WI BIO - Dane Co - TURNER, O. M.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol I, p 237

O. M. TURNER, president of the Dane County Bank, was born in Chautauqua 
County, New York, 04 January 1838, a son of George H. and Mary (WATSON) 
TURNER, both born and reared in Massachusetts. The father was a physician by 
profession, and he and his wife had only one son, our subject. When the 
latter was only eighteen months old the mother died, after which the father 
remarried, and by the last union there were three children.

O. M. TURNER came to [the Territory of] Wisconsin at the age of nine years, 
where he remained on a farm in Dunkirk Township, Dane County, until sixteen 
years old. He was given a good common school education, also attending the 
Albion and Milton Academies about three years. In April 1861 he enlisted for 
the late war, in Company K, First Wisconsin Infantry, under Captain L. 
FAIRCHILD, of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, and served with PATTERSON. 
After the battle of Falling Water, O. M. TURNER was mustered out of service, 
and returned to Wisconsin. For twenty-nine years he was employed as agent 
for the St. Paul Company at McGregor, Milwaukee, and Stoughton, and was also 
engaged in the tobacco and lumber trade in Stoughton, Dane County, WI. In 
1874 he embarked in the real estate business in this city, later in Minnesota 
and California; in 1877 organized the Stoughton State Bank, where he remained 
until 1884, and in that year organized the Dane County Bank. He was elected 
its first president, and the bank now has a capital of $60,000. Mr. TURNER 
is also president of the Stoughton Milling Company. He votes with the 
Prohibition party.

O. M. TURNER was married 16 May 1865 to Sarah E. STOUGHTON, a daughter of 
Luke S. and Eliza (PAIGE) STOUGHTON. The father was the founder of the city 
of Stoughton, Dane County, Wisconsin. [See also the Dane County, Wisconsin, 
biography of Luke STOUGHTON.] O. M. and Sarah E. (STOUGHTON) TURNER have had 
five children: (1) Mary Ada; (2) Luke Lyman, deceased at the age of nine 
years; (3) Giles McClure, (4) Roy S., and (5) Paul Boynton. Giles McClure 
STOUGHTON is a student in the University of Wisconsin.

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