Ohio County, West Virginia    Biography of Daniel Howard COPPOCK

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg.281-282

    DANIEL HOWARD COPPOCK is a stock and bond broker, with headquarters at 
Columbus, Ohio, but now has a branch office and is completely identified with 
the business life of Wheeling.
    Mr. Coppock, who was a first lieutenant of cavalry during the World war, 
was born at Dayton, Ohio, February 1, 1878.  His grandfather, Joseph Coppock, 
spent all his life at Ludlow, Ohio, where he owned and operated stone 
quarries.  Isaac Coppock, father of the Wheeling business man, was born at 
Ludlow in 1835, was reared and married there, became a farmer, and from about 
1858 for half a century continued farming and the operation of stone quarries 
at Dayton.  After 1908 he lived retired at Ludlow, where he died in 1918.  He 
was a republican, and a very faithful member of the Church of the Friends.  
Isaac Coppock married Martha Ellen Hutchins, who was born in Dayton in 1845, 
and died at Liverpool, Ohio, in 1905.
    Daniel Howard Coppock, only child of his parents, was educated in the 
public schools of Dayton and prepared for college in the high school at Ann 
Arbor, Michigan, where he graduated in 1898, and then continued in the 
University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, through the Sophomore year.  Mr. 
Coppock for a number of years was a very successful hotel man.  Beginning in 
1900, he was clerk in the Cadillac Hotel at Detroit.  For two years, 
beginning in 1905, he was proprietor of the Cook House at Ann Arbor, for six 
years conducted the Wagner Hotel at Sidney, Ohio, and from 1913 to 1916 was 
proprietor of the Jefferson Hotel at Portland, Oregon.  Then returning to 
Ohio, he was proprietor of the Park Hotel at Coshocton from 1916 to 1918. 
    Mr. Coppock joined the colors in August, 1918, was trained at Camp 
Sherman, Ohio, for six months, was commissioned a first lieutenant in 
cavalry, then transferred South, spending two days at Camp Gordon, Georgia, 
six months at Camp McClellan, Alabama, three months at Fort Sam Houston in 
Texas, one month at Fort Riley, Kansas, and was then returned to Camp 
McClellan, where he received his honorable discharge August 3, 1919.  He is 
still a first lieutenant of cavalry in the Reserve Corps.
    From Nevember 1, 1919, Mr. Coppock was engaged in business with main 
offices at Columbus, Ohio, until March 1, 1921, when he opened a branch 
office at Wheeling in the Board of Trade Building.  He is associated with 
Claude Meeker, and they do a general stock and bond brokerage business.
    Mr. Coppock is a republican, a member of the Episcopal Church, and in 
Masonry is affiliated with the Lodge at Jacksonville, Alabama, and the 
Knights Templar Commandery at Piedmont, Alabama, and also the Scottish Rite 
Consistory of Alabama.  He is a member of Coshocton Lodge of Elks.
    In 1900, at Detroit, Mr. Coppock married Dorothy M. Burke, who was born 
at Ada, Michigan, and finished her education at St. Mary's Academy at Monroe, 
that state.  Mr. and Mrs. Coppock have one son, John B., born June 25, 1903, 
now in the senior class of the high school at Columbus, Ohio.