Turner, Mr. and Mrs. George F.

TURNER, CATON, SPRAY

Posted By: Jane Adams (email)
Date: 5/18/2005 at 16:46:09

The Fairfield Ledger
Mon., Oct. 2, 1939
Sec. E, Page 7, cols. 3-4.

MR. AND MRS. GEORGE F. TURNER (Picture). George F. Turner was born in Fairfield in 1861, the son of Christian and Christina Turner. He learned the printer’s trade in 1879, under the late W. W. Junkin and C. M. Junkin at the Ledger office, which was upstairs in the E. R. Smith building on the northeast corner of the square. He was in partnership with the late W. F. Porter in the Iowa Printing Co. under the Leggett Hotel for some time. In December of 1934 he gave up the printing business and retired on account of illness. Since that time he has reopened a small print shop in the Kessel Battery Building.

Mr. Turner was married Jan. 2, 1883, to Miss Catherine Agnes Caton in the chapel of St. Mary’s church by Rev. Father Schiffmacher.

Miss Caton was the daughter of Thomas and Catherine Caton, and was born in Preston, Lancaster, England. When she was about six years old, with her parents she came to Boston, where she lived until sixteen years old, at which time she came to Fairfield. Mrs. Turner passed away December 28, 1939, after an illness of ten years’ duration.

Mr. and Mrs. Turner were the parents of four children: Mrs. Anuel Spray and A. E. “Bud” Turner both of this city; a son George died in childhood, and another son, Thomas, passed away in 1928.

This data has been transcribed for genealogical purposes; I am not related to the subject.