in the twentieth century, surprisingly, American political life seems to be largely peopled by those wh...
