A. A. Talbott, farmer, section 31, Grant Township, has been a resident of Carroll County since 1876. He was born in Morgan County, Indiana, February 21, 1826, son of Edward and Mary (Lanning) Talbott, who were the parents of ten children, our subject being the fifth child. When he was about four years of age his parents removed to Jackson County, Indiana, where he was reared to manhood. His early life was spent at farm work, and his education was obtained in the common schools. In 1850 he came to Iowa, first locating in Iowa County, three miles west of Marengo, where he improved a farm. November 2, 1854, he was united in marriage with Miss Nancy A. Greenlee, a native of Miami County, Ohio, and a daughter of William and Esther (Furas) Greenlee, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Ohio. They were the parents of thirteen children, Mrs. Talbott being the oldest. They came to Iowa in 1846, settling near Iowa City. Our subject resided in Iowa until the breaking out of the civil war, when he enlisted, August 13, 1862, in Company G, Twenty-eighth Infantry, and served about three years in the Gulf Department, and was afterward transferred to the Department of the Potomac. He was honorably discharged and returned to his home in Iowa. He removed to his present farm in Carroll County in 1876, having purchased the same the year previous, of the Iowa Railroad Land Company. His farm contains 127 acres, which is in a good state of cultivation and well improved. He has a good residence and comfortable buildings for stock. Mr. and Mrs. Talbott have seven children — W. W., John F., Naomi B., Charles E., Robert L., Mina G. and Jessie S. Mr. Talbott is a member of the Masonic order, also of the Grand Army post. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics is a Republican.

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