Los Angeles-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Turner, Daniel 1806 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

DANIEL TURNER, Ocean Park, Santa Monica, if statements are correct, is the
pioneer of pioneers. He is a native of Georgia and was born on our national
birthday in 1806 and is, therefore, at this writing, (April, 1908) one hundred
and two years of age. His father was a half breed Cherokee Indian and his mother
a half breed Creek. When a small boy the family lived in Louisiana and his
father took part in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Although very young,
Daniel clearly remembers seeing his father behind breastworks of cotton bales
giving battle with his musket to the enemy. Early in life he left the south and
found employment with the Hudson Bay Fur Company in the Northwest Territory as a
hunter and trapper. This strenuous life he followed for many years. Later he
joined a fur hunting expedition for the Arctic regions. They encountered
unexpected difficulties and an unusually cold and prolonged winter, for which
the company was inadequately equipped, and only one hundred and fifteen of the
party lived to return to civilization. By stages Mr. Turner made his way
westward through a trackless wilderness to Astoria, Oregon. Later he enlisted in
the U. S. Light Artillery and was stationed at Fort Point near San Francisco. He
served one year, was discharged and re-enlisted in Battery H, Second California
Heavy Artillery under Captain Homestead and served about five years. He is now a
pensioner of the U. S. Government and draws $24.00 per month. Notwithstanding
his extreme age, Mr. Turner is as active and healthy as many men who consider
themselves well at fifty. He reads the daily papers, keeps in touch with current
events and progress of the country and discusses issues of the day with great
interest and sound logic. He has always been temperate in his habits of living.
He has never married.

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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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