Joseph Constant Turner

b. 23 December 1877, d. 10 January 1951
  • Joseph Constant Turner was born on 23 December 1877 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • He was baptized/christened on 7 April 1878 at Mariners Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Georg Heinrich Scheck and Anna Magdalena Dexheimer appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 1316 Ogden Street. Other members of the household included Joseph Constant Turner, Matilda Scheck, Adeline Scheck, William Scheck, Wilhelmina Scheck, Joseph R. Turner, Louisa Scheck and William Henry Turner.
  • Following the death of Louisa Scheck Turner, children William, Joseph, Walter, Edna and Louisa were taken in by members of Louisa's family.
  • John Morgan and Wilhelmina Scheck appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 2517 Harland. Other members of the household included Joseph Constant Turner, Edith M. Morgan, Myrtle M. Morgan and Wilhelmina M. Morgan.
  • He was a druggist clerk, according to the 1900 census.
  • He married Dora Amelia Barrington circa 1901.
  • Joseph Constant Turner and Dora Amelia Barrington appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 131 Paxon Street and two 18-year-old male boarders.. Other members of the household included Joseph B. Turner, Chester C. Turner, Walter J. Turner and Walter Benjamin Turner.
  • He was a drugstore clerk, according to the 1910 census.
  • Joseph Constant Turner registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while living with his wife Dora at 115 North Paxon Street in Philadelphia, and employed there as a druggist by Rumsey-Borell Drug Company at 52nd & Market Streets.
  • Joseph Constant Turner and Dora Amelia Barrington appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 115 Paxon Street. Other members of the household included Joseph B. Turner, Chester C. Turner and Walter J. Turner.
  • He was employed as a druggist (wholesale jobber), according to the 1920 census.
  • Joseph Constant Turner and Dora Amelia Barrington appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Mountainville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, at 146 South Lehigh Avenue. Other members of the household included Chester C. Turner and Walter J. Turner.
  • He was employed as a druggist in a drug store, according to the 1930 census.
  • Joseph Constant Turner and Dora Amelia Barrington appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, at 2412 South 4th Street. Other members of the household included Walter J. Turner.
  • He was proprietor of a retail patent medicine business, according to the 1940 census.
  • Joseph Constant Turner registered for the draft on 27 April 1942 in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, while living with his wife Dora at 2412 South 4th Street in Allentown, and operating Turner Drug Store at the same address.
  • Joseph Constant Turner died on 10 January 1951 at age 73 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, at 2412 South 4th Street at his residence. . His death was officially witnessed by Dora Amelia Barrington.
  • He was interred at Trinity Great Swamp UCC Cemetery, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
  • Last Edited: 21 Mar 2015

Family: Dora Amelia Barrington b. 27 June 1882, d. 10 December 1974