DARKE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: REPPETO, WILLIAM H. (published 1900)
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A Biographical History of Darke County Ohio, published in
Chicago by the Lewis Publishing Company, 1900. p. 282-283


                      WILLIAM H. REPPETO

    Among the public-spirited and progressive citizens of Greenville
probably none have done more to advance the welfare and prosperity of
the town than the gentleman who is now serving as the president of the
city council.  He has also been a prominent factor in business
circles, and is a man whose worth and ability have gained him success,
honor and public confidence. 
    Mr. Reppeto was born near the city of Hamilton, Butler county,
Ohio, in December, 1845, and is a son of Dabner and Charlotte
(McEowen)  Reppeto, in whose family were two children, but the
daughter, Martha, died in infancy.  His grandfather, Alexander
McEowen, was one of the pioneers of Darke county and fought under
General Wayne when he was making his raid through this county.  The
father of our subject was a native of Virginia, but during his youth
came to Ohio, where he grew to manhood and married.  He and his wife
began their domestic life in Butler county, where he followed his
trade, that of cooper, for a number of years, but at the time of his
death, in 1861, was living in Davenport, Iowa.  His wife had died in
Miami county, Ohio, in 1848. 
    William H. Reppeto received the greater part of his education in
the schools of Davenport, Iowa. Although only fifteen years of age he
joined the "boys in blue" at the opening of the civil war, enlisting
in 1861 in Company C, Eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, as a
musician, under Colonel William P. Benton.  After being mustered into
the United States service he was ordered with his regiment to Missouri
and Arkansas, and took part in the battles of Pea Ridge, Wilson's
Creek and Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas.  He served faithfully until
February, 1863, when he was taken ill and sent to the hospital in St.
Louis, Missouri, where he remained some months and was then sent to
Belleville, Illinois.  On recovering his health he re-enlisted in
Company B, Twenty-ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served until
the close of the war, taking part in the siege of Mobile, the capture
of that stronghold and Fort Blakely.  He was mustered out October 11,
1865. 
    After the war Mr. Reppeto came to Greenville, Ohio, where he
attended school for a time, and then learned the cabinet-maker's
trade, which he has made his life work, having followed that
occupation in several different states.  On the 11th of August, 1890,
he married his second wife, Miss Amanda E. Cline, a daughter of F. M.
Cline, and to them have been born two children, Virgil and Ester.  The
latter died at three years of age. 
    Socially Mr. Reppeto is a member of Flora Lodge, No. 526,
I.O.O.F., at Flora, and has been D.D.G.M. of that order.  Politically
his is a pronounced Democrat.  He has been a member of the city
council of Greenville and has been the president of that body for the
last year.  He takes an active and influential part in public affairs,
and was one of the first to agitate and recommend the construction of
sewers and the propriety of paving the streets of Greenville.  This
was met by the most stubborn opposition on the part of many of the
citizens, and they went so far as to get out an injunction against the
enterprise, but he carried his point, and the city now has great
reason to be proud of its streets.