Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Walter, Joseph B., Dr
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   JOSEPH B. WALTER physician, P.O. Solebury, was born in 
Plumstead township, August 30, 1840, and is a son of John 
and Mary (Beek) Walter.  His paternal grandfather was 
Michael Walter, of Alsatian descent, and an early resident 
of Plumstead township.  He was a farmer, and for some years 
a justice of the peace of that township.  John Walter was 
born in Plumstead, and was a carpenter by trade.  His family 
consisted of five children:  Catharine, Joseph B., Levi, 
Silas and Emma B.   Joseph B. resided with his parents in 
Plumstead until eight or nine years of age, when, on the 
death of his mother, he was taken into the family of his 
maternal uncle, William Beek, residing in Doylestown.  He 
was educated in the private schools of S. A. Thompson, Rev. 
Dr. S. M. Andrews and the public schools of that town, and 
subsequently at Kishacoquillas seminary in Mifflin county, 
and at the boarding school of Rev. M. S. Hofford, Beverly, 
N. J.   In 1859 he entered upon the profession of teaching, 
and also began the study of medicine, under direction of Dr. 
I. S. Moyer, now of Quakertown.  He taught in the public 
schools of Durham, Warrington and North and Southampton 
townships.  In August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in 
company E, One hundred and twenty-second regiment 
Pennsylvania volunteers (nine months' service), and was 
mustered out with his regiment in May, 1863; taught school 
for a few months at Richboro, Northampton township, and then 
re-enlisted in the One hundred and fifty-second Pennsylvania 
regiment, with which he served, being stationed for the most 
part at headquarters, Virginia and North Carolina, until 
mustered out at the close of the war. In this regiment he 
was promoted to the rank of third sergeant, and on September 
1, 1865, was commissioned second lieutenant, but declined.  
He participated in the battles of Fredericksburg, 
Chancellorsville, Appomattox, and other minor engagements.   
Immediately on his discharge, he resumed the study of 
medicine with Dr. I. S. Moyer, then of Plumsteadville, and 
in 1866 entered the medical department of the University of 
Pennsylvania.  He was graduated in the spring of 1868, and 
at once began the practice of his profession with Dr. J. E. 
Smith at Yardley, in this county, where he remained till the 
spring of 1870.  He then located in Solebury township, where 
he has since been actively engaged in the practice of his 
profession.  On October 13, 1870, he married Mary T., 
daughter of George M. and Sarah (Wood) Child of Plumstead 
township.  Dr. Walter is a member of the Bucks County 
Medical society, the Pennsylvania State medical society, the 
Lehigh Valley medical association, the F. and A. M. (R. A. 
C. and K. T.).  In politics he is a republican.