author
Grover Dean Turnbow
1892–1971
A food scientist and dairy expert, he wrote practical early- and mid-20th-century books on ice cream, butter packaging, and dairy manufacturing. His work reflects a hands-on interest in how food products were made, stored, and improved.
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Comparison of Woods for Butter Boxes
by Grover Dean Turnbow
About the author
Born in 1892 and deceased in 1971, Grover Dean Turnbow is remembered today through a small but distinctive body of technical writing. Records in library and catalog sources connect his name with agricultural and dairy publications rather than fiction, showing him as an author whose books were meant to help students, researchers, and people working in food production.
His best-known work is The Ice Cream Industry, written with Lloyd Andrew Raffetto and P. H. Tracy and published by Wiley in 1947. Other credited works include Investigations on the Use of Fruits in Ice Cream and Ices and Comparison of Woods for Butter Boxes, which suggest a career focused on the science and business of dairy products, preservation, and packaging.
Later records also place him in California agricultural life, and one newspaper item from 1964 describes him as a Madera County rancher with ties to the dairy business. Even from these scattered references, a clear picture emerges: a practical specialist whose books captured the details of an industry that touched everyday life.