Genealogy of John George Repplier (1840-1888)

John George Repplier¹

M, #3191, b. 8 April 1840, d. 10 March 1888

Birth: 1840; Pennsylvania¹
Birth*: 8 April 1840; Pennsylvania²
Baptism: 20 May 1840; Pennsylvania; Records of St. Peter's Catholic Church, Reading: "Repplier, John George, born, 1840, son of George Repplier & Mary McCall. Baptized 5/20/1840, sponsors Christian Allgaier & Catharine Marthon."¹
Marriage*: Spouse:Fanny Levy³
Death*: 10 March 1888; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania; Death notice in 16 Mar 1888 New York Herald: "Suddenly, on March 10, at his residence, No. 2, 421 Spruce st., Philadelphia, J. George Repplier, late of this city.
Interment at Savannah. Ga."⁴
Burial*: Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Chatham Co., Georgia; FindAGrave posting:
"John George Repplier, b. Apr. 8, 1840, d. Mar. 10, 1888²

Last Edited: 10 Apr 2013

Charts:

Father: John George Repplier¹ b. 20 Nov 1812, d. 8 Jul 1888
Mother: Mary McGauley¹ b. 25 Mar 1815, d. 24 Aug 1846

Fanny Levy b. 1 Jan 1840, d. 25 Aug 1907

Note*: Emma Witmer wrote of her father: "The year before her birth [Agnes', 1855], finding his father's new wife completely insupportable, George had run away to South America at the age of sixteen, discarding both family and religion. He prospered there in business, and only returned to his county in order to enlist on the Confederate side in the Civil War. Now, in 1869...He came to beg his father's presence at his wedding, a civil ceremony to be performed by the Mayor of Savannah."

John Lukacs wrote of this event: "He asked his father to come to his wedding in Savannah, where he was about to marry a divorced woman in a civil ceremony."^5,6
Note: The University of Pennsylvania holds personal papers of Agnes Repplier, and a portion of the description states:
"There are three files of correspondence dated 1869, 1870, and 1873-1874 written by Emma's father, J. George Repplier (who was Agnes Repplier's half-brother) to his fiancee, and later his wife, Fannie Levy Repplier. Fannie Levy lived in Savannah, Georgia, while George Repplier worked in New York and Boston."
[http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/mss/repplier/repplierseries.html]

[S563] Zimmerman, Edgar H., compiler, St. Peter's Catholic Church; Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania; Baptisms (1818-1886); Marriages (1819-1874); Confirmations (1835) (Closson Press, 1999), p. 39. Zimmerman--St-Peters-Reading.pdf
[S150] Find A Grave, online http://www.findagrave.com/
[S412] Samuel, Sir Stuart Montagu, The History and Genealogy of the Jewish Families of Yates and Samuel of Liverpool: From Materials Collected by Stuart M. Samuel, M.P. ([viewed on Google Books], ), p. 26-27.
[S168] GenealogyBank, online GenealogyBank.com.
[S400] Repplier, Emma (Agnes' niece Mrs. Lightner Witmer), Agnes Repplier, A Memoir (Phila.: Dorrance and Co., 1957), p. 34. Witmer--Agnes-Repplier-A-Memoir--Notes.pdf
[S267] Lukas, John, "Agnes Repplier, or the Writer in Solitude," in Philadelphia Patricians and Philistines 1900-1950. (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1981), p. 95. Lukacs--Philadelphia-Patricians--Notes.pdf
[S496] Stokes, George Stewart, Agnes Repplier; Lady of Letters (Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn. Press, 1949), p. 74. Stokes--Agnes-Repplier-Lady-of-Letters--Notes.pdf
[S514] US Census, viewed on Ancestry.com. 1880 US Census, New York, NY, household of George Repplier.