Biographical Sketch of S. T. Talcott, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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S. T. Talcott, editor of the Mountain Prospect, a weekly journal at
Mountain Grove, Wright Co., Mo., is a native of Vernon, Tolland Co.,
Conn., where he was born in 1829, being a son of Samuel S. and Harriet
S. (Smith) Talcott.  Talcott is an English name, and the ancestors of
the present family fcame from England to America at an early date. The
paternal grandfather was a farmer and mechanic, and died in Conn., his
native state.  The maternal grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier,
and was full of humor.  At one time, while in the army, and when the
soldiers were rationed on horse flesh and told that it was beef, he
secured a horse's tail, fastened it to a pole, and started through the
camp, crying "Beef!, Beef!"  He came very near getting court martialed
for this bit of humor.  Samuel S. Talcott was born in Vernon, Conn., 
in 1793, grew to manhood and died in that town in his ninetieth year.
He was a farmer and manufacturer by occupation.  He was first select-
man and justice of the peace for several years, and also represented
the county in the Legislature one year.  His wife, Harriet (Smith)
Talcott, was also a native of Connecticut, born in 1800.  They were
the parents of six children, three now living, S. T. Talcott being the
fifth in order of birth.  He attained his growth and was educated in
Connecticut, having in addition to his common school education attended
the graded schools for some time.  He assisted his father on the farm,
and worked in the paper mill belonging to his father until twenty-two
years of age, when he married Miss Louisa Woodford, daughter of 
Romantia Woodford, a farmer in the town of Avon, Conn.  One child was
the result of this union; Arthur C., who died at the age of nine years.
Mrs. Talcott died in 1859, and Mr. Talcott, in 1861, married Miss Sabra
C. Bushnell, who was born in Norwich, Conn., and was educated at Nor-
wich Free Academy.  One child, Minnie L., was born to this union; she
died at the age of two years.  Mrs. Talcott was for several years a
teacher in Mountain Grove Academy, and is a regular correspondent for
the Missouri and Kansas Farmer.  She now supervises the printing 
department of the office of the Mountain Prospect.  She was very 
popular as a teacher at Mountain Grove.  After marriage Mr. Talcott
followed paper manufacturing for a number of years, when his health
failed, and he traveled for some time.  During the late war he enlisted
in the Federal army under Hancock, Twenty-seventh Connecticut Volunteer
and was out nine months.  He was at the battle of Fredericksburg and
Chancellorsville, and was for a time in Libby Prison.  After the war
he returned to Connecticut, and was for a time engaged as a traveling
salesman.  He left Connecticut in 1869, and came to Texas County, Mo.,
where he took up a homestead.  In 1874 he went to Colorado on horse-
back; was in Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming Territory, Iowa, and back 
through Missouri to his home in 1875.  He remained on his homestead
until his health broke down, when he changed business, and manufactured
shingles, also superintended the building of a steam saw and grist mill 
in the wilderness of Texas county.  In 1877 he came to Mountain Grove,
and has been here since.  In 1882 he became editor of his present paper
and the same year was made mayor of the town.  The year previous he was
appointed justice of the peace.  Mr. Talcott is a genial gentleman, of
much push and enterprise, and in connection with his paper he does a 
large real estate business.  The Mountain Prospect is devoted to the
interests of South Central Missouri, and has a circulation of 600. Mrs.
Talcott is a lady of much culture, and is thoroughly conversant with 
all topics concerning South Central Missouri.
 
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