Capt. Henry Klopf's Co. Waiting for Orders to Leave Camp for Home

Contributed by Clark County, Wisconsin Jailhouse Museum

Estimated date of photograph between 1902 -1920.

Henry W. Klopf was born in 1856 in Brooklyn, N. Y. At an early age he left the East, settling in Sheboygan where he learned the trade and was in the jewelry business. In the next few years, he was in St. Paul, and from there came to Neillsville for a visit. Leaving Neillsville, he started a business at Owatonna, Minn. In 1877, he left, coming to Neillsville to start a jewelry business.

Klopf enlisted in Co. A, 3^rd Infantry, April 1885 and was commissioned First Lieutenant in 1891. He transferred after five years in that rank to first lieutenant for the 3^rd Regiment and after serving two and a half years went to the Spanish-American war. After that service, he was re-commissioned to adjutant, 3^rd Battalion, 3^rd Infantry. He was made captain of Company A in 1902.

Source: http://wvls.lib.wi.us/ClarkCounty/clark/news/OldDays/1994_1_5.htm