Background
Hurley Calister Turner was born on May 28, 1915 in Macon County, Tennessee. His father, James Luther Turner, was a perpatetic salesman who profited from the Great Depression by selling off store inventories before they closed down.
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Turner co-founded J. L. Turner & Son Wholesale with his father, J.L. Turner, in Scottsville, Kentucky in 1939. lieutenant later became known as Dollar General, a chain of dollar stores. He listed it on the New York Stock Exchange in 1968.
He retired in 1989.
By the time of his death, it had "4,800 discount stores in 25 states."
Turner endowed the Turner Family Scholarships for Dollar General employees in 1999. Turner died on November 20, 2000 in Scottsville, Kentucky.
