John Joseph Coppinger

       COPPINGER IS DEAD
  Son-in-Law of Blaine, Veteran
        of Three Armies.
      SERVED UNDER PIUS IX
  Defended Papal State Against
   Italians--Wounded at Second
    Bull Run and Fought Indians
     on the Western Frontier.

  WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.---General John
J. Coppinger died tonight of pneumonia
at his residence here.
 General Coppinger belonged to one
of the most ancient and honorable
families in the South of Ireland. At
an early age he received a commission
in one of the yeomanry regiments then
raised in England for service in the
Crimea, but was mustered out at the
close of hostilities without seeing any
active service.
      Served in Papal Army
 He then received a commission in one
of the papal regiments and served dur-
ing the campaign of 1860. He was
taken prisoner at the defense of the
Laroca gate and was made a Knight
of St. Gregory for his services.
 On his release he was invalidated home
and at the outbreak of the Civil War
received a commission in the United
States Regular Army on the recom-
mendation of Archbishop Hughes. He
was made Captain of the then Four-
teenth Infantry, September 30, 1861. He
was severely wounded at the second
battle of Bull Run and was made Colo-
nel of the Fifteen New York Cavalry,
January 17, 1865.
       Fought on Frontier.
 After the war he served mainly on
the frontier as Captain in the Twenty-
third Infantry, Major in the Tenth In-
fantry, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Eigh-
teenth Infantry and Colonel in the
Twenty-third Infantry. He was com-
missioned Brigadier-General April 25,
1895, and commanded the Department
of the Platte until the outbreak of the
Spanish-American War. He was made
Major-General of volunteers in July,
1898, and commanded the Fourth Corps.
He was retired for age on October 11,
1898.
 General Coppinger married Alice
Blaine, eldest daughter of the late
James G. Blaine, in September, 1883.
Mrs. Coppinger died in 1890, leaving
two sons, Blaine and Conor Coppinger,
who survive. Since his retirement he
has resided in Washington. He was
for years one of the governors of the
Metropolitan Club, to which office he
was re-elected but a few days before 
his death.