Scott Turner

Scott Turner (July 31, 1880 – July 30, 1972) was an American mining engineer. He served as the 5th Director of the United States Bureau of Mines from 1926 to 1934 and was the 18th recipient of the Hoover Medal. His father owned a 1,200 acre Springdale Farm in Lansing, a property known for its prize beef at the time. His grandfather James Madison Turner built the Turner-Dodge House in Lansing.

In World War I he served in the U.S. Navy, and in 1915 he survived the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. He was on the Lusitania to assess a coal discovery in Spitsbergen, Norway. He resigned in July 1934, but did not leave office until August 16, 1934.

In 1932, he served as president of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME).

Personal Turner married Amy Prudden Jenison in 1919. She died on February 6, 1972.

Turner sold Springdale Farm to the city of Lansing after World War II. From a portion of the property, the city built Arboretum Park in its place in the 1950s.

Death Turner died on July 30, 1972, in Greenwich, Connecticut. He was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Lansing.