Turner, E. B
lawyer, jurist, was born May 24, 1825, in Putney, Vt. In 1853 he moved to Texas; and in 1866 was appointed United States district attorney for the western district of Texas. He became attorney-general of the state under the reconstruction acts; and in 1871 was appointed judge of the thirty-second judicial district of the state, serving until 1876. He was then elected judge of the sixteenth judicial district, and resigned in 1880 to accept the appointment of United States district judge for the western district of Texas. TURNER, MRS. ELIZA [SPROAT], author, poet, was born in 1826 in Pennsylvania. She is a poet of Pennsylvania; and the author of Out-of-Door Rhymes.