Allen Turner and Margaret Sheriff

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Husband Allen Turner ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 18 Oct 1821 - Warren Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 Jan 1908 2
         Buried:  - Shenango Valley Cemetery, Greenville, Mercer Co, PA

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         Father: Marcus Turner (1794-Aft 1888) 4 5
         Mother: Sarah A. Stephens (      -1869) 5

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       Marriage: 15 Aug 1883 2

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   Other Spouse: Mary E. Shipman (1831-1878) 2 4 - 19 Aug 1849 - Panama, Chautauqua Co, NY 2 4

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Wife Margaret Sheriff ^{2 3 6}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Jun 1903 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: Joseph Sheriff (1787-1872) 2 3
         Mother: Nancy Fulton (1797-1841) 3

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Allen Turner

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He followed the lumber business up to his removal to Sharon, PA, in June, 1852, where he went into the stove and tin-ware business, having the only store in that line in the borough at that time. In 1856 he removed to Kinsman, OH, where he continued business. Finding that Kinsman was not sufficiently flourishing for his business enterprise, he came, in 1859, to Greenville, PA, and purchased the store building of Achre, Bittenbanner & Co. on Main Street, the upper story of which was then occupied by his sister, Mrs. Hammond, in publishing the Times. In the spring of 1860 he located in the borough, and opened a stove and tin-ware store in the same building. He also carried on a book and wall-paper store in the same building up to 1865, when he sold out, being the only dealer in that line in Greenville during his term of business. In 1865 he purchased 800 acres of timber lands on the head-waters of the Shenango River, which stream had been declared, by the act of 1803, navigable to its source, and cleaned out up to Greenville. Mr. Turner cleaned out the bed of the stream from Greenville to his purchase, a distance of from thirty-five to forty-five miles. For the succeeding eighteen years he rafted his logs to Greenville, where he had erected extensive saw-mills, and cut them into lumber, producing about 1,000,000 feet annually. His mill was burned in 1881, but he remained in the business until 1883. Mr. Turner, in 1870, started the first tree and small fruit nursery in that portion of the county, which he sold out in 1873, when he had 50,000 valuable roots. He was one of the men who was instrumental in having the rolling mills located in Greenville, and also the Pearce Woolen Mills, and one of the leading spirits in having Thiel College brought to the place.

He and his wife started housekeeping on a raft in 1850 on the Allegheny River and floated down to Pittsburg, where Mr. Turner was engaged in the hotel business for two years. In 1852 they went to Sharon, Pennsylvania, he engaging in the tin-shop business, having bought the business of Hon. E. A. Wheeler. Mr. Turner manufactured and sold goods to dealers from wagons all over northwestern Pennsylvania. In 1857 he sold the business back to Mr. Wheeler and removed to Kinsman, Ohio, where he continued in the same line of business up to 1860, when he removed to Greenville, Pennsylvania, and there bought the property on which R. E. Turner’s housefurnishing store would later stand. Some member of the family had been in the business at this place up to 1900. In 1901 Allen Turner sold his property in Greenville and removed to Hubbard, Ohio, having purchased property there, which he sold in 1903, going to Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, where he spent the balance of his days. Among other changes in business and industries in which he was a successful operator may be mentioned: Up to 1865, he conducted a book and wall-paper house in Greenville and that year purchased eight hundred acres of land on the headwaters of the Shenango River, which stream he cleared out the bed of up to Greenville, a distance of about forty-five miles from his timber lands. For the succeeding eighteen years he cut and rafted logs to Greenville, where he erected extensive saw mills and there cut lumber, producing about one million feet annually. These mills were burned in 1881, but he continued in business until 1883. In 1870 he started the first tree and small fruit nursery in his section of Mercer County. This he sold in 1873, when there were fifty thousand roots growing. He was also instrumental in having the roller mills located at Greenville; also the Pearce woolen mills, and was a leading spirit in having Thiel College brought to the last named place.

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Notes: Marriage

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They were married Aug 23. [HMC 1888, 832]

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1201.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 598.

3 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 112.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 831.

5 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 599.

6 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 832.