Earl H. Turner joined his brother Wellmore B. Turner in practice with Oscar M. Gottschall until 1920 when Gottschalll died and the brothers formed the firm of Turner & Turner.
He was a tall, spare, and thin man. He couldn’t be bothered with socializing. If you had a case with him, you would talk business and get out. He wasted no time in idleness.
Adam Schantz ran a major brewery in Dayton and had significant real estate holdings. At one point he got into a business dispute with a son-in-law and it boiled over into court. Schantz hired Earl Turner to represent him; the other side was represented by Roy Fitzgerald and Carroll Sprigg. A young lawyer Harry Jeffrey never forgot watching how Turner cut his formidable opponents to ribbons and was so impressed that he went to Turner’s office a few days later to ask for a job.
Earl Turner was killed in an accident at a railroad crossing in Colorado in 1928 that also claimed the lives of his mother and two sisters.
Source:
Sluff of History’s Boot Soles
An Anecdotal History of Dayton’s Bench and Bar
By David C. Greer
Contributor: Angie H (47105928)
Family Members
Parents
John Edward Turner
1848–1908
Anna Rebecca King Turner
1853–1928
Spouse
Lucy Sigismund Kistler Turner
1892–1960 (m. 1915)
Siblings
Eva Florence Turner
1877–1928
Beulah Anna Turner
1881–1928
Edward Thomas Turner
1885–1949
Wellmore B. Turner
1888–1980
