PORTEAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES. 



J. H. TURNER. 



J. H. Turner, Secretary of trie National Farmers' 

 Alliance and Industrial Union, was born on a farm in 

 Troup county, Georgia, July 23, 1855. While not at 

 work on the farm he attended the common schools of the 

 county until 1871, when he entered the Farmers' High 

 School. Here he remained until the fall of 1873, when 

 he was appointed to a scholarship in the Mechanical and 

 Agricultural College in the State University of Georgia, 

 where he pursued his studies until 1875. On account of 

 hard times he was compelled to leave college and return 

 to the farm. In November, 1885, he concluded to seek 



