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William W. Turner, the publisher of the Nashville News, a leading journal of this portion of the State, was born in Calloway County, Ky., in 1859, being the eldest of five children born to George M. B. and Melissa (Broadaway) Turner, natives of Kentucky and Tennessee, respectively. The paternal grandfather was a Virginian, who removed to the Blue Grass State at a very early period, and there he followed the occupation of farming until his removal to Missouri, in which State his death occurred. The mother's father lived and died in Tennessee, and her mother, although a native of Virginia, died in Tennessee in 1884, at the age of about eighty years. George M. B. Turner removed to Missouri with his father when a small boy, but after the death of the latter he returned to Kentucky, and there obtained a fair education, mostly by his own efforts, his evenings being devoted to the study of such books as came in his way. At the age of nineteen years he began teaching school, an occupation he continued for several terms, but after his marriage, which occurred in May, 1858, when he was twenty-one years of age, he began clerking for three years, but has since devoted his attention exclusively to teaching in Perry and Wayne Counties, Tenn., the most of the time being manager of private schools. His home is now in Wayne County, where he has built up an enviable reputation as an able instructor and disciplinarian. William W. Turner received his early education under his care and continued to receive instruction from his father until he was twenty-one years of age, when he entered McKenzie College, Tenn., for one term. In the fall of 1882 he came to Arkansas, and settled in Nashville, where the first two years were spent as a tiller of the soil, and the following year as a clerk in a general store. At the end of this time he entered the News office, learning the printer's trade in two years, but in 1886 he went to Sevier County, where he farmed until spring of the following year. At this time he went to Tennessee on a six months' visit, and upon his return in August, 1887, he took charge of the News office for the proprietor, continuing until November 1. He then leased the office until March 1 following, when he, in partnership with C. H. Briggs, purchased the plant, and he has been its sole proprietor and conductor since December, 1888. It is now in the hands of an able editor, and is published in the interests of the Democratic party, and in the past two years has doubled its circulation, giving every promise of large future increase. Mr. Turner was married on November 1, 1887, to Mrs. Jennie Old, nee Ware, a native of Texas, and she and Mr. Turner belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.