Dr. Eleazer Copeland
Dr. Eleazer Copeland soon followed Dr. Moulton from Vermont, but he located in Galena, or Zoar, as it was called then. He was a shoemaker by trade and, like many others, obtained his education while working on the bench. It is said that while pounding the last, he committed to memory the whole of Murray's English Grammar, and accomplished the task in two weeks. He prepared himself for a teacher while working at his trade, and while teaching school, he studied Greek and Latin, which he mastered without an instructor, and became a good translator of both languages. He studied medicine in the same manner, and became one of the best practitioners in the county. He was held in high esteem by all of his confreres, and for many years was the censor for the First and Sixth and Eleventh Medical Districts of Ohio. The Eleventh District was composed of Franklin, Delaware, Marion and Crawford Counties. He died in 1834 from drowning in the Big Walnut, near Galena. This sudden ending was a great loss to the county.
From 20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Edited and compiled by James R. Lytle, Delaware, Ohio, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908