Bio of Talbot, Francis (b.1835) Wabasha Co., MN
=========================================================================
USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information
on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities,
as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is
obtained from the contributor of the file.
These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or
presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to
use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written
consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter,
and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent.

If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives 
Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm
Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find 
the submitter information or other files for this county.
FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives

Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Barbara Timm and Carol Judge
=========================================================================
This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
Check out Barbara's site for more great information on this book:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnwabbio/wab1.htm
There are also some pictures and information from descendents for some 
of the bios on her pages.

Talbot, Francis, dealer in hides, furs and peltries; office on Allegheny
street, south of Main. This business was established here in 1858, five
years after Mr. Talbott came to this city as clerk for Mr. Alexis Bailly,
in the Indian trade; so that his residence here dates from 1853, a period
of fully thirty years. Mr. Talbot was born in 1835, at Stonehall, County
Westmeath, Ireland, where he received a good common English education, a
tutor being employed in his instruction until his fourteenth year, when he
came to America, arriving at New York in 1849. Coming to Chicago, he was
engaged in clerking there for John H. Kinzie, son of the founder of that
city, from whom, in 1853, he brought letters of introduction to Mr. Alexis
Bailly, who was engaged in trade with the natives at this point. Three
years later, in 1856, he bought out Mr. Bailly's stock and engaged in
general merchandise for himself, until, with thousands of others, he went
under in the great financial crash of 1858. For some time Mr. Talbott was
not engaged in business, and since 1858 has only been conducting general
merchandising about six years, part of that time in company with Mr. B.
Eddy, during his connection with general business here, other than furs,
hides and peltries, in 1870. He owns one of the principal corners in the
city, at the intersection of Main and Allegheny streets, fronting eighty
feet on Main and one hundred and forty on Allegheny. Mr. Talbot has never
married. His early association with the natives, in the conduct of trade,
led him to take a very deep interest in all the historical legends and
landmarks of the early French and aborigines occupants of this territory.
For the past eight or ten years he has been quite constantly engaged in
collecting data for some future historian who should attempt the narration
of the early story of this region. This matter has been placed in the
hands of the compilers of this History of Wabasha County, who gratefully
record their appreciation of the services thus rendered by Mr. Talbot.