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Parents: Thomas and Juliana Klopot
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OriginalNotes: Find A Grave 63029802 Sigmund Klopot, b. 1851 Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland; d. 1912, Knox, Starke County, Ind. Buried Oak Park Cem. In Knox.
Members.tripod.com/~voodoocow/dat47.htm (August 30, 2002)
Genealogy page: Sigmund Klopot b. ca. 1867, gave marriage date, name of wife and descendants
Layne Family Tree maintained by dorenalayne (viewed on Nov. 22, 2019 by Joan Hostetler at https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/150929765/person/352003698297/facts) - Lists his parents at Thomas Klopot (about 1840-1920) and Juliana Klopot (1838-1918)
South Bend Tribune, Mon. 30 Sept. 1968, p. 9 Obituary
Clara E. Klopot, 96, of 6 N. Pearl St., Know, died Sunday in Starke Memorial Hospital. Burial in Kingsbury Cem. Retired portrait photographer. Born Oct. 2, 1871 in LaPorte County moved to Knox 70 years ago. Married in Chicago to Sigmund Klopot, who died in 1912. Survived by dau. Stella Bonner. Lists other family.
A Photographic History of Starke County, Indiana, compiled by Marvin Allen, Starke County Historian, Copyright 2008 (Viewed 11/22/2019 at http://www.scpl.lib.in.us/historical/sites/default/files/documents/Local%20History/starke_history.pdf)
Sigmund Klopot moved with his wife Clara and daughter Stella to the area in 1894 from
Chicago. Soon studios were opened at North Judson, Knox and Bass Lake. Later Stella related that the lens was so valuable that they carried it with them from studio to studio. She said they traveled on the 3-I Train from Knox to North Judson every Friday morning, handled business there and then took the Erie Train to Bass Lake for the weekend, at least during the summers. After arriving at the south end of Bass Lake, they would take one of the steam boats around the lake as it dropped tourists off a various hotels. Their studio was in Winona
on the lake’s north side. Tintypes were a tourist’s favorite. They were quick to make and less costly than prints, which required a separate negative. After Sigmund died in 1912, Clara continued on with the business for many years. Stella eventually took over and ran the studio until the late 1960s. Stella (Klopot) Bonner also served as Starke County’s first County Historian
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OriginalSource: A Photographic History of Starke County, Indiana, compiled by Marvin Allen, Starke County Historian, Copyright 2008 (Viewed 11/22/2019 at http://www.scpl.lib.in.us/historical/sites/default/files/documents/Local%20History/starke_history.pdf)
Sigmund Klopot moved with his wife Clara and daughter Stella to the area in 1894 from
Chicago. Soon studios were opened at North Judson, Knox and Bass Lake. Later Stella related that the lens was so valuable that they carried it with them from studio to studio. She said they traveled on the 3-I Train from Knox to North Judson every Friday morning, handled business there and then took the Erie Train to Bass Lake for the weekend, at least during the summers. After arriving at the south end of Bass Lake, they would take one of the steam boats around the lake as it dropped tourists off a various hotels. [The online book has a real photo postcard of a horse-drawn buggy in front of a wood frame building with the sign "Bass Lake Studio." No page numbers.]
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OriginalSource: A Photographic History of Starke County, Indiana, compiled by Marvin Allen, Starke County Historian, Copyright 2008 (Viewed 11/22/2019 at http://www.scpl.lib.in.us/historical/sites/default/files/documents/Local%20History/starke_history.pdf)
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Chicago. Soon studios were opened at North Judson, Knox and Bass Lake. Later Stella related that the lens was so valuable that they carried it with them from studio to studio. She said they traveled on the 3-I Train from Knox to North Judson every Friday morning, handled business there and then took the Erie Train to Bass Lake for the weekend, at least during the summers. After arriving at the south end of Bass Lake, they would take one of the steam boats around the lake as it dropped tourists off a various hotels. [The online book has a real photo postcard of a horse-drawn buggy in front of a wood frame building with the sign "Bass Lake Studio." No page numbers.]
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OriginalSource: "Marilyn Simpson" wrote that she remembered this Knox area photographer taking school photos of her in the 1930s.
Rushville Republican, 4 Sept. 1912, p. 2 - Knox, Sept. 4 - Sigmund Klopot, a photographer of this city, committed suicide in his studio by hanging.
The Day Book, Chicago, Ill. 4 Sept. 1912, p. 26 - La Porte, Ind. - Sigmund Klopot, 53, Knox, Ind., shot and killed himself after he agreed to let wife live by herself.
August 29, 2002, telephone conversation with Jim Shilling:
Stella and her mother (Clara) Klopot ran the Knox studio, while Stella's father took train to North Judson and operated a studio there during the week. He then took train on Friday to Bass Lake where he met them and they operated a studio at Winona. In 2002, the old studio building was occupied by Nyron's Barber Shop (574) 772-6878, at 4 N. Pearl St., Knox. Starke Co. Hist. Soc. Has a large collection of Klopot/Bonner photographs and negatives. Mr. Klopot hanged himself.
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