TURNER, TIMOTHY G.: 1817-1904.
Timothy G. Turner , newspaper editor and early business statistician, was born in Waitsfield, Vt., in 1817. He was educated in the local schools and read law in New York .
As a young man he went to Cleveland, O., then a thriving lake port, served for a time as the editor of the CLEVELAND HERALD and helped to reorganize the old TRUE DEMOCRAT as the CLEVELAND LEADER.
He married L. Olivia Morrell in 1847, and in 1855 the couple moved to South Bend, Ind., where they stayed a few years before returning to Ohio . Turner enlisted in the Union forces during the Civil War. He served for two years, was captured and was held at Libby Prison for four months.
In 1867 he returned to South Bend and remained there until his death on Aug. 3, 1904. He compiled and published the South Bend city directories from 1871 through 1880.
Information from the South Bend Public Library and the Northern Indiana Historical Society.
page: 324[View Page 324]- Gazetteer of the St. Joseph Valley, Michigan and Indiana,
with a View of Its Hydraulic and Business Capacities.
Chicago. 1867.
- Turner's Guide from the Lakes to the Rocky
Mountains, via Cleveland and Toledo, Michigan, and Southern and Northern
Indiana, Chicago and Northwestern and the Union Pacific Railroads; also from
Missouri Valley, via the Pacific and Sioux City Railroad and the Steamboats
of the Northwest Transportation Company; Including a Historical and
Statistical Account of the Railroads of the Country, Towns and Cities Along
the Route, and Notices of the Connecting Roads and Routes (withC. E. Turner). Chicago, 1868.
