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James Luther "J.L." Turner (February 28, 1891 - April 19, 1964) was an American businessperson. He was the founder of J.L. Turner and Son, the predecessor of Dollar General.
The company began in 1939 as a family-owned business called J.L. Turner and Son in Scottsville, Kentucky, owned by James Luther Turner and Cal Turner. In 1955, the name changed to Dollar General Corporation and in 1968 the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange .
How Our Story Began. James Luther (J.L.) Turner’s father died in an accident in 1902 when J.L. was only 11. J.L. quit school so he could work on the family farm and help provide for his mother and siblings and never completed his education.
Nov 19, 2018 · In this excerpt from his memoir, My Father’s Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company, Cal Turner Jr., a 1962 Vanderbilt graduate who was Dollar ...
Born in 1891, James Luther Turner grew up as the son of a Kentucky farmer and only received a third-grade education and never learned to read. His father died in an accident, so Turner quit school to work on the family farm.
Mar 19, 2019 · The opening was set for Wednesday, June 1, 1955. Turner’s Department Store on Main Street in Springfield would become the first Dollar General store. The layout was clean and simple, with big bold red $1 signs seemingly everywhere. Its slogan was “Every Day Is Dollar Day.”
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From humble beginnings, James Luther Turner established the company in 1939 and led its initial growth, ultimately expanding it to a small chain of profitable department stores across Kentucky and Tennessee by the mid-1950s.
