1886 - Portrait and Biographical Album of Ogle County, Illinois, Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1886. (Pgs: 782-83)

Jonathan Hiestand, a resident of Adeline in the township of Maryland, was born in Ogle County, Nov. 21, 1842. He is the son of Henry and Elizabeth (Newcomer) Hiestand. His parents were both born in Washington Co., Md. The birth of his father occurred in 1803 and that of his mother in 1807. They were married in their native county in the year 1830 and came to Illinois in 1838, having passed the pre­vious year in Ohio, whither they removed from Maryland.  Following is the account of their children: Mary E., who married Charles Zigler; Benjamin F.; Sarah, wife of Dr. Isaac Rice of Mt. Morris; Barbara, wife of Nelson T. Potter; Ann B., Jonathan and Henry are the names in the order in which they were born. Ann and Benjamin F. are not living. The former died in childhood. The latter enlisted in 1862 and was a Sergeant in Co. D, 92d Ill. Vol. Inf., April 23, 1864; he was captured by the rebels and was sent to the modern Golgotha, Andersonville stockade prison. He died there amid the most dread­ful prison horrors that darken the pages of history, Aug. 2, following his incarceration. His grave is No. 4583.

On his arrival in Ogle County, Henry Hiestand purchased claims to 580 acres of land which were situated in sections 4 and 5 of township 24 and on section 33 of township 25. Mr. Hiestand was an in­dustrious man and enjoyed the esteem of the com­munity in which he resided. A number of years previous to the organization of his township he was elected County Commissioner and subsequently served as Assessor and Supervisor of the township of Mt. Morris. Politically, he was at first an Old Line Whig and subsequently a Republican. In common with all settlers he and his wife endured the hardships incident to pioneer life; but it was their good fortune to acquire a respectable competence, to live to see the wilderness transformed into a garden and to witness the advent of the railroad and the tel­egraph.

The father of our subject died in 1869. His mother in 1882. Mr. Hiestand of this sketch, was reared on the farm of his father and passed the greater part of his life there. He was a pupil in the public schools through the early portion of his youth and later be was a student at Rock River Seminary at Mt. Mor­ris. After completing his education he was engaged in teaching for several terms in his native county and is at present a citizen of Adeline as has been men­tioned. He is a Republican in his political senti­ment.

The family which he represents in this county are the descendants of John Hiestand who settled in Lancaster Co., Pa. He was one of the emigrants from the Palatinate, who sought freedom of thought and conscience in the New World, and came under the solicitations of William Penn, who visited that part of Europe to secure colonists to settle on the lands he had received from the British Government to re­imburse him for the confiscated estates of his father. John Hiestand landed at Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 1727.

Mr. Hiestand is a man of culture and refinement and is conversant with the best standard literature and a patron of the leading periodicals of the day.  He is extensively interested in real estate in O'Brien Co., Iowa.

Lewis Kretsinger