George Harold Talbott

Background

Talbott, George Harold was born on February 8, 1894 in Marengo, Iowa, United States. Son of George Edward and Mary Elizabeth (Davis) Talbott.

Education

Student, Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Missouri, 1917. Bachelor, Princeton University, 1922. Barium Strontium Titanate, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1923.

MST, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1923. Doctor of Divinity, Missouri Valley College, 1930. Doctor of Humane Letters, Bloomfield College and Seminary, 1957.

Career

Student pastor Blairstown and Denton (Missouri) churches, 1915-1917. Pastor Clivedon Church, Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1919-1923, First Church, Passaic, New Jersey, from 1923. Chaplain Police and Fire Departments, Gerald V. Carroll post American Legion.

Professor pastoral theology Bloomfield Seminary, from 1948, professor ecclesiastical polity, lecturer Christian ethics. Member general assembly Presbyterian Church United States of America, 1926, 33, 40, 43, 44, 45, chairman committee on education, 1933, committee on bill and overtures, 1943, chairman National Mission, 1945, member commission of 15, Presbyterian Emergency Commission. Vice chairman wartime service commission Presbyterian Church.

Member executive committee Committee on Church Activities. Member Committee on Chaplains and Service Personnel. Cooperating pastor under Presbyterian Church, United States Army at Camp Croft, South Carolina, 1941.

Member permanent judicial committee Synod of New Jersey, 1936, moderator, 1937-1938.

Achievements

• George Harold Talbott has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Mayor's Committee of Strike Settlement. Member Passaic Welfare Board. Member executive committee Anti-Poverty Committee, City of Passaic.

Board governors Passaic General Hospital, from 1927. Secretary Princeton Thel. Seminary Alumni Association, 1934-1941, president, 1942.

President Princeton Theological Seminary Alumni of New York and Vicinity, 1937-1938. Chairman board directors Bloomfield College and Seminary Served as 1st lieutenant, infantry, Advertising Educational Foundation, World War I, 1917-1919, wounded in Meuse-Argonne offensive, 1981. Member American Legion, Masons (32 degree), Friars Club (Princeton).

Connections

Married Barbara Baringer Stofer, June 11, 1918. Children: Mary Martha (deceased), Barbara Jane (Mistress Marcos E. Kinevan).

Father:

George Edward Talbott

Mother:

Mary Elizabeth (Davis) Talbott

Spouse:

Barbara Baringer Stofer

child:

Mary Martha Talbott (deceased)

child:

Barbara Jane Talbott (Mistress Marcos E. Kinevan)