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| 43. ENOCH TURNER HOUSE AND BREWERY |
| York was home to many benevolent people. In a time of growth and prosperity, with young men quickly earning their fortunes, there seems to have been funds enough for much generosity. The funding tended to provide for those institutions which we today would associate with government funding, such as education and housing. Jesse Ketchum [site 7, 8], was such a philanthropist, as was Enoch Turner (1790-1866). Enoch Turner was an Englishman who arived in York in 1830 or 1831. He opened a brewery on the south side of Palace Street (now Front), near the windmill. It was the site of his home as well as his business. Brewing brought Turner, as it did many other brewers in York, much success and wealth, which he partly redirected into the community. In 1848 he established a school just south of Little Trinity Church. It was a free school, for the education of the Protestant Irish from the neighbouring workingclass district. The schoolhouse was restored in the early 1970s, and became a museum administered by the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation. When Enoch Turner died in 1866 he left, as a demonstration of his benevolence, 2,000 pounds sterling to Trinity College, 500 to Trinity Church, 250 to Paul’s, 250 to St. Peter’s and many appreciative students. |
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