Crawford-Jasper County IA Archives Biographies.....Talbot, G. F. 1848 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1893)

G. F. TALBOT, another one of the intelligent and successful farmers of Crawford
county, Iowa, lives on section 4 of Milford township.

  Mr. Talbot was born in Winnebago county, Illinois, ten miles north of
Rockford, August 27, 1848. His father, D. F. Talbot, born in Onondaga county,
New York, August 24, 1819, was a son of James Talbot, who was of English
descent. D. F. Talbot was reared and educated in New York, and was there married
to Caroline Munger, a native of Massachusetts. After marriage they went to
Illinois and settled in Winnebago county. In 1858 they moved from there to
Jasper county, Iowa, becoming pioneer settlers of that place. He purchased
several large tracts of land and improved some valuable farms in Jasper county,
at one time owning 1,200 acres, being largely interested in both farming and
stock-raising. He was liberal in his religious belief, and in politics
affiliated with the Republican party. He and his wife had six children, viz.:
Edwin J., now of Jasper county, Iowa, was a member of the Fortieth Iowa Infantry
the last year of the war; Hiram M. was also in the late war, guarding prisons in
Rock Island and Chicago for five months; George F., whose name heads this
article; Sarah Alice Dearmger, of Jasper county, Iowa; Eugene, of Auburn, Iowa;
and Warren, of Jasper county. The mother is also a resident of Jasper county,
and is now seventy-six years of age.

  George F. Talbot was a lad of ten years when the family settled in Jasper
county, as above stated. He received his education in the University of Pella,
Iowa. In 1879 he located on eighty acres of his present farm, then wild land. To
this he subsequently added forty acres more, has improved the same, and now has
a fine farm of 120 acres. His cottage, home, farm buildings, fences, etc., are
all first-class and in good repair. His home, on a natural building site and
conveniently near to school, is in a most desirable location.

  Mr. Talbot was married December 6, 1876, to Eveline E. Earp, a native of
Warren county, Illinois, born near Monmouth. Her parents, Lorenzo Dow and Syrena
(Iler) Earp, are now residents of Jasper county, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Talbot have
one child: Cora A., born January 1, 1879. He and his wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of Deloit.

  Mr. Talbot is a man of the strictest integrity, and is most highly esteemed by
those with whom he is most intimately associated. Politically, he is a Republican.


Additional Comments:
Extracted From:

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF 
Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa.

Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with
accompanying Biographies; a Condensed History of Iowa, with Portraits and
Biographies of the Governors of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of
the Counties, wth [sic] Personal Histories of many of the Early Settlers and
Leading Families.

"Biography is the only true history."—Emerson.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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