ID: I50814
Name: Dr. John Edwin Turlington
Sex: M
Birth: 1 JUN 1884 in Sampson County, North Carolina
Death: 4 NOV 1934 in Gainsville, Florida
Burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Gainsville, Florida
Note: From: Name: Paul Turlington Email: turlington@dav.net
: Note: Turlington Hall located on central campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh is named for John Edwin Turlington. After graduation form NCSU in 1907,his employment for a year with the US Dept of Agriculture, in Lynchburg VA confirmed his belief that real advancement and contribution in the profession of agricultural research required advance study from a recognized university. He completed PHD at Cornell University 1912. He was a head master a Craven County Farm Life School and lated relocated his family in 1916 to Gainesville Florida. He was the first dept head of Agriculture Economics at the University of Florida. At the very heigh of his achievement and national recognition, he came into a lenthy illness that ended in his death at only fifty years of age.
Father: Edwin Timothy Turlington b: 11 APR 1848 in Sampson County, North Carolina
Mother: Frances Alice Howard b: 13 APR 1853 in Sampson County, North Carolina
Marriage 1
May Elizabeth Baldwin b: 21 FEB 1885 in Henderson, North Carolina
Children
William Francis Turlington b: 15 MAY 1913 Lillian May Turlington b: 1915 Edwin B. Turlington b: 1916 Henry E. Turlington b: 25 OCT 1918 in Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida Ralph D. Turlington b: 1920 Thomas John (Tommy)Turlington b: 13 JAN 1924 in Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida James Robert Turlington b: 18 JAN 1927 in Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida | |