Lefevre, Louis F.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Louis F. Lefevre. Among the well-known citizens of Amite, which pleasant city has been his chosen home for more than two decades, no one is more highly respected in civic and social life or held more trustworthy in business circles than Louis F. Lefevre, notary public and former chief deputy clerk of the court of Tangipahoa Parish, and assistant superintendent of education.

Mr. Lefevre was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 21, 1867, a son of August and Henrietta (Gabriel) Lefevre. Both parents spent their lives in the City of New Orleans. The father was born there in 1830, engaged in business as a hat merchant, and died in 1870. The mother was born in 1848, and died in her native city in 1873. They were members of the Roman Catholic Church. They had two sons: Henry and Louis F. Henry Lefevre was born in September, 1865, and died at New Orleans in 1915.

Louis F. Lefevre was educated in the public schools of New Orleans and was graduated from St. Phillip High School in the class of 1885, and both he and his brother learned the printing trade an followed the same in New Orleans. In the meanwhile Mr. Lefevre had also become an expert stenographer, and in 1902, after coming to Amite, he was appointed chief deputy clerk of the court Tangipahoa Parish and court stenographer, in which offices he continued until 1912, when he became assistant superintendent of education of Tangipahoa Parish, the duties of which office he performed with method and efficiency until he embarked in business for himself in 1915. He continues to exercise his marked stenographic skill as a court reporter, and for some years has been a notary public, but perhaps the greater part of his the is given to the abstract business and to fire insurance risks, being the accredited agent in this parish of the National Surety Company. His offices are conveniently situated on Oak Street, just opposite the courthouse. Mr. Lefevre married, June 16, 1897, at Independence, Louisiana, Miss Mary Belle Buck, who was born at Houma, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In political sentiment Mr. Lefevre has always been a democrat, as was his father.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 304-305, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.