Family Portrait
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“Family Portrait Exhibit”
This past fall, guests had the opportunity to explore the Turner-Dodge House and discover Turner-Dodge’s unique past full of families, students, and friends.
Scott Turner
July 31, 1880 – July 30, 1972
Scott was the son of James M. Turner JR. Scott was a famous engineer who accomplished a great deal in his lifetime. He was born in Lansing, Michigan and died in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Scott Turner Engineer
In his career, Scott traveled extensively throughout the United States and the rest of the world including Canada, Panama, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Europe as a millman, assistant engineer, examining engineer, assayer, superintendent, mining geologist, smelting representative and field engineer for many mining companies.
In 1911, he was made general manager of the Artic Coal Company of Boston, in Europe specifically Spitsberge, Norway and later General manager for Ayer and Longyear in Europe. For five years, he opened and operated, coal mines that were 825 miles north of the Artic Circle. Those mines were 600 square miles and claimed under the protection of the American flag.
In 1926, he was appointed the United States Director of the Bureau of Mines under then Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, with whom he became very good friends.
Scott Turner, Survivor
Scott was en route to Europe on business aboard the S.S. Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German submarine on May 7, 1915. Scott survived by clinging onto debris.
