James Luther Turner

His father died in an accident in 1902, resulting in Turner leaving school and finding a job.

After a year, the pair sold the bridle shop and moved to Kentucky where he opened a country store.

After his country store closed down, Turner worked as a salesman for a wholesale grocery company and then a dry goods retailer in Nashville.

[3] During the Great Depression, Turner was a traveling salesman and liquidated merchandise of bankrupt general stores.

[4] After World War II, dry goods wholesaling declined leading James to shift his business to retail.