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JOSEPH R. TURNER, firm of Turner Bros., wholesale and retail liquor dealers, Broadway, Greenville, Ohio. Greenville, like most cities of its size, has its representative business men in nearly every branch of trade, and we must accord to the above firm the honor of being the leading firm of the place in their line, carrying, as they do, a large and extensive stock of foreign and domestic goods, which they sell at the smallest margin. Joseph R. Turner is the senior member of the firm, and was born in Montgomery Co., Ohio, June 23, 1842; received the advantage of the common schools, and completed his education by a course of two years’ study at the Wittenberg College at Springfield. In the summer of 1861 he enlisted in the 13th Mo. V. I.; was then transferred to the 22d O. V. I., serving sixteen months; he then returned home on a sick furlough; received a commission as Second Lieutenant of Co. K, 93d O. V. I., and served with this regiment through Kentucky and Tennessee, participating in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and some battles of less importance. The hardships of army life being too severe for his constitution, after being disabled from duty some four months, he resigned, returned home, and upon the 1st of July, 1865, he made the trip overland from Omaha to Virginia City with mule teams, the trip consuming some four months. He remained in Montana some five and a half years, during which time his thermometer of success suffered many changes, he having made and lost several fortunes. He returned to Ohio in 1871, and in 1874 located in Greenville with his brother under the above firm name, where they have since done a successful business. His marriage with Hattie A. Macy was celebrated in Montgomery Co. in 1872; they have three children by this union, viz., Mabel, Ida and Maud.