John Louis Leverman was a Canadian-born country cabinetmaker cum undertaker who arrived in Western Australia in 1859. He married Elizabeth Rowland and they had ten children. She was a strict Methodist and he a Catholic which caused a rift with her family. He worked at the Greenough from the 1860s into the 20th century. Assisted by his son Charles Louis (1870-1936), he fitted-out of the Catholic Church at Greenough. The pair also made furniture for the Waldeck family of the district. By 1874 he had acquired land and was farming. He made a travelling medicine chest for his son- in- law Charles Conway.
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
