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| Record Last Updated On:
3/16/2016 |
| Name: RICHARD EDWARD TURNER |
| Death Date: SEP/16/1910 |
Interment Date:
SEP/18/1910 |
Birth Date: AUG/25/1830 |
| Age at Death: 80y21d |
Cause of Death:
ANAEMIA |
| Location at Death:
St. Joseph, Missouri |
| Physical Location at Death:
515 N 5th street |
| Sex: M |
Nativity: AMERICAN |
Ethnicity: CAUCASIAN |
| Occupation:RETIRED MERCHANT |
| Military Branch:William's MO Cav CSA |
Military Rank:Pvt |
War Service:Civil War |
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| Child of: Zephaniah Turner & Susan Tutt |
| Spouse of: Single |
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| Brief Biography: Richard Edward Turner, who was engaged in the wholesale business in St. Joseph for a period of more than thirty-seven years, was born at Culpeper Court House, Va., August 25, 1830, and is a son of Zephaniah
and Susan (Tutt) Turner.
Richard Edward Turner attended the public schools in Ohio and Missouri until he was fourteen years old, and such education as he has since received has been through contact with the world. At the age of fourteen he was clerk in the store of James A. Tutt at Millersburg, Mo., and in 1848 he took charge of the mercantile house of T. P. Bell, in Cooper county, which he con ducted with success for some time. He next engaged with a wholesale and retail dry goods firm at Boonville, Mo., until the spring of 1850, when he accepted a situation as bookkeeper for Abram Nave, at Savannah, Mo. In 185 1 Mr. Turner went to Salt Lake City, Utah, with a stock of goods owned by Mr. Nave and himself, and spent the winter of 1851-52 at that place. He found it necessary to exchange the merchandise in his charge for horses, cattle and mules, which he took to California and disposed of profitably, returning to Savannah in November, 1852, by way of the Isthmus of Panama and New Orleans. In 1854 Mr. Nave and partners sent Mr. Turner to California in charge of a second expedition. The party was made up
of thirty men. with sixteen wagons, fifty horses and mules and 700 steers in the train, which he safely conducted to the ranch on the Sacramento river, and in the fall of 1854 returned to Savannah by way of Nicarauga [sic] and New York. On January 1, 1855, Mr. Turner formed a partnership with Abram Nave and James McCord, to conduct, under his management, a retail store at Oregon, Mo. The venture was successful. In 1858 they removed the stock to Forest City where the business was continued until 1860. In that year Mr. Turner purchased the interests of his partners and associated himself with H. L. Williams and John M. Frazer, under the firm name of Turner, Frazer & Company. The new firm conducted the business at the old stand until 1864 when they removed it to St. Joseph and established a wholesale grocery house, the firm later becoming incorporated as the Turner-Frazer Mercantile Company. A large store room was built at Third and Charles street and was occupied by them for some twenty years; it is now occupied by the Sheridan-Clayton Paper Company. Mr. Turner retired on May 1, 1901.
During these many years of activity Mr. Turner had many and varied interests. He has been a member of the board of trustees of William Jewell College, of Liberty, Mo., for twenty-five years and president of the board for six years; is chairman of the board of trustees of the Hoagland memorial fund; was president of the Merchants' Bank of St. Joseph three years; was instrumental in building the first street railway line and the first electric light plant in St. Joseph, and was president of the street railway company for twenty-five years, and of the electric light company for a considerable period; was a promoter of the St. Joseph & St. Louis road, now the Santa Fe railway, serving as vice-president when the road was built; was connected with the company that built the St. Joseph 'and Grand Island road to Hastings, Neb.; was president of the first Board of Trade in St. Joseph; and is a large stockholder in the Jones-Payne Hat Company, of St. Joseph. Mr. Turner is pre-eminently a business man, business being his life and pleasure. He made moderate gain annually, and that satisfied him; slowly but surely he earned his competency with the pleasing retrospection that it had been fairly acquired.
Mr. Turner has been a Mason for forty years, and is a member of the Missionary Baptist church. He is a conservative Democrat, favoring tariff for revenue only, and a gold standard. He is in good health and active and his future promises much of good to himself and society. Residence address, 515 North Fifth street, St. Joseph, Missouri.
From M. L. Van Nada, editor, The Book of Missourians: The Achievements and Personnel of Notable Living Men and Women of Missouri in the Opening Decade of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, IL: T. J. Steele & Co., 1906), pp. 2,3. |
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Burial Number: 6761 |
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| Other Relatives in Plot: Susan Tutt Turner (mother) |
| Lot Owner: RICHARD ETURNER |
| Lot Location: 1 |
| Block Location: 18 |
| Section/Range Location: C |
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| Funeral Home: DE HEATON |
| Funeral Home City/State: St. Joseph, Missouri |
| Cost of Interment: $6.00 |
Date Paid: 03/31/11 |
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