Jessie Franklin Turner

Jessie Franklin Turner was an American fashion designer based in New York in the early 20th century. She was notable for being one of the first American designers to create unique designs, rather than imitating or copying Paris fashions.

Franklin Turner stated that she was born in St. Louis in Missouri, to Richard Major Turner of Wheeling, West Virginia, and Louise Pullen Franklin of Plymouth, Massachusetts onDecember 1881, although Morris de Camp Crawford presented her as being a Virginian native from the states tidewater region when promoting her alongside other American textile and fashion designers in his 19161922 Made in America campaign. She married Charles Hiram Ferguson, but retained her maiden name professionally. She died in 1956.

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