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Turner, Samuel Hulbeart – Tuthill, Selah

Turner, Samuel Hulbeart

clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 23, 1790, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an episcopal clergyman, professor in the General Theological seminary in New York city in 1818-61, and best known by his Commentaries on Hebrews, Romans, Ephesians, and Galatians. Other works by him are, Companion to the Book of Genesis; Thoughts on Scripture Prophecy; Comparing Spiritual Things with Spiritual; and Biographical Notices of Jewish Rabbis. He died Dec. 21, 1861, in New York city.

Turner, Thomas

naval officer, was born Dec. 23, 1808, in Washington, D. C.

He served in the United States navy in the civil war attaining the rank of rear-admiral. He died March 24, 1883, in Glen Mills, Pa.

Turner, Thomas

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1821, in Richmond, Ky. He was commonwealth attorney from 1846 to 1849; and was a representative in the Kentucky state legislature from 1861 to 1863. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-fifth congress; and reelected to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat.

Turner, Thomas G

governor. He was governor of Rhode Island for one year, beginning in 1859.

Turner, Thomas Sloss

journalist, poet, was born July 30, 1860, in Woodburn, Ky. He is a Texas journalist and poet; and the author of Life's Brevity, and Other Poems; Heart Melodies; and A Dream of Bachelors.

Turner, Turner

lawyer, jurist, was born in Ohio. He was appointed from Ohio chief justice of the United States court for the territory of Nevada, residing at Carson City.

Turner, William F

lawyer, jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. He removed to Iowa, from which state he was appointed chief justice of the United States court for the territory of Arizona.

Turney, Hopkins Lacey

soldier, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 3, 1797, in Smith county, Tenn. From 1828 to 1838 he served in the Tennessee legislature; and was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1837 to 1843. He served in the senate of the United States from 1845 to 1851. He died Aug. 1, 1857, in Winchester, Tenn.

Turney, Jacob

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1825, in Greensburg, Pa. He was elected district attorney for Westmoreland county in 1850; and was re-elected in 1853, and continued in that office six years. He was state senator in 1858-60; and speaker of that body in 1859. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress; and was reelected to the forty-fifth congress.

Turpin, Louis W

agriculturist, congressman, was born Feb. 22, 1849, in Albemarle, Va. He was elected to represent his district in the fifty-first congress, but was unseated to pave the way for the elections bill; and was re-elected to the fiftysecond congress, and was elected to the fifty-third congress from the ninth or Birmingham district as a democrat.

Turrell, Joel

state legislator, congressman, was born in 1795 in Vermont. He was a member of the state assembly from Oswego county in 1831; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1833 to 1837. He died Dec. 26, 1859, in Oswego, N. Y.

Tuthill, Selah

congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative from New York to the seventeenth congress. He died in December, 1821.

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