History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 591
Perry Co.

Lennox B. Turnbull, Jr.  The experience of Lennox B. Turnbull, Jr., in
the hardware business has been unique and interesting and has covered
every phase of the business, including the unloading of cars and
traveling by horse-back as a salesman prior to the advent of railroads
in several parts of the country.  Devoted to this industry from the time
he left college halls, his advancement has been steady and continuous,
and through individual merit he has won his way to the presidency of the
Sterling Wholesale Hardware Company, located at Hazard, where he also
occupies the position of president of the Hazard Board of Trade.
     Lennox B. Turnbull, Jr. attended the graded schools in North
Carolina, where his father was occupying a pulpit at Durham, after which
he pursued a course at Washington and Lee University, Lexington,
Virginia.  His first business experience was secured with a hardware
establishment at Bristol, Virginia, where he began at the bottom of the
ladder and was employed in such work as unloading cars, etc.  His
industry and natural ability, together with his aptitude in gaining a
knowledge of the details of the business, soon won him promotion and
before the end of his employment at Bristol he was engaged as a
traveling salesman, his territory being portions of southwest Virginia
to which railroads had not yet been built.  He likewise included Harlan
and Letcher counties, Kentucky, where there were likewise no
transportation lines, and this necessitated his traveling on horseback,
with his samples and change of clothing packed away in his saddle-bags. 
After severing his connection with the Bristol concern, Mr. Turnbull
joined the traveling force of the Norton Hardware Company, of Norton,
Virginia, and it was as a representative of this firm that he first came
to Hazard, via horseback.  The journey, in its making, required some
thirty days, the greater part being spent in the saddle, over bad roads
and in all kinds of weather.  The training, however, was an excellent
one, and Mr. Turnbull was brought into touch with the people who were to
become his later customers in a way that he would not have otherwise.
     He came to Hazard in 1914 and organized the Sterling Hardware
Company.  Under his direction, the company has made rapid advancement
and now controls a large and constantly growing trade all over this part
of the state.  The present establishment, a commodious brick structure,
was erected in September, 1920.  Mr. Turnbull is what is termed a live
wire.  He knows his country as well as he does his business, and through
this knowledge has been able to assist it in the way of civic and other
improvements.  As president of the Board of Trade he has been active in
the promulgating of movements under the stimulating influence of which
Hazard has bettered its condition as to business status, and his civic
effort have always been on the side of constructiveness and progress. 
Mr. Turnbull has several social connections and is deservedly popular
among his associates.  He is unmarried.

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