DR. LEON N. REEFER

        Dr. Leon N. REEFER, Prominent among the veterinary surgeons of 
Wheeling, West Virginia, stands the gentleman whose name heads this 
biography.  Aside from being resident state secretary of the American 
Veterinary Association and a member of the county board of health, he 
has been city veterinary surgeon for eight years, and has practiced 
in Wheeling since 1888.  He is a son of Morris H. and Jeannette 
(Tichner) Reefer, and was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, July 24, 
1868.
	Morris H. Reefer, was born in Austria in 1833, and emigrated to 
the United States in 1850, locating at Buffalo, and shortly afterward 
went to Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the merchandise 
business very profitably, and where he still resides.  He married 
Jeannette Tichner, who was born in 1844 in Philadelphia, and who died 
in 1892.  They had five children, namely:  Lina, born in 1864, who 
married Samuel Greenwald, a wholesale dry good merchant of 
Philadelphia; Jay, born in 1866, who is a broker in Clarksburg; Leon 
N., our subject; Jules, born in 1870, secretary of the Dorcas Mining 
and Milling Company at Florence, Colorado; and Mae, born in 1872, who 
resides with her parents.
	Mr. Reefer attended the public schools during his youth, his 
home then being at Meadville, and afterward graduated from the 
University of Pennsylvania, in June, 1888, where he completed his 
course in the veterinary department.  That fall he located at 
Wheeling, where he has since built up a splendid practice.  His 
office is at No. 1321 Chapline street.
	Our subject was married in November, 1889, to Jessie Brinton, a 
daughter of George and Jennie Brinton, born in Wheeling in 1869.  
They are active members of the Fourth Street M. E. church.
	Dr. Reefer is consulting veterinary surgeon for the state board 
of agriculture.  In politics he is a Republican.  In fraternal 
circles he is a member of the Elks, and of Wheeling Lodge, No. 114, 
K. of P.  Always prompt in doing his duty, he is well liked and is 
known as a most skillful surgeon.
 
From "HISTORY OF WHEELING and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens."  Edited & Compiled by Hon. Gibson Lamb 
Cranmer.  Biographical Publishing, 1902; p. 376. 

(Laurie Birks Dean)