Urner
Urner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Catherine Murphy Urner (1891–1942), American composer *Joseph Urner (1898–1987), American sculptor, painter, and etcher *Milton Urner (1839–1926), American politician See also *Turner (surname) Turner is a common surname originating from Normandy, France, arriving in England after the Norman conquest with the earliest known records dated in the 12th century. It is the 28th-most common surname in the United Kingdom. Most often it derives ...

Catherine Murphy Urner
Catherine Murphy Urner Shatto (23 March 1891 – 30 April 1942) was an American composer. Life Catherine Murphy Urner was born in Mitchell, Indiana, the third of seven children of Southern Illinois Normal College principal Edward Everett Urner (later a Methodist minister) and writer Jessie Robertson Urner. She studied piano, voice and composition at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, Peabody Conservatory and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912. She continued her studies at the University of California at Berkeley where she was the first to win the George Ladd Prix de Paris for composition in 1918 and was awarded the chance to move to Paris to study with Charles Koechlin from 1919 to 1921. She returned to Paris intermittently during the period from 1923–1926 to resume composition studies with Koechlin as well as vocal study with Mademoiselle Andree d'Otemar. Urner worked as a professor and director of vocal music at Mills Co ...
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Joseph Urner
Joseph Walker Urner (January 16, 1898 – 1987) American sculptor, painter and etcher born in Frederick, Maryland. He was the son of the Hon. Hammond G. Urner (1868–1942) and Mary Lavinia "Birdie" Floyd (1872–1956). His paternal grandfather was Milton Urner (July 29, 1839 – February 9, 1926), a U.S. Congressman from the sixth district of Maryland who served two terms from 1879 until 1883. He studied sculpture with Ettore Cadorin. Joseph served in both World War I and World War II. He was an architect and practiced sculpture as well. He died in 1987. He created the Alabama State Memorial at Gettysburg, PA. Selected works * Alabama State Monument, Gettysburg, PennsylvaniaMartin, David G., ‘’Confederate Monuments at Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Monuments, Volume 1’’, Longstreet House, Hightstown N.J., 1986 p. 34 * Frederick, Maryland Frederick is a city in and the county seat of Frederick County, Maryland. It is part of the Baltimore–Washington Me ...
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Milton Urner
Milton George Urner (July 29, 1839 – February 9, 1926) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman from the United States House of Representatives, Maryland District 6, sixth district of Maryland, serving two terms from 1879 until 1883. Life Born in the Liberty district of Frederick County, Maryland, Urner was educated in the common schools. He also attended the Freeland Seminary of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and Lycoming College of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He engaged in teaching in his native county from 1859–1862, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1863. He commenced practice in Frederick, Maryland, and served as State's attorney for Frederick County from 1871 to 1875. In 1878, Urner was elected as a Republican Party (United States), Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (serving from March 4, 1879 to March 3, 1883). While in Congress, Urner served as the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Accounts, C ...
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