Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

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Copeland, George D

business man, lawyer, poet, was born in Waddington, N. Y. For ten years he practiced law in Goshen, Ind.; and for two years edited The Times of that city. In 1873 he moved to San Diego, Cal.; was its postmaster in 1881-86; and was instrumental in securing for that city its bountiful supply of pure mountain water, which is brought from the mountains fifty miles away. He is the president of the electric railway and lighting firm of that city.

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