Arthur Maxwell Turney and Blanche Arthur

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Husband Arthur Maxwell Turney ¹

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           Born: 16 Aug 1883 - Foxburg, Clarion Co, PA 1
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         Father: Mack Turney (1861-      ) 1
         Mother: Anna Logue (1860-      ) 1

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       Marriage: 7 Apr 1909 1

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Wife Blanche Arthur ¹

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           Born:  - Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: Samuel Arthur (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Emily Wheeler (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Dorothy May Turney ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Arthur Maxwell Turney

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He was educated in the public schools of Emlenton and Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Following his graduation in 1900 from Park Institute at Allegheny City he became a salesman for the Bindley Hardware Company of Pittsburgh and after four years entered the employ of the Oliver Iron & Steel Company of Pittsburgh as order clerk. Here he remained for two years. A brief associa­tion with the Forest Oil Company of Allegheny County as a pumper followed and at its termination Mr. Turney became a bookkeeper for the Cook & Calvin Lumber Company at Benavon, Pennsylvania. During a period of two years he rose in the organization to the position of private secretary to the president. At the end of this time he entered the retail grocery business, establishing A. M. Turney & Company, with his mother as silent partner. He was engaged in the operation of this enterprise for thirteen years and left it to go to France with the Young Men's Christian Association at the request of local officials after the United States entered the World War.
Mr. Turney began his connection with the Young Men's Christian Association on January 1, 1918, sailed for Eng­land on January seventh and after a week in London was sent to Paris, arriving there on February 2, 1918. He spent eighteen months overseas on active duty and became eventually Division Y. M. C. A. Secretary of the 28th Division, comprising troops of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Following his return to the United States he re­sumed his grocery business, but after three months he decided to devote himself permanently to Young Men's Christian Association work and came to the Oil City “Y” as general secretary, later he was admin­istrative head of the local organization. Clearly recog­nizing the potentialities of his position, he made it a constructive force of inestimable value in the city through his innumerable contacts with the young people of the community.
Mr. Turney was also active in other phases of Oil City's life. He was secretary of the Oil City Ministerial Association. He was also an active member and at one time president of the Oil City Rotary Club; chairman of the Agricultural Committee of the Oil City Chamber of Commerce; an honorary member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; and an effective worker in various civic causes. A Methodist in religious faith, he was a member of the official board of Trinity Methodist Church, in whose Sunday School he taught for more than twenty years, and was chairman of the finance committee of the board. In politics he was a Republican. Mr. Turney's favorite recreation was fishing.

1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 195.