CHARLES PEASLEE TURNER, son of Rev William Wolcott Turner, P h D (B A Yale 1819), who was for over forty years teacher and principal of the American School for the Deaf at Hartford, Conn, was born in that city, February 5, 1826 . His mother was Lucinda Maria (Peaslee) Turner. He was fitted for college m the Hopkins Grammar School in Hartford, and after graduation from college was for two years a private tutor near Georgetown, Del., then took the course in Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, receiving his medical degree there in 1851. H e established himself in Philadelphia and practiced Ms profession there to the end of his life He was medical examiner for the AEtna Life Insurance Company of Hartford for about forty-five years, and was long the surgeon of the Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania. For years he was an elder in the Arch Street Presbyterian Church He was interested in musical matters and was a trustee of the Musical Fund Society
Dr. Turner died after a brief illness from angina pectoris at his home m Philadelphia, April 12, 1910, at the age of 84 years His burial was in Hartford. He married, October 6, 1858, Julia Frances, daughter of Roland and Mary (Francis) Mather of Hartford, and Ms.ter of Edward Taylor Mather (B A. Yale 1864). Their golden wedding was celebrated in 1908 at the home of their daughter, Mrs Edward W. Hooker, in Hartford. His widow and daughter survive him, but their son died in early childhood.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1909-10.pdf
CHARLES PEASLEE TURNER, son of Rev William Wolcott Turner, P h D (B A Yale 1819), who was for over forty years teacher and principal of the American School for the Deaf at Hartford, Conn, was born in that city, February 5, 1826 . His mother was Lucinda Maria (Peaslee) Turner. He was fitted for college m the Hopkins Grammar School in Hartford, and after graduation from college was for two years a private tutor near Georgetown, Del., then took the course in Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, receiving his medical degree there in 1851. H e established himself in Philadelphia and practiced Ms profession there to the end of his life He was medical examiner for the AEtna Life Insurance Company of Hartford for about forty-five years, and was long the surgeon of the Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania. For years he was an elder in the Arch Street Presbyterian Church He was interested in musical matters and was a trustee of the Musical Fund Society
Dr. Turner died after a brief illness from angina pectoris at his home m Philadelphia, April 12, 1910, at the age of 84 years His burial was in Hartford. He married, October 6, 1858, Julia Frances, daughter of Roland and Mary (Francis) Mather of Hartford, and Ms.ter of Edward Taylor Mather (B A. Yale 1864). Their golden wedding was celebrated in 1908 at the home of their daughter, Mrs Edward W. Hooker, in Hartford. His widow and daughter survive him, but their son died in early childhood.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1909-10.pdf
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