Biography

03/16/1745 - 02/14/1824

Lieutenant Colonel Edward Warner Heston (Democratic-Republican1) Delaware, Philadelphia City, Philadelphia Counties 1803-1805 (Constitutionalists, Quid1) Delaware, Philadelphia City, Philadelphia Counties 1805-1808 (Constitutionalists, Quid1) Philadelphia City, Philadelphia County 1808-1809 (Democratic-Republicans1) Philadelphia City, Philadelphia County 1809-1811

Early Life:

Lieutenant Colonel Edward Warner Heston, born March 16, 1745, Upper Makefield, Bucks, Province of Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; son of Jacob and Mary Kirk Heston; captain, Sixth Company, Seventh Battalion, Pennsylvania Militia, prisoner of war, American Revolutionary War; received, Lieutenant Colonel commission, Revolutionary War; married, Mary Griffith Heston, 1768, (d. 1781), children, Abraham Heston, Isaac Heston, Bathsheba Heston Dickinson; married, Sarah Hall Heston, 1784, Jane Heston Worstall, Rachel Heston Swayne, Hannah Heston Coggins, Matilda Heston, Isaac Heston, Louisa Heston Paxson; Judge, Court of Common Pleas, four years; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1st district, 1799; elected, Democratic-Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1803-1805,; Quid, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1805-1808, Quid, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1808-1809, Democratic-Republicans, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1809-1811; unsuccessful campaign, United States House of Representatives, 1822; died, February 14, 1824 (aged 78), Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interment, Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Entered Revolution, captain, Sixth Company, Seventh Battalion, Pennsylvania militia, during a skirmish with the British, he suffered a severe sword cut to the back of the head and was taken prisoner and sent to Long Island, New York, where he was held for seven months. By the end of the war, he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Judge, Court of Common Pleas, four years.

Unsuccessful campaign, Democratic-Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1st district, 1799.

Elected, Democratic-Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1st district, Delaware, Philadelphia City, Philadelphia Counties, 1803-1805; Constitutionalists (Quid), Pennsylvania State Senate, 1st district, Delaware, Philadelphia City, Philadelphia Counties, 1805-1808; Constitutionalists (Quid), Pennsylvania State Senate, 1st district, Philadelphia City, Philadelphia County, 1808-1809; Democratic-Republicans, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1st district, Philadelphia City, Philadelphia County, 1809-1811.

Unsuccessful campaign, United States House of Representatives, District 1 Pennsylvania, 1822.

Legacy:

Founded, the village of Hestonville; appears as a sparsely populated crossroads community at the junction of Lancaster Pike (now Avenue) and the “Old Lancaster Road” (now 54th Street, Philadelphia). 

Cited:

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members H". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

West Philadelphia Collaborative History - Hestonville in 1849 (upenn.edu)

West Philadelphia Collaborative History - Hestonville in 1861 (upenn.edu)

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members H". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

A New Nation Votes (tufts.edu)

LTC Edward Warner Heston (1745-1824) - Find a Grave Memorial