Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Boyer, Benjamin F., Dr.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Springfield Township


   BENJAMIN F. BOYER physician, P.O. Springtown, was born 
May 9, 1842, at Kreidersville, Northampton county, and is a 
son of Jacob and Maria Boyer.  His father was a son of John 
and Catherine Boyer.  His mother's parents were George and 
Elizabeth Laubach, all natives of Bucks county.  Benjamin F. 
received a semi-collegiate education at Franklin and 
Marshall college, after which he entered Bellevue Hospital 
Medical college at New York city, from which he graduated in 
1868.  He also attended the Long Island college and 
graduated there in 1867.  He commenced the practice of 
medicine immediately after, at Allentown, and then removed 
to Kreidersville, where he remained until 1870, when he 
removed to Springtown. He has a very large practice.  Dr. 
Boyer was married, November 28, 1867, to Miss Anna C. 
Trumbauer, of Northampton county.  Their children are Emily 
A., M. Elizabeth, Howard F., Calvin S., Carrie A., Nellie 
G., and three children who died in infancy.  Dr. Boyer 
served in the army as second lieutenant in the two hundred 
and second Pennsylvania volunteers.  He is a member of the 
Reformed church, and in politics is a republican.