Sacramento County
Biographies
EDGAR D. TURNER
EDGAR D. TURNER.--Great changes have
taken place on Andrus Island
since Edgar D. Turner located there in 1899.
From a wild and swampy condition, of unpromising aspect, this island has
developed under the untiring industry of well-to-do- farmers into one of the
garden-spots of this locality. His birth
occurred in St. Albans, Maine,
on January 20, 1863. His parents were
N. B. and Alice (Reed) Turner, also natives of Maine,
where N. B. Turner was a manufacturer of shovel handles. Edgar Turner is one of eight children born in
his partents’ family. The father passed
away in Maine in 1891; the mother
has preceded him, having passed away when Edgar Turner was eight years old.
Edgar D. Turner
received a good education in the grammar and high schools in St.
Albans, Maine; Pittsfield Institute, at Augusta,
Maine; and the business college in that
place. After completing his education,
he entered his fathers business. In California
he cast his first vote as an American citizen for James G. Blaine. In 1885 he removed to Guerneville, Sonoma
County, where one of his brothers
had previously located and had established a sawmill; he worked for his brother
for ten years, most of the time in a store.
In 1899 he removed to Sacramento County and purchased forty acres a half
mile above Isleton on Andrus Island; since then he has added by purchase 143
acres, and in addition has bought 120 acres below Isleton and another sixty
acres in the Holland tract near Clarksburg, all of the land being devoted to
fruit and asparagus.
In San
Jose, on November 20, 1897, Mr. Turner was married to Miss Anna M.
Talmadge, born on a ranch near Vorden, Cal.,
a daughter of C. V. and Marjorie Talmadge.
Mrs. Turner was a graduate of the normal school at San
Jose, Cal.,
and for a number of years previous to her marriage was engaged in
teaching. Mr. and Mrs. Turner are the
parents of one son, Edgar D., Jr., a graduate of the law department of the University
of California. In political views Mr. Turner is a stanch
Republican. Fraternally, he belongs to
the Sacramento Lodge, No. 6, B. P. O. Elks.
Mr. Turner gave the right of way for the new drawbridge connecting Grand
Island with Andrus Island,
which is now nearing completion.
Transcribed
by Patricia Seabolt.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 578. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Patricia Seabolt.