Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Turner, Douglas K.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Warminster Township


   DOUGLAS K. TURNER clergyman, P.O. Hartsville, is of 
English descent, his ancestors having emigrated about 1630, 
settling in New Haven, Conn. Captain Nathaniel Turner was a 
sea captain before emigrating. His descendant, Jabez 
Turner, grandfather of our subject, was born in New Haven. 
He removed to Monticello, Ill., where he died, aged 92. 
His son Bela was father of Douglas K. He was born in New 
Haven, April 16, 1788, and died at Jackson, Mich., in 1879. 
In middle life he was steward for the asylum for the deaf 
and dumb at Hartford, holding that position for eleven 
years. His wife was Mary Nash, a descendant of an old 
family in New Haven. She was born in Stockbridge, Mass., 
May 4, 1794, and died in 1868, at Jackson, Mich. They had 
eight children, of whom Douglas K. was the fifth. He was 
born in Stockbridge, Mass., December 17, 1823. He attended 
the Hartford Grammar school until his sixteenth year, when 
he went to Yale college, where he graduated in 1843. For a 
year he taught school at Hartford, and then studied theology 
in the Theological seminaries of Andover, Mass., and New 
Haven, Conn. He was licensed to preach by the Hampden East 
Congregational association, of Massachusetts, in 1846, and 
in the same year came to Hartsville to teach a classical and 
select school. Afterward he was elected to the pastorate of 
the Neshaminy church at Warsick, filling the pulpit for 
twenty-five years with zeal and success, two hundred and 
seventy-two new members uniting with it while he was pastor. 
 Mr. Turner has been twice married, first on May 14, 1856, 
to Rachel H., daughter of Robert and Catherine Darrah, of 
this township, where she was born December 14, 1822. She 
died August 13, 1863. On May 28, 1868, Mr. Turner was 
married to Rebecca, a sister of his first wife, who was born 
March 7, 1833. They have no children. On April 20, 1873, 
he retired from the pastorate of the Neshaminy church, since 
which time he has been engaged in classical teaching. He is 
corresponding secretary of the Presbyterian Historical 
society, and is universally respected, not only for his long 
and useful Christian life, but for the excellent qualities 
which have gained him the esteem of all who know him.