BIO: Edgar William TURLEY, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 369-370.
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  EDGAR WILLIAM TURLEY, a prosperous business man at Irvona, Pa., where he is 
engaged in the mercantile business, was born at Osceola Mills, Clearfield 
county, Pa., July 3, 1874, and is a son of George W. and Sarah (Potter) 
Turley.
  George W. Turley was born in 1849, in Center county, Pa.  He resides with 
his family at Coalport and for a number of years has been a mine foreman and 
also a coal operator.  He married Sarah Potter, who was born in Blair county 
and is a daughter of Robert Potter, one of the old residents of that section.  
The father of George W. Turley was a railroad engineer and met with an 
accidental death on the line and his burial was at Richmond, Va.  Six 
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Turley, all of whom survive, namely:  
Jennie, who is the wife of Orville Spencer, of Cape Charles, Va.; Estella, 
who is the wife of Blair Miller, now of Altoona, formerly of Blandsburg, Pa.; 
Minnie, who is the wife of J. H. Gillman, of Bellwood, formerly of Cambria 
county; Cora, who is the wife of L. B. Bland, of Blandsburg; Maud, who 
resides at home; and Edgar W., of Irvona.
  Edgar William Turley attended school until he was sixteen years of age, 
having advantages in the Normal Schools at New Washington and Mountaindale.  
His first business experience was as a clerk at Altoona and later he became 
weighmaster and coal mine foreman and subsequently went into the coal 
business with his father at Mountaindale and other places and has been in 
business for himself for the last seven years.  Measured by the success which 
he has had, it is evident that his capacity is very considerable.  For a time 
he was in business at Galitzin, later at Dysart and still later at Osceola, 
and for the past three years he has been in the mercantile business, operating 
also the Ent-Turley Coal Company and having other interests.  This company 
employs about sixty men in Clearfield county, working on Vein B., on the South 
Whitmer branch.  Mr. Turley was married in 1900 to Miss Susan Rodgers, of 
Somerset county, Pa., and they have had five children:  Beulah, Ruth, Evaline, 
George and Edwina, the last two being now deceased.  In politics Mr. Turley is a 
Republican.  He is identified fraternally with the K. M. C. and the Moose, at 
Irvona and Coalport.  He is a man of frank, pleasant manner and is very popular 
with his fellow citizens.