From History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Volume II, Publ. by The Western Historical Company 1881, Page 920

REV. C. F. LE FEVRE was born November 12, 1797, in the County of Hertfordshire, England, in the same town with the poet Cowper.  At 16 years of age he became Lieutenant of Marines by purchase, and served during the War of 1812-14, returning to England, at its close and retiring on half pay.  He shortly afterward enlisted with some young friends to serve with the patriots in the Bolivar War.  They were all seized with the yellow fever in the West Indies, en route to their destination, LE FEVRE being one of the few who escaped with his life.  Recovering his health he made his way to Long Island, quite reduced in funds, where seeing an advertisement for a French teacher he answered in person, thus forming the acquaintance of Dr. T. CLOWES, an Episcopal clergyman, with whom he pursued his theological studies, and whose sister he afterwards married.  From Long Island Mr. LE FEVRE went to Canada; completed his studies; sailed for England; was ordained to the ministry of the Episcopal Church by the Bishop of London; was sent out to Canada by the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts," and settled in Sherbrooke, where he remained for seven years.  His theological views had gradually changed during those years, and closing his work at Sherbrooke, Mr. LE FEVRE came to the United States, and about a year later accepted a call to the Universalist Church in Troy.  From Troy he removed to New York, as pastor of the Bleecker Street Church, which had been built for him, and came to this city in 1844, purchasing a tract of sixty-five acres about two miles south of the corporation limits, upon which he built, named his home "Hazelwood," and established his permanent residence.  Accepting a call to the Universalist Church, then standing on the present site of the Newhall House, he became one of the active pastors of this city.  Though long retired from active duties, and in his 84th year, Mr. LE FEVRE is a strong and vigorous man, in mind and body alike, showing comparatively light traces of his more than four score years.

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