Charles Reppien

REPPIEN

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 3/10/2011 at 19:03:47

Charles Reppien, manager and butter maker with the Farmers Creamery Company at Wallingford and thus well known in business circles of Emmet county, was born in Denmark, March 24, 1893. He is therefore yet a young man and in all that he undertakes is actually the spirit of enterprise and progress. He was reared and educated in his native country and learned the butter making trade in that which is famous as a butter producing center. He worked at the business there for four years before coming to America and in 1913 he bade goodbye to friends and native country and sailed for the new world, hoping to find more remunerative employment on this side of the Atlantic. Coming to the country to Wallingford, he soon obtained a position as butter maker in a creamery there and his ability won him promotion to the position of manager. He is now conducting a large business at the creamery and has made its output famous for its excellence. There is no phase of the butter making trade with which he is not familiar and he is considered an expert in his line.

Mr. Reppien holds membership with the Modern Woodmen of America at Wallingford and he gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He is esteemed as an enterprising, progressive young man and one where advancement has been the legitimate and logical outcome of his labors and ability.

Source: History of Emmet County and Dickinson County Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, The Pioneer Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1917.