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JOSEPH LAURENT, cashier German National Bank, Pittsburgh, was born in Butler county, Pa., June 10, 1837. His grandfather, Martin Laurent, came from Germany to America in 1805, and settled on a farm in Butler county, when his son, Martin J., was twelve years old. The latter early took employment in a store, and later went into business on his own account. He married Teresa, daughter of Philip Bohn, who immigrated about the same time as the Laurent family, Teresa being then eight years old. Martin J. Laurent died of cholera in 1854, leaving nine children, of whom Joseph, who is the eldest, attended the public schools of Butler till twelve years old, when he came to Pittsburgh and found employment in a store. In 1860, when the German Bank was organized, Mr. Laurent was employed as bookkeeper, afterward becoming teller, then assistant cashier, and for twenty years has been cashier. He is a member of SS. Peter and Paul R. C. Church, East End. Politically, he is independent. In 1861 he married Mary Hune, of European birth and parentage, and of their children following are now living: Clara, Amelia, Emma, Florence A., Aloysius A., Rosa and Stella. The first-born died in infancy, and the second, Joseph Albert, a very promising youth, died at the age of nineteen, of heart disease.