Bio of Kopp, Jacob (b.1830) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Kopp, Jacob, was born in Wiedlisbach, Canton Bern, Switzerland, on April
8, 1830. The Swiss home of the Kopp family was a small farm, but a
beautiful place known as Mosrien. Frederick and Barbara Kopp resided here,
and raised a family of six children, Jacob being the fourth. Jacob
received a good common school education, after which he served four years
in the Swiss army. In June, 1851, he married Barbra Giesbuler, and three
years later brought his family to America. He first worked on a farm near
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, then removed to Watertown, Wisconsin, where he
remained but a few weeks. His next move was to go to a place about thirty
miles from Portage, where he worked in the pineries and on a farm for
three years; after which he spent four years clearing up a farm near
Fredonia, in the same state. He came to Highland township, and bought a
claim of one hundred and forty acres near the Watkins mill, in 1863. After
buying and selling a number of times, he finally purchased the place on
which he now resides-eighty acres on section 26, Highland, in 1870. He has
five children, viz: John, born in Switzerland, residing in Lake City,
Minnesota; Louisa, born in Wisconsin, and Louis and Frederick, born in
Minnesota, and a daughter Emma, also a native of Minnesota. Mr. Kopp was
one of the original members of the Lutheran church of Highland.