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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



B. Williams, was born in New Britain town- 

 ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, January 

 26, 1821. He received a goad academic edu- 

 cation and entered Jefferson Medical Col- 

 lege, from which he graduated. lie located 

 in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he practiced 

 medicine until his death in 1885. He was 

 a member of the Lehigh Valley Medical 

 Society and other medical associations. He 

 was a member of the Baptist church, as had 

 been all his ancestors since their settlement 

 in Bucks county. In politics he was a 

 Democrat. He married Margaret ^arndt, 

 born in Hilltown, Bucks county, June I5> 

 1842, and still living at Easton, Pennsyl- 

 vania. She was a daughter of Neri and 

 Hannah Barndt. the former was born in 

 Bucks county, February 9, 1818, and died 

 March 23, 1902, and he was a farmer in 

 Hilltown and Rockhill townships, and a 

 son of Samuel Barndt. His wife, Hannah 

 Barndt, died in August. 1903. aged eighty- 

 five years, and both are buried at Indian 

 Field Cemetery, Montgomery, county. They 

 were the parents of two daughters : Mar- 

 garet, above mentioned ; and Elizabeth, the 

 wife of William H. Sherm, of New Britain. 

 Dr. Cyrenious and Margaret (Barndt) Will- 

 iams were the parents of eleven children as 

 follows : Courtland B., born June 12, 1861, 

 married Elmira Scheetz, of Quakertown, 

 Pennsylvania; Neri B., the subject of this 

 sketch; Naomi B.. born September 8, 1864, 

 widow of Peter Hill, of Frankford, Indi- 

 ana; Percy B., born April 12, 1807, married 

 a lady of New York city and resides there ; 

 William B., born June 14, 1869, married 

 a lady from New Jersey and resides with 

 wife and three children at Easton, Pennsyl- 

 vania ; Hannah B., born July 14, 1871, mar- 

 ried William Edgar, of Chicago, where they 

 reside and have one child ; Cyrenious B., 

 of Frankford, Indiana ; Margaret B., born 

 May 5, 1876, unmarried ; Nathan B.. born 

 October 15, 1877, married Margaret Hilgert, 

 of William=port ; ElizabeiTi B., born Febru- 

 ary 12, 1880, wife of Arthur Smith, of 

 Easton, Pennsylvania ; and Ruth B., born 

 October 16, 1884. unmarried. 



Dr. Neri B. Williams is the second child 

 of Cyrenious and Margaret (Barndt) Will- 

 iams, and was born February 12, 1863. He 

 was educated at the public schools of Hoke- 

 daqua, Lehigh county, Pennsvlvania, and 

 subsequently entered the Philadelphia Col- 

 lege of Pharmacy, from which he graduated 

 in 1885. After his graduation he took 

 charge of a drug store at Pittsburg, where 

 he remained for three years and then went 

 to New York city, where he had charge of 

 a drug store for three j^ears. He had mean- 

 while taken up the study of medicine and 

 graduated from Jefferson Medical College 

 in 1891. He besan the practice of his pro- 

 fession at Wilkes-Barre, Penns/lvania, 

 where he remained for two years, and then 

 removed to Philadelphia where he prac- 

 ticed for one year. In 1894 he located at 

 Perka^ie, Bucks county, where he has built 

 up a lucrative practice. In 1899 he erected 

 a brick dwelling and store at the corner of 



Fifth and Market streets and opened a 

 drug store, and, being thoroughly skilled 

 and experienced as a pharmacist and phy- 

 sician, is doing a fine business. He has 

 always taken an active interest in the af- 

 fairs of the town, and has filled the. posi- 

 tion of school director for six years. He is 

 a prominent member of the Masonic fra- 

 ternity, having taken the thirty-second de- 

 gree. He is affiliated with Bethlehem Lodge 

 . No. 283, F. and A. M. ; Zinzendorf Chap- 

 ter, No. 216, R. A. M., of Bethlehem ; Beth- 

 lehem Council, No. t,(>, R- S. ]\I. ; Allentown 

 Commandery No. 20, K. T. ; Philadelphia 

 Consistory; and the Ancient Arabic Order 

 of Nobles of Mystic Shrine, Lu Lu Temple, 

 Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. He is also a 

 member of Perkasie Lodge, K. of P. Re- 

 ligiously he is a member of the Lutheran 

 church, and politically a Republican. 



He married March 21, 1888, Jennie A. 

 Paul, daughter of Richard C. and Susan 

 (Dawes) Paul, of Brooklyn, ■ New York. 

 Richard C. Paul was captain of a company 

 during the civil war, and was shot through 

 the hip and died in a Philadelphia hospital 

 from the effects of his wound. Dr. N. B. 

 and Jennie Alethea (Paul) Williams are 

 the parents of three children: Beatrice 

 Labira, born October 5, 1895 ; and Gladys 

 and Dorothy W., twins, born September 

 8, 1901. 



THE LAUBACH FAMILY OF 

 DURHAM. Samuel H. Laubach, one of 

 the oldest and most prominent residents 

 of Durham township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, was born in that town- 

 ship j\Iarch 23, 1834, and he and the fam- 

 ily to which he belongs have been prom- 

 inent in the affairs of that locality for 

 several generations. 



Christian Laubach, the great-great- 

 grandfather of Samuel H. was a native 

 of the Palatinate on the Lower Rhine, 

 and at the age of thirty-eight years, ac- 

 companied by his father, Rhinehart 

 Laubach, aged seventy years, and his 

 wife Susanna and several small chil- 

 dren, embarked for Pennsylvania in the 

 ship "Queen Elizabeth," Captain Alex- 

 ander Hope, from Rotterdam, and landed 

 in Philadelphia, on September 15, 1738. 

 He was a blacksmith by trade, and was 

 probably induced to settle on extreme 

 northern frontier of the county of Bucks 

 by the then proprietors of the Durham 

 furnace, started in 1727, and then in full 

 blast. He obtained a warrant for the 

 survey of one hundred acres of land in 

 Bucks county, on one of the tributaries 

 of the Saucon Creek, in what became 

 Northampton county in 1752. This war- 

 rant was dated October 31, 1738, but six 

 wrecks after he had taken the oath of 

 allegiance to the English crown. He 

 possibly followed his trade near the 

 furnace for some time, as men of his 

 handicraft were much in demand about 



