Talbot, Warren N.

TALBOT, MUNGER, DERRINGER, FLAUGH, TICE

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Talbot, Warren N.

In examining the life records of self-made men, it will invariably be found that indefatigable industry has constituted the basis of their success. True there are other elements which enter in and conserve the advancement of personal interests, perseverance, discrimination and mastering of expedients, but the foundation of all achievement is earnest, persistent labor.

At the outset of his career Warren N. Talbot, well known stockman Lynnville, Jasper County, recognized this fact and he did not seek any royal road to the goal of prosperity and independence, but began to work earnestly and diligently in order to advance himself and the result is that he is now numbered among the progressive, successful and influential citizens of his community.

Mr. Talbot was born in Illinois, February 7, 1854, and he is the son of David Franklin Talbot and Caroline (Munger) Talbot, the father a native of the State of New York and the mother of Massachusetts. The elder Talbot was a carpenter and contractor, which trade he learned in his native state, and, coming to Illinois early in life, he followed the same. In 1859 he and his family came overland with a half dozen teams and wagons, several extra horses and many yoke of oxen and located in Jasper County, Iowa, when this section was new. The father bought three hundred and twenty acres in Elk Creek Township, in the vicinity of Dairy Grove, an old settlement. Here he prospered, becoming one of the county's largest landowners and leading farmers, becoming the owner of what was commonly called The Bottom Farm, which consisted of one thousand and fifteen acres, He kept his land under excellent improvements and tilled it on an extensive scale. He was also a great cattle feeder, in fact, was for years one of the leading stockmen of the county. He was a man of considerable influence in his community and for some time he discharged the duties of postmaster at Dairy Grove in the days when the mail was carried from Newton on horseback. He also served as revenue tax collector and justice of the peace. He was a stanch Republican and later a Greenbacker, and in the days when the slavery question was a paramount issue he kept one of the stations of the underground railway, aiding in many instances families of runaway slaves from their Southern masters, for he was bitterly opposed to slavery and, in this as in all questions of importance, he was ready to show his colors, being a man of strong convictions and broad minded. His family consisted of the following children: Edwin deceased; Hiram; George; Mrs. Alice Derringer, who died December 19, 1911, at Cherokee, Iowa; Eugene; Warren N., of this review, being the youngest of the family.

Warren N. Talbot grew to maturity under pioneer conditions and he obtained his common school education under difficulties, walking miles through the deep snow and in all kinds of weather, wearing heavy cowhide boots, and during the summer months he assisted with the general work on the farm, and after he left school he assisted his father with the farm until he was twenty-two years old when he started in life for himself by renting land, which he continued for four years and then bought one hundred and forty-seven acres in Lynn Grove Township, known as the Elisha Flaugh estate. Selling that later, he bought one hundred and forty acres just west of the village of Sully in 1892 and here he has carried on general farming and stock raising in a most successful manner. He keeps full-blooded Percheron and Clydesdale horses and roan shorthorn cattle, his fine stock, because of their superior grades, always finding a very ready market.

Politically, Mr. Talbot is a Republican and active in local affairs. He has been justice of the peace; which office he filled most creditably. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church.

In October 1881, Mr. Talbot was united in marriage with Ida Flaugh, who was born in Linn Grove Township, the daughter of Elisha Flaugh, one of the earliest settlers of this county, having come here in 1845 and he was well known among the pioneers.

The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Talbot: Albert, Perry L., Mrs. Minnie Tice, Nina and Alta. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 1028.