[8] He was named after his father, who died from wounds he received as a British infantryman serving in Egypt.

He graduated high school in 1902 and was hired as a proofreader and telegraph editor for the Bellingham Reveille.

[8] On Dec. 26, 1905, he was hired as a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and eventually was promoted to assistant city editor.

[10] In 1944, Turnbull became acting dean of the University of Oregon School of Journalism following the death of Eric W. Allen.

[12] He later returned to newspaper work at The Oregonian and the Albany Democrat-Herald before coming back to the University of Oregon in 1955 to do research on the history of journalism.

[8] His obituary in The Oregonian described him as a "wispy, shy man" who trained thousands of aspiring journalists to go on to careers in writing, editing and politics.