Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....W. P. Copeland September 1 1845 - ?
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    W. P. COPELAND, M. D. - The Copeland family is of French-Huguenot origin and
the name in this country was first known in South Carolina, of which state the
doctor's grandfather was a native. J. N. Copeland, the father of the doctor, was
born in Barnwell district, S. C., in the year of 1811. In early manhood he moved
to St. Joseph, Fla., and after taking part in the Seminole war, in that state,
came to Alabama, locating at Eufaula, then known as Irwinton, where he carried
on the mercantile business until his death in 1859. He was married, in South
Carolina, to Caroline E. Garvin, a widow, to whom by a previous marriage had
been born three children, one of whom, a daughter, grew to womanhood and became
the wife of General Alpheus Baker, of Civil war fame. Mr. and Mrs. Copeland
reared a family of four children, namely: Florida C., wife of T. J. Branson; Dr.
W. P.; John C., and Harry C. The mother departed this life in the year 1866. Dr.
W. P. Copeland was born September 1, 1845, in Eufaula, Ala., and has spent all
of his life in Eufaula, Barbour county. In 1863 he became a cadet in the
university of Alabama, and while there did duty for several months during the
summer of 1864, the greater part of the time in and around the city of Mobile.
Returning to the university he was made sergeant of his company, and after a
short period they were again ordered to Mobile, were he remained for a limited
time, and, going back to his classes, witnessed the destruction of the
university buildings by fire in the spring of 1865. In the summer of 1865 Mr.
Copeland entered the mercantile establishment of H. C. Hart & Co., at Eufaula,
as clerk, and after several months in that capacity, entered the Georgetown
college, D. C., where he pursued his studies until January of the following
year. He supplemented his course at Georgetown by attending for sometime the
university of Virginia; subsequently followed the pursuit of agriculture for one
year in the vicinity of Eufaula, and then became bookkeeper for T. J. Perkins,
with whom he remained until the summer of 1868, at which time he began the study
of medicine under the tutorship of Dr. P. D. L. Baker, of Eufaula. He spent a
part of the years 1868-9 at Bellevue Hospital Medical college, N. Y., and after
graduating from that famous institution in the spring of 1870, opened an office
in Eufaula, where he has since followed his chosen calling with a large and
lucrative practice. The doctor has served as president of the Barbour county
medical society three terms, and is also a counselor of the State Medical
association of Alabama. His reputation as a physician places him in the front
rank of Alabama's successful medical men, and in Barbour county his professional
ability is such that his practice, already large, is continually increasing.
Politically the doctor wields an influence for the democratic party, and in
religion affiliates with the Baptist chnrch. He was married in the month of
April, 1872, in Eufaula, to Mollie Flewellen, daughter of Col. James Flewellen,
and is the father of four children: Etta F., C. E., Matilda, and W. P. Copeland.



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