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Josiah Turner Jr. (1821–1901) was born in Hillsborough, son of a longtime Orange County sheriff, and studied law there. He bought the Raleigh Sentinel late in 1868 and used it to attack Governor William W. Holden, whose militia briefly imprisoned him in 1870. He died at his Hillsborough home and was buried at St. Matthew's Church.
Source: NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Turner, Josiah, Jr.
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1821–1901 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as Josiah Turner → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
7 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by Josiah Turner Jr..
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Josiah Turner senior offered 600 acres for sale on ten years of credit in this broadside, signed at Hillsborough on June 1, 1866, the first summer after the Civil War. A single sheet, 30 by 21 centimeters, covering real property in Hillsborough. Land advertisements of this kind record how Orange County property was put on the market and on what terms.
Josiah Turner, Jr., of Orange County delivered this speech in the state Senate in January 1861, the winter before North Carolina left the Union. The printing is attributed to the author. North Carolina politics and government from 1861 to 1865 and the United States Constitution are the subjects, and the piece was printed in Orange County in 1861.
A campaign appeal addressed to Black voters in Orange County, signed by A. H. Haughawaut and urging support for Josiah Turner over Lewis Jinkins, Sr. Topics include African American political activity in the county and Republican campaign literature. Dated 1849, although the publication year is uncertain. The title itself uses the period term of address.
Josiah Turner Sr. in a portrait at the Orange County Historical Museum, Hillsborough, from a set of North Carolina ECHO photographs taken on 6 April 2002.
Crumpacker family papers, 27 items dated 1865 to 1973. Among them are three 1896 letters from Pearle Davis in Las Vegas, New Mexico, to her cousin Alonzo Crumpacker, a copy of an 1865 sermon by the Reverend Archibald A. McMannen, a Methodist minister in Orange County, an 1869 deed from Josiah Turner of Orange County conveying a house and land to his grandchild John W. Graham, and family genealogy.
Letters and papers of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, the Chapel Hill writer and historian and daughter of professor James Phillips, 1857 to 1905. Most of the correspondence, from 1859 to 1895, concerns the university and life in the village, with letters exchanged with Swain, Kemp P. Battle and George T. Winston, successive heads of the university, and with Mrs. Swain and W. C. Kerr. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.7.
Oil portrait of Eliza Evans Turner, painted in 1817. Born 18 January 1790, she died 25 September 1873 and was the wife of Josiah Turner Sr. An Orange County painting in the Images of North Carolina collection.
Papers of the Waddell, Moore and related families of New Hanover, Brunswick, Bladen and Orange counties, 1762 to 1919, centered on Captain James Iredell Waddell, who commanded the Confederate cruiser Shenandoah. His own letters and naval correspondence sit alongside family land, estate and plantation papers and material on the University of North Carolina. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.87.
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Picture: Josiah Turner Jr., 1919. Public domain. Hamilton, J. G. de Roulhac (1919) History of North Carolina: North Carolina since 1860, III, Chicago & New York: Lewis Publishing Company, p. 131; via Wikimedia Commons
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