HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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-was born August 24, 1843, and they were 

 the parents df ten children: John H., the 

 •si'bject of this sketch; Abraham S., born 

 March 29, 1868; Isaac S., born August 31, 

 ih'/o; Mary M., born October ji\ 1872. 

 -wife of W. Irvin Bryan; Elizabeth, born 

 A-gust 10, 1874 wif; cf T/nn T Slahr; 

 J.-irob S., born Apjil 6, 1877; Reuben S. 

 and Lydia Ann, born October 7, 1880, the 

 latter deceased; Allen S., born May 31, 

 1883; and Enos S., born ]May 23, 1886. 



John H. Stever, eldest son of Reuben 

 B. and Mary S. Stever, born in Bedmin- 

 ster, June 12, 1866, was reared in that town- 

 ship and educated at the public schools. He 

 remained on his father's farm until nine- 

 teen years of age, and then learned the 

 blacksmith trade with John F. Crouthamel, 

 of Bedminster, and has followed that trade 

 for twenty years. In 1905 he purchased 

 the Hilltown hotel property and fourteen 

 acres of land of Gottleib Mease, and has 

 since conducted the hotel. He has always 

 taken active interest in local affairs, and 

 .served as a school director in Bedminster. 

 He is a member of Bedminster Castle, No. 

 -285, K. G. E.J of Bedminster. He married, 

 February 21, 1889, Angelina Fulmer, daugh- 

 ter of Amos Fulmer, and they are the par- 

 ■ents of two children : Edith, born Novem- 

 ber 30, 1889; and Sylvester, born Decem- 

 ber 31, 1893. 



HARRY NEAMAND, the popular drug- 

 gist of Perkasie, Pennsylvania, was born 

 in Philadelphia, IMay 27, 1867, but is a 

 descendant of early German settlers in 

 Bucks county. John Neamand, his great- 

 great-grandfather, was a native of Germany 

 and one of the earliest settlers on the 

 Tohickon, near Keller's church, in Bedmm- 

 ster township, and died there when com- 

 _paratively a young man, in 1768. He mar- 

 ried in 1760, Margaret Keller, born April 

 14, 1749, daughter of Heinrich, and Juli- 

 •anna (Kleindinst) Keller, both natives ot 

 Weierbach, Baden, Germany, from whence 

 they emigrated to Pennsylvanian in 1738, 

 .and a few years later settled on the Tohick- 

 on. Heinrich was one of the organizers 

 ■of the church which still bears his name, 

 in 1746. He was the father of eleven chil- 

 dren, and has left numerous descendants 

 in Bucks county. John and Margaret (Kel- 

 ler) Neamand were the parents of three 

 children. — John. Peter and Barbara. Mar- 

 garet Neamand married for her second 

 husband, in 1769, }klichael Stoneback. Peter 

 Neamand, the second son, settled on a farm 

 in Nockamixon. where he died in 1816, 

 leaving a son John, who died unmarried 

 in 1830; another son Samuel, who left an 

 only son. Reed Neamand; and four daugh- 

 ters : Susannah, married Philip Franken- 

 field ; Catharine, died in Doylestown, De- 

 cember 26, 1889, unmarried ; ]Maria, never 

 married ; and Sarah, married Elias Reig- 

 •el, and died August 10, 1890, at a very ad- 

 vanced age. 



John Neamand. eldest son of John and 

 Margaret (Keller) Neamand, was born in 



Bedminster in 1761, and was reared in the 

 family of his step-father, Michael Stone~ 

 back, in Haycock township, where he later 

 owned and operated a farm of 55 acres. 

 John Neamand, son of the above named 

 John, was born in Haycock township, but 

 later removed to Philadelphia. He was 

 the father of six sons: William, Harry, 

 Robert, John, Howard, and Milton. 



William Neamand, son of John and IMary 

 Neamand, was born in Philadelphia, March 

 30, 1841. He was educated in the schools 

 of that citj', and early in life learned the 

 trade of a whitesmith, and was a manu- 

 facturer of all kinds of chandeliers. At the 

 breaking out of the civil war in i86r he 

 enlisted in the 71st Regt. Pennsylvania Vol- 

 unteers, and served in the Army of the 

 Potomac throughout the war. He was cap- 

 tured at the battle of Antietam, and was 

 a prisoner of war for six weeks, when he 

 was exchanged and rejoined his command. 

 He was in the three days carnage at Get- 

 tysburg, and was wounded in the evening 

 of the third day's fight and taken to the 

 hospital. He was also in the battles of 

 Ball's Bluff, Chancellorsville, Fredericks- 

 burg, Fair Oaks, Peach Orchard, Savage 

 Station, Malvern Hill, White Oak Swamp, 

 as, well as in a number of minor engage- 

 ments. At the close of the war he en- 

 gaged in farming noar Doylestown. whtr-; 

 bt resided for eight or nine years. He then 

 removed to Richland township, near Ricn- 

 h.ndtown, where he was engaged in farm- 

 ing until 1905, when he removed to Rich- 

 landtown borough, where he still resides. 

 He is a member of Gen. Peter Lyle Post, 

 G. A. R. No. 145, of Quakertown ; of Rich- 

 landtown Castle, Knights of the Golden 

 Eagle ; and also of the Order of United 

 American Mechanics. Politically he is a 

 Republican. His wife \vas Mary A. Smith, 

 daughter of Thomas Smith, of Philadel- 

 phia, and nine children have been born to 

 them: Harry, the subject of this sketch; 

 William, deceased. Charles, married An- 

 nie Martin, of Richland; Colin, married 

 Winnie Weaver, of Richland. Walter, de- 

 ceased ; Kate, wife of Joseph Foulke, of 

 Richland; Harvey, married Mary Zinger; 

 Edward ; and Frederick, married Mabel 

 Laubach, of Darham. 



Harry Neamand, was educated in the 

 public schools of Richlandtown, and spent 

 his early boyhood days working on his fath- 

 er's farm. At an early age he accepted a 

 position in the drug store of Dr. O. H. 

 Fretz, of Quakertown, where he remained 

 for six years, in the meantime taking a 

 special course in the Philadelphia College 

 of Pharmacy. He is also a graduate of the 

 Chicago Institute of Pharmacy and the 

 Era School of Pharmacy, New York. In 

 1894 he erected a drug store in Perkasie, 

 and started into the drug business for him- 

 self, and by close application to business 

 has built up a fine business. He also 

 conducts a general news agency at his drug 

 store, and is one of the active and popular 

 young business men of that thriving bor- 

 ough. In politics he is an ardent Republl- 



