KOLIPINSKI, LOUIS (Nov. 3, 1859 -- Dec. 14, 1914)Medical doctor. Little is known of persons from Poland in Washington, D. C., during the administration of President Lincoln. Less is known of the Kolipinski family than the Bielaski, Gurowski, Kalussowski, and Tyssowski families. According to 1870 census records, Leopold Kolipinski, who was born in Poland about 1812, had a restaurant in the nation's capital and two of his children, Amelia and Louis, were born there in the 1850s. One wonders if any of them, and even Lincoln himself, ever ate in Kolipinski's establishment.
Louis Kolipinski, of course, was too young to remember Lincoln. In 1870, when he was 21 years old, he was a clerk in a drug store, and later studied at Georgetown Medical School, where he graduated in 1883. Shortly after, he was a resident physician at Children's Hospital, and married Ella, who came from Missouri, around the turn of the century. They had six children. He died five years after his sixth child was born.
Author: Edward Pinkowski - e-mail: [email protected] - (2011)