American Turners (Organization)

found: NUCMC data from Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign Archives for St. Louis Turnverein. Records, 1923-1932(name not given)

found: LC data base, 10-21-91(hdg.: American Turners; less than fully authenticated serial hdg.: American Turners (Organization)) LC manual cat. (national society org. 1850 at Philadelphia, though some local societies were founded as early as 1848; named Socialisticher Turnerbund; dormant during Civil War; reorganized in 1864 as Amerikanischer Turnerbund; known as Nordamerikanischer Turnerbund; the English equivalent, North American Gymnastic Union, was also used beginning in 1865; name changed 191-? to American Gymnastic Union, 1922? to American Turnerbund, and 1938 to American Turners)