Biographical Sketch of George Copp - Gasconade County, Missouri

From "History of North Washington" Published 1904

Transcribed by: Candy Grubb (candyg@theofficenet.com)
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GEORGE COPP
	George Copp, residing at Echo, Stevens county, is engaged in general
farming and stock-breeding.  He is a native of Missouri, having been born at
Herman March 5, 1863.  His parents were George and Barbara (Fisher) Copp, 
natives of Germany.  The paternal grandfather of our subject was with
Napoleon when defeated at the burning of Moscow.  The father of our subject
came to the United States in 1848.  He had been a member of a secret society 
in Germany, of which also General Sigel of the American army was a member.
The object of the society was to overthrow the government and establish a
republic.  The plot being discovered to the government, many implicated in it
escaped to the United States and many of their more unfortunate companions
were decapitated.  The mother came to the United Sates in 1853.  They
settled in Gasconade county, Missouri, and here the mother died in 1864.  Her
husband survived her thirty-three years, passing away in 1897.  They are
survived by five children: John, in Missouri; Andrew; Caroline, wife of Mr.
Flohr, of St. Louis; Christina, married to Melchior Shindler, of Missouri;
and George, the subject of this article.
	The latter is well educated in German and English, and when nineteen
years of age he began working for himself, farming at first, and subsequently
going to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where for three years he was logging in the
pine woods.  After eighteen months as clerk in a store he removed to South
Dakota and engaged in farming five years.  In 1891 our subject came to 
Moscow, Idaho, remained four years, disposed of his accumulated property and
located in Stevens county.  Here he secured a homestead upon which he lived 
until 1900, erecting, meantime, good buildings and other improvements.  Then
he purchased one hundred and twenty acres which is improved with residence,
barn and other outbuildings.  This property he disposed of in 1903, purchas-
ing the quarter section upon which he at present resides.  Forty acres of
this land are cultivated, and he has good buildings and other improvements.
He breeds horses and cattle.
	Mr. Copp was married in 1889 to Helen Klein, daughter of John Klein.
She was born and reared in Clark county, Iowa.  They have five children, all 
residing at home, Alpha, Vitus, Leuita, Sylvia and Lorene.
	The political affiliations of Mr. Copp are with the Democratic party,
and he is precinct committeeman and road supervisor.  Mr. and Mrs. Copp are
members of the Lutheran church.  Mr. Copp is just completing a barn, forty by
sixty feet, which is the finest building of its kind in Echo valley.

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