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ARTHUR TURNURE DEAD.Founder of the Grolier Club a Victim of Pneumonia.j .Arthur Tuirnure, founder of the Grolier ! Club, member of many other organiza-i 1 tions, and president of the company publishing Vogue, died of pneumonia yesterday at his home, 509 East Seventy-first Street. He was 40 years old. He was ' taken ill TucsdhJ’.i Mr. Turr.ure is survived by his widow,I their six-year-old son, David Arthur]; his j j mother, Mrs. David Turnure of 100 East 'Sixty-fifth Street, and his sister, Miss Mary Turnure. The funeral services will be conducted at his late residence Monday morning at it) o’clock by the Rev. Dr. Grosvendr of the Church of the Incarnation, of which Mr. Turnure was a member. The body will be burled in Wood-lawn Cemetery.Mr. Turnure was born in this city. He was graduated from Princeton with the class of ’76. Returning to New York, he entered the law firm of Yanderpoel, Green Cummings, and was admitted to thebar. _ .Mr. Turnure did not long practice law. He became interested in art, particularly as applied to tne publishing business, and Legan the paper Known as The Art A£® wincii he Jet die to begin The Art Exchange. Selling that publication, he be-, came art director for Harper Brothers; j He was an enthusiastic advocate of ar-i tistic illustrations. He arranged a rlonly I illustrated edition of Eew Wallace s Ben i Hur,” for wliieh Gen. Wallace often ex-! pressed his appreciation.Seme sixteen years ago Mr. Turnure organized the Grolier ciub for the studj and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books. Tne club was also designed to bring into close touch in one club the makers and publishers otbooks. , xrMr. Turnure withdrew from the Harper concern to establish Vogue. He wa® President of the publishing company and editor of the periodical. He was particularly active in charities for the benefit of women, lie did a great deal of private charity work among them.He came into public notice recently in connection with he S. P. C. A. Retorm Association, of ..hicli he was the practical organizer. The association was made up primarily ol pjeople not members of the S. P. O. A., and it had for its purpose, as its name indicates, “ the reformation ” of the society, which, it held, was1 in a bad way. __Besides the Grolier Club, he was a member ot the Calumet and Princeton Clubs, the Architectural League, and the Meadow Brook Club.Bi
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New York Times
New York, New York, US
Sat, Apr 14, 1906
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