Husband Levi Repman 1 2
Born: 11 Oct 1842 - Wayne Co, OH 2 3
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Died: Aft 1926
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Father: Joseph Repman ( - ) 2 3
Mother: Mary Leet ( - ) 2 3
Marriage: 29 Apr 1896 4
Other Spouse: Elizabeth McColum ( -1873) 4
Other Spouse: Sarah J. "Jennie" Douthitt (Abt 1851-1889) 5 6 - 1875 4
Wife Maud E. Lostetter 4 7
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Father: James A. Lostetter, Sr. (1825- ) 8
Mother: Melissa King ( - ) 9
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General Notes: Husband - Levi Repman
When a youth of fifteen summers, he went to Ashland, Ohio, where he learned the miller's trade, which he followed for two years, and then worked on a farm until he had attained his majority. In 1862, he enlisted in Co. E, 120th Reg. O. V. I., and served two years as a private. Then having discharged his duty as a citizen, he left the service as his period of enlistment was up and went to Indiana and worked in a saw-mill and farmed for three years. His next move brought him to the grist-mills at Rochester, Pennsylvania, where he stayed five years. In 1868, he changed his occupation and worked in a limestone quarry for a year, for his throat had become affected by the dust of the milling. In company with P. Fisher, Mr. Repman leased the Shin, Williams & Co. lime kilns, and they burned lime for twenty years. He was a railway engineer for two years, and then bought thirty-three acres of the McCullon farm, and in 1892 built a house thereon. He had previously built one in Wampum in 1877. He owned a farm of ten acres, on which he has erected the necessary buildings, and made improvements so that it was thoroughly modern, and there he carried on farming and gardening.
He was a Republican and served as school director for thirteen years, as member of the council for six years, and as treasurer of the borough of Wampum for two years. He was a member and past grand of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 196 of Wumpum, and also of the Encampment. [BOBLC, ]
He was reared on the farm in Wayne County, Ohio, until he was sixteen years of age, and then worked in a flour mill there for three years. At the age of twenty-one he came east to New Brighton, Pennsylvania, where he was employed in the mills of Williams and Alexander for three years, then went to Beaver Falls and worked two years as miller for Noble and Duncan. About 1866, he moved from there to Wampum, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, where he acted as superintendent of the quarry and lime kilns for two years. With Philip Fisher he then leased the kilns at a given rate per bushel, also leasing other kilns in Wampum, and for a period of twenty-two years they were successfully engaged in that business. He then bought stock in the Six-Foot coal mine, for which he ran the locomotive several years, at the end of which time he sold his stock and began gardening. He owned a farm at Chewton, and for a period of five years hired an experienced gardener, after which time he did the work himself with much success. He had twelve acres in garden truck, and farmed the balance. [TCHNCLC, 717]