For
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 552
LYELL REPPERT, M. D. Dr. Lyell Reppert is one of the younger representatives of the medical profession in Muscatine, yet his age seems no bar to his ability nor to the confidence reposed in him by his fellow townsmen, for he is accorded a liberal and growing practice. He was born in Muscatine, October 16, 1878, and is a son of Ferdinand and Emma (Olds) Reppert, the former a native of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and the latter of Muscatine. The mother was a daughter of Lyman Whitney Olds, a native of Ohio, who became one of the early settlers of this city. Coming here when it was but a small town, he engaged in the dry-goods business, in which he continued through the period of the Civil war. He was a very progressive, enterprising man, and his labors were an element in the substantial growth and upbuilding of this section of the state. He died at an advanced age in the year 1895. Unto him and his wife, Sarah Olds, there were born two children who lived to adult age, Emma and Ella. The former gave her hand in marriage to Ferdinand Reppert, who had become one of the early merchants of Muscatine, where he conducted a drug store. His death occurred here when he was fifty-six years of age, and his wife passed away in 1900 at the age of fifty-two. They were both members of the Congregational church and Mr. Reppert was for thirteen years a member of the school board. The cause of education found in him a stalwart champion and he took active and helpful interest in many movements relative to the public good.Dr. Reppert was reared in Muscatine and in his youthful days attended the public schools, wherein he pursued the studies taught in successive grades until graduated from the high school with the class of 1896. Later he entered the University of Iowa, wherein he devoted one year to the study of dentistry and four years to medicine. He was graduated therefrom in 1902 and immediately afterward left for Europe, spending a year in Vienna, Austria, where he attended the clinics of some of the most eminent physicians and surgeons of that great center of medical science. He afterward worked in the slums of Dublin, Ireland, in connection with the Rotunda Hospital, and upon his return to Muscatine opened an office and has since engaged in practice here. He has proven his worth in the excellent results which have attended his efforts to check the ravages of disease and restore health. He belongs to Muscatine County Medical Society, Iowa State Medical Society and American National Medical Association, and keeps in touch with the advanced thought of the day through wide reading and research. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Congregational church and his political views are evidenced in the stalwart support which he gives to the republican party.
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