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Joseph David Kopsho

Male 1887 - 1957  (70 years)


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  • Name Joseph David Kopsho  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Alternate birth Abt 1886  Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Birth 20 Feb 1887  Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9, 10
    Gender Male 
    Death 24 Mar 1957  Orange County, California Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Person ID I31288  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of ASF
    Last Modified 28 Nov 2020 

    Father Joseph Kopsho,   b. Jan 1860, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Mary Ambrose,   b. 25 Dec 1857, Austria Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Jun 1931, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Marriage 1885  [11
    Family ID F18624  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Anna Margaret Gaspar,   b. 19 Apr 1896, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Aug 1957, Orange County, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years) 
    Marriage 16 May 1916  Denver, Denver, Colorado Find all individuals with events at this location  [12
    Children 
    +1. Anna Margaret "Lucille" Kopsho,   b. 20 Feb 1917, Weld County, Colorado Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Jun 1968, Orange, Orange, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)
    Family ID F18570  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Nov 2020 

  • Notes 
    • From ASF, great-granddaughter, in email:

      Joseph D Kopsho and his brother Albert ran a movie theater in Denver, starting sometime around 1906. In 1916 they were doing at least one showing on the road, using a car for power. Albert was the projection engineer. The theater appears to have been called the Electric Theater Co.

      He appears to have been living in Lodge Pole, Nebraska, and visiting his family in Buckingham, CO in 1911. His movements are a little confusing - he's listed as being "of Esmond, Illinois" in 1912. […]

      They had two children, Lucy and Joe. Joe was born in Denver in 1923. By the 1930's they were in Anaheim, CA. Sometime in the 1940s he went to Stanford as a graduate student in electrical engineering. He was certainly there in 1948, helping to run the radio station.

  • Sources 
    1. [S5047] "Seek Damages for Injuries in Auto Crash." Santa Ana, California Register, 16 Jun 1933, p. 2.

    2. [S5082] "Keota To Have Moving Picture Show." Keota (Colorado) News, 28 Jul 1916, p. 1.

    3. [S5083] "Buckingham Items." Raymer (Colorado) Enterprise, 29 Aug 1912, p. 4.

    4. [S5085] "Phillips Re-elected Station Manager." The Stanford Daily, 27 Feb 1948, p. 5.

    5. [S5084] George W. Thomas, "Movie Operators." Denver Labor Bulletin, 13 May 1916, p. 8.

    6. [S5087] "Buckingham." Keota (Colorado) News, 24 Nov 1911, p. 1.

    7. [S4023] 1920 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com.

    8. [S58] California Death Index, 1940-1997, on ancestry.com.

    9. [S4024] 1930 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com., year and state only.

    10. [S4538] Colorado, County Marriage Records and State Index, 1862-2006, on ancestry.com., year only.

    11. [S2232] 1900 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com.

    12. [S4538] Colorado, County Marriage Records and State Index, 1862-2006, on ancestry.com.