Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Turner, James I 1854 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co 1882

James I. Turner, farmer, P. O. Gardner, was born in Lake County, Ill., May 18, 
1854, son of Richard and Sarah (Doane) Turner, natives of Maine. The father 
was born in 1817, is a stock-dealer, living in Kansas. The mother died in 
1876, at the age of fifty five; she had two children - Nellie, who died at the 
age of twenty-seven, and James, our subject. He came to Cook County when four 
years of age, with his parents; attended the common schools and finished his 
education at Bryant & Stratton's Business College in Chicago. In 1872, he 
settled in Gardner, where he pursued the lumber business until 1877. In the 
fall if 1872, he erected the grain elevator now owned by Mr. Atkinson, and 
engaged in the grain business, in connection with his lumber trade. In 1876, 
he sold out his business to Mr. Atkinson, and the following year went to 
Sheldon, Ill., where he engaged in the grain business a year. He next went to 
Minnesota, where he engaged in farming until 1880, when he returned to Grundy 
County and settled on his present place. October 9, 1880, he married Miss 
Jessie Manegold, born in Kankakee County, Ill., in 1860; she is the daughter 
of John and Mary Manegold, he dead, she living in Gardner. This union has 
resulted in one child - Richard. Mr. Turner carries on general farming and 
stock-dealing; he has been School Director one year, and is a member of the 
order of A., F. & A. M. of Gardner.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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