ROBERT TURNER
Robert Turner made a settlement in Franklin township, on section 3, in January, 1860, where he resided until March, 1861, when he died. He was an Englishman by birth and came to this country in 1842. His son, James R. resides upon the old homestead. Mrs. Robert Turner died in January, 1878. James R. Turner is among the most prominent and solid men of the county, and is looked up to by his friends and neighbors as a man of sterling integrity and untarnished honor. It is just such men that make a county what it is, and these annals of the county's history would be incomplete without a short mention of so prominent and influential a citizen as Mr. Turner.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 794.
