Josiah Turner

Josiah Turner, Jr. (December 27, 1821 – October 26, 1901) was an American lawyer, politician and newspaper editor from North Carolina.

[2] Turner was a Whig before the collapse of that party in the late 1850s and was opposed to secession in the run-up to the American Civil War.

Turner had her committed in the North Carolina Hospital for the Insane in Raleigh in early 1878, in the hopes that the doctors there could cure her addiction.

[6] In 1880, "Turner's behavior [as a state legislator] became 'very erratic,' according to an account in A Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present, published in 1906.

John M. Moring, whom he denominated as a 'gander head,' and his conduct was so obstreperous that at length the body, worn out by his unruly and unseemly proceedings, was driven to expel him as a member,' reads the account."