Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Turner, James P. 1858 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis
    JAMES P. TURNER, a well known and highly respected citizen of Faulkton, is a

blacksmith by profession, a business that has proved exceedingly prosperous

since his coming to this county.



    Mr. Turner is a native of Ontario, Canada, born near the town of Aylmer,

December 1st, 1858, and is a son of James Turner, who was born in Scotland and

immigrated to Canada with his father, Donald Turner, a carpenter by occupation.



    James P. Turner, whose father died when he was only two years old, was given

a good common school education and at the age of nineteen years commenced

serving a three years apprenticeship at the blacksmith trade. On the expiration

of his apprenticeship he continued to work at his trade in Canada for two years.

In the spring of 1882 he came to Watertown, Dakota Territory, where he remained

one year.



    In the .spring of 1883 he took up his residence in Faulk county, and as one

of its first blacksmiths started a shop in LaFoon, which was then the county

seat. Soon after the removal of the county seat to Faulkton in the fall of 1886,

Mr. Turner returned to Aylmer where he was married to Miss Belle K. Puntine, a

native of Canada and a daughter of John Puntine, a ship builder by trade. As her

mother died when she was but two years old, she was raised by an aunt in her

native land.



    To Mr. and Mrs. Turner were born five children, viz: Hugh A., Jessie A.,

Frank A., Muriel and Charles.



    Since coming to Faulkton Mr. Turner has steadily prospered financially.



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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



ILLUSTRATED

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