[1] Simon Turman, Jr. was an editor during the antebellum period,[2] then Alfonso Delaunay, a postmaster, took over.
[4] Turman returned as editor after its publisher ousted Delaunay, who started his own paper.
[5] Simon B. Turman Jr. (1829 – May 22, 1864) was an early resident of Tampa, Florida.
[8] They had one son, named for his brother, Solon B. Turman's sister Mary married John A. Henderson.
On the eve of the Civil War, he attended the Florida Secession Convention as a representative of Hillsborough County along with James Gettis and signed the Ordinance of Secession.