Upshur County, West Virginia    Biography of William E. TALBOTT, M. D.

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 186-187


WILLIAM E. TALBOTT, M. D. During a busy career as
a physician and surgeon at Harrisville for forty years
Doctor Talbott has had a varied program of service out-
side his profession.  He has served in the Legislature,
has been mayor of his home city, and has borne many of
the responsibilities of good citizenship there.

Doctor Talbott was born in Upshur County, Virginia,
now West Virginia, September 13, 1858, son of George M.
and Sarah L. (Wilson) Talbott His parents were both
natives of Upshur County, where his father was born in
1825. They grew up in the country district, had a com-
mon school education, and after their marriage settled on
a farm at Princeton, where George M. Talbott eventually
acquired extensive tracts of land and became a prosperous
farmer. They were very devoted members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and the father was a republican. Of
their eight children five are living: Perry, of Buckhan-
non; William E.; Lloyd, of Alton, West Virginia; G. B.,
a farmer and hotel man at Frenchton, West Virginia; and
G. P., a farmer.

William E. Talbott grew up on the farm and finished
his literary education in the noted French Creek Academy.
For several years he taught school in Upshur and Lewis
counties, then took up the study of medicine, and in 1880
graduated M. D. from the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons at Baltimore. For one year Doctor Talbott prac-
ticed at Centerville in Upshur County, and he located at
Harrisville in 1882, and from that year to the present has
been the physician, friend and trusted counsellor to many
of the best families in this vicinity. Doctor Talbott has
one of the good homes there and has a nice suburban
farm of sixteen acres.

In 1883 he married Alma McKinney, who died nine
months later, in 1884. In 1887 he married Metta L. Lam-
bert. His second wife died December 27, 1918. There
were no children by either marriage. Doctor Talbott is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is a past mas-
ter of Harrisville Lodge No. 98, A. F. and A. M., and is
a republican in politics. He served seven years as mayor
of Harrisville. He has also been a member of the Board
of Health, was in the Legislature during the sessions of
1915-16, and is a stockholder in the People's Bank.