ORIN O. TURNER
O. O. Turner, succeeded Mr. Ball, as sheriff, in August, 1853, and appears to have held that position until 1855, when he gave way for a successor.
Orin O. Turner came to Lewis from Dubuque in 1853. He farmed till 1855, and then sold his farm and started a saloon in Iranistan. He kept there about two years, and then performed that wonderful feat of failing in the saloon business. He then removed over the line into Pottawattamie county a short distance, and farmed till 1857. He then made a couple trips freighting across the plains, after which he moved to northwest Missouri. He had a wife and five children. He had the reputation of being a man of his word, but was also known as a gambler.
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. 363-364.
