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Turpin is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place 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. As of the 2010 census, the community had a population of 467.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Turpin CDP, Oklahoma )〕 ==History== 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.〔"Carl J. Turpin, Savings and Loan Official Here, Is Dead," ''The Daily Oklahoman'', November 20, 1942〕 Carl J. Turpin was the general manager of the Beaver, Mead and Englewood Railroad.〔United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places Inventory, Nomination Form for Turpin Grain Elevator, March 18, 1983.〕 In 1918, two farmers from Hardtner, Kansas, Jacob Achenbach and Ira B. Blackstock, requested his assistance. Messrs. Achenbach and Blackstock had been asked by farmers in Beaver County 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 came in.〔"Panhandlers", ''Time'' magazine, July 13, 1931〕 Mr. Turpin had ample experience as a railroad man, his career beginning in 1888.〔 Described as a "by the book" type of general manager, Turpin was a stern, well-groomed man.〔Hofsommer, Donovan L., ''Katy Northwest: The Story of a Branch Line Railroad'', page 190, (Pruett Publishing Company, Boulder, Colorado, 1975; reprinted by Indiana University Press, 1999.)〕 He worked without salary, but did receive stock in the line, from 1918 until 1926. At its height, the Beaver, Mead and Englewood Railroad ran from Beaver, to Eva, Oklahoma, with an extension and connection to the Santa Fe Railroad in Keyes. The line connected with the Katy at Forgan and the Rock Island at Hooker. The BM&E was eventually sold to M-K-T (Katy) Railroad Company in 1931.〔"Faith in Oklahoma Reaps Rich Rewards", ''The Daily Oklahoman'', March 7, 1931〕 "When I was a kid 20 years old, but married, I used to want to work for a railroad which paid $50 a month and furnished its agents a two-story house on the line, rent, brooms, and matches free. Maybe I still could find something like that," Turpin said, after the sale of the Beaver, Mead and Englewood Railroad.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Turpin, Oklahoma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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