The Peter Turner memorial

Bust of Peter Turner on pedestal in churchyard of St. James Pro-Cathedral, Jay Street and Cathedral Place, with several tombstones and portion of church facade in background. Inscription on pedestal: "To the memory of Peter Turner who, on Jan. 1, 1822, organized his seventy fellow Catholics for the purchase of this ground on which the first Catholic Church of Long Island was erected. Born 1787, died 1863."