BIO:  Joseph H. LEFEVRE, Germany Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 426

JOSEPH H. LEFEVRE, attorney at law, Littlestown, was born in Union Township, 
this county, March 7, 1839, and is a son of Enoch LeFevre, who is mentioned 
elsewhere in this volume.  Joseph H. finished his education at Franklin and 
Marshall College, Lancaster City, Penn., and graduated from that institution in 
the class of 1863.  He then read law with Hon. D. McConaughy, of Gettysburg, 
Penn., was admitted to the bar in 1867, and began practice at Littlestown.  A 
few years afterward he moved to Pittsburgh, and became interested in the shoe 
business; he continued the same until 1876, when he returned to Littlestown, and 
here has since resided, and followed his profession.  He is a decided temperance 
man; politically a Republican.  He was elected a justice of the peace in 1879 
and served five years.  May 18, 1878, he married Julia C. Gutelius, a daughter 
of Samuel Gutelius, of this county,  They have two children:  Jeannette and 
Cecil.  Mr. LeFevre is a member of the Reformed Church, of Littlestown, and was 
the prime mover in making the Littlestown congregation an independent charge, 
separating it from Christ Church February 8, 1881.  Since that time he has been 
a deacon in the Redeemer’s Reformed Church.