Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Talcott, E J, M D 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

E. J. Talcott, M. D, a practicing physician at Spring Hill, Portland Township, 
is a native of the Empire State. His father, Asel Talcott, was a mechanic, and 
later in his life a farmer and stock-raiser, in Hanna Township, Henry Co., 
Ill., at which place he located in 1845. He died in February, 1876. The 
Doctor's mother, Jane Talcott, died in May, 1841. They had four children, 
three of whom are living, the Doctor being the eldest. Dexter, the second-
born, is a farmer and stock-raiser in Sharon, Portland Township, this county; 
Catherine is a widow, residing in Guthrie Co., Iowa. Doctor Talcott was born 
in Oneida Co., N. Y., Nov. 30, 1826, first learned house-painting of his 
father, and then entered the office of Dr. T. S. Smith, of Hampton, Rock 
Island County. After reading medicine there for a time he attended the 
Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati during the years 1849 to 1852 
inclusive, graduating. He then engaged in the practice of his profession in 
Rock Island and Henry Counties. The war came on, and Aug. 1, 1861, at Geneseo, 
he enlisted in the 8th Kansas Regt. Vol. Inf. as Assistant Surgeon, the 
Illinois representation in the army being then full. He accordingly went to 
Leavenworth, and served with the regiment nearly through the war, namely, 
until March, 1865, when the regiment was ordered to Texas, and he came home. 
The same year, 1865, he moved to Spring Hill, where he has ever since followed 
his chosen profession, with gratifying success. He is the only physician at 
that point. The Doctor has been Supervisor of his township one year, and he 
was Postmaster at Spring Hill from 1871 to 1881. He was married in Sharon, May 
17, 1855, to Miss Harriet, daughter of Jerry and Harriet Johnson. She was born 
in New York, August, 1835. The Doctor has three children living, viz.: George, 
now a clerk and school-teacher in Spring Hill; Roy, also a clerk at Spring 
Hill; and Agnes; the deceased were named Vivia and Jessie, who died in infancy.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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