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William Baker Turner

Male 1873 - 1907  (34 years)


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  • Name William Baker Turner 
    Birth 1873  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 14 Jun 1880  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 7, born TX, living with father/stepmother 
    Fact 1888  Exeter, Rockingham, NH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    attending Phillips Exeter Academy 
    Residence 1900  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location 
    real estate & land dealer, 318-19 Binz Bldg, r. 1410 Rusk Ave 
    Residence 1904  Manhattan, New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    bookkpr, h 350 S 3d 
    Census 1 Jun 1905  Manhattan, New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 31, born US, manager N.Y.C 
    Death 18 Dec 1907  Manhattan, New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Fresh Pond Cemetery, Middle Village, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1667  Family Tree
    Last Modified 2 Apr 2016 

    Father Capt Edmund Pendleton Turner,   b. 20 Dec 1835, New Kent Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Jul 1907, Sewanee, Franklin, TN Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Mother Lucy Baker,   b. 13 Jul 1848, Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Jun 1873, New York, New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 24 years) 
    Marriage 15 Jun 1869  Houston, Harris, TX Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F419  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Emma Carolyn Lewis,   b. 17 Feb 1876, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Nov 1957, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Marriage 30 Jan 1895  Adams Co, IL Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Marriage record can be found at the County Court Records, Film # 1845384-1845385.
    • from "Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-1940"
      William Baker Turner, son of Capt. E.P. Turner & Lucy Baker, of Denver Colorado, married on 30 Jan 1895 to Carrie Emma Lewis, b. 17 Feb 1876 to James William Lewis & Mary Ellen Winston
      from Herr Gen. #9591, p. 615
    Children 
     1. William Baker Turner,   b. 8 Jan 1897, San Antonio, Bexar, TX Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Dec 1947, Alameda Co, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
    Family ID F3510  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Mar 2016 

    Family 2 Mary Kennedy,   b. 7 Jul 1877, Cloonyourish,County Roscommon, IRE Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Jun 1961, St Louis, St Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Marriage 24 Dec 1902  Manhattan, New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • from "NYC Marriage Records" (familysearch film)
      On 24 Dec 1902 in New York, NY, William Baker Turner, 31, widowed, born NYC to Edmund P Turner and Lucy Baker married May Kennedy Bye, 22, widow, born Chicago IL to Dennis Kennedy and Sarah Flanagan. 2nd marriage for both.
    Family ID F4235  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Jun 2015 

  • Notes 
    • from the Houston Daily Post, 3 Dec 1899 (Chronicling America)
      Mrs. William Baker Turner arrived Wednesday from Virginia, where she had spent the latter part of the summer. Mrs. Turner has the pleasure of having her sister, Miss Bessie Lewis, with her for the winter.
    • from "The Houston Daily Post", 30 Nov 1899 (Chronicling America)
      Mrs. William Turner Baker and little son, who spent the summer in New York and Virginia, have returned to the city.
    • from "The Houston Post", 19 Aug 1922 (newspapers.com)
      Twenty-five years ago
      The transfer of the estate of William R. Baker to his grandson, Wiliam Baker Turner, was made today by Messrs. E.P. Hill, Presley K. Ewing and Henry Brashear.
    • from "The Houston Post" , 25 Dec 1907
      WILLIAM BAKER TURNER DEAD
      Former Houston Young Man Shoots Himself in New York
      William Baker Turner, aged about 35, grandson and heir of the late William R. Baker, pioneer merchant and former mayor of Houston, took his own life in New York city last Wednesday evening, advice of his death reaching this city only yesterday. Mr. Turner shot himself in the head, the bullet entering the left cheek and ranging upward through the head. The young man, who has been in the patent medicine business in New York for several years, is believed to have been a member of the "Thirteen club," the members of which are said to enter into a suicide pact. No one saw the shooting. Mrs. Turner being absent in California at the time. The bulk of the vast estate left by William R. Baker went to William Baker Turner, the only surviving child of this only child. The estate was valued at about $450,000 and under the provisions of the will young Turner was to receive only a certain amount of the income until he became 30 yrs, old unless he married after he became 21 and his wife bore him a child after that. Mr. Turner married when he was about 21 years old and in about two years after son was born. The property was turned over to him the executors of the Baker estate who were Judge E.P Hill, Henry Brashear and Presley K. Ewing. Mr. Turner and his first wife were divorced after a few years of wedded life, and he remarried about five years ago. The first Mrs. Turner married a wealthy [unreadable] several years ago and she and her husband are now in Panama. Through poor business management and other ways Mr. Turner lost the fortune that had been bequeathed to him, and of recent years he had been selling medicines, being known a Dr. Turner.
    • from "The New York Press", 20 Dec 1907 (fultonhistory.com)
      Suicide Club Story in Turner Case
      "He and I once belonged to a suicide club, but I got out of it," was one part Frederick Bishop's story yesterday to Coroner Shrady in clearing up the death of Dr. William B. Turner in his home, in No. 170 Eighth avenue, on Wednesday night, Part of Turner's correspondence was examined, and the Coroner said he believe Turner had died by his own hand. Therefore the Coroner permitted Bishop to remain
      free on parole. Though it may have had no deep significance to Turner, the police yesterday commented on the fact they had found on the piano in his apartment a souvenir of the November dinner of the Thirteen Club, a figure of thin, tired looking woman gazing down a skull and bones.
    • from "New York City, NY Municipal Deaths"
      William B Turner, 36, residing 170 8th Ave, Manhattan, NY, married, an agent, born NY to William Turner b. US and Lucy Baker, b. US, died on 22 Dec 1907. Burial in Freshpond Cemetery.