August immigrated from Sweden in 1881. ®5191They married in Minneapolis about 1891 and moved to Bayfield, Wisconsin about 1895, where August operated a grocery store for 24 years. ®5190In the 1895 Wisconsin Census August’s family consists of 1 male and 2 females. ®5195 In 1900 August was a 37 old grocer and lived with his wife, Chesla [sic], 34, and daughters Mabel, 8 and Hellen [sic], 1, on Rittenhouse Avenue in Bayfield. He had emigrated in 1881 from Sweden. ®5191 In 1905 he was 42 and lived with Kiristi [sic} 40, Mabel, 13, Helen, 6, Gertie, 4, Teddy, 3, and Baby son 4 months. ®5194 In 1910 he lived on Second Street in Bayfield with Chaste [sic], 45, Mabel 18, Hellen [sic} G., 11, Theodore A., 7 and Raymond, 3. August was a grocery merchant and had become a naturalized citizen since 1900. ®5192In 1920 August was a 56 year old grocer who lived on Second Street in Bayfield with Krstie [sic} 53, Helen C., 20 and Raymond 13. ®5193 August also had a farm in the Town of Bayfield at the junction of County Highway J and the Star Route, now known as Blue Vista Farm. He died in March 1923.
“Sept. 6, 1902, The Press said: August Turnquist has just received a consignment of olives and olive oil from Capt. Pike’s olive grove in Los Angles, Cal., which can be found in his store. Local residents still remember going into Turnquist’s to try the olives and feeling sorry for Capt. Pike because they were spoiled. Ripe olives were new to Bayfield and it was awhile before people were convinced they were a marketable product, that they weren’t just spoiled green ones.” p. 26 ®5202 “September 21, 1906. August Turnquist’s delivery horse got away from its driver Monday morning and took a run down Rittenhouse Avenue. When opposite Turnquist’s store, it ran into Kranzfelder’s delivery wagon, throwing it to the sidewalk. Mr. Turnquist’s little boy, who was standing on the sidewalk, was struck by Kranzfelder's wagon and his leg broken above the knee. He was taken to an Ashland hospital. Turnquist’s delivery wagon was badly smashed.” p.255 ®5202 “August 1, 1921 Mr. Turnquist donated a goat to be given as a prize during the Frolic. Mrs. H. J. Wachsmuth was appointed to take charge of the goat. If this seems to you like a startling and wild choice for a goat tender, as it did to me, recall the barns of the Wachsmuth Lumber Company, where the goat probably went to reside with the horses until he was awarded as a prize to some lucky winner. But whoever won this goat evidently would not take him as a gift, for after the Frolic since it seemed impossible to dispose of the goat in an other way, the League decided to return him to Mr. Turnquist at once.” p.315 ®5202