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.BIOGRAPHIES
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A Biographical Record of Fairfield County,
Ohio
Illustrated - Published: New York and Chicago:
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company.
1902
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JOHN H. THIMMES
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A Biographical Record of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio
- Published: New York and Chicago: The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 214 |
B. A. Thomas, M.D. |
DR. B. A. THOMAS
Source:
A Biographical Record of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio
- Published: New York and Chicago: The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 72 |
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CHARLES H. TOWSON
Source:
A Biographical Record of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio
- Published: New York and Chicago: The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 376 |
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H. G. TROUT
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A Biographical Record of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio
- Published: New York and Chicago: The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 380 |
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JOSEPH S. TURNER.
Joseph S. Turner, who is now living a retired life in
Bremen after many years' connection with agricultural and
industrial interests in Fairfield county, was born in Rush
Creek township, this county. Apr. 21, 1839, on the old
family homestead of his maternal grandfather, Abraham
Berry. He is a son of John and Rebecca
(Berry) Turner. The father was born in the state
of New York, whence he removed with his parents to Virginia,
and thence came to Fairfield county, Ohio. Here he
made a permanent settlement in 1834. He took an
active part in promoting the agricultural interests of this
part of the state and was a progressive, enterprising man.
He married Rebecca Berry, a daughter of
Abraham Berry, who was born in Rockingham county,
Virginia, and in 1808 came to Fairfield county, settling in
Rush Creek township. He was a man of considerable
means and as land was cheap he purchased a large tract and
became one of the prosperous and influential citizens of his
adopted county. He married Catherine Fast, and
they be came the parents of twelve children, nine daughters
and three sons. The marriage of John and Rebecca (Berry)
Turner was blessed with live children: Jacob B.,
a prominent merchant and miller of Bremen; Emanuel C.;
Joseph S.; Abram B. and Peter F.
Joseph S. Turner pursued his education in the old
Rock schoolhouse, continuing his studies through the winter
months until fourteen yeas of age, when he began learning
the carpenter's trade under the direction of Ephraim Root.
For twenty-one years he followed tha pursuit and was closely
associated with the building interests of his part of the
county, but his business career was interrupted by military
service at the time of the Civil war. In 1864 he
enlisted in Company A, Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
under the command of Captain Butterfield and
Colonel B. Ward. The regiment was assigned to the
Army of the Cumber and he took part in the siege and fall of
Atlanta. He also participated in the battles of
Mission Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Dalton, Resaca, Hickory
Ridge, Peach Tree Creek, Kenesaw Mountain and others, and
after the fall of Atlanta the regiment was ordered to join
Sherman's army, participating in the memorable march to
the sea, the campaign through the Carolinas and the march to
Washington, where Mr. Turner participated in the
grand review, the most celebrated military pageant ever seen
on the western hemisphere. With the regiment he was
then ordered to Lexington, Kentucky, where he was mustered
out and sent home.
The country no longer needing his services.
Mr. Turner resumed work at the carpenter's trade and for
several years was a leading representative of building
interests in this part of the county. He erected a
number of the dwellings in and near Bremen, also churches,
barns and business buildings. Farming interests also
claimed his attention and he owned and operated a valuable
tract of land, which he placed under a high state of
cultivation. He continued farming until 1881, when he
put aside business cares and removed to Bremen, where he has
since lived retired, enjoying a rest which he has truly
earned and richly deserves.
In 1859 Mr. Turner was united in marriage to
Miss Mary Ann Fox, who was born near Pleasantville,
Ohio, Feb. 28, 1839. She was a daughter of Abram
and Jane (Sampson) Fox. By her marriage she has
become the mother of seven children: Rebecca J.,
now deceased; Ella J., the wife of A. C.
McCandless; Lulu Alice, who married Harry Click
and resides at Millersport; Harvey M., a farmer;
Gertrude, the wife of Charles Bauman, a merchant
of Lancaster; and Charles Forest, who is a fireman on
the railroad.
Mr. Turner is a member of John Rose Post,
G. A. R., and thus maintains pleasant relations with his old
army comrades. His life has been a useful and active
one and his history proves conclusively that success is not
the result of genius but the out-growth of practical
judgment, experience, diligence and perseverance. It
was through the possession of those qualities that he
acquired the competence that now enables him to live
retired.
Source:
A Biographical Record of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio
- Published: New York and Chicago: The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 358 |
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