The Buchanan County histories sketch three separate Turner households in St. Joseph and never say that one is related to another. Horatio N. Turner, born at Rochester, New York, in 1819, lived in Michigan, Indiana, California and Omaha before coming to St. Joseph in 1859, where he kept a store at Eleventh and Penn streets until 1876 and served as city treasurer, city collector, street commissioner and a member of the school board. His wife, Matilda Newland, died young, and their daughter Mary Ellen married the builder William Morrison and died in the 1860s, leaving two children; the books differ on the dates of both deaths. S. T. Turner, born at Richmond, Virginia, in 1850, came with his parents in 1867 and became a car inspector for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad, and T. H. Turner, born at Hannibal in 1846, ran the same railroad's tin and copper shop from 1878. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Buchanan County history.
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Merchant and city officer, St. Joseph
HORATIO N. TURNER, retired merchant, was born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1819, and came to St. Joseph in 1859; engaged in general merchandising 1860 to 1876. He was educated in country schools; was officer of militia during the war; is a Republican, and was in the city council in 1863, city treasurer 1868 to 1870, city collector '76 to '78, and street commissioner '82 to 84. He.was treasurer of the Missouri River Bridge Company and was a member of the school board twenty years. He married Miss Matilda Newland, in Indiana, in 1842, who died in 1853. One son, Ira N., lives at San Antonio, Tex,, a daughter died in
1867. Mr. Turner is a Mason.
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Daughter of Horatio N. Turner
Railroad car inspector
S. T. TURNER, car inspector and outside repairer for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad, was born in Richmond, Virginia, November 14, 1850, and was there partially reared and educated. In 1867, he came to St. Joseph, with his parents. His father, William, was a policeman in Richmond, and is well and favorably known in St. Joseph in the same capacity. S. T. commenced to learn the carpenter's trade in his native city, which he finished in St. Joseph. In 1871, he entered the employ of the K. C, St. Jo. & C. B. Co., as car builder, and in the autumn of 1879, accepted his present responsible and well merited position. He was married April 5, 1871, to Miss Eliza E. Hall, of Richmond, Virginia. They have two children, Mollie N., and Willie R. Mr. Turner is a Mason, of the Blue Lodge and Chapter, and an Odd Fellow.
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Foreman of a railroad tin and copper shop
T. H. TURNER, foreman of tin and copper shop for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad, is a native of Missouri, and was born in Hannibal, October 26, 1846. He was reared, educated and learned his trade in his native city, and for a time was a resident of Iowa and Minnesota, remaining two years in St. Paul. He took up his above in St. Joseph in the employ of the K. C, St. Jo. & C. B. R. R. Co., in 187S. He was married in 1873, to Miss Emma Disbrow, of Smith's Landing, New Jersey. Mr. Turner is a Mason, and belongs to St. John's Lodge, Hannibal. Himself and wife are members of the Episcopal Church.
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