Company. He died in Reading, Pennsylvania, on June 12, 1884, by suicide as a result of what one newspaper account called "financial embarrassment." He is interred at the Charles Evans Cemetery. Further reading The Political Graveyard References External links |- 1827 births 1884 deaths 19th-century American politicians American white supremacists Burials at Charles Evans Cemetery Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Hiester family Democratic Party Pennsylvania state senators People from Berks County, Pennsylvania People from Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Princeton University alumni