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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

A. MURRAY TURNER.

    A. Murray Turner, president of the First National Bank of Hammond, is a
life-long resident of Lake county, and for some years has been prominently
identified with its business and financial affairs. He has shown great ability
in promoting and organizing enterprises whose results are for the welfare of the
community and people at large, and his influence and work in this direction have
been of great benefit to Lake county. He is essentially a business man, but has
also directed some of his energies to politics and social matters, and is a
representative citizen of the city of Hammond.

    He was born in Crown Point, Indiana, October 3, 1859, being a son of David
and Caroline (Bissell) Turner. The family is one of the oldest of Lake county,
and the business and agricultural interests of the county have felt the
stimulating control of three generations of the name. Grandfather Turner was a
native of the north of Ireland, whence as a small boy he came to America with a
family to whom he had been bound out for a term of years. He grew to manhood in
Trumbull county, Ohio, and in 1837 came to Lake county, Indiana, where he spent
the remainder of his sixty years in farming pursuits. His wife, named Patterson,
died in Eagle Creek township, Lake county, at the age of eighty-seven years, and
they had a large family.

    David Turner, the father of the Hammond banker, was born in Ohio, and during
the early years of his manhood followed farming. He came to Lake county in 1837.
For some years he was the only merchant in the town of Crown Point. He served as
state senator from 1858 to 1862, and was then appointed United States assessor
by President Lincoln, holding that office until its abolishment. He was
president of the First National Bank of Crown Point for a number of years and
died in February, 1890, at the age of seventy-three years. He was a Republican
in politics, and a Presbyterian. His wife, who still survives and resides with
her son, A. Murray, is a native of Ohio. Mrs. Mary Brunot, of Greensburg,
Pennsylvania, is a sister of Mrs. David Turner, and they two are the only
survivors of the family. David Turner and wife had seven children, all of whom
are still living: John Bissell Turner, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Sarah J., wife of
Thomas W. Monteith, of Port Huron, Michigan; Emma, wife of I. C. Emory, of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa; Annie T., widow of Freeman Morgan, of Chicago; Mary T., widow of
Charles A. Holm, of Hammond, Indiana; A. Murray; and Austria T., wife of Charles
A. Ross, of Austin, Illinois.

    Mr. A. Murray Turner was reared in Lake county, and received his education
in the Crown Point schools. He was engaged in farming and stock-raising until
1888, at which time he was elected sheriff, and served four years. He came to
Hammond in 1893 and joined a syndicate formed to build the first street railway
of the city. He was president of this company until 1900. He was engaged in
various other enterprises, and in 1901 organized the First National Bank of
Hammond, becoming its president, in which office he has effected much in making
the First National one of the soundest and most reliable financial institutions
of the county. Mr. Turner is a stanch Republican, and was a delegate to the
national convention that nominated McKinley for president in 1900.

    December 31, 1890, Mr. Turner married Miss E. Lillian Blackstone. They
enjoyed a most happy marital union for ten years, during which one daughter was
born, Margaret Caroline Turner. Mrs. Turner passed away in November, 1900, at
the age of thirty years. She was a member of the Presbyterian church, and a
woman of many social graces and accomplishments, thoroughly devoted to her home
interests and thoughtful and careful of her husband's best interests.

    She was a daughter of Dr. John K. and Margaret J. (Bryant) Blackstone, of
Hebron, Indiana. Her paternal grandfather was also a physician, and her maternal
grandfather, Simeon Bryant, was a native of Ohio and a farmer. She had three
brothers and was the only daughter. Her mother was a native of Hebron, and her
father of Athens, Ohio. Her father was a soldier in the Mexican war, being the
youngest commissioned officer in that conflict, and in the Civil war he served
as surgeon with the rank of major.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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