Lake County Biographies

WILLIAM TURNER

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Is a native of Oxfordshire, England, born October 17, 1829.  At the age of 
twenty-three years old he left his native country and, coming to America, 
settled in Ohio.  January 6, 1853, he married Miss Harriett C. Smith, a native 
of Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio, by whom he has two living children:  Emma C. 
and William H.; they lost two:  Ella and Laura.  William Turner followed farming 
until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he enlisted and served about one 
year, when, on account of wounds received at Perryville, Kentucky, he was 
discharged.  We next find him merchandising in Chardon, Ohio, where he remained 
until 1870, when, on account of poor health, he moved to Cuba, Missouri.   Here 
he followed the hotel business for seven years.  His next move was to 
California, arriving here in January, 1877.  He settled in San Jose, and engaged 
in the dairy business, which he followed until 1879, when he came to Lake County 
and settled on his present place, consisting of eighty acres, located in Scotts 
Valley.
 
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California, publ. 1881 � pg. 278