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Alexander Koppel: Pioneer - Physician - Provider, Max Koppel
Alexander Koppel: Pioneer - Physician - Provider, Max Koppel
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Alexander Koppel was born to immigrant parents on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1905. Early in his life, his mother was forced to return to Austria to her tenant farmer parents with Alexander and his two sisters because of a severe downturn in the American economy. A few years later, his mother brilliantly sensed the upcoming disastrous World War in 1913, and returned with the three children to Wilmington, Delaware where by that time, her husband, Samuel Koppel, had established the Wilmington Window Cleaning Company.
Alexander Koppel seized the opportunity for higher education made available to …