Pennsylvania Families

1860 CENSUS, PA, Cambria, Johnstown, 1st Ward

Series M653, Roll 1088 Census sheet 672, Lines 21-29

Transcribed at Cambria County Website

 

Kabel, Francis 29 M Confectioner France

Kabel, Margaret J. 20 F Penna., cdn't read

Finnette, Ann 18 F Domestic Penna.

Kopelin, Abram 34 M Atty. At Law 10000 500 Penna.

Kopelin, Mary M. 29 F . Penna.

Kopelin, George K. 8 M . Penna., School

Kopelin, Waldo 6 M . Penna., School

Kopelin, Otho C. 4 M . Penna.

Kopelin, Mary 1 F Penna.

 

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Enlisted as a Captain on 5 August 1862.
Commission in Company A, 133rd Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania on 5 Aug 1862.
Promoted to Full Lieutenant Colonel on 21 Aug 1862.
Resigned Company A, 133rd Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania on 24 Sep 1862.
according to American Civil War Soldiers at ancestry.com

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1870 Federal Census, PA, Cambria, 1st Ward, Johnstown

Series M593, Roll 1317, Page 201. Census page 37

(at Cambria County Website)

 

Koplin, Abraham 45 Atty at Law 10,000 1300

Mary 37

R. W. 15

O. C. 13

Mary 11 All birthplaces: PA

Lucy 9

John W. 6

June 4

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The Register, Hollidaysburg, Blair Co., PA.

KOPELIN - Abraham Kopelin, Esq., a prominent member of the Cambria county
bar, died at his residence in Johnstown, on the 19th inst., in the 50th year of
his age.
Wed. 27 May 1874 issue.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/PABLAIR/2009-03/1236363301

I don't know where the obituary was that gave birth date, possibly from the abstract in Collins' Marriages and deaths from the Cambria tribune. The obit in the Indiana Democrat, reprinted from the Ebensburg Freeman, was mainly biographical and did not give his age at death.

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apparently originally buried in Sandyvale Cemetery, according to Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, at ancestry.com

Eleanor Wicks' research includes the note: "Military service: 133rd PVI, grave marker provided for Deceased Veterans. Grandview Cemtery, Central 3, lot 49."