Louisa Bouknight Poppenheim
Louisa Bouknight Poppenheim was born on December 13, 1868, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Christopher Poppenheim and Mary Bouknight. Her father was a hardware merchant. She grew up and attended school in Charleston, and she graduated from Vasser College in 1889. By 1920, she was living with her sister Mary in Charleston. In June 1920, she applied for a passport, with plans to travel to Great Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy. According to her application, she was 5 feet, 7 inches tall, with brown hair and brown eyes.
 
As one biographer has noted, she “helped bring the burgeoning women’s club movement to Charleston,” and she was an active member of the Century Club, the Civic Club, and the Intercollegiate Club. She served as president of the South Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs. She died of a coronary occlusion in Charleston on March 4, 1957.
 
Image: Louisa B. Poppenheim (Passport Applications, 1795-1925, available from Ancestry.com)
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(2476)Poppenheim, Louisa Bouknight1868-12-131957-03-04
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  • Gender: Female
  • Race: White

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  • (7255) [writer] ~ Louisa B. Poppenheim to Luther W. Hopkins, 13 January 1909

Places - Records: 1

  • (480) [birth, death] ~ Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

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1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, and 1950 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; South Carolina Death Records, 1821-1971, available from Ancestry.com; Passport Applications, 1795-1925, available from Ancestry.com; Joan Marie Johnson, “Poppenheim, Mary Barnett, and Louisa Bouknight Poppenheim,” South Carolina Encyclopedia, available from www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/poppenheim-mary-barnett-and-louisa-bouknight-poppenheim