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12. A WYCOMBE ANTI-SABBATARIAN

acob Ivanovitch Popp was born in 1873, in Pernau, Russian Estonia, but by 1891 he had settled in England. In 1899, he married Philadelphia Priscilla Moon at Sevenoaks in Kent, and they went on to have four daughters. By 1901 the Popp family had moved to High Wycombe, where Jacob set up business as a newsagent in a small shop at 14 Frogmoor. Since money was

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