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About Joseph Henry LeFever
- Residence: 1910 - Hanover Ward 4, , Pennsylvania
He was born in Union Township, Adams County, Pa. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1863. He read law in Gettysburg and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He practiced law for a short time in Littlestown, PA. He moved to Pittsburgh, PA, and was involved in the shoe business. He returned to Littlestown and resumed his practice of law. He was the justice of the peace 1879-1884. He married Julia C. Gutelius on May 5, 1877. They had eleven children: Jeanette Wilkinson, Emma, Cecil, Mary, Florence Grove/Smith, Lloyd, Camille Bledsoe, Joseph, Kathryn, Karl, and Earl. They moved to Hanover in the 1890s where he sold life insurance and was a bookkeeper.
The son of Jacob L. & Mary Ann (Kuhn) Lefever, in 1860 he was a laborer living in York Borough, York County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5'2" tall and had light hair and gray eyes, and no record of a marriage has yet emerged.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in York on August 24, 1864, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg on August 29 as a private with Co. E, 207th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company on May 31, 1865.
In 1890, he resided in York and was a member of Sedgwick Post No. 37, G.A.R., whose records claim that he died September 12, 1928.
Inscription: PRIV. CO. E. 207 P.V.I.
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Joseph Henry LeFever's Timeline
| 1839 |
March 7, 1839
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Littlestown, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States
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May 20, 1839
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CHRIST REFORMED CHURCH, Littlestown, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States
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1878
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September 8, 1893
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Littlestown, Adams County, PA, United States
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| 1915 |
July 14, 1915
Age 76
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Hanover, York County, PA, United States
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Littlestown, Adams County, PA, United States
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