San Joaquin County
Biographies
JAMES TURNER
JAMES TURNER, a farmer of
Castoria Township, was born in Ohio in 1830. His father, John Turner, moved to
Fort Wayne, Indiana, while he was a mere child, where they remained eleven
years, when he removed to Jefferson County, Iowa, where he lived six years. All
this time they were meditating upon going to California, and in 1850 they
started across the plains, arriving at Stockton after a journey of five months.
His father immediately bought four quarter sections of land in Castoria
Township, one of which he gave his son James; the father, in 1875, moved to
Tulare County, where he still resides, being ninety years old.
James Turner’s ranch contains 960 acres of
rich, well-improved land. He raises stock and grain, and some fruit for the use
of his family. He has a handsome residence on the line of the French Camp road,
eight miles from Stockton and three miles from French Camp.
He was married to Miss Hannah Blosser in
1852, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1831, and died in San Joaquin County in
1882, leaving seven children, namely: Martha M., Jesse T., William G., Addie S.,
Sara A., L. Grace and Minnie J.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 255. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2008 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Golden Nugget Library's San Joaquin County
Biographies
Golden Nugget Library's San Joaquin County
Genealogy Databases