Columbia-Kewaunee County WI Archives Obituaries.....Coapman, James May 2, 1902
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Portage Daily Register, Saturday, 3 May 1902
James W Coapman, suddenly taken ill at a lunch table yesterday died a short 
while later of heart disease.  He was born in Hallsville, Montgomery County, 
New York, Sept 19, 1839.  His great grandfather, Abraham Coapman, was a major 
under General Clark in the Revolutionary War; his grandfather was a captain in 
the war of 1812; and his father, John Coapman, was a militia captain in New 
York. He came to Wisconsin with his father in March, 1855, settling first in 
the town of Pacific then a year later the family moved to Wyocena. 
J.W. Coapman was a lawyer admitted to the Columbia county bar by Judge Harlow 
S Orton March 19, 1860.  He enlisted in the general mounted service of the 
U.S.A. on Jan 26, 1864, and served three years. He was taken prisoner at 
Hagerstown, Maryland in the spring of 1864 and spent six months in 
Andersonville prison. He and some comrades escaped after being transferred to 
Savannah, Ga. and remained concealed until Sherman's army released them in 
December 1864.
After military service, Mr. Coapman settled in Kewaunee and practiced law. In 
1878 he was elected district attorney of Kewaunee County, serving one term; 
and also held the position of United States court commissioner at Kewaunee. In 
1890 he moved to Portage and continued his law practice. He has been court 
commissioner for the last four years. Last Thursday, Mr. Coapman began serving 
his term as Justice of the Peace having just recently won the municipal 
election.
 Besides his wife, May Grant Coapman of Oxford, he leaves one brother, A.D. 
Coapman, station agent at Columbus; a nephew, Hon. L.N. Coapman of Wyocena; 
and a niece, Mrs. James Older of Portage.


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