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FREDERICK W. KOPPLIN
Vol. 3 p. 982-83

Graduated in the law department of the University of Minnesota as a
ember of the class of 1908, Mr. Kopplin came to Oklahoma in the same
year that he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws and has since
been engaged in the general practice of his profession in the City of
Tulsa, where he has firmly entrenched himself as one of the
representative members of the bar of this section of the state ---
progressive citizen of the vigorous young commonwealth with which he
has cast in his lot.

Mr. Kopplin was born on a farm near Wausau, Marathon County,
Wisconsin, on the 20th of November 1873, and is the eldest of a
family of ten children, three sons and seven daughters,- all of whom
are living except one son. Mr. Kopplin is a scion of a prominent and
honored pioneer family of Wisconsin, where his venerable father still
resides and where his mother died in April, 1913, at the age of sixty
years, - a woman of gentle and gracious personality and one whose
memory is revered by all who came within the compass of her
influence. He whose name introduces this article, a son of Rev.
August H. and Sophia L. (OLDENBURG) Kopplin, whose marriage was
solemnized at old Fort Howard, Wisconsin, in 1870, that place having
been the nucleus of the present beautiful and thriving City of Green
Bay.

Rev. August H. Kopplin was born in Germany, where he acquired his
rudimentary education, and he was fourteen years of age at the time
of accompanying his parents on their immigration to America. The
family home was established on a pioneer farm near Watertown,
Wisconsin, and in that state he was reared to manhood. Through his
own efforts he gained a liberal education and prepared himself for
the ministry of the German Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he
has been a distinguished and prominent clergyman for nearly half a
century, within which he had filled various pastoral charges both in
Wisconsin and Illinois. He celebrated his sixty-ninth birthday
anniversary in 1915 and is now living virtually retired in the City
of Green Bay, after having labored with all of consecrated zeal and
devotion in the service of the Divine Master and having endured to
the full "the heat and burden of the day." He initiated his services
as a minister of the gospel when twenty-one years of age and still
finds call for his interposition in the service to which he has
devoted so many years of his long and earnest life. The cherished and
devoted wife of this venerable clergyman was born in Wisconsin and
was a daughter of Gerhard Oldenburg who was born at old Fort Howard,
that state, her parents having come from Germany and having become
very early settlers of Wisconsin. Gerhard Oldenburg became a
prominent and influential citizen of Fort Howard and was closely
identified with its development and upbuilding, making possible its
evolution into the present fine City of Green Bay.

To the public schools of Wisconsin and Illinois Frederick W. Kopplin
is indebted for his early educational advantages, and this discipline
was supplemented by a course of study in Wallace College, a German
institution at Berea, Ohio, at which place he thereafter pursued
higher academic studies in Baldwin University, an excellent
institution maintained under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. It was the wish of his father that he should enter the
ministry, but his inclinations lay along other lines, and in his
profession he has achieved a success that fully justifies his choice
of vocation.

For a time before entering the university Mr. Kopplin held a
position in the postoffice at Baraboo, Wisconsin, and he then
received appointment to a position as clerk in the United States
railway mail service, under the presidency of Cleveland. He was
assigned to a run that gave him his "lay-overs" in the City of
Minneapolis, Minnesota, and his ambitious purpose was signified by
his making use of his incidental opportunities and completing a
course in the law department of the University of Minnesota, in which
he was graduated in 1908, as previously noted in this content. In the
same year he established his residence in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and here
he has continued in active general practice to the present time, the
scope and importance of his clientele attesting alike his
professional ability and his secure hold upon popular confidence and
esteem. For several years Mr. Kopplin served as secretary, treasurer
and attorney of the Tulsa Retail Merchants' Association, and since
his resignation of the dual office of secretary and treasurer he has
continued his service as attorney for this important organization.
Though a staunch supporter of the cause of the democratic party and
know for his progressiveness as citizen, Mr. Kopplin has considered
his profession worthy of his undivided attention and has manifested
no ambition for public office. He is affiliated with Tulsa Lodge, No.
71, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons; Tulsa Chapter, Royal Arch Masons;
Tulsa Council of Royal & Select Masters; Trinity Commandery, No. 20,
Knights Templar; Akdar Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine; and Tulsa Lodge, No. 946, Benevolent & Protective
Order of Elks.

On the 17th of July, 1897, Mr. Kopplin wedded Miss Mary ROGERS, who
was born at Harvard, McHenry County, Illinois, a daughter of DeForest
P. Rogers, a representative of a sterling pioneer family of McHenry
County; his father, James Rogers made the overland trip from the
State of New York to Illinois in an early day and became one of the
pioneer settlers on Bigfoot prairie, McHenry County, where he
developed a valuable farm and was a successful agriculturist and
stockgrower until the time of his death. DeForest P. Rogers was among
the first to engage in the buying of Texas cattle and in driving them
through from that state to Illinois, and he was for many years
engaged in the live-stock business on an extensive scale. Mr. and
Mrs. Kopplin have no children.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Earline Sparks Barger, December 16, 1998.