Biography

12/02/1859 - 05/05/1905


HEISTER, Joseph Baker, a Representative from Westmoreland County; born, December, 2, 1859 in Bowerstown, Carroll County, Oh.; bricklayer; contractor; elected, council, New Kensington (3 years); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1902; resigned from the House, May 27, 1903; postmaster, United States Postal Service, New Kensington (1903-1904); reelected to the House for the 1905 term; died while in office, May 5, 1905 in New Kensington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Union Cemetery, Arnold, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. 


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