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Title: A history of Texas and Texans
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Francis White, 1799-1884 Barker, Eugene Campbell, 1874-1956, ed Winkler, Ernest William, 1875-1960
Subjects: Texas -- History Texas -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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TEXAS AND TEXANS 1661

territory of which Dallas is the metropolis. Mr. Copley
has been a lover and devoted student of the animal king-
dom since he was a boy and attci attaining to reasonable
degree of success in business, permitted himself the
happy privilege of giving all his attention to the scientific
bent of his nature.
Born in 1878 in Missouri, Mr, Copley's parents, John
M. and Corie M. (Billington) Copley, came to Texas in
1880, locating at Denton, in Denton county, where the
father was a lawyer for many years. Reared in Denton
county, Eugene W. Copley attended the public schools
and manifested strong inclinations for the life outdoors .
It was his disposition to find his most stimulating lessons
in the life of the field and woods rather than m t ho dry
books of the schoolroom. These tastes led him to take
up the study of taxidermy, and it was his previlege to
study under Professor William T. Hornaday, then a
resident of Oklahoma City, but now distinguished as one
of the greatest naturalists ot Anici icti and director of

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