[Henry Turner]. American mathematician, born in Stoughton, MA, on the 9th of June 1844. After his graduation at Yale in 1867, he pursued scientific studies in the Sheffield Scientific School, and in 1868 became instructor of mathematics in the University of East Tennessee. He was assistant professor of mathematics at Cornell in 1869, associate professor of mathematics at Princeton, and in 1874 professor of mathematics at the University of Cincinnati. He was elected president of Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, IN, in 1891. He has published Analytical Geometry (1874); Thermodynamics (1879); Researches in Graphic Statics (1878); and numerous contributions to periodicals.
