Marin County Biographies

OBED W. TURNER

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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              Born in Lincoln county, Maine, June 20, 1820.  When 
seven years old he, with his parents, moved to Penobscot county, Maine, where he 
received a liberal education at the common schools.  He came to this State in 
1848 via the Panama route, settling on the ranch now owned by Mrs. Knott in 
Marin county, Tomales township.  During the Spring of that year he went to the 
mines in Oroville, Butte county, and returned in the Fall.  He paid a visit to 
his old home in 1857 and returned to California in 1858.  He moved to his 
present farm in 1867.  Married Julia Bean March 3, 1858.  She was born in York 
county, Maine, March 19, 1833.  Matilda, born February 26, 1859; Ellen, born 
November 1, 1862; Carrie, born Sept3mber 8, 1854; and Frank, born June 21, 1872, 
are their children.
 
History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, 
Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, Bowen & 
Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880