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Source: Cyclopedia
Author: James T. White Co.

Vines Edmunds Turner

Dental surgeon - was born in Franklin County, North Carolina, Jan. 21, 1837, 
son of Archibald Adams and Mary Ann (Howze) Turner. 

He was educated in the Franklin County public and high schools. In 1856 he 
entered the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, graduating with the degree 
D.D.S. in 1858.

He practiced dental surgery at Henderson, NC, until the outbreak of the civil 
war. He did not hesitate to enlist, notwithstanding the fact that Chief 
Justice Richmond M. Pearson had decided that dentists were surgeons and were 
exempt from military service. He was captain of the 23d North Carolina 
regiment was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, and saw service at 
Williamsburg, the Wilderness, South Mountain, Fredericksburg, Va., and several 
other minor battles. At the close of the war, he returned to his native state 
and resumed the practice of his profession.

From the first Mr. Turner labored for the improvement of the legal status of 
dental surgery, and practising as he did at Raleigh, the capital of the state, 
numbered among his patients the most distinguised men of North Carolina, not 
only as their professional adviser, but in most cases, their personal friend. 
Through this fact he rendered the dental profession incalculable service by 
using his influence to have enacted the necessary laws regulating the practice 
of dentistry.

He was the first chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Dental 
Examiners, a position he still holds, and inaugurated a system whereby the 
student is examined both practically and theoretically. 

In 1887 he was a vice-president at the international medical congress at 
Washington; 1893 occupied the same office at the World's Columbian dental 
congress, Chicago; at St. Louis, 1904, and that of president at the Jamestown 
exposition, 1907.

He was a director of the North Carolina railroad 1896-1904, and has been also 
a director of the Raleigh Savings Bank. 

He married, 1868, at Henderson, NC, to Rozina, daughter of James H. Lassiter. 
She died, 1869, and, in 1874, he was married to Love G., daughter of Charles 
B. Root, and has three children: Charles Root, Mary Archer (Mrs. H. M. Wilson) 
and Henry Gray. 

Dr. Turner is recognized as one of the leaders of the dental profession. He is 
withal a courteous gentleman, an attractive speaker, and a brilliant 
conversationalist and raconteur.

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Source:
The National Cyclopedia 
of American Biography
Volume XIV
1910

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