TURNER, Henry McNeal, A. M. E. bishop, born in Newberry Court-House, South Carolina, 1 February, 1833. He is of African descent. After he was licensed to preach in 1853 his native eloquence created quite a sensation, and in 1858 he was admitted into the Missouri conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church, and transferred to the Baltimore conference. He studied four years as a non-matriculated student in Trinity college, and was stationed at Israel church, Washington, D. C., in 1863. He greatly assisted in the organization of the 1st colored regiment, United States infantry, of which President Lincoln commissioned him the chaplain. At the close of the civil war President Johnson commissioned him to a chaplaincy in the regular army, but he declined. He was sent into Georgia to assist in the work of reconstruction, called the first Republican state convention, and was elected twice to the Georgia legislature. In 1869 he was appointed postmaster of Macon, but resigned, and in the same year was made coast inspector of customs. In 1876 he was elected book agent of his denomination, and in 1880 he became bishop. His chief work is " Methodist Polity."