Bio of Preble, Turner J. (b.1807) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Preble, Turner J., farmer, is a great-grandson of James Preble, an
Englishman. Benjamin, son of the latter, married Lydia Tibbetts, both born
in Maine. Their son Turner was born in 1807 in Whitesfield, Lincoln
county, that state; he married Temperance Eldredge, of Argyle, Penobscot
county, daughter of Richard and Temperance (Wheldin) Eldredge. The subject
of this sketch was born in Old Lemon, Hancock county, Maine, March 30,
1842. From 1850 to 1855 his parents resided in McKean county,
Pennsylvania, and in the spring of the last-named year became a resident
of Minnesota. The summer was spent on rented land opposite Hudson,
Wisconsin. In the fall of that year Turner Preble settled at Mazeppa.
During the following winter he hewed the timbers for the first mill built
in that town. He took up government land near the village, which he held
till 1865. He then sold and bought the farm on which he resides (section
7, Chester). The subject of this sketch received but a limited education,
such as is afforded by the primitive schools of a new country. For some
years after attaining his majority he continued to reside with his father
and to assist him in farm operations. In 1868 he purchased eighty acres of
land near his father's (partly in Zumbrota), which he still owns and
tills. He is now the owner of two outlots in Mazeppa village, beside a
half-interest in another on which himself and partner are building a
gristmill at this writing. In the summer of 1883 he built a house near the
millsite, in which he now dwells with his family. In 1868 he married May
Lord, a native of New York; her father, Lewis Lord, was a native of
Massachusetts, and his wife, Jane, of New York. Their children were born
as below: Emma J., January 2, 1870; Lefa, February 19, 1873; Alonzo, July
28, 1876; George, August 3, 1878. Mr. Preble served a short time as a
recruit in the 1st Minn. Heavy Art., enlisting January 28, 1865, and being
discharged October 10 following. He was stationed at Chattanooga,
Tennessee.