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This is an article from the WV Popp family and references some Popps in Pittsburgh. Hope it is of some assistance.
From an article by Paul R. Lilly - This, My Family - Popp
Frank (Franz) Popp came to this country from Germany around 1850. Family tradition says he came from in or around Heidelberg. He was a strong Catholic. In Germany he had gone to school until he was of military age. After he had pulled his tour of duty in the German army, he went to work for the German government as an inspector of tanneries. His log book, a record of his travels and inspections, is in the possession of one of his grandsons, Dan J. Popp, who runs one of the last harness stores in W. VA., if not the last one. Frank Popp was the eldest in a large family, and after his mother died, his father remarried too soon to the son's liking. Several of his distant relatives still live in and around Heidelberg. He was the only one to come to this country from his immediate family except two nephews and a niece. One nephew, Tom Popp, was a well-known businessman of Kanawha Valley. Joe Popp also entered the harness business when he arrived in the Kanawha Valley. Mary Kunzig, an unmarried niece, lived and died at Frank Popp's. Frank never learned to pray, cuss or to count too well in English. When he had occasion to do these things, he did them in German.
Frank first came to Pennsylvania where he married Rosemary Goode who was of French descent. (The old Goode farm is now Perrysville, PA.) The Goodes were pioneers in the steel industry in western Pennsylvania. An ancestor of one or the other of these Goodes was a young girl who being sent outside the fort at Fort Pitt to get some water at a spring, was stolen by the Indians and carried into Ohio where she lived for quite some time with the Indians before her father could ransom her. All the rest of her life she was never completely at ease with her white relatives.
Frank (born 1826) and Rosemary Goode Popp had the following children:
Harry, killed by a train.
Edward Aloysius, married Ida Mae Stanley, May 1, 1883. Edward opened the first theater on west side of Charleston. He was a very poor judge of human nature when it came to selecting a business partner. The only inquiry that he ever made about a man's background was did he belong to the same church that he did. He is buried in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery at Charleston. His wife, Ida Mae, is buried in the Sattes graveyard with her Presbyterian and Baptist relatives. I guess they were both born in the wrong age for their religion to be resolved so they could both be buried together in the same graveyard.
Dr. James, was the head surgeon at the Newcastle Hospital, Newcastle, PA for more than thirty years. Dr. James Popp has a son who is also a doctor today in Newcastle, PA.
Charles, harness maker, father of Dan J. Popp.
Frank, bookkeeper for a coal company, was poisoned by strikers at Homestead, PA, dying later from the poison.
Hugh, never married.
John, never married, real estate, Kanawha Valley.
Eunice, a daughter, never married.
Minnie, a daughter and baby of the family, never married. She spent her life keeping house for her brother John. Minnie died at 93 years of age in January of 1967. She came to W. Va. when she was one year old.
There was another son, but no one seems to remember the boy's name.
My Catholic relatives, the Popps, are not near as prolific as my Protestant relatives, the Lillys.
Frank Popp and his wife Rosemary and their children came to Point Pleasant on a flat boat from Pittsburgh, and from Point Pleasant to Charleston by wagon and team. This was in 1875. Frank Popp cam to the Kanawha Valley because the land was cheap. Frank bought a farm from James "Jimmy" Hogue.
While living in Pennsylvania, Frank Popp was drafted into the Union Army. He said he had seen enough of war and didn’t' want to see anymore, and paid a substitute $400 to take his place.
Frank Popp would never work a Negro on his farm, which caused some of his neighbors to become upset with him. Especially "Jimmy" Hogue. Frank's reasoning was that it took two white men to watch one Negro, before anyone could get any work out of the Negro. He said he would rather do the work himself then he knew the work would be done right. It didn't take Frank long before he had one of the best producing farms in Kanawha Valley. Frank also had a tannery at North Charleston.
Edward Aloysius Popp and Ida Mae Stanley had two children:
Frank Stanley Popp who married Lydia Grishaber, Frank and Lydia had three children: Anna May, Edward and Kathern. Edward served in the army during World War II.
Anna May married Paul Price Lilly. Miss Anna, as most of her students called her, taught for more than fifty years in the schools of Kanawha County.
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