Turner, a S. E. county of Dakota, recently formed, and not included in the census of 1870; area, 648 sq. m. It is intersected by Vermilion river, and consists of fertile prairies and bottom lands. Capital, Swan Lake.

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I. Sharon

Sharon, an English historian, born in London, Sept. 24, 1768, died there, Feb. 13, 1847. He was an attorney, but retired from business in 1829. His most important works are a "History of the Anglo-Saxons" (4 vols. 8vo, 1799-1805; 7th ed., revised by his son Sydney, 3 vols. 8vo, 1852), and a " History of England in the Middle Ages, with a Continuation to the Death of Elizabeth " (5 vols. 4to, 1814-'29). Ho also published " Inquiry concerning the Early Use of Rime" (1802); "Sacred Meditations by a Layman" (1810); "A Prolusion on the Recent Greatness of Britain, and other Subjects" (1819); " A Sacred History of the World, as displayed in the Creation and subsequent Events to the Deluge " (3 vols. 8vo, 1832 et seq.); and " Richard III., a Poem " (1845).

II. Sydney

Sydney, an English clergyman, son of the preceding, born April 2, 1814. He graduated at Trinity college, Cambridge, in 1836, and in 1838 became superintendent of the reformatory school of the philanthropic society in London, and effected its reorganization as the Red Hill reformatory near Reigate in 1846. In 1857 he became inspector of reformatories in England and Scotland. He has published " Reformatory Schools, a Letter to C. B. Adderley, Esq., M. P." (8vo, 1855), and an enlarged edition of his father's "Sacred History of the World".