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Leverett George DeVeber (sometimes spelled De Veber〔Benidickson 178〕〔Jamieson 396〕) (February 10, 1849 – July 9, 1925) was a Canadian politician who served as Member of the Legislative Assemblies of Alberta and the North-West Territories, minister in the government of Alberta, and member of the Senate of Canada. Born in New Brunswick and trained as a physician, he joined the North-West Mounted Police and came west, eventually settling in Lethbridge after leaving the police force. He represented Lethbridge in the North-West Legislative Assembly from 1898 until 1905, when Lethbridge became part of the new province of Alberta. He was appointed Minister without Portfolio in Alberta's first government, but resigned four months later to accept an appointment to the Senate, where he remained until his death. ==Early life== DeVeber was born February 10, 1849, in Saint John, New Brunswick. His great-grandfather, Gabriel DeVeber, had been a British army officer who was rewarded for his service in the American Revolution with land in New Brunswick, where his descendants had lived since.〔Blue 267〕 Leverett George DeVeber was educated in Saint John and Kingston before attending King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia.〔Blue 268〕 He was a prominent rower in New Brunswick, and also played cricket and baseball and took part in shooting, hunting, and fishing events.〔Blue 269〕 He studied for a year at Harvard College and then completed his medical studies at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, from which he graduated in 1870. He then studied at the University of Pennsylvania for a year. He practiced medicine in Saint John for six years,〔 before coming west to join the North-West Mounted Police as a surgeon in 1882. Over the next three years he was stationed at Fort Walsh, Calgary, and Fort MacLeod; it was in this last town that he left the NWMP to set up a civilian practice in 1885.〔Jamieson 396–397〕 In 1885 DeVeber married Rachael Ann Ryan, who was born in Melbourne where her father was posted with the British Army. The pair would have two children: Marion Frances DeVeber, who married shipbuilder Francis Dunn and moved to England, and Leverett Sandys DeVeber, who worked in Toronto for the Bank of Montreal.〔 DeVeber moved to Lethbridge in 1890,〔 and became its Medical Officer of Health in 1893,〔Jamieson 397〕 in which capacity he continued until at least 1924.〔 In Lethbridge he was involved in music: he took charge of his church's choir in 1891, and the same year sang at a local concert after the intended headliner, Nora Clench, failed to show up.〔Obee 13, 28〕 He was also active with the Episcopalian church and the Canadian Order of Foresters.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leverett George DeVeber」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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