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== Early life ==
William R. Hearst was born in San Francisco to millionaire mining engineer, goldmine owner and U.S senator (1886-91) [[George Hearst]] and his wife [[Phoebe Hearst|Phoebe Apperson Hearst]].
His paternal great grandfather, John Hearst of Scottish origin, emigrated to America with his wife and six children in 1766 and settled in [[South Carolina]]. Their immigration to America was spurred in part by the colonial government's policy that encouraged the immigration of Protestants.{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}} The names “John Hearse” and “John Hearse Jr.” appear on the council records on the October 26, 1766, being credited with meriting {{convert|400|acre|km2}} and {{convert|100|acre|km2}} of land on the Long Canes (in what became Abbeville District), based upon {{convert|100|acre|km2}} to heads of household and {{convert|50|acre|m2}} for each dependent of a Protestant immigrant. The “Hearse” spelling of the family name never was used afterward by the family members themselves, or any family of any size. A separate theory purports that one branch of a “Hurst” family of Virginia (originally from Plymouth Colony) moved to South Carolina at about the same time and changed the spelling of its surname of over a century to that of the emigrant Hearsts.<ref>Carlson (2007), p. 3-4</ref> Hearst's mother, née [[Phoebe Apperson]], was of Irish ancestry; her family came from [[Galway]].<ref>Robinson (1991), p. 33</ref> She was the first woman regent of [[University of California, Berkeley]], funded many anthropological expeditions and founded the [[Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology]].
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