Medical Malpractice Law Lawyers In Turpin Oklahoma  Turpin is a
small unincorporated community in Beaver County, Oklahoma,
United States. The post office was established April 8, 1925.
The Turpin Grain Elevator is on the National Register of
Historic Places. Turpin was named for Carl Julian Turpin, a son
of Thomas James Turpin and Elmanda (Kennerly) Turpin. Carl was
born on 10 Aug 1871 in Quantico, Wicomico County, Maryland. He
died 20 Nov 1942 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
Carl J. Turpin was the general manager of the Beaver, Mead and
Englewood Railroad. In 1918, two Hardtner, Kansas farmers, Jacob
Achenbach and Ira B. Blackstock, requested his assistance.
Messrs. Achenbach and Blackstock had been asked by farmers in
Beaver County, OK, and the surrounding areas to build a railroad
through the Panhandle so that their wheat crops could be shipped
to outlying markets. Achenbach and Blackstock knew how to build
the railroad, but they needed someone to manage it. That is
where Carl Julian Turpin ca