John Kropp

Source Information:

New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Birth Certificates; Borough: Manhattan; Year: 1887

Year: 1900; Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Page: 19; Enumeration District: 0232; FHL microfilm: 1241091

Year: 1910; Census Place: Brooklyn Ward 17, Kings, New York; Roll: T624_965; Page: 15B; Enumeration District: 0366; FHL microfilm: 1374978

New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 21; Assembly District: 15; City: New York; County: Kings; Page: 53

Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

Year: 1920; Census Place: Brooklyn Assembly District 15, Kings, New York; Roll: T625_1167; Page: 18A; Enumeration District: 906

Year: 1930; Census Place: Brooklyn, Kings, New York; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 0245; FHL microfilm: 2341255

Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Kings, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02587; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 24-1618

Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 

     John Kropp was born in Manhattan, New York, on the 5th of February 1887.  He was one of two children born to George Kropp and Anna (Annie) Wachter.  His brother, Andrew was born in Germany and arrived in the United States with his parents in 1884 when he was three years old.

The 1915 New York State Census notes that John is working as a laborer at the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (now a historic building and headquarters of the Kickstarter Corporation.)  

In 1918, Anna Kropp died at age sixty-eight and was buried in Most Holy Trinity Cemetery in Brooklyn.  John would lose the remainder of his immediate family within a few years:  George Kropp died in 1924 and Andrew passed away in 1926 when only forty-three.  Both are buried beside Anna.

After the death of his family, John lived in rented lodgings for many years on Eckford Street in Brooklyn.  He is reported living there on the 1930 and 1940 U.S. Federal Census.

 On his WWII Draft Registration Card in 1942, it is noted that he still lives on Eckford Street and is employed at the U.S. Army Base on 58th Street in Brooklyn.  He is described as being 5 feet 7 inches tall, with blue eyes, brown hair, and a light complexion.

John Kropp died at the Peninsula Hospital Center in Far Rockaway, New York on the 19th of July 1986 and was buried on Hart Island on the 12th of August 1986.