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  History of the Lake Huron Shore
  H. R. Page & Co., Chicago - 1883


        [246-247]

        JAMES D. TURNBULL, attorney at Alpena, was born in the township of
     Harvey, New Brunswick, February 5, 1843.  When he was about nine years old
     his mother, with her children, removed to Elgin County, Ontario, the father
     having died in New Brunswick.  There he received a good common school edu-
     cation.  In 1858 he removed to Chelsea, Mich., and in the Summer of 1862
     enlisted in Company K, Twentieth Michigan Infantry, in which he served
     until the close of the war.  In 1865 he was promoted to a lieutenancy in
     that company.  Shortly after the close of the war he entered the Normal
     School at Ypsilanti, and graduated in 1868, having taken the full course.
     He then taught, as principal of the Memphis Union School, for three years.
     At the expiration of that time, he began the study of law, in the office of
     his brother, G. W. TURNBULL, an attorney at Chelsea, Mich., and was
     admitted to practice, in the Washtenaw circuit, in the Winter of 1871.  In
     the Spring of 1872 he removed to Alpena, and began the practice of law.  In
     the Fall of 1872 he was the Democratic nominee for judge of probate, and
     was defeated by only twenty-five majority, when the Republicans carried the
     county by over 200.  In 1875 he was elected comptroller of the city by a
     large majority, and was re-elected to the same office in the Spring of
     1877.  He was chairman of the board of supervisors of Alpena County two
     years; was chairman of the Democratic county committee six years.  In the
     Fall of 1878 he was elected representative and re-elected in 1880.  MR.
     TURNBULL is a prodigious worker and ranks among the leading lawyers of the
     State.  In the Fall of 1882 he was the Democratic candidate for circuit
     judge, and defeated by HON. FRANK EMERICK, the Republican nominee.  MR.
     TURNBULL has acquired a very large practice from which he has accumulated a
     handsome property.

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