Denver-Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Turner, George E. 1859 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

GEORGE E. TURNER.

    George E. Turner, president of the Turner Company, conducting a moving and
storage business in Denver, with extensive fireproof warehouses at 1411 Arapahoe
street, was born in Lewis, Cass county, Iowa, August 26, 1859, a son of George
F. and Hannah (Mahin) Turner. The father was born in Maryland and became a
pioneer resident of Cass county, Iowa and afterwards of Colorado. He was largely
reared and educated in the Hawkeye state and in 1861 removed to Colorado, first
settling at Central, where he conducted an express business. During the later
years of his life he was associated in business with his son, George, and passed
away in Denver, October 16, 1915, at the advanced age of eighty years. His wife,
who was born in 1843, is still living in Denver. They had but two children, the
daughter being Eva May, now the wife of Judson Rohrbough, a resident of California.

    George E. Turner was but two years of age when his parents, removed to
Central, Colorado, and there in the public schools he pursued his education to
the age of nine years, when the family home was established in Denver and he
continued his studies in the schools of this city to the age of seventeen. He
has since been an active factor in business circles. He first engaged in the
express business, beginning with a little wagon drawn by one horse. He was
active in the express business for a year. In 1885 he turned his attention to
the storage business with a flat wagon and a team of mules as his moving
equipment, and with that primitive start he has built up the largest business,
of the kind in the west. He has today an extensive warehouse, a great brick
structure one hundred and twenty-five feet square and six stories in height. The
business represents an investment of four hundred thousand dollars. His first
building was purchased in March, 1904, and in 1909 he erected a complete
fireproof building adjoining, especially designed for the purpose used. The
equipment includes motor cars and trucks of various descriptions and a very
extensive moving and storage business has been built up, so that Mr. Turner
ranks today among the prosperous men of the city. He is actuated by a laudable
ambition to develop the largest and best equipped business of the kind in the
world and present indications are that he will soon realize this ambition.

    Mr. Turner was married in Pueblo, Colorado, to Miss Nellie McCarthy, a
native of Leavenworth, Kansas, and to them were born two children: Blanche F.,
who has passed away; and Merle E. Mr. Turner is the president of the
Turner-Diegel Motor Company, a Ford agency at No. 455 Broadway, at the corner of
Fifth street and Broadway, which business he established for his son.
Politically Mr. Turner maintains an independent course. He is identified with
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Woodmen of the World, the Rotary
Club, the Ad Club, the Real Estate Exchange and with the Denver Civic and
Commercial Association. These connections indicate the breadth and nature of his
interests. He stands for all that is progressive in citizenship and cooperates
heartily in all well, defined plans and movements for the upbuilding and
development of the city. His business career is a most creditable one and
indicates the force of his character, his initiative spirit and his
adaptability. Starting out for himself at an early age, he has. constantly
worked his way upward and in his vocabulary there is no such word as fail. When
one avenue of opportunity seems closed he seeks out other paths whereby he may
reach the desired goal, and at all times his business activities have measured
up to the highest standards of enterprise and of honor.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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