"A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of the City of
Seattle and County of King, Washington." New York and Chicago: Lewis Publishing
Co., 1903.  p. 630.
 
FRANK TURNER

     Frank Turner is a retail dealer in meat, and is also engaged in the
shipping business in this line, at Auburn. He was born in New York city,
April 9, 1859. His father, Gilbert Turner, was born at Turner, Orange
county, New York, about 1832. That place was named in honor of the family, which
had been established there at an early day. For many years the father of our
subject was an active and prominent business man of that section and owns there
three large farms, also conducts a hotel and in other ways is interested in the
improvement and commercial activity of the district. He is a large producer of
live stock and of dairy products, and for many years has supplied the West Point
military post with meat and dairy products, his place being located only about
eight miles from the noted military academy. Mr. Turner was united in marriage
to Miss Martha Pollard, who was born in New York city about 1840, and is the
daughter of Willett Pollard, who was captain of one of the Cunard line steamers
for many years and was afterward engaged in stevedoring on East river. The
parents of our subject were married at Turner and are still living in the old
home there.
     At the usual age Frank Turner began his education in the common schools of
Orange county, and then entered the Chester Academy at Chester, New York. On
leaving school at the age of twenty years he became employed in the old
Washington market in New York, where he remained for two years. Throughout his
entire life he has been connected with the meat business. About 1883 he went to
Medora. South Dakota, and was associated with Marquis De Mora and Theodore
Roosevelt, now the president of the United States, in the conduct of a cold
storage plant at that place. After one year in this business Mr. Turner went to
Minneapolis, where for two years he had charge of the Minneapolis Transfer
Packing Company, and on the expiration of that period he went to Chicago, where
he was employed in Armour's packing house for a year. In 1890 he arrived in
Washington, settling in Tacoma, where for a year he was engaged in canning fish
at Mukilteo, where he rented a cannery. The following year he was in the
butchering business at Snohomish, and then was with the Puget Sound Dressed Beef
and Packing Company at Seattle. Later lie located at Kent, Washington, where he
entered into partnership with William Horlock, conducting a new butchering
business, this relation being maintained for about four years. In 1896 Mr.
Turner came to Auburn and purchased the butchering business of the Pauly
Brothers, and Auburn has since been his home. He has a forty-acre farm near the
town, where he keeps his stock and has a large slaughter-house. He now enjoys an
extensive local trade and also does a shipping business.
     Mr. Turner belongs to Perseverance Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, New
York city, and to the Knights of Pythias fraternity of Auburn. In politics he is
a Republican and at the last election cast his ballot for Theodore Roosevelt,
his former associate and partner, for vice president. He does not find the time
or desire for office, however, preferring to devote his attention exclusively to
his business affairs, in which he is now meeting with signal success.


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Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in July 2008 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.