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William Turner
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Biography
​William Turner came to Fort Wayne as an army surgeon's mate in 1810. He married a daughter of treaty signer William Wells in 1815. His "heavy drinking and extravagant living" made his wife "half deranged." Turner inflated h​is qualifications to replace B. F. Stickney as Indian agent in 1819, but in 1820, was fired for "unsatisfactory conduct." He and his brother-in-law James Hackley were "Indians when interested and Whites when not."​​ For information on his family connections, see his family tree (in "more families") using the link below.
 
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Heath, William. William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015.

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