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UPSHUR COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Valerie & Tommy Crook
vfcrook@trellis.net
April 13, 2000
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 411-412
WILLIAM REPPERT, the popular superintendent of the
Peerless Coal Mine Company at Buckhannon, Upshur
County, was born in Preston County, West Virginia, Decem-
ber 17, 1883, and is a son of A. D. and Mary (Fortney)
Reppert, the former of whom was born in Monongalia
County, this state, March 3, 1851, about a decade prior
to the separation of West Virginia from the mother state
of Virginia. Mrs. Mary (Fortney) Reppert was born in
Preston County, in 1854, was there reared and educated
and there her marriage occurred. A. D. Reppert was reared
at Morgantown, judicial center of his native county, and
after his marriage he settled in Preston County, where he
became superintendent of an ore plant. He later turned
his attention to agricultural enterprise, of which he still
continues a successful exponent in that county. He is a
republican, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and both he and
his wife are active church members. Of the ten children
all are living except one, four being residents of Upshur
County, one of Preston County, one of Maryland, one of
Michigan and one of Pennsylvania.
The public schools of his native county afforded William
Reppert his early education, and he initiated his associa-
tion with the coal-mining industry by taking employment
in Marion County. He gave special attention to study in
the engineering department of the industry, and with this
department he continued his active association ten years,
at the expiration of which, in 1909, he became a mine fore-
man in Marion County. He was thus engaged one year
and for the ensuing three years was a mine engineer in
Fayette County. In 1913 he became a mine foreman in
Upshur County, and here his ability and effective service
has led to his advancement to his present office, that of
superintendent for the Peerless Mine Company, with head-
quarters at Buckhannon, the county seat, where he owns
his attractive home property, at 100 South Florida Street.
At Beccley, Raleigh County, he is affiliated with Beckley
Lodge No. 95, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He
is a republican in politics, and he and his wife hold mem-
bership in the Christian Church.
October 9, 1910, recorded the marriage of Mr. Reppert
and Miss Minnie R. Fortney, of Marion County, she hav-
ing been graduated from the high school and also from
the State Normal School at Fairmont and having taught
school for one year. Mr. and Mrs. Reppert have two chil-
dren: Oliver, born August 11, 1911; and William, Jr.,
born July 8, 1918.
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