Frederick Jackson Turner - Marriage, Family, and Death

Marriage, Family, and Death

Turner married Caroline Mae Sherwood in Chicago in November 1889. They had three children: Dorothy Kinsley Turner (later Main), who lived to give them grandchildren; Jackson Allen Turner, who died in October 1999 and Mae Sherwood Turner, who died in February 1999. One of Main's grandchildren was the historian Jackson Turner Main (1917–2003), a scholar of Revolutionary America who married a fellow scholar.

He died in 1932 in San Marino, California, where he had been a research associate at the Huntington Library.