LE FEVRE, A. I.

LE FEVRE, SCOVILLE, BECKLEY

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/12/2019 at 22:04:14

MONTROSE TOWNSHIP

LE FEVRE, A. I., far., Sec. 9; owns 40 acres land ; resides in Montrose, where he owns a fruit block ; he was born in Farmington, Iowa, in 1844; his grandfather, Solomon Beckley, emigrated to Van Buren Co., Iowa, at an early day ; his father, Isaac A. LeFevre came to Iowa from New York State about 1842, and with Solomon Beckley engaged in mercantile business in Montrose in 1845 ; went to California in 1849, and died there in 1853 ; his mother is still a resident of Montrose. Mr. LeFevre married in 1870 Netta Scoville, a native of Ohio, born in 1846 ; they have one child, Louis, born 1874. The Le Fevre family are of Huguenot stock, and settled in Ulster Co., N. Y., in 1660, where there is still a large family connection.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879