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Turnbull, Needham S – Turner, Daniel

Turnbull, Needham S

lawyer, legislator, was born June 10, 1856, in Lawrenceville, Va. This eminent lawyer has been judge of Brunswick county; and in 1892 became a member of the Virginia state legislature.

Turnbull, Robert

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 10, 1809, in Scotland. He was a baptist clergyman of Hartford in 1845-69; and the author of The Theater; Olympia Morata; The Genius of Scotland; The Genius of Italy; Pulpit Orators of France and Switzerland; The Student Preacher; Theophany; The World We Live In; Life Pictures; and Christ in History. He died Nov. 20, 1877, in Hartford, Conn.

Turnbull, Robert James

lawyer, author, was born in January, 1775, in New Smyrna, Fla. He was a lawyer and political writer of Charleston; and the author of A Visit to the Philadelphia Penitentiary, much noticed at the time of its appearance in 1797; The Crisis, a work on nullification; and The Principle of Dernier Ressort. He died June 15, 1833, in Charleston, S. C.

Turnbull, William

civil engineer, was born Oct. 9, 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa.

From 1832 till 1843 he was superintending topographical engineer of the construction of the Potomac aqueduct. He died Dec. 9, 1857, in Wilmington, N. C.

TURNBULL, WILLIAM PATERSON, clergyman, author, was born June 20, 1830, in Scotland. He was a Philadelphia ornithologist; and the author of Birds of East Lothian; and Birds of East Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He died July 5, 1871, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Turner, Albert

educator, journalist, was born July 22, 1842, in Fair Haven, N. J. He is now the editor and proprietor of Health Culture, published in New York city.

Turner, Archelaus Ewing

educator, college president, was born April 27, 1861, near Greenville, Ill. He was professor of natural sciences in the Lincoln university for four years; and in 1888 became its president.

TURNER, BENJAMIN STERLING, merchant, congressman, was born March 17, 1825, in Halifax county, N. C. He was elected to the forty-second congress as representative from Alabama as a republican.

Turner, Charles

congressman, was born in 1750. He was elected a representative in congress from Massachusetts, serving from 1809 to 1813; and was at one time master of the Marine hospital at Chelsea. He died in 1816.

Turner, Charles H

merchant, congressman, was born May 26, 1861, in Wentworth, N. H. He moved to New York in 1879; engaged in the ice business in New York city, and continued therein till he became a candidate in 1888 for state senator. He was elected to the fiftyfirst congress to fill a vacancy.

Turner, Charles Yardley

artist, was born Nov. 25, 1850, in Baltimore, Md. He gained the Hallgarten prize by the Courtship of Miles Standish in 1883; was also elected an associate of the academy, and in 1886 was made an academician. His works in oil include The Grand Canal at Dordrecht; The Days that are No More; Afternoon Tea; Dorothy Fox; and Preparing for Yearly Meeting.

Turner, Daniel

naval officer, was born in 1794 in Richmond, N. Y. He was a commodore of the Brazil squadron in 1843-46; and during 1846-49 had charge of the Portsmouth navy yard. He died Feb. 4, 1850, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Turner, Daniel

soldier, educator, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 26, 1796, in Warren county, N. C.

In 1814 he was appointed a lieutenant of artillery, and as such served at Brooklyn Heights and at Plattsburg. From 1819 to 1823 he served in the legislature of North Carolina; and was a member of congress from 1827 to 1829. He subsequently had charge of the Warrenton Female seminary. He died July 21, 1860, on Mare Island, Cal.