TALBOT, G. F.

TALBOT, MUNGER, DEARMGER, EARP

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/18/2003 at 13:29:15

SOURCE: "Biographical history of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa" Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago, 1893

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

Mr. Talbot was born in Winnegabo 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 owing 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, tec., 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 hghly esteemed by those
with whom he is most intimately associated. Politically, he is a Republican.