Victor M. Lefebvre, Iberville Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Victor M. Lefebvre, Jr., who holds at Port Allen, judicial center of West
Baton Rouge Parish, the office of clerk of the court of this important
parish, was born on the Mayflower Plantation in Iberville Parish, this
state, October 30, 1886, and is a scion of one of the old and honored
French families of Louisiana, as will be seen by reference to the personal
sketch of his father, Hon. Victor M. Lefebvre, Sr., following, the data
there given being such as to obviate the necessity of further review of the
family history in this immediate connection.

The preliminary educational discipline of Victor M. Lefebvre, Jr., was
acquired in a parochial school at Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, and was
advanced by his attending the St. Stanislaus Preparatory School at Bay St.
Louis, Mississippi.  Thereafter he was for two years a student in Tulane
University, New Orleans, where he became affiliated with the Sigma Nu
fraternity.  He left the university in 1908, and accepted a position with
the Hercules Company, Ltd., of New Orleans, by which he was assigned to
service headquarters in the vicinity of Chamberlin, West Baton Rouge
Parish.  He continued his alliance with the corporation eighteen months,
and during the ensuing two years he served as assistant secretary of the
Atchafalaya Basin Levee Board, of which his father is the president, with
headquarters at Port Allen.  He was then, in 1916, elected clerk of the
court of West Baton Rouge Parish, and by re-election in 1920 and 1924 he
has continued the efficient and popular incumbent of this office to the
present time.  He is a stalwart in the local camp of the democratic party,
and in their home city of Port Allen he and his wife are communicants of
the Catholic Church of Sts. Peter and Paul.  He is now affiliated with
Uncas Tribe No. 64, Improved Order of Red Men, and in this fraternity he
has been specially active and influential, he being a past sachem of the
tribe organization at Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish.  In the World war
period Mr. Lefebvre served as secretary of the draft board of West Baton
Rouge Parish, and to this and other patriotic service he gave loyally of
his time and attention.

On the 20th of October, 1923, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lefebvre
and Miss Elsie Miller, whose father, the late William J. Miller, was one of
the representative planters of Tangipahoa Parish at the time of his death,
his widow, Mrs. Sophia (Berger) Miller, being now a resident of the City of
Baton Rouge.  Mr. and Mrs. Lefebvre are leaders in the representative
social activities of their home community, and their circle of friends is
limited only by that of their acquaintances.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 112, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.