BIO:  Levi Reiver, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Warrington Township, Pg 197

LEVI REIVER was born in Washington Township in 1824, and is a son of Peter and Susanna Reiver, 
natives of Dover Township.  Peter Reiver died in Warrington Township, August 27, 1866, at the 
age of seventy years, a member of the Reformed Church, and the father of three children:  Levi, 
Samuel (deceased) and Mary A. Lenhart, of Ohio.  Levi Reiver was reared a farmer, but at the 
age of twenty learned the cabinet-making trade under Lewis Shibe, in York, and for twelve years 
followed the business in Washington Township, and then conducted farming in Warrington Township 
until 1880, when he retired from active business.  He is the owner of a tract of land of 135 
acres, and also a tract of fifteen acres on which he resides.  In 1849 he married Sarah, 
daughter of George Horn.  To this union seven children have been born as follows:  William, 
Alice Zeigler, Amos, Mary Urich, Oliver, Amanda Spangler and Arvilla Kapp.  Mr. and Mrs. Reiver 
are members of the German Reformed Church, and in politics Mr. R. is a Democrat.