Editing Jonathan Baldwin Turner (section)

== Early life ==

Jonathan Baldwin Turner was born December 7, 1805, outside [[Templeton, Massachusetts]]; his parents were farmers Asa Turner and Nabby Baldwin. Jonathan was educated in local schools before attending and graduating from then-[[Yale University|Yale College]], where he studied classical literature at Yale, and excelled in Greek and English composition. Turner was ordained as a minister and graduated in 1833, after which he moved to Illinois to become a professor at the newly organized [[Illinois College]] at [[Jacksonville, Illinois|Jacksonville]].<ref name="Brown 1962">{{Cite journal |last=Brown |first=Donald R. |date=1962 |title=Jonathan Baldwin Turner and the Land-Grant Idea |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40190264 |journal=Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=370–384 |jstor=40190264 |issn=0019-2287}}</ref> He taught subjects across the whole curriculum but specialized in {{lang|fr|[[Belles-lettres]]}}, Latin, and Greek.<ref name="Brown 1962" /> Students of Turner, the Green brothers, brought him in contact with [[Abraham Lincoln]], who was helping with the harvest on the Green Family farm. Lincoln had heard of Turner's teaching and became interested in it.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The life of Jonathan Baldwin Turner |last=Carriel |first=Mary Turner |url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=ha001066575 |access-date=March 3, 2024 |website=onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu |pages=251–255}}</ref>