Deer Creek Township
ELIAS HIESTAND, RecorderMr. Hiestand is the son of David and Catherine (Shaffer) Hiestand, both of German ancestry, and was born on the 10th day of July, 1841, in Fairfield County, Ohio. Subsequently, by overland route, his parents came to Carroll County, Ind., arriving and locating in Madison Township on the 1st day of November, 1852. David Hiestand, by occupation, was a farmer, and in the course of an industrious yet uneventful farmer’s life, served awhile as Captain of an Ohio militia company, and at a later period, as a Justice of the Peace. The subject of our sketch attended in his youth the neighboring district schools, and was favored by the additional, though somewhat limited, advantage of a year’s instruction at the Battle Ground Institute, and subsequently, a course at commercial college in Indianapolis. Returning home, he continued in the pleasant vacation in which a beginning had been made at the youthful age of seventeen years – namely, that of teaching school. In all, he has taught nineteen terms, six of these in succession in the town of Prince William.
Having served in minor township offices, in 1873 he was elected as a candidate of the Democratic party to the office of Surveyor of Carroll County, serving one term. In 1879, he was again a candidate for office this time for the Recordership of Carroll County. To this position he was successfully elected and is at present serving out the four years’ term. His election to the latter office brought about a change in his place of residence from Monroe Township, where he had gone in 1874 from his father’s farm to Delphi in the spring of 1879.
On the 4th of June, 1874, he was married to Miss Libbie A. Richardson, daughter of David Richardson, a Scotchman, who emigrated to America while yet a young man.
Mr. Hiestand and his estimable wife are members of the Methodist Church.
Mr. Hiestand is a member of the Masonic Lodge, and has occupied the position of Senior Warden.
In our limited business relations with Mr. Hiestand, we have always found him pleasant and unassuming in manner, and careful even to solicitude to honestly execute a trust of preserve his business integrity. He is a popular official, and in the course of Recordership, has gained a host of friends, whose friendships it is safe to say, he will never betray nor lose.
County Coordinator: Suzy Sprague suzyq.wa@worldnet.att.net