Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Copner, J. W. 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   J. W. Copner, attorney, Covington, was born in Warren county, Ohio, and is
now forty-six years of age. His people moved to Montgomery county, where most of
his early life was spent. He received his education at the Agricultural School
of Bloomingdale, Parke county, Indiana, paying his own way by chopping cord-wood
at 37 1/2 cents per cord. At nineteen years of age he began reading Blackstone,
and was, after studying with the law firm of White & Patterson, admitted to
practice in Crawfordsville in 1865. He would, however, have begun the practice
sooner had it not been for the prejudice of his father against the practice of
law. In 1870 he was admitted to practice in the supreme court of Indiana, and
the same year he was elected a member of the state legislature of Indiana. At
the close of this term he was renominated for the same office, but resigned the
candidacy on account of removing to Fountain county, June 15, 1872. Since that
time he has taken an active part in political affairs, and at the convention of
1880 he was nominated by the national greenback party as candidate for congress.
For the past three years he has taken an active part in the cause of temperance,
and is at present the president of the temperance society of Fountain county.
His son, E. Copner, is the present (1880) editor of the "Journal," which is one
of the prominent greenback organs of the State of Indiana.

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HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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