WILLIAM L. COPELAND, Leeson's Hist. of MT 1739-1885, Jefferson Co., MT USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. "List transcribed and organized by Ellen Rae Thiel, thieljl@aol.com All rights reserved." Copyright, 1998 by Ellen Rae Thiel. This file may be freely copied for non-profit purposes. All other rights reserved. WILLIAM L. COPELAND - pg 1176 From Leeson's History of Montana 1739-1885 published 1885 SURNAMES FOUND IN THE BIOGRAPHY: CHAPMAN William L. Copeland, P. O. Radersburgh, was born in 1827, in Spartanburg, S. C. His parents were Charles and Elizabeth (Chapman) Copeland. William received a common school education; went to California in 1852, via the isthmus; was in California and Nevada fourteen years, most of the time engaged in mining. After leaving California, he came to Helena, M. T., and worked at "Uncle Ben's Gulch" and silver Bow for five months. He spent the winter of 1866-7 at Gallatin City, going from there to the Salmon River mines; next to Silver Bow, thence to Montana City on the Prickly Pear river, and finally, in the spring of 1868, to Radersburg, where he remained until the summer of 1873, and then bought a ranch here of 320 acres, which is well improved and under cultivation; has good fences, etc. Mr. Copeland owns twenty head of horses. His land will average in its yield of grain and potatoes with any in the Territory. Mining has been his principal occupation. Owing to the busy character of his life in the mountains, he is till unmarried.