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Talbot was born in Fayette, Missouri on October 9, 1848. He was the son of John Alnut Talbot, a physician, and Alice Daly Talbot.
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Talbot was born in Fayette, Missouri on October 9, 1848. He was the son of John Alnut Talbot, a physician, and Alice Daly Talbot.
He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1870, and from the General Theological Seminary, New York, in 1873.
In 1887 the University of Missouri awarded him an honorary Doctor of Law and General Theological Seminary, a Doctor of Sacred Theology.
In 1873 year he was ordained deacon (June 29) and priest (November 4), and became rector of St. James Church, Macon, Mo. Here, in addition to the work of the parish and neighboring missions, he founded a school, which grew into St. James' Military Academy. New buildings had recently been erected, and a separate girls' school established, when the General Convention of 1886 elected Talbot missionary bishop of Wyoming and Idaho. After some hesitation he left his work in Macon, and was consecrated on May 27, 1887. Upon arrival in his diocese, he found only four clergy in each of the states it comprised. Within ten years he had built a cathedral at Laramie and thirty-eight churches, and had founded three schools, including a school for Indian girls, and a hospital.
His summers were largely spent in preaching in mining camps and towns, and he traveled extensively in the East and even in the British Isles in behalf of his work. His experiences in the West are the basis of My People of the Plains (1906), a book which, without the loss of its serious character, is filled with anecdotes which support his reputation as a raconteur. In 1891 he was elected bishop of Georgia but declined; six years later, however, he was elected bishop of Central Pennsylvania and accepted. The people of his Western diocese saw him go with regret, non-churchmen as well as churchmen. He had been offered nominations for governor and senator and was regarded by all as "our bishop. "
On February 2, 1898, Talbot was enthroned in the pro-cathedral, the Church of the Nativity, South Bethlehem. He at once began to work towards the division of his unwieldy diocese, which project was accomplished by the erection of the Diocese of Harrisburg in 1904. Talbot continued in charge of the remaining area, which in 1909 took the name Diocese of Bethlehem. The number of communicants having doubled since his coming, each diocese was by now almost as strong as the original one had been. The project of an associate mission led to the opening of Leonard Hall, South Bethlehem, in 1908. This developed mainly, in accordance with a minor purpose in its foundation, as a residence for postulants for holy orders taking their college work at Lehigh University.
In his later years, Bishop Talbot's attention was given increasingly to the growing industrial and foreign population of his diocese, social problems, and church unity. He served for some time as chairman of the General Convention commission on Christian unity. A contribution by him to a symposium, The Problem of Christian Unity (1921), recommends as "The Next Step" immediate organic unions between American Protestant bodies. Meanwhile, he had summed up his teaching in two books--A Bishop among his Flock (1914), addressed to the laity of his diocese; and A Bishop's Message (1917), addressed to the clergy. In 1914 he published Tim; the Autobiography of a Dog, a sentimental and humorous account of his daughter's bulldog. In 1923 he obtained the assistance of a coadjutor, Bishop Frank W. Sterrett.
By the death of Bishop Alexander C. Garrett of Dallas on February 18, 1924, Talbot became senior diocesan, and presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was the last to hold the office by seniority, since it was about to be changed from a formal and representative to an administrative post. In 1925 he presided at the General Convention, and January 1, 1926, handed over the office to the first elected presiding bishop, John Gardner Murray. Rapidly aging, on September 15, 1927, he resigned the administration of his diocese to Bishop Sterrett, and a few months later died.
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On November 5, 1873, he married Dora Frances Harvey, of Roanoke, Mo.