Hon. Joseph Hirst was an agriculturist, and at one time ran the Bath Hotel. His death occurred in that place when he was fifty-seven years of age. In politics he took an active part, for two terms represented his fellow-citizens in the Legislature, being elected on the Democratic ticket, and was also Justice of the Peace for many years, occupying an enviable position in the esteem of his friends and neighbors. His wife, formerly Mary Gangewere, was born in Allentown, and was a sister of Col. Abram Gangewere, who won that title in the War of 1812. Mrs. Hirst died when over seventy-six years of age. Both she and her husband were devoted members of the Lutheran Church, and of the fifteen children who graced their union, all but one lived to maturity, but only eight now survive.