EDWARD MARSH TURNER, M. D.

EDWARD MARSH TURNER, M. D.
Dr. Edward Marsh Turner, actively engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Laramie, was born in North Prairie, Wisconsin, March 3, 1880. His father, Dr. Frederick C. Turner, was a graduate of Rush Medical College of Chicago and became a pioneer physician and surgeon of O’Neill, Nebraska, where he located in 1881, there residing until his death in 1884. He was of English lineage. His grandfather was a sea captain of English birth who settled in Cayuga, New York, where Dr. John T. Turner, the grandfather of Dr. Turner of this review, was born, reared and afterward practiced medicine. His son, Frederick C. Turner, followed in his professional footsteps and thus Dr. Edward Marsh Turner is of the third generation to devote his attention to medical practice. Dr. Frederick C. Turner wedded Miss Frances Coburn, a native of Wisconsin and a representative of one of the old families of that state. She is still living on the old homestead at O’Neill, Nebraska. By her marriage she became the mother of four children: John T., who is engaged in fruit raising in Oregon; Fred, who is a ranchman of Nebraska; Edward M., of this review; and Alice, who is the wife of N. J. Evans, of Los Angeles, California. Dr. Edward Marsh Turner is indebted to the public and high schools of Whitewater, Wisconsin, for his early educational opportunities and later he attended the University of Iowa, from which he was graduated in 1905 with the M. D. degree. He afterward served in the State Hospital of Iowa for six months and spent a similar period in the State Hospital of Nebraska, thus gaining that broad and valuable knowledge which hospital experience brings. He entered upon the private practice of medicine in La Crosse, Wisconsin. where he continued for three years, after which he took up contract practice in connection with the Wyoming Copper Company at Encampment, Wyoming. He spent six months there and then removed to Laramie, where he arrived on the 1st of November, 1908. He has since been actively and successfully engaged in practice in this city save for a part of the year 1916, when he served in New Mexico as a member of the army on the border. He had become a member of the National Guard of Iowa, which he joined as a private, serving for six years, and during three years he was first sergeant. After removing to Wisconsin he again served for three years as a private and on coming to Wyoming aided in organizing Company K, of which he became the first lieutenant. He served during the Mexican trouble and in 1914 he was made surgeon of his regiment and had charge of the Wyoming medical department. He was for nine months in the border service. He is a member of the Albany County Medical Society, the Wyoming State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. On the 1st of November, 1905, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Dr. Turner was married to Miss Georgiana Sturgeon, a native of Iowa and a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Maxwell) Sturgeon. They became the parents of one child, Mary Elizabeth, who was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, August 11, 1906. Dr. Turner is now serving as county health officer of Albany county, having been appointed to the position in May, 1917. He is also United States pension examiner for southern Wyoming and he is examining physician for the Woodmen of the World, the Knights and Ladies of Security and the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. His religious faith is that of the First Presbyterian church. In a word his interests are broad and varied and he stands for all those things which promote professional efficiency, which are of cultural value and which advance civic progress.

Dr. Edward Marsh Turner, actively engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Laramie, was born in North Prairie, Wisconsin, March 3, 1880. His father, Dr. Frederick C. Turner, was a graduate of Rush Medical College of Chicago and became a pioneer physician and surgeon of O’Neill, Nebraska, where he located in 1881, there residing until his death in 1884. He was of English lineage. His grandfather was a sea captain of English birth who settled in Cayuga, New York, where Dr. John T. Turner, the grandfather of Dr. Turner of this review, was born, reared and afterward practiced medicine. His son, Frederick C. Turner, followed in his professional footsteps and thus Dr. Edward Marsh Turner is of the third generation to devote his attention to medical practice. Dr. Frederick C. Turner wedded Miss Frances Coburn, a native of Wisconsin and a representative of one of the old families of that state. She is still living on the old homestead at O’Neill, Nebraska. By her marriage she became the mother of four children: John T., who is engaged in fruit raising in Oregon; Fred, who is a ranchman of Nebraska; Edward M., of this review; and Alice, who is the wife of N. J. Evans, of Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Edward Marsh Turner is indebted to the public and high schools of Whitewater, Wisconsin, for his early educational opportunities and later he attended the University of Iowa, from which he was graduated in 1905 with the M. D. degree. He afterward served in the State Hospital of Iowa for six months and spent a similar period in the State Hospital of Nebraska, thus gaining that broad and valuable knowledge which hospital experience brings. He entered upon the private practice of medicine in La Crosse, Wisconsin. where he continued for three years, after which he took up contract practice in connection with the Wyoming Copper Company at Encampment, Wyoming. He spent six months there and then removed to Laramie, where he arrived on the 1st of November, 1908. He has since been actively and successfully engaged in practice in this city save for a part of the year 1916, when he served in New Mexico as a member of the army on the border. He had become a member of the National Guard of Iowa, which he joined as a private, serving for six years, and during three years he was first sergeant. After removing to Wisconsin he again served for three years as a private and on coming to Wyoming aided in organizing Company K, of which he became the first lieutenant. He served during the Mexican trouble and in 1914 he was made surgeon of his regiment and had charge of the Wyoming medical department. He was for nine months in the border service. He is a member of the Albany County Medical Society, the Wyoming State Medical Association and the American Medical Association.
On the 1st of November, 1905, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Dr. Turner was married to Miss Georgiana Sturgeon, a native of Iowa and a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Maxwell) Sturgeon. They became the parents of one child, Mary Elizabeth, who was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, August 11, 1906.
Dr. Turner is now serving as county health officer of Albany county, having been appointed to the position in May, 1917. He is also United States pension examiner for southern Wyoming and he is examining physician for the Woodmen of the World, the Knights and Ladies of Security and the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. His religious faith is that of the First Presbyterian church. In a word his interests are broad and varied and he stands for all those things which promote professional efficiency, which are of cultural value and which advance civic progress.