Northumberland-Schuylkill-Lackawanna County PA Archives Biographies.....Kopp, Joseph 1865 - living in 1899

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JOSEPH KOPP, a veteran of the Civil War, and inside-foreman at the Sterling

Colliery near Shamokin, Northumberland County, was born May 11, 1841, in

Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County, Pa., and is a son of Jacob and Harriet

(Hain) Kopp.



  Jacob Kopp, our subject's father, a native of France, upon coming to the

United States located in Schuylkill Haven, where he was engaged in mercantile

business. He died when our subject was about five years of age, leaving two

children: Joseph; and Mary, who, when she grew to womanhood, married William

Steinmetz, a boss at the Big Mountain Colliery, Northumberland County.



  Joseph ,Kopp, our subject, was reared in Schuylkill County and was employed in

collieries until he was eighteen years of age, after which he traveled around

the country for about two years. In 1860 he located in Shamokin, Pa., and became

a coal miner, working in various collieries about Shamokin for several years. He

then held the position of assistant foreman for Patterson, Llewellyn & Co. for

about a year, after which he was promoted to the position of inside-foreman and

remained with the company twelve years. Mr. Kopp next entered the employ of the

Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., at Burnside Colliery, as inside-foreman,

and in January, 1893, assumed that position at the Sterling Colliery, where he

has since remained. During the progress of the Civil War, in 1862, he enlisted

in Company K, 36th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., and served about three months, but did

not participate in any engagement, arriving on the field just one day too late

for the battle of Gettysburg.



  On Independence Day, 1861, Mr. Kopp married Henrietta Yoder, a daughter of

Isaac and Catherine (Beisel) Yoder. Mrs. Kopp was born August 3, 1841, in

Mahantango Valley, Schuylkill County, where her father was born and reared, but

when she was two years old, he removed to Shamokin and assisted in building the

first railroad in that section of the county. Our subject's family consists of

the following children: William and Mary, both deceased; Adam, who married Susan

Specht, is a loader-boss at the Sterling Colliery, and makes his home in the

Mahanoy Valley; Eva, the wife of Daniel Phillips, a miner and resident of

Shamokin; Joseph D., a loader-boss at the Sterling Colliery, who married Annie

Miller and resides in Shamokin; Jacob, deceased; Nora, the wife of William

Bonser of Pottsville, a carpenter by trade; and Sallie and Bertha, who are both

at home.



   Socially our subject is a member of Lincoln Post, No. 140, G. A. R.;

Schickalamy Tribe, No. 148, I. O. R. M.; and also the Degree of Pocahontas, all

of Shamokin.





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Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)





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