John G. Turner
John G. Turner, manufacturer, Kent, was born in England, April 10, 1857; son of Joseph and Martha (Gill) Turner, who came to America in 1873, and located in Jamestown, N. Y., where his father, with others, under the firm name of Hall, Broadhead & Turner, started the first alpaca-mills in that city, and where he was engaged in business up to 1878. In 1879 Joseph Turner located in Kent, this county, and embarked in the manufacture of worsted goods in company with his sons, Joshua and John G., in which he continued until his death. He died in 1881 at the age of fifty-three years. The business is still carried on by his sons (see sketch of Turner Bros.). Our subject was reared in Yorkshire, England, until sixteen years of age, and was educated in all the details of his present business in that country, and in his father's mill at Jamestown, N. Y. Mr. Turner is a gentleman of push and enterprise, and his identity with the manufacturing interests of Kent has been alike valuable to himself and the public. He is a F. & A. M. In politics a Republican.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885