. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. has formed the backbone of many of themost prosperous and progressive communities inPennsylvania, communities where the moral and in-tellectual welfare has advanced side by side withbusiness and material interests, and the family hasgiven many able men to Susquehanna county inpast and present generations. Mr. Turrell was born January 14, 1844, inForest L
. Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families. has formed the backbone of many of themost prosperous and progressive communities inPennsylvania, communities where the moral and in-tellectual welfare has advanced side by side withbusiness and material interests, and the family hasgiven many able men to Susquehanna county inpast and present generations. Mr. Turrell was born January 14, 1844, inForest Lake township, grandson of Leman Turrelland son of Leman Miner Turrell, both of whomwere natives of Connecticut. The father was bornJanuary 6, 1808, in Litchfield, that State, and in 1810was brought by his parents to Susquehanna county,where he passed the remainder of his life. The ad-vantages offered by the public schools of those dayswere very limited, and Leman Turrell undertook theeducation of his children himself, attending to theirlessons in the evening after his days work was his instruction our subjects father also ac-quired his early knowledge of farming, and after hismarriage he made his home in Forest Lake township.
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