Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 908.
 
JAMES H. TURPEN

     resides in Lakeview, Oregon and follows the business of wool growing. He is
a native of Benton county, Missouri, born November 4, 1856, and the son of
Jonathan and Emily (Atterbury) Turpen. The father was a native of the state of
Kentucky. Mr. Turpen is a member of a family of three children, having a
brother, Edwin, who now lives in Lane county, Oregon, and a sister, Mrs. Emma
Statts, of Bend, Oregon. The family crossed the plains with an ox team in 1857,
coming to Stanislaus county, California. In 1865 they came to Lane county and
soon afterward our subject went to Idaho, where he resided until 1883. The
father lived in Lane county until his death, which occurred in 1902, when he was
eighty years of age. The mother died in 1876.
     In 1883 our subject came to his present locality and the following year he
went to Goose Lake valley, where he followed working for various stock men for a
means of livelihood. In 1886 he engaged in the sheep business on his own account
and has followed that industry continuously from that date.  Mr. Turpen is a
member of the Lakeview lodge of Foresters of America.
     He is one of Lakeview's substantial citizens and business men.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in March 2011 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.